Thread: What's your Sustaining Daydream

Originally Posted by earcutter

If I could live on the sea for a year or two - I would feel as blessed as you Wullie.

I was all lined up to go in the Merchant Marines after a stint in the Navy. Buddy of mine had a truck that needed a driver and the money was decent at the time, so I went trucking for thirty years.

I did enjoy my time on the ship in deep water. Rode out a couple of typhoons and that was interesting.

Life on the water is rather like flying. BOTH are very unforgiving of mistakes. Trucking can be unforgiving too. I was good and I was lucky too. 3 million miles without a chargeable accident. Got hit twice by idiots. Wasn't hurt either time.

For me it would be a small castle with a tower. The thing would be built medieval style, with natural rock. It would have modern comforts like sanitation and electricity of course. The tower would house my workshop and my office. There would also be a library somewhere in the building, kinda like in 'meet joe black'.
In the back / courtyard there would be a smithy for me to work in.

The castle will probably not happen, but the smithy is nearly there.

Your home is your castle, Bruno.

Originally Posted by earcutter

If I could live on the sea for a year or two - I would feel as blessed as you Wullie.

Oh the sea. Don't get me started on The Sea. "Only" four and a half months on HMAS Westralia from Perth (Western Australia) to Nagasaki and back, driving the thing through typhoons (well, one, anyway) in the south China Seas; a floating massive petrol station it was. And a bit of a 'love boat' actually (male and female crew).

The Sea is a very powerful entity to live on, when it's your ship, the sky, and the sea, and nothing else, it hits you a bit and makes you wake up.

Anyway, what I REALLY wanted to say is, I could accept a fantasy life of being The Phantom. Nice purple suit, a wife, kids, a horse, cool guns and a cool ring, a cosy cave, handy with his fists; I'm not sure how he provides for food; maybe a trust fund or Government grant; I think he's being funded by either the Yanks or Poms (just between you and I). I can't really envisage Diana hunting with the kids every day, or even farming, really, so there must be supplies; delivered in the dead of night in that cove named 'The Smugglers' cove'. Actually, I doubt it would have been named The Smugglers' cove. This is for two reasons; both of which I shall now explore:

(a) I suggest that when the cove was named the command of grammar may not have allowed for the correct use of the apostrophe. 'Local folk' would have named the cave using local knowledge. It is suspected the cove would have been known as 'Smugglers Cove', with possibly the prefix of 'Ye Olde'.

(b) IF (I say IF for I wish not to judge) there was INDEED a smuggler (or smugglers, more to the point, as you will see) then it is suggested that one smuggler would rise above the other smugglers, and for THAT smuggler to share his cove with all the OTHER smugglers; well, to be honest Sir, that beggars belief!

Originally Posted by Bruno

For me it would be a small castle with a tower...

Hey, Bruno Bruno Bruno mate, have I got a castle story for you. Written a couple of years ago...

I'd like to live in a tower, like a wizard, a tower exactly like the rook in a chess game; but with a bit of a porch out the front, and maybe a bit of a toilet out the back, because otherwise you'd have to have the toilet in the big round room at the bottom, and if you had toilets on each floor you'd have to have separate pipes, sooo, how high is it? Maybe three stories? Three, no, two pipes (the bottom floor doesn't need a pipe) would you put the pipes in the walls or running down the wall? I think in the wall, I wouldn't want to see them, unless you made them nice, some folk art decoration; maybe dead coloured flowers glued on, some stencils, bows, bits of dead grass stuck on in little....sheaves; like wheat sheaves from the 16th century, they'd match, being 16th century like stuff, 'cause the castle is like 16th century. And I guess you'd need a chimney on the porch out the front for the kitchen fire; you couldn't have it inside, well you could but you'd need a chimney going all the way up; through the floors, like the toilet pipes, and now you've filled all the walls up with pipes; unsightly, get rid of them I say, get rid of them; either put them in the wall (too hard, it's stone; remember, it's a castle), or move them to the outside, actually, that's an idea, make them go up (or down) for a foot or two and then out through the wall and then run up (or down) to the top (or bottom). What do you think? No? Yeah, I agree; looks tacky with all those pipes (looking at it from the outside). We need to keep the walls clean on the outside, OK pipes inside then, but I demand polished brass pipes (you can polish them, I might help on weekends) and get rid of the tacky folk art shit; the leaves will burn anyway, and it's all so passé, I want either art deco (50s), French antique farmhouse, or ultra modern Dutch or Swedish; minimalistic, but with a natural slant, after all, we don't want polished stainless steel and LCD screen TVs; it's a castle, it wouldn't go...

...I’ll build it on a hill, with a blue sky, clouds, a bird, a tree.

Carl --
Actually, the Phantom had access to valuable gems and minerals according to the original cartoon strip. He didn't lack for $$$! That's a cool idea, Carl!

Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus

Carl --
Actually, the Phantom had access to valuable gems and minerals according to the original cartoon strip. He didn't lack for $$$! That's a cool idea, Carl!

Ha HA! And who did he sell them to? And via what means? The Cove of course!

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Ha HA! And who did he sell them to? And via what means? The Cove of course!

In reality -> He would need a launderer! I'll be that guy in your dream lol!!

I still haven't made it past the "Purple Suit"

Originally Posted by Hirlau

I still haven't made it past the "Purple Suit"

I'm still waiting on my zombies...