musings of wrath

made a journal where I plan posting summaries of Nick’s existence.

Yoinked from

1. Tell me one thing you love about me.
2. Tell me two things you love about yourself.
3. Look through the comments… when you see someone you know, tell them three things you love about them.
4. Do this in your journal so I can tell you what I love about YOU.

“A PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION PROVIDING THAT MARRIAGE CONSISTS ONLY OF THE UNION OF ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN; THAT LEGAL STATUS FOR UNMARRIED PERSON WHICH IS IDENTICAL OR SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO MARITAL STATUS SHALL NOT BE VALID OR RECOGNIZED IN ARKANSAS, EXCEPT THAT THE LEGISLATURE MAY RECOGNIZE A COMMON LAW MARRIAGE FROM ANOTHER STATE BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN; AND THAT THE LEGISLATURE HAS THE POWER TO DETERMINE THE CAPACITY OF PERSONS TO MARRY, SUBJECT TO THIS AMENDMENT, AND THE LEGAL RIGHTS, OBLIGATIONS, PRIVILEGES, AND IMMUNITIES OF MARRIAGE.”

Sounds to me like they’re saying they can determine a marriage invalid based on whatever they want.

So if we have an open marriage, and the state decides to make that illegal, they can nullify our marriage.

Right.

I’m voting “No” on that one. The state can go to hell.

November 3, 2005

Sorry I didn’t write. I’m not dead. I was busy with my skills assessment. Apparently, we’re being assigned jobs to help rebuild the city. They didn’t seem to like the fact that I have very few manual labor skills. They put me on a computer.

Today I discovered more of what really happened. The Internet survived it, but barely. Large portions of the network went down, and whole domains simply ceased to exist. The Japanese portion of the Internet is gone, completely.

Something hit us, and hit us hard, somewhere in the Pacific. Scientists said that if it had not been a glancing blow, there wouldn’t be life left on the planet.

Some people are saying it was a weapon of some kind, a space-based weapon. The microwave radiation in the impact zone was so powerful that a large amount of sea water was flash boiled, killing a lot of sea life. They’re saying nearly half of China’s population was wiped out by the wave since they all live in the coastal areas. There’s no mention of Japan - at all. It’s on the western edge of the impact zone, according to makeshift maps. All those people.

Others are saying it was just an object. A meteorite, a comet, something natural. Nothing’s natural about this darkness, however. Nothing’s natural about the faint glow in the western sky, either. Scientists say we can’t get anywhere near the site due to the continued radiation. They say it’s caused by the magnetosphere “vibrating” after having a hole punched through it. It will be safer in 6 months, they’re saying. The “lights” are caused by this vibrating and the solar radiation entering the hole.

The military is telling us that what happened to San Francisco was caused by the impact. The reports on the Internet say something else, however. When the hole was larger a few nights ago, the solar winds went right through the hole and slammed right into the western half of the city. The radiation killed the other half of the city. I don’t like being lied to.

I’m going to see if I can find out more about what’s going on with the government. The military has told us repeatedly - as if it’s part of a script - that everything is fine in Washington. More tomorrow.

November 4, 2005

2 am

The lights again, this time they’re not as bright. I have a feeling Hawaii’s not in good shape, if it’s even there. World Wind is back up at NASA, though half the satellite systems can’t pick up imagery in that area due to the magnetic interference. In addition, the LANDSAT system is missing the three stationary satellites over that area. Not malfunctioning, missing.

After a long load time, I had recent imagery to work with in World Wind. The impact zone is obvious from space - without a need for labelling. There’s a huge dark brown spot in the Pacific. Japan’s gone. There’s a few spots of what look like volcanic activity there, but the islands themselves are under water, now.

The surprising part was the States. Snow has built up enough that the majority of the US appears to be a glacier of some sort.

The scary part was Antarctica. It’s melting.

I need some sleep, there’s Reveille at 6 am.

stolen with permission from .

November 1st, 2005

5 am

The half-ton truck came by to evacuate the neighborhood today. We were only allowed to take a duffle bag of things with us. They won’t tell us where we’re going, but they said we’d know before we got on the transport plane.

We got to the Air Force Base after two more stops, the second one had to leave some people behind for the next group of trucks. There were some strange looking chemical processing trucks on the tarmac, with the distinct smell of gasoline coming from them. I asked a Sergeant what they were for, and he said they processed jet fuel. They sounded more like generators.

They’re making people put away personal items other than a watch and any edibles we have. After our things are stowed, they’re supposed to brief us.

12 noon local

They took us to San Francisco, but I almost didn’t recognize it. It looked bad. Some of the buildings appeared to be turning to dust where they stand, while others looked as if they were toppled by an earthquake. The entire side of one building was covered by glass that used to be windows. Apparently, the glass melted. Everywhere there were dead, blackened trees and grass. The soldiers looked just as surprised as we did.

They told us in the briefing, we’d be staying in recently vacated housing in the Presidio. It was a nice way of saying we would be staying the homes of dead people, I think. We had another briefing as soon as we left the plane that mentioned that any personal effects of previous residents could be thrown away. I don’t know if I should be angry or sad.

I noticed the man giving the second briefing didn’t have a name tag on his uniform, unlike the rest of the soldiers. He didn’t strike me as a soldier, he seemed to carry himself as an educator. We were all given “meal tickets”, a set of keys, and a crudely drawn map of where are homes will be. One of the keys appeared to be a car key, but he told us we’d be riding in buses to the homes. I noticed we all had identical keys on our key chains. The only difference was the plastic tag with an address on it.

Something told me they had started preparing for this long before the night started.

It will be a couple hours before we get to the houses, let alone our apparently free meal. More after I’ve had some sleep.

October 31st, 2005

All hallow’s eve. I wonder if there’s a special meaning if it’s nighttime for the entirety of halloween.

Everyone still in town received a visit from the military this morning, pleasant for me. I don’t know where they took my neighbor, however. They brought information with them. I wish I had a costume to wear, but I didn’t know it was this close. Time flies when the sun’s away, and you’re freezing.

The soldier told me that we’d have power within a week, if things go well. Apparently, the nuke plant’s emergency shut-off worked too well - the magnetic shift caused all sorts of alarms to go off. If it hadn’t happened in the middle of the night, I would have probably noticed something strange was going on.

A few minutes after the soldier left, I heard some shouting from outside. When I looked, I saw them dragging my neighbor by his coat into the back of a half-ton truck. His hands were covered in blood, and his eyes looked crazy. Some people can’t handle change, it seems.

I found my old watch, and got it set to the time the soldier gave me. I’m going to start writing in this journal once a day. If this is found without me, the last entry will probably be within 24 hours of my death - or worse.

The rest of the day was uneventful, until about 10pm. The southern sky lit up with what looked like the Aurora Borealis, but a strange, silvery color. If I remember my high school chemistry correctly, this indicates either aluminum or titanium oxide in the atmosphere when the solar winds’ hit.

Stranger and stranger. I’m hoping to get a ride out of town next week, out to the Air Force Base. I’d heard they were airlifting people to another, unnamed, city.