I was sitting at computer with a net connection. There was a GIGANTIC TFT ("flat screen monitor") with a Boomslang Razer mouse (a very expensive accurate gaming mouse). Don't know where I was.

I began to play Quake III, except the game was in 3rd person perspective, not 1st person the Quake III normally is. My character looked like Captain Hero from from the TV show "Drawn Together".

Early on, the mouse and keyboard wires were tangled which made playing tough. I tried to untangle them in between engagements, but kept getting fragged. So I dropped the in-game console (which Quake III doesn't have) and told the other players to hang on while I untangled wires.

I came back and started to play again. I was worried at first because the mouse was unresponsive, but then realized that the game was probably negotiating a dropped net connection back into the game.

The map consisted of about 20 other players in a tremendous outdoor desert setting. The sky was crystal blue with a red giant sun beating down. Flatness out to the horizon. There was one gigantic tower which was really nothing more than a corkscrew structure (kind of like the pictures you see of the Argand diagram in complex analysis that illustrates the notion of a branch cut). I was playing really well. It was really, really enjoyable.