Sometimes ideas just come into your head and won't go away until they manifest as bits of typescript. This was the case with the start of Bike and Totally Bonkers. Both were intended as one offs. Okay so I did a second of both, and that should have ended the matter, especially of the latter story.

Alas, but it has yet again emptied itself of the sweet nectar of leisure and left me with nothing but the dregs of work and a foul taste. And I didn't even get a cake.

We have a new robot on Mars, Phoenix.

John in Wauwatosa

So I can't spell, sue me ... better not on secondthought

Late this afternooon, Sunday May 25th, the Pheonix lander will enter the Martian atmosphere and try to soft land on the edge of the North pole.

This is the sister craft to the 2001 Mars Polar Lander that crashed due to either programing errors or physical faults. Sucessfully landing on Mars is at best a fifty-fifty thing so cross your fingers.

I wanted to have through Sk8r Grrls Episode 26 (end of Book III) finished for today. Today being the Anniversary date of the first posting of Sk8r Grrls. Due to recent occurrences and guests this weekend and homework overload this weekend... I didn't get that done. I also wanted to get the Character Codex done for posting today. Another failure... however... thanks to the wonderfulness that is Heather Rose Brown... I do have something for all of you today. It'll be posted later -- around 10am Eastern time.

Are currently out having a wonderful dinner at a uniquely Kansas City restaurant. I begged off on the grounds of head being achy. They'll be back this evening so I'll be off and on as I begin to deluge the site tonight.

Sk8r Grrls Episode 1 was posted nearly a year ago -- in fact, Sunday (25 May, 2008) will be the Anniversary Date -- and I just went and looked, and we've hit a major milestone!

Well, as I sit here contemplating the Firefly fanfic, I am reminded its time to start cooking. My daughter and her family is coming into town for the next 4 days, and my niece that I raised got a car finally (the head gasket let go on her other one), so she and her family will be her every night about for a while, and my other niece I raised will be around with her family all weekend, so there will be about 20-25 people here depending on if Scotty and crew shows up, and any of my brothers show up with their families. Tomorrow is the monthly birthday get together for the May birthdays.

Adult-ism... A fate not to be wished upon your worst enemy... Check my blog for many recent KimUpdates and my lil adult-ism rant.

-Piper

(fixed blog link. Sorry)

5:22 in the AM, and I can't sleep...well, not much anyway. Too many things running into one another in my mind. Nobody to sleep with anyway. Used to have a cat, but I let him down and had to have him put to sleep.

They prepped his leg and inserted the needle. It took no more than a few seconds for the drug to take effect. He breathed his last breath into my hands as I cradled his head. Just a little sigh, then his head drooped and his eyes closed and, just like that, I lost my furry pal. I brought him home in a shoe box and my neighbor and my housemate, Tina, helped me dig his grave.

quicker than I thought it would. In about an hour, we will be on our way to the Vets so he can be put out of his misery. I appreciate all the wonderful, caring responses I've received over the last day or so, to my blog entry. Please don't feel obligated to respond to this one though.

I need to talk to a list of 5:

• Cathy Michel
• Anistasia Allread
• Kaleigh Way
• Angharad Bonzifeeder
• Laika Pupkino

I am honored to be able to call many people here friends. And reading their stories are a treat. I admit that i am not the best at penning a story and that I need to do better. I wonder which of my stories have the most appeal.

When not quite 38 years of age I suffered a mild heart attack. After a couple of months of following doctor's orders with no apparent improvement I made an enough of a nuisance of myself to be scheduled for open heart surgery, no minor procedure in those days.
So in the May of my 38 year I underwent by-pass surgery, my first cabbage or CABG, coronary arterial bypass graft.