When I first joined this site I was a bit skeptical as to whether or not I would find stuff that interests me. I must say I was proven wrong straight away. Heck I even got inspiration from a story for a scene in my upcoming story(which I'm having trouble coming up with a title for)

I'm back home and that means story updates and this week the next arc of Gaby Book 15!

So for the impatient here are the Lulu links

print http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/gaby---friends-pa...
digital http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/gaby---friends-part-3/185...

Kindle version will be available later today - search for Gaby Friends - part 3

OK, so my wife and I are looking forward to my retirement in just over a year. We are already having computer sharing issues evenings and weekends. When I retire, this will only compound so while we can still afford it, we decided to get a laptop. Something I never envisioned I'd ever need. Wanting to get something that wouldn't be obsolete by the time I retire, I decided to go big.

I am wondering what happened to all the non whately stories that were on the crystalhall.org website, they have not moved a lot of it to the new site. So is there a way to get access to those stories?

Growing up, all our blouses, shirts, dresses had "darts". For sleeveless blouses and for most dresses the dart came in from the sides an inch or two below the arm hole. For western shirt or blouse it sometimes came in from the side and sometimes from the hem. I don't remember a single SImplicity Pattern that didn't have darts unless it was a pattern for a "Shift".

It's still not completely official due to red tape (still 3 or 4 steps left but the effect will be redated to March first) but here I am on the first day of my retirement with my head way out of the ballpark.

In the immortal word of comic strip character Cathy: ACK!

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-kids-transgender-id...

I experienced several "Service Temporarily Unavailable" message pages last evening and just experienced 2 this morning. Is this an issue you know about, or is there a problem on my end?

Heya
I was just thinking the other day about which character is my favourite action go to girl. I'm stuck between Barbie Lee Jessica Rabbit and Snowfalls Lyssa. It is like soo hard

One of my favorite online "news" sources is The Onion, the U.S. satirical "newspaper" that bills itself as "America's Finest News Source". They write about politics, sports, popular culture, et al., and seem to have a real knack for telling things the way they really are, even if it's all made up. They stopped their weekly print version a few years ago, which was offered in many large U.S. cities, but continue to have an active online presence.

Well I've got an extra session today on't inter tweb so here you go;

http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/60739/gaby-book-12-cha...

more next week

Mads

There is a new chapter of Gaby up today but you will have to wait a fortnight most likely until the next as I'm away next weekend.

Book 15 is going quite well, the next segment should be complete early March - lots of adventuresome stuff is lined up!

ttfn

Mads

I'm trying to find a story I'm pretty sure is a Whateley tale. All I can remember is a class is on the firing range shooting blanks. Then one student's gun makes the sound of a real fired shot. The range instructer stops everything and is headed to check out what happened. The clueless idiot swings the gun around in spite of being told to put the it down and shoots the protagonist.

Sound familiar?

While rereading past stories

For you writers who need a little motivation to write about something other than the short cute girls, maybe this will do the trick.
http://www.littlethings.com/model-longest-legs/

Hospital mistakes

Last week I found an interesting movie on rarelust dot com, that I downloaded and watched over the weekend. The movie is called "I want what I want" and was released in 1972.

It is the story of a young man and his struggle of finding his own identity. How his domineering, womanizing, ex-military and abusive father threatens to kill him, but refuses to report his running away to the police for fear of losing face in society. The overcompensating girly-girl, the insecurities and struggles through transition that happened in the late 1960's to very early 1970's.

There are so many who have added to the awareness of the differences in life and in lives. I can't begin to count the ones who added to the intellectual pool of knowledge. Of course that includes Erin and all those who keep BCTS up and running. I must include those hundreds, thousands of authors and readers who add to the data stream. I wish everyone to know each and everyone counts in the life stream and yes, each and everyone makes a difference.

Anyway, I didn't ask Patty if I could repost but if she is looking for someone to take over, maybe she won't mind.

Okay, so I've got the time to write at the moment and guess what? you get to see the results!

So if you are already hooked on Book 15 there are ten more chapters out today!

...a faceless man, in a long dark coat. He stole silently into where she was sleeping, and carried her away.

It's not like we didn't know this day was coming. There is no recovery from the dementia, no going back to being the vibrant woman that she was when she was healthy. I'm slowly coming to terms with it.

I had a friend comment that he couldn't imagine what I was going through. I replied with this:

It seems crystalhall.org is currently a mirror of BigCloset. I know they have moved hosts a few months back but I had thought they were not done porting content from the old site. Did something happen?

119 kudos; I've never gotten over 100 kudos before. Here on a whim, I broke off from my other efforts to try something new and whipped out a story with no research, mostly just coming off the top of my head. I didn't really have any time to edit it beyond running spell checker over it at the end. And for that I break 100 kudos.

Who'd have thunk it? The best I'd done before was 90. I suppose though that beings it was a contest entry I garnered a few more readers than I might have otherwise.

My wife and I Did divorce last April. We parted as Friends. Her mother has Alzheimer's and is in Canada. If you love them let them go. I let her go, and we ARE friends.

My Question is this

We Married in the Presbyterian faith, in Canada, MY faith, and divorced 25 years later in the Indian River County Court House, "faith". I did not go to a Church for the divorce. I did NOT NEED to seek approval for this from my religious faction.