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    Weekly Wrap Up (Oct. 11 - Oct. 17)

    By wildone

    I may be dating myself (not like that, geez ), but back in the days of Johnny Carson hosting the Tonight Show, Ed McMahon would always start the show off with, "Herrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre's Johnny," for an introduction. I may or may not have used AI to help recreate this  Okay, I totally did  Can't use the actual likeness of Ed McMahon though .  I just wanted to resurrect the famous line to let everyone know that Annual GA Anthology has started   In case you have been out of the  countr
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Busted chapter 39

[Chris definitely needs to loosen up some. But, then, he's had a really bad day...]   Chris hadn't been paying much attention while Joe drove. He was too caught up in his own thoughts. It had been an exceptionally bad day, one he was trying to forget, though he couldn't. He'd thought maybe some target practice would have helped, but it hadn't, no matter how many times he imagined the target at the end was someone real. He'd actually been relieved when Joe had decided to drag him along somewher
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Busted chapter 38

[And it's the end of a very bad Tuesday, and the start of three parts of it getting better. I really need to go see what the gun laws in Connecticut are -- I'm not even sure if some of this is possible here.]   Thursday evening Joe was in the parking lot of the firing range when his cell phone rang. The call came through with no phone number attached. Joe smiled
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Viv's Blog

with two strawberry margaritas on top...

Morning All,   So just a quickie for now cause I'm only halfway ready for work and I need to get the heck outta here or I'll be late and as of now there is no half naked Tuesday policy at work...   FBTE 24 is in the hands of my proofreader(s) only one full version has been sent to THE proofreader and as soon as I hear back from him... it'll be in the hands of the man, so look for it soon kay?   Now back to my anthology maybe? Or perhaps FBTE 25 which will either be the last chapter ot t
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Busted chapter 37

[Apparently the B story will not be denied...]   Tuesday evening Joe tried to knock off work early. He was supposed to meet Steve at the firing range. It was his third time there and Steve was right
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All night long

Last night we had my birthday party and Im still kinda wiped out from it all. Everything started at 5 and my folks cleared out for the most part, which was a good thing. My dad and stepmom spent the entire day cleaning and getting everything set up for me, and I feel bad because my dad even got the hot tub cleaned out and ready but it was too cold for us to use   We had such a good time though. My buddy Jonny manned the grill and we had brats and wings, and someone else brought about 60 can
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Busted chapter 36

[since you can post comments to draft entries, I think I'm gonna leave my notes until the end for this one. I posted 35 and 36 together, since I've a backlog, and a bit faster than normal. If you missed it, here's 34, and here's 35]   The last place Joe thought he'd ever go back to was the Peddler's Pony. It was a dive, a run down neighborhood bar whose sole claim to fame was it was established before indoor plumbing was common. A hundred years later they still hadn't gotten around to putting
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Busted chapter 35

[isn't family swell?]   Joe had been staring at his phone for the better part of an hour. The Chinese food he'd ordered for lunch had gotten cold and congealed while he stared at it. He didn't care. He didn't have much of an appetite.   He shook his head. Putting it off wouldn't help any. It would make things worse, really. The later it got the more likely someone would be drunk. He didn't need to deal with that.   Sighing, Joe picked up the phone and dialed a number he knew by heart. He h
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Busted chapter 34

[The first of three parts for this particular monday in the story. I'm tempted to group them all together and title it 'Dodging the Bullet']   "So, had a fun weekend?" Steve was munching on the last chocolate chocolate chip muffin as he watched the steam rise off his coffee. At least he presumed it was steam. There was always the possibility that it was smoke from the Styrofoam being eaten away by the coffee.   "Don't even start," Chris growled. He still felt like hell. Toby hadn't made it a
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Busted chapter 33

[Joe almost used the word 'execrable'. Correctly, too. But oh, boy, that man's got a temper. Things have gotten about as bad as they can reasonably get, so since this isn't a tragedy that must mean it's all up-hill from here!]   Chris woke up with a headache so bad he wondered if he might be dead. Probably not, he decided after a few agonizing minutes. If he were dead it wouldn't hurt so bad.   He felt like crap. Besides the pain in his head, he was pretty sure something had crawled into his
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Busted chapter 32

[in which we find that the author can't quite manage to work in the phrase "something under the bed is drooling". Dammit.]   Chris' couch was damned uncomfortable. Joe had spent the better part of two hours trying to get to sleep on it, but he just couldn't. It was so old the lumps had lumps, and the ones that didn't had springs sticking through them. He had no idea how Chris had managed to lay on the thing, drunk or not.   Joe's anger had died down as the evening passed. He was still annoye
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Viv's Blog

okay, who said...

... it was pervy old guy hit on Viv day?   First I get this phone call from the place we get our taxes done at to tell us our tax return check was there for us to pick up... except it went like this   Me: Hello...   Tax Guy: Hi, this is Glenn calling from (tax place) [in a creepy I apparently this this sounds sexy voice]   Me: Oh! Okay...   Tax Guy Glenn: I need to speak to Rich or Vivian   Me: This is she...   Tax Guy Glenn: Well, I have something for you.... [in an even creepie
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Busted chapter 31

[A bit longer, this one. Only two more to go and we're done with this bit. Woo!]   Joe came downstairs, bare chested and shirt in hand, to see Steve guiding a barely conscious Chris out of the living room.   "C'mon, Chris," Steve was saying. "One foot in front of the other. You can do it."   Chris looked up and saw Joe. His face broke into a huge grin. "'M dreeeeming," he said. He turned to Steve. "y'din' tell me I was dreeeming." There was drunken accusation in his voice.   "Yeah, it's
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Val's Blog

Help?

So I'm fairly technology-challenged and I'm sure someone here has to know this. I was thinking about getting one of those unlocked cell phones you can buy on Amazon. It says you can just stick in the SIM card you already have and start using it, but I remember the last time I got a new phone it wouldn't work, and it turned out the reason why was I had the wrong kind of card. (This might have had something to do with the fact that the "new" phone was really cheap and crappy and presumably a much
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Busted chapter 30

[There's a reason Joe left home at 18, changed his name, and never looked back. A reason he doesn't drink, too, they're just different reasons. This one's the reason he's so mad at Chris...]   Joe was fuming as he carried Toby upstairs. He'd actually worried about Chris earlier. He snorted. Sick. He knew exactly what sort of sick Chris was.   Toby moved in his sleep and held on a little tighter to Joe. Joe's fury vanished for a moment as he gave Toby a little squeeze and a kiss on the top of
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Busted chapter 29

[it's weird, stopping at what's really just a scene breakpoint, but only occasionally. Still, it keeps me moving, which is good]   Joe was snoring softly when Steve nudged him awake. At some point, after a half dozen games of Candyland, he and Toby had managed to fall asleep. Joe was still sitting on the floor. Toby was curled up in his lap with Joe's arms wrapped around him.   "Hey, wake up," Steve said softy. "It's time to go to bed."   Joe looked up, entirely confused.   "Uh
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Chronicles of My Life

The lights are on...

But there's really no one home.     My attention span and short-term memory seem to be getting progressively worse with each passing day. I'm lucky to finish sentences nevermind multi-step tasks. It was always something I just sorta blew off before. "Oh I'm just absent-minded", "it's just another quirky aspect of my personality"...but it's getting worse, and it's starting to actually bother me.   I lost money again at work today...it's about the 5th time (that I know of) that it's happ
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jamessavik's Blog

Nova Scorpii 2007!

V1280 Scorpii = Nova Scorpii 2007 (February 7, 2007) Source: American Association of Variable Star Observers   IAUC 8803 announces a new nova in Scorpius, independently discovered by Y. Nakamura and Y. Sakurai. The position is   16:57:40.91 -32:20:36.4 J2000   and the unfiltered magnitude is about 8.3 (T. Krajci, 2007-02-06).   Spectra indicate blue color, no emission blueward of 540nm, but Halpha emission with P-Cyg profile.   Report observations to the AAVSO as: 9999+99 V1280 S
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Melancholy ... the broken staff of life

Muddled

I know I've said it before, but I hate being depressed. I'd give anything to be better, truly better, not this muddled, lethargic feeling I have now.   Okay, I'm not suicidal. That's a plus, I guess. Three doses of Wellbutrin a day and I'm not suicidal. I'm not too creative, either, but with all antidepressants, you have to take negatives with the plusses. Prozac erased my libido. Celexa eliminated erections. Everything works with Wellbutrin, except creativity.   Two doses a day and I'm more
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Little Buddha's Stone Grotto

Cold Sunday Afternoon

It's been about a month since my last blog entry, so I thought I should write something.   Not a whole heck of a lot has been going on in my life. I haven't really made much of an effort to meet people since I got back from Taiwan, so my social life is basically non-existant. I either don't have the motivation to get out there and do something with my life, or I'm too lazy. I've been beginning to wonder if I made the right choice to come back to the States. Things just haven't been working out
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