Sounds kind of idyllic such that you might expect to see Clark Gable or William Powell driving by in a 1934 Oldsmobile L-34 convertible with Mirna Loy or Claudette Colbert sitting in the passenger seat. Actually, it's a lot of neon and tourists.

I got my load going west, but it doesn't pick up until Monday afternoon. So I drove over here to sit until tomorrow morning when I also need a blood test. According to the AT&T online Yellow Pages, there's a diagnostic lab in Greensburg where I can get my blood drawn. Then it's back down the road to Youngwood to pick up something going to Oregon.

It's going to be a rush load as I have to be on the other side of the country Friday afternoon. That's about 2,700 miles in just under five days. It's doable, but I won't be doing much writing.

Which is kind of good because I did work on Chapter 16, at least I got it started.

I also wrote the first chapter of my next long story which I'm tentatively calling "The Pet." It's the same one I was talking about in my last entry, only now it's getting serious and needs to be put down on paper. Basically, it is about 19 yr old Darik was involved with a subversive group that was going to use an atomic device to blow up the embassy of their sworn enemy. Unfortunately, they got caught and all were killed except for Darik because his father is the President of the planet's Guild of Selectmen. Darik was saved to embarrass his father, but dear old dad has been in politics a long time and came up with a solution, a fate slightly better than death. It has always been Darik's dream to travel to a foreign planet and live an extraordinary life. Well, guess what!

This truly has a chance of being a rather nice story. There are even going to be kiddies. But the dark side is always there and it shows up in the first chapter, which might turn out to be the goriest. Honest, I really do want to write a nice story without a lot of blood and gore. Actually, they're called kits and they usually show up in pairs, but triplets or quads are not unheard of.

I'm going to work on both stories, but The Pet won't be coming out until I've written a few more chapters.