Tom
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Well, Most of the vehicals I have driven had manual transmitions...Now the real challenge is to learn to shift one of those 18 wheelers(I'm still having some trouble with those)
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well......you have to admit; there are quite a few....rofl!!!!!!!! hugs, tom
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that would take a lifetime I was refuring to all the great stories silly
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Yeah!!!!! I'm back ...Now I just need to figure out what I'm doing...lol lets see...first thing...read ....then I'll read some more....then I'll start writing again Hugs, Tom
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slip by?? not a chance Happy birthday
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*shuffles feet* Gee guy's thanks It was a really good day for me too. I only had homework on three chapters that is due Monday and I got my instructional perpit for my CDL just before the weekend started so things are really looking up Hugs Tom
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Well, maybe it's more like Driving into the future the bad part is I'm loosing internet access for a few months I'm going to school to drive big trucks!! Of course, this means that I have got to get a Notebook type computer and one of those celular internet cards before I can get back on line so I am going to be out of touch for the most part all summer . The worst part is I won't be able to finish The rider's pride, Sky's the limit, or Living in Surreality till I get back
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Okay, okay...I'll do it...Kinda seeing as how I'm kinda old and technicly impared, I added a personnal pick to my profile. I couldn't quite figure out how to add it here
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I would do it, really I would, but I don't want to be responsible for people throwing rocks at their computer screens or Notebook computers miraculously taking flight towards solid objects
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the best thing in the world happened to me yesterday(friday night) I though Myspace was just another place to delete spam till last night. She found me!!! My wife(long term seperated) contacted me on Myspace. some people would say that is a bad thing, but you gotta get the rest of the picture. I haven't been able to contact Her or my son in a long time, about 11 years. Well needless to say, all the thoughts of being rejected came flooding into my head causing me to go totally nuts. So I called them this morning...I even talked to Kevin for a while today it went betterthan I could have hoped...dreamed. Sorry Dan, your review may have put me on cloud nine, but this just can't be beat
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Don't stop now...I'm writing it all down just as fast as I can
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yep, I just sent Kurt the final draft of chapter 7, so I am doing a little happy dance.
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the biggest proble is there is just soooooo much to see. I have to suggest you take more than two weeks. I'm not really into seeing a big ditch, but the cliff dwellings near pheonix seem really interesting to me. If you like those, Mesa verte ws really neat when I went there, but I wasn't much older that DC is now back then. There is also a steam engine tour train that starts out in Durango Co. that has some really nice scenery(the train was really neat too)
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Okay, so I have been fighting with chapter 7 for about two months now and since I didn't feel really comfortable posting about the problems I am having in the mentoring forum, I ended up just pounding my head against a brick wall. Well, I decided to send what I had to someone before I deleted it(again) to get some input. the person I sent it to read the entire story, IMed me and asked, "Why are you writing chapter 10 stuff for chapter 7?" After I thought about it for a few, I decied that they were right. things that I thought were just filler, he wanted to know. And as I think back, there were a lot of coments that indacate I have been making that same mistake the whole time to make this short, I am basicly starting over with chapter 7 today, but the good news is, I have most of chapter 9 done already...sorry for even more delays Hugs, Tom
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Well, I didn't know about the moderators getting a bunch of flack. From Myrs post, it sounds like most of it is over 'live chat'. Well, I would miss it, but if it meant supporting the Moderators, and protecting the site, I would get over it if Myr decided not to bring it back. As far as why I don't want to see GA disapear, this is the only place I feel truely comfortable being Me(Bisexual and all). to loose GA would be totally devistating for me
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Hi, Resident drama queen here(or at least one of them) One thing to think about, all the other 'Queens' that were willing to talk to me have given the same reason for the drama and it seems that most of it started right around the time you started your little break
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hehehe...I did the same job for three years, begging for something more of a chalenge. sure enough, once I got the new job, I was begging to go back
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Yep, that's what it is, a torturous, agonizing, completely agrivating slump. Now don't get me wrong, I am still wofking on chapter 7 almost every night, The problem is, every time I go back and read what I have, I keep reaching out for the delete key. Nothing seems to sound right when I read it back to myself. I even had to get a second opinion on the fifth attempt at this chapter, just to keep from scrapping this draft. Most likely, it's because of my grandmothers condition. She is holding on, but she had to go back into the hospital. Waiting for the 'final' phone call seems tosomething that is always on my mind. The basics of all this, I just can't trust my own judgment right now. My solution to this problem is fairly simple, I am pasively looking for a Beta reader while I force myself to not use the delete button. I am going to have someone read through this before I have it edited, so if I can't stumble across someone before it's ready, I'll have to change tactics. One other thing about the beta reader thing, I am looking for a volunter, but I need someone that is going to use that red ink aggresively and can give reason for each use of that red ink. Kurt is great at spelling, grammer, and 'flow', so now I need someone who is opinionated and maybe even a little mean I can't tell you when chapter 7 will be ready, but I hope it will be soon Hugs, Tom
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sorry, Mechanic here...how will it damage the transmission?
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there is one more thing that I forgot to mention you're driving a big truck with an automatic, at slow speeds, on ice covered roads, if you have problems stopping put it in "N"...the engine can force the rear wheels to continue to turn while the front wheels have locked up!
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a couple more pointers, start slowing down sooner than normal when coming up to intersections and start out slowly too. Sudden stops or starts can cause your tires to let go of the road. when you're trying to stop that's a bad thing...when you're trying to go, it's just frustrating. BTW, if you're driveng a rear wheel drive vehical you don't want to give it gas when you slide, but you still want to turn your front wheels into the side
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hehehe...I asked Kurt a question a few days ago and got a fairly straight answer...they wanted more. the next question I asked him got a resounding "Not Sci-fi" the part he is going to laugh about, when Kurt said they wanted more, I told him "I'm not going to start another story till IFLM is done...the part where he might dis-own me...it's Sci-fi this is just a few words strung together, Kurt hasn't even seen it yet; heck, he might make me get a second editor for this one...lol Tell me what ya think: Island in a storm By Tom(lostone) Chapter 1 The proximity alarm; I was really beginning to hate that thing. In the last 30 days, the alarm had gone off 40 times. At least that was what the on board computer was telling me. I
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Thanks CJ, means alot, really Hugs, Tom
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It's been a week since I heard about Grandma, and I think I have gone through every emotion you can think of in the last week. Heck, I've been so scatter-brained, I couldn't even focuse long enough to comment on any of the anthology stories...well, I held up long enough to post one, but that was about it. Things are starting to get back to a point where I can function again, at least for now, I am hoping I can get back to a point where I can write again soon, but it doesn't look verry promissing at this point just wanted to drop a note here to let every one know how I am doing Hugs, Tom
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You all know the title of my story...well let me tell ya how my week has been so far. I got up just like always on monday, had to turn the heat on so I froze my but off till the temprature in the house got up to 60. I got my shower done and had just started to grab a towel when my phone started ringing...at 6:20 in the morning. It was my sister that lives 100+ miles away. She was calling to tell me that one of the special people in my life had been taken to the hospital and had been there for a week. Well, I was kinda backed up at work, so I had to go in, but I took tuesday and today off. Yep, I had tuesday off, but that didn't make it any better. One of or dogs has really long hair, well when we let the dogs 'air out' before loading them into the trooper, she got shit all over her back side. We didn't use the heater for the first 50 miles, so we really didn't notice anything till then, but it got really bad, really fast. If you think today had to be better, just wait...it was snowing when I woke up this morning, and I left the window down from the dog. Well, by the time I noticed the window, the front seats were covered with slush, so I was outside with a hair drier for 2 hours trying to dry out the seats. by the time I was done getting the seats dry enough to sit in, we had just enough time to get to the hospital before I had to head home for work in the morning. Now, I know my grandmother is 88 years old and I know she has had a wonderful life(she even raced motorcycles when she was in her twenties) but to see the strong willed Matriarc(sp*) of my family, the woman that used to get up early enough to have 'Micky Mouse' pancakes waiting for me every Saturday when I was 6 years old; to see her down to 92 pounds, lying in that hospital bed, so thin and frail, was turly heart breaking. To know that today's good bye will be the final one I can give her, leaves an agonizing emptiness in my being. I don't know when her time here will come to an end, I only know the end looms near, and can not seem to work concentrate on anything else at this point. I will continue writing IFLM, but I have got to take a break from everything for a while, so I just don't know when I will get the next chapter finished Tom
