Jojoe

Hey Emoe, No comments uless you are willing to cough up some chapters. I say we take the editor and hold him ramsome for the next 2 chapters!

Dan, You evil, evil man! How can you leave the chapter like you did? That was cruel. I have said it before and I will say it again - I love Masako! I just love her character. Next Friday better get here soon! Jojoe

I unfortunately didn't finish the chapter! I had it up and I fell asleep reading it last night about half way through the chapter. I just couldn't keep my eyes open any longer and finish it. Well, I brought the browser window up this evening and was just getting comftorable with a beverage (bottle of water) and getting comftorable in the recliner (I had the laptop where of all places, on my lap) when I noticed the mouse went dead and didn't work. I'm like what the hell... did I knock the usb cord out? Well I didn't. Come to find out the wireless PCMCIA card decided to die on me just then. Then I was like damn, I don't have a spare card and I hate to have a cat 5 cable tethered to the laptop, because I can be a bit of a clutz and trip over wires, and I have enough trouble dealing with the power cord. (That's another story in itself.) You would think that no problem, just pop the sucker out and off you go. Well... if you wern't me, that would probably work. But this is me speaking. It locked the laptop up tighter than a 60 year old virgin on her wedding night. No matter what I did it wouldn't wake up. I could even see that the browser window was opening up because it was halfway there when it froze. After a few rounds of some cuss words that would make a sailor proud, I had to unplug the power cord and pop out the battery because the power button wouldn't shut it down. It came back up with the dreaded wireless card still in but dead and nothing I did would wake the sucker back up. I got out the horable cat 5 cable (I smartened up this time and got a flourescent yellow color cord so it would at least give me a fighting chance to see it before I tripped over it) and brought Dan's blog up hoping to read the rest of the chapter and any other words of wisdom me might impart with us as well. Guess what I found? Yep... It's not there anymore. Knowing my luck I went there probably about 10 minutes or so after he deleted it. I know it couldn't have been any longer than that. You ask why I know that, well that is easy... my luck ALWAYS works that way. So I'm going to have to be consoled that there is at least another chapter of DOH up there tonight. I thought there would be two this week, because I thought I read that Dan was going to post two a week on Fridays until it's finished, but then my luck this week has been pretty bad so what can I expect. Works been busy, the owner of the hotel where I lease my restaruant in was in and said that they were dropped from the franchise they had and was joining a much smaller (read this much cheaper) franchise. We had an ice storm in the beginning of the week and we are now getting a snow storm that is suposed to dump up to 6 inches. That's not too bad in itself, but once the snow stops we have a wind advisory for winds up to 45 miles an hour and all that nice snow will turn into a nice blizzard. Living in upstate NY can be real fun! Anyone want to trade their luck with me for a little while? I could use a little vacation. Oh well, just thought I would I would give you a little glimpse into my little world I call life. BTW, I'm also looking for a boyfriend as well. You really DON'T want to know how that is going. Isn't there any nice, sane, normal guys out there anymore? Jojoe p.s. - What I did read was really interesting and I was really getting into it. Can't wait for more!

All I have to say is wow! At the end of 35 I just sat back and felt content. It was the perfect ending to this chapter. It's almost like you can take a breath and just relax for a while. It definately gets us ready for the last 5 chapters. It would be nice to see how it ends and you can feel the shift that the story will definately take on a new purpose for some if the players. I am REALLY loving Masako! The more I read about her the more I can't help but love her. She seems so real that I just want to pick up the phone and call her just to bullshit. I swear that she can't be a character in a story. I just pray that this goes a lot longer than Do Over and sequils. Jojoe

Any word when this will be available? I am anxously awaiting the release of this. Is there a new ETA as we seem to have moved from the Fall of 2006 into 2007. I can't wait! Jojoe

Hello...... Anyone agree or disagree? Am I the only one? Jojoe

Hey CPL, After reading QOI I became really intrigued about the loveable race the Kaynin. In book 3 we got a little glimpse of them with the good Doc, but I found it really interesting with actually 'seeing' them be born so to speak. They just seem so lively and full of life, and I just want to go and adopt a few of them. I can also see some real life parallels as well. Struggling to carve a culture and identity as well as fit into the broader patchwork of races. Can we get more of a glimpse into this unique race? Maybe a side or short story? Jojoe

Hey CPL, All I can say is WOW!!!! This answers sooooo many questions and fleshes out so many things that happened in the Flacon Banner series that I wish you had this out before you started things. So many pieces clicked together. I would strongly suggest that instead of promoting this as the prequil, to promote this as book one or something along that line. I would think this would be a very easy book to sell to the big guys with only minor revisions to take care of the scattering of typo's and errant booboo's. Now the big question, WHERE IS BOOK 4??????????????????????????????? Keep up the great work. Could I request at least 10 or more books in this series? Jojoe

I am very much aware of Mists dba Chronicles, as I was one of the first readers of it over on Dave's site a LONG (it seems) time ago. About one of my all time favorites. I made a point of it back then and he is still suprising me now. My only complaint is that he can't write as fast as I read, and I can read a lot! As you can imagine I was REALLY disapointed when there was a um... pause in his output. Jojoe

Dan, It is so scary on how you seem to see things. One thing you mentioned in the DO stories is so accurate, that I just couldn't help pointing this out. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060511/ap_on_...sh_bush_bush_10 The above article on Yahoo news today is mentioning about having Jeb Bush run for president. It isn't bad enough with the damage that the two present one's have done, I know this country can't survive if this happens and a third one gets in this office. This is a scary time indeed. Jojoe