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Hmmmmmmm… ;–)

An all too brief visit with a trainee Cupid and a few of his associates. And yet another Viking Valentine story that either needs a sequel or more new chapters! ;–)

Maybe I need to start hanging around coffee shops (even though I hate the smell of coffee) so I can trip over a Cupid too! ;–)

I hadn’t considered that there might be others like Oumuamua. I was thinking that she was unique like The Auggie. But whatever process created her probably had the ability to create more than one Oumuamua. I like the idea that Hawaiian has reached far into space just as the ancient Polynesians traveled across the vast expanses of the Pacific and Indian Oceans from Hawaii to Rapa Nui (Easer Island) to Madagascar (long before Europeans were capable of extremely long distant sea voyages)! ;–)

Rats were always the first to know when a ship was sinking! ;–)

California is coming for a quaint, snowy New England Christmas? ;–)

Yay! Max! Maybe Keerby Casper can figure out a way to get the rest of the power-users of his people into exile on Oumuamua. Or maybe they can set up a cruise ship-like business on Oumuamua. ;–) A genuine thank you for the correction, @ReaderPaul! ;–)

If a shallow-rooted redwood falls down in a drought-stressed forest and no one is there, why don’t all the rest of them fall down like dominoes? ;–) Am I mixing metaphors? ;–)

Do they have a psychological term for Can’t-see-the-forest-for-the-trees-ism or is that just Cognitive Dissonance? ;–)

Hey! I just notice different things from everyone else! I have been diagnosed with Cognitive Dissonance! ;–)

I’m hoping The Auggie will make an appearance – dramatically saving the team from grave injury? ;–)

They sound trustworthy – unlike a sketchy Uber driver! ;–)

Maybe you can convince him to create the video game tie-in. I’m sure it will be better than the much maligned Atari 2600 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial video game. ;–)

So now there’s a new species of aliens. Some kind of tree-like creatures with heads that look like shrunken heads or shriveled fruit. And all living in a pot. It should be interesting to find out how they move around. ;–)

Pirates! (And clearly not Sid Meier’s Pirates!) ;–)

Yay! A new Charlie Boone tale! ;–)

You normally jump right to drunken snuggle on a first date (on hard cider, naturally)? ;–)

In this ‘slow burn,’ things are not going to happen right away. Grant is going to pull back. He’s going to wake up with a pounding headache from his hangover, embarrassed that he’s cuddling with Troy, humiliated by the piss-hardon buried between Troy’s cheeks, ashamed that he got drunk on Thanksgiving in front of all of Troy’s friends, and very confused by his feelings.

My job here is done. ;–)

You celebrate US Thanksgiving (in November) in Canada? I thought you only celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving (in October). I guess it’s not a surprise that your second Thanksgiving ‘isn’t such a huge thing here.’ ;–)

In my mediocre education*, Lord of the Flies was the only book I was ever asked to dissect in that manner. I’m sure the student teacher knew immediately why I was so drawn to A Separate Peace (which we also read in that class). It was quite frustrating because I quickly finished reading the assigned books, but my classmates struggled to get through the novels and demanded extra time to read during class. She was one of the few teachers I ever bonded with – she’s probably been retired for years now! ;–) * I was transferred out of both Advanced English and Advanced Social Studies in 7th grade because I flunked too many spelling tests! Why we even had spelling tests in Social Studies never made sense to me. Why the focus wasn’t on Social Studies was never made clear to me. After 7th grade, I was placed in all regular classes. John Knowles seemed offended that some thought that the protagonist was one of those perverts! The novel was published in 1959 and was based on a short story published in the May 1956 issue of Cosmopolitan decades before Burt Reynolds posed in the nude for the first Cosmo centerfold. Apparently Brinker was based on Gore Vidal who attended the same school as Knowles, with Vidal being two years ahead. It’s ironic that a book first published the year I was born was the first ‘Gay’-ish book I ever read!

Someone somewhere off in HR fantasyland posted an article of Fun Ways to Bring Your Team Closer!™ and companies everywhere decided to do some Team Building. The executive who approves these silly stunts doesn’t realize when thing just aren’t appropriate for the corporate culture. How their pathetic attempts only serve to emphasize how out of touch they are with the real world. Or how many cynical people they’ve hired. [eyes rolling in unison] ;–)

Why does it feel like my high school English teacher has just handed me a test, asking me to analyze the character roles just like with Lord of the Flies? Georgette = Truth Natalie = Emotion? Brian = Protectiveness? Aaron = Redheaded sexiness? ;–)

Grant may as well have planted a flag in Troy and claimed him for his kingdom! ;–)

It’s too bad he’s taken (and straight)! I hope he’s clean-shaven and smooth. I wouldn’t want to have to clean out the hair-trap before I took a shower every time! ;–)