Why are people always asking me to do things that I don't want to do?????
I swore that I would never let loose again with any more funny stories on that old scifi Lexx bboard and now the BOY wants me to write another one and post it because he says that Annie has been asking him for one!!!
The woman is practically blind and can't breath. She should be in the hospital and if she is put in the hospital,..it won't be long before they do a "trach-cut-down" on her because her diaphram is failing her!! I am having trouble just catching one of my kitties and bringing the little beast over to lay on her bed and she is asking me for a stupid story.
In the end,..I know that I will write one for her,..and I will post it,..and the BOY will bring it up on his screen and read it to her.
The whole thing makes me feel like shit. I know perfectly well what I will be exposing myself to if I go back and put up a half-way decent story on that bboard. I have been through the whole array of what an unmoderated bboard has to offer: the trolls,..the snobs,..the clowns,..and the people,..whose chief goal in life is to tell you that you could not have possibly done what you have already done.
I also know what this Annie has done for me within my lifetime. She has been one of the sweetest and best friends that I have ever had.
From her bed,..I never knew her when she could stand and walk around,..but from her bed..Annie has made me laugh and cry and sing and given me ideas for stories and reasons for laughing and encouragement. If a scifi story on that old bboard is one of the last things that she ever requests from me,..then. Annie will have her story.

A private chuckle...the signed 2001 copy of "Walking Free: The Nellie Zimmerman Story" is selling in this area for $34 a copy and is increasing in value among private collectors! I am sure that some of the promo copies that I sent out were disposed of by the "..you could not have possibly done that people...".....as "worthless!"

That's ok! We will soon be preparing for the "fifth edition" printing!