Happy Happy! Joy Joy! Alleluia!!! Wah-HOOOOO! Ha ha!

I look forward to [i]showing them to you & everyone! And thanks! Maggiepie "There's a special place in Hell for thieves, & but it's not in as hot a place as where the bureaucrats are kept." ~ C. Crouch artist/SF writer/poet[/i]

Woops! How did my post wind up all in italics?! Anyway, thanks for the dancing Snoopy pic. Ya gotta love that little guy! Maggiepie

Looks like the li'l dragon is trying to set Snoopy on fire.

(Your little running man up there is making me crazy! ) I wish I could show them to you right now! Elic has to get her techie roomie to show her how to scan things in, & as soon as she does, I'll put them into my pics section! All cats I've ever been owned by are rescues. My favorite kind! Blessings on you for rescuing your Garfield! I know full well how it can be with sore body parts from tolerating kitties on them! Speaking of masseuses, today I watched an old episode of "Honey I Shrunk the Kids," & in it, Salinski's time machine was accidentally triggered by the family dog. It brought a huge wild cat from the past (I think), but instead of attacking, this biiiig pussycat lies down, looks soooo cute, & begins kneading the floor! GREAT big paws! So funny! Here's hoping WTTZ is up soon! Maggiepie "There's a special place in Hell for thieves, & but it's not in as hot a place as where the bureaucrats are kept." ~ C. Crouch artist/SF writer/poet[/i]

Go figure, I never got any email saying you replied, then I got one today with BarBara's reply. Didn't mean to not answer... Yeah, I always say the little running man is a symbol of me...often running around in constant circles getting nowhere. I really only take in rescued cats. I live on a farm, and quite often somebody will drop one or two off (in the middle of the night.) I remember that in Honey I Shrunk the Kids, that cat was really funny!! @BarBaraPrz Hahaha, thanks SO much for the correction (and the sx change laugh :-) Duh...I had no idea there was different verbiage for a male or female on the word masseur/masseuse. Learn something new every day!

When my laptop was stolen, I hadn't learned how to download stuff onto disk, so the story I had on it--all the drafts--are lost forever. Don't you love/hate computers? Maggiepie "There's a special place in Hell for thieves, & but it's not in as hot a place as where the bureaucrats are kept." ~ C. Crouch artist/SF writer/poet[/i]

That's probably the only permissible time one may use that old phrase without being flippant! Thank you for the compliment! I freely admit I take pride in my writing. You should, too! I think you should get your work out of storage & do things with it! None of us lives forever (in this world, anyway), & being lauded posthumously isn't any danged fun! LOL! Anyway, you could share it with us! Well, MyLot wouldn't allow it in discussions, but surely you could PM us--unless you wrote novels....hee! Share? Maggiepie "There's a special place in Hell for thieves, & but it's not in as hot a place as where the bureaucrats are kept." ~ C. Crouch artist/SF writer/poet[/i]

Thank you! So nice to have you for a friend! The sooner all of y'all get Elic to scan them in, the sooner you'll get to see 'em! So go put a bee in her bonnet! Maggiepie "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." ~ Aristotle, philosopher 384-322 BC

I know just how you feel, believe me. I had an SF story ready for print once, & I had to move to another town. Somehow the story was, apparently, pitched out by accident (my own fault). I spent the next 2 years unable to sleep sometimes, & going through things in my closet, just sure it had to be there...somewhere. Finally I found an older draft & reworked it, & it came out much better! I gave it to a woman to print in her fanzine, & I'm so glad I did that, because the guy who originally wanted it turned out to be a complete jerk, & his 'zine was awful! Granted, the 'zine that did print it only had a tiny run, but for years after I heard good things about it. Years later, I won a $2000 laptop Mac from the University of Texas in, of all things, a coloring contest. I'd been aiming for 2nd prize--500 CDs--but was blown away to win first prize! I saw some of the other entries, & I'd had some serious competition! I had no idea how to use it, though, & I made a few, probably serous, mistakes learning, but finally I wrote a story I'd always wanted to write, about a recluse I knew of when I was a kid. The story was in its final draft on the computer, & I tried to get it to save, but it froze. I sighed, stopped, & got ready to go to Church. Elic was my roomie then, & she was out of town, so I had to take a ride with a veeeeerrrryyyy sllloooowwww couple. They stayed extra-long after Mass, so by the time I'd come home, I'd been away for hours. The burglars had been given all the time they needed to clean us out...along with my new little laptop...& my story. Oh, I might be able to reconstruct it, but the trauma! I know I could never recreate the thing the way I'd written it, & frankly, it was so good I'm sure I could sell it if I could remember it all. All those beautiful words...& they were likely simply erased, unread. Stillborn... So, yes, I deeply sympathize. Someone later pointed out hat the university newspaper had printed my winning, with my picture. They surmised that someone decided they'd grab my computer. After all, there was hardly any effort needed to locate me; I was listed in the campus phone book. For once, I'm going to put a quote that fits this post. It's just too appropriate to waste on any other. Maggiepie "There's a special place in Hell for thieves, & but it's not in as hot a place as where the bureaucrats are kept." ~ C. Crouch artist/SF writer/poet

Me, too! Seeing them up on the interwebs again, I mean. It's been ages! Maggiepie "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." ~ Aristotle, philosopher 384-322 BC

Well, any time in the last few years would've been just as good! Still, they're here, now, & it's definitely a case of better late than never! And as I said, just knowing they are here now softened the blow of one or two other not-nice things that happened yesterday. I may post about it later, in fact. But not in this joyful discussion! "Calloo, callay! O frabjeous day!" Now if Elic can just locate my never-used scanner! Maggiepie "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." ~ Aristotle, philosopher 384-322 BC

Thanks! It's particularly amusing that you mention your boxes, because along with the WTTZ 'toons, Elic also found a huge load of story drafts, scraps of stories, poems & maundering driblets of drek that date back decades. Some of these have been printed, mostly not, but I'm rereading them, & I've actually found a few things which, cleaned up & polished, are still worth seeing again! It's a bit like opening a time capsule! Maybe you should try opening yours! Don't be afraid it's not worth seeing; you might be surprised! Maggiepie "The smallest feline is a masterpiece." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

My son did have me drag out two paintings to show his girlfriend, I was a little shocked that he thought that much of them. My computer that got fried by lightening had stories stored on it too. BUT, the best one is over on Helium so it's not lost forever! lol