fenriz275

My eyes don't bug out that much, but I have startled myself before.

I look like I've spent several hours fighting a horde of drunken rodeo clowns and who won is a matter for debate. There's nothing like looking into the mirror in the morning and being scared by your own image. It does get the blood pumping though.

"You hungry?" She asked me. "Starved." I answered. "Well, there is a whole restaurant full of food in there. Let's go raid the kitchen." She said. "Sounds like plan." I answered and we walked in the front door and down the long hallway to the restaurant. Now in the kitchen we stand in front of the open double-doored refrigerator with anticipation. "Eww, look." Lida said as she picked up a plate of filets covered with clear plastic. I picked up a large bowl of something that looked like spagetti sauce and another bowl of cooked pasta. I removed the wrap and took a sniff. "Smells fine to me." I said so I asked Lida to smell it too. "Yea, I think they're edible." She said. "I'll take care of this and you cook the steaks, alright?" I asked her. As we cooked we found bowls of other things and started snacking away as we cooked. I watched her move and how she did things, carefully not letting her see me watching her. A few times I turned my head and she turned away quickly so I knew she was doing the same thing. Finally, everything was cooked. We piled up our plates and went out into the restaurant to sit down at a table and eat.

Finally back on Route 65 heading into Lafayette. It was dark and I had been driving most of the day. I managed to get myself off-track again looking for hardware store to get some solvent to try to remove the green dye from most of my body from the PickleSuit. I didn't think it would make a very good first impression on Lida to see me in that condition, even thought I know she loves anything green and I did tell her green was my favorite color. My skin raw and on fire now I found a pharmacy and went behind the counter and got myself some heavy-duty pain killers, took a couple and got back on the road again.

As I approached the exit for Lafayette, I dialed her cell phone.

"Hi" She answered. "I'm almost there Lida. Can you meet me out front?" I asked her. "Sure" she answered. Lida hung up. Lida ran to her room to put on her dry clothes and went out to the front door and stood there waiting for me to arrive. as I approached the hotel I could see the figure of a woman standing at the front entrance. I pulled the wienerMobile up to the front door and looked at her. She looked at me. Was the look on her face at the sight of the WiernerMobile that was parked in front of her. She walked towards me"Nice ride Aaron." She said. I laughed and got out, came around the front and stood next to her. "Finally we meet." I said to her. "Yep" She answered. We hugged each other

Aaron

An echoing argument, two male voices, woke her. Just in time too, she was so relaxed she might have gone under the water and drowned. Lenny and Bill had come down to the bar which was right across the atrium from the pool. She could hear Bill getting more and more angry with Lenny. Bill's voice was becoming increasingly high pitched and shrill. "Where'd she go?" She could hear him ask Lenny. "I've been with you the whole time, asking ME that question is illogical Bill." Lenny retorted. "Get away from me!" Bill yelled as he burst through the double doors of the pool area. He walked over to Lida in the whirlpool, crouched down and said. "I'm going to leave now, I just wanted to say good-bye." Lida stood up in the water and said. "So soon? I thought you might stick around for a while so Fen could meet you both." Bill responded. "No, honey, I'm worried about the horses I really need to get to the airport and borrow a plane." Lida felt bad for Fen now so she asked Bill. " Are you coming back?" Bill thought for a minute then said. "Yea, I, I mean we could come back in a few days. You'll still be here with Fen won't you? "Bill, if I know your coming back, we will wait for you here, alright?" She asked. "Yea, we'll be back, we've got no where else we need to be, why not?" Bill answered.

Lida started to come out of the water when Bill said. "No you don't need to get out now, stay there. We can get ourselves a vehicle from the lot outside, there are plenty out there, don't worry." Lida sat back down and Bill left with Lenny still yapping in his ear.

As "Why Worry Now" played on, she once again began to drift into a sort of semi-slumber. She opened her eyes to look up at the stars. The familiar sight was visible to her. The International Space Station was directly above her in the night sky and she watched it glow with the suns reflection in the black velvet.

She layed in the whirlpool, resting her head on the coping. She closed her eyes. Kes and Baby Tongue had climbed out of the wading pool and flanked her head on either side on the concrete floor. All was silent except fpr the sound of the whirling water around her. It was night and the indoor/outdoor pool was illuminated from below with a soft blue-green light. The lights were dim in the huge room and she could see the outlines of the palm trees that lined the walls and the glass sliders all around the room. When out of her near sleep she was awoken by the sound of the retractable roof opening. It must have been on a timer. The sky opened up above her and music began to play softly over the sound system. "AWWKK! She said outloud. Not Barry Manilow." She got up out of the whirlpool and walked to the adjoining office. The sound system was obviously on a timer as well. She looked around and found the CD player with the display shelf of CDs on the wall behind it. "Let's see now." She said to herself as she scanned the titles. "Aha, this is good." She said as she put the first of 5 CDs on the player. She continued until she had all 5 slots filled. She pressed the play button and walked back out to the whirlpool. She saw the lizards had decided to sleep in one of the palms that overhung the pool. Getting them down was not something she wanted to think about right now so she let them sleep. She slid back down into the whirlpool. which was also illuminated now with that soft blue/green light.

I've never actually seen any houses that got trashed because they didn't give out candy. Those kids can't stay focused. The goal is the acquisition of candy, any time spent on vandalism is taking away from your total candy time. It also helps to make a note of the houses that give out the good candy (full size candybars, chocolate, caramel) and those that give out "healthy alternatives" like carrot sticks so you can visit the former on your second and third laps and avoid the latter like stinky sacks of durf. It's also good to scope out the houses of the bachelors in the neighborhood because Halloween always catches them completely by surprise so they have to hand out cash in lieu of candy. (This doesn't always work because sometimes they give out whatever they can find in their house, canned beans, lightbulbs, ramen noodles. )

^ No and it's a good thing too, even my paper airplanes crash and burn :)

< I've had the feeling I'm forgetting something for almost a week now :lol:

v Have you ever had a cow burp in your face? :P

Aldebaran

^ I post more in the evening

< I'm thirsty myself

v Do you like red for command or gold for command better?

Alpha Centauri

Ecuador

I don't understand all of the T'Pol bashing myself. I think sometimes if I read another complaint about her addiction to Trellium D one more time I'll shove a fork in my eye. I don't think we've seen all of the fallout from that situation yet. It is an ongoing plotline, I'm willing to wait and see how it plays out before I take a number at the complaint department.

I'd like to see a little more of the Klingons, and Romulans for that matter. We know that the first contact between the Federation and the Klingons went very badly but is Archer's contact with the Klingons what they're referring to or is it an event that hasn't happened yet since the Federation hasn't been founded yet?

I like the Sulibon but I don't think we'll see anymore of them after the Temporal Cold War plotline is finished which I've read it will be this coming season. I like the Temporal Cold War storyline but I do wish we'd have been given a few more hints as to the indentities of some of the factions. I think they've been keeping it too vague for too long.

I do agree that I'd like to see some more episodes that give us a glimpse of some of the other races in the Alpha Quadrant like the Tellarites, and the Gorn, and other races that we're familiar with from the other Trek series.

Yea. I took it today but I don't know how I did yet. It wasn't as hard as I was expecting but I have no idea if I did good or bad.

The best thing about Trick or Treating is that all of the Halloween candy is dirt cheap on November 1st. :P

I think I'd have to classify myself as a Percolater/Wretcher. When I get sick it kind churns around for a while, building up until I finally heave and heave for several minutes. After everythings out there's usually a few dry heaves just for that extra oomph. I always check afterwards, just in case my spleen got hurled out by mistake. Fortunately I don't throw up that often.

A few times I have caught a glimpse of the 'spillage' and thought. "Well I'll be d***ed. I don't remember eating that." :P

This is the first Survivor that I've following closely so maybe this is the norm but it seems to me that a lot of these people are kind of lost in the jungle and spend most of their time squabbling. I couldn't imagine wanting to try my luck on surviving on an island with most of these people.

Approaching the hotel Bill says,

"There it is." and points. Then drives under the car-port and parks the truck at the front entrance.

"Let go." He says as he opens the door. They all get out and go in. Bill goes behind the front desk and picks three keys and hands one to Lenny and one to Lida, all adjoining suites. They go up to their rooms and take a nap. WHEW!

After a few hours Lida wakes up and remembers the animals in the truck. She forgot to bring Baby Tongue and Kes with her.

"Aww, Crap." She says as she leaps off the bed and runs down the hall to the lobby. Then out the front door to the truck. She opens the door and finds all the animals asleep. BT and Kes still on the dashboard. She takes them out along with the lap-top and the cell phone and goes back to her room. Now she dials my number.

"Hi" I say as I answer.

"Where are you?" She asks me.

"I'm just north of Indianapolis. I'm gasing up the Weiner now." I tell her. I fill her in on my Weiner race. She laughs.

"I should be in Lafayette soon. The next town on the map is Lebanon I think." She tells me about the hose incident earlier.

"Wow. I would have thought those two would be better behaved." I remark.

"You're telling me. I feel like I'm babysitting two overgrown children." In the background I can hear Lenny and Bill shouting at each other.

"Give it to me. You know I always get the Butterfingers from the honor bar." Bill demands.

"Not this time larda**." I hear Lenny respond. "I've been waiting 30 years for this candy bar and you can have it when you pry it out of my cold dead hands."

"That can be arranged you skinny a**ed putz." I hear furniture crashing.

"Oh God. I'm going to kill both of them." Lida says. "I've got to go Sweetie. I Love you."

"Get out of my room you two!" Lida yells."And stop arguing over stupid things! There must be a thousand candy bars in this hotel, why are you fighting over one crummy candy bar?? I'm going for a swim! And you two better not follow me either." She growled. Lida went down to the indoor/outdoor pool. Put Baby Tongue and Kes in the childrens' wading pool and she went into the whirlpool.

"AHHH, Peace and Quiet." She said as she layed her head back on the side.

All the animals now watered and relived Lida, Bill and Lenny get them all back in the truck.

"I'll drive Lida. I know right where Comfort Suites is." Bill says.

"Alright." Lida says.

"Truck doesn't smell much better back here you know?" Lenny blurts out. "And now along with that I smell wet dog." He adds.

"Thanks Lenny, like I don't have a nose?" Bill answers sarcastically.

"Please guys, let's not start up again, O.K.?" Lida asks them.

"Sure Sweetie, anything for you." Bill answers with a lecherous smile on his face.

Back in the Weiner Mobile I'm just outside of Indianapolis. I think to myself,

"I've never been to Indy. Why not?" I stop and look at my map. Once I've figured out the way I drive to Indy. About an hour later I pull the Weiner onto the starting line. I rev the engine.

"It's the One Time, One Man, One Weiner Mobile Grand Prix." I say to myself.

"Sweet." In my mind I see the green flag drop and I stomp on the gas. For a few minutes, I'm the fastest pickleman in history.

At this point someone will have to shoot me in the butt with an elephant tranquilizer and drag me to the doctor unconscious if anyone ever expect's me to go to the sawbones again. It almost makes me long for the days when they just slapped a couple of leeches on you and told you wear some smelly concoction around your neck. Da**it Bones! Where are you when we need you! :P

I guess you missed all of the other stuff they had going on during the episodes. As for T'Pol's drug use. No one other than Phlox knows about it. While it's been months for us the viewers it's only been a few weeks in the show. I don't think we've seen all of the consequences she'll have to face yet. The question I want answered is why didn't Phlox remove her from duty? That's a question that's been bugging me for a while now. Overall that particular subplot isn't doing much for me but I'm not going to throw the baby out with the bath water. There have been story elements in all Trek shows I haven't been crazy about.

I haven't seen 'Finding Nemo' so I'm voting with an incomplete picture hear but my favorite is 'Toy Story'

I also thought it was funny watching Disney put Eisner out to pasture after he let Pixar slip through his fingers. Maybe in 10 years or so Pixar will buy Disney.

"OH, Look!" Lida says to Lenny. "A fire station!!!"

Lenny looks behind him and drops Bill on the pavement.

"So?" He says.

"They MUST have a hose in there." Lenny and Lida search the firehouse for a few minutes. Lida is looking at the fire engine and wondering if she should swap her van when Lenny comes walking out of the back carrying a hose and wearing a fireman's hat. Bill is unconscious propped up against the side of the van, snoring.

"Careful Lenny those things put out a lot of water pressure." Lida says.

"I know." Lenny says, a wicked look in his eyes.

"Wake up Bill. It's bathtime!" He shouts. Bill has enough time to come to and stumble to his feet when Lenny lets the water rips. The force flattens Bill up against the side of the van. Lenny laughs like a maniac. "Act your way out of this you hack!" He shouts.

Lenny directs the hard spray at Bill as he hits the ground. Bill is rolling down the street like a wet towel. Lida wrestles the hose away from Lenny and shuts it off.

"You two are acting like children. I'll bet Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes never act like this." She scolds them.

Lenny turns the hose on Lida, she runs. Bill is in a waterlogged stupor. All he heard from the exchange was Patrick Stewart.

"Stewart! Here! I'll kick his a**!" Bill mistakes Lenny for Captain Picard and tackles him. The hose flops around out of control. Lida sees her chance. Soaking wet, she runs back and jumps on top of the nozzle. She turns it on the both of them. Yelling, "

STOP IT!!!"

The animals are very thirsty from all those salty fries and want to get a drink. They all start barking or quacking or bleating or banging on the doors to be let out. Lida opens the back door and they all come piling out, lapping at the puddles on the ground. She lets the goats out the front and take Baby Tongue and Kes in her arms. The male goat immediately sees his chance and starts butting Bill who is trying to get up after Lenny punched him. Lida sets the lizards down on the grass and gets the hose and begins hosing out the back of the truck, AGAIN!! Bill and Lenny are laying flat on the ground, soaked and gasping for breath.

"Hey Lenny." Bill pants.

"Yea Bill." He answers.

"What does this remind you off?" Bill asks.

"The wrap party for Star Trek IV." Lenny answers.

"Yep." Agrees Bill.