TalonRider

On their way to get married, a young Catholic couple was involved in a fatal car accident. The couple found themselves sitting outside the Pearly Gates waiting for St. Peter to process them into Heaven. While waiting they began to wonder; could they possibly get married in Heaven? When St. Peter arrived they asked him if they could get married in Heaven. St. Peter said, "I don't know. This is the first time anyone has asked. Let me go find out," and he left. The couple sat and waited for an answer...for a couple of months. While they waited, they discussed the pros and cons. If they were allowed to get married in Heaven, should they get married, what with the eternal aspect of it all? "What if it doesn't work? Are we stuck in Heaven together forever?" Another month passed. St. Peter finally returned, looking somewhat bedraggled. "Yes," he informed the couple, "You can get married in Heaven." "Great!" said the couple. "But we were just wondering; what if things don't work out? Could we also get a divorce in Heaven?" St. Peter, red-faced with anger, slammed his clipboard on the ground. "What's wrong?" asked the frightened couple. "OH, COME ON!" St. Peter shouted. "It took me 3 months to find a priest up here! Do you have ANY idea how long it'll take to find a lawyer?"

The satellite situation was explained in the last Interlude. A comet that passes the planet every so many years made its pass and did some damage. With no one to send repair commands to the satellite system, they did the best they could to affect repairs per their programing. When it comes to Darroot Tea for Jamie and Nic, they are told there is none to give them when they go into stasis. How do we know if it was Charles or Castor who gave the order not to give them any. If it was Castor, could he have done it to try to prevent Jamie from remembering the bad things that happened to him over the years.

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Sometimes it pays to re-read something several times. We learned in Book 2 that Darroot Tea was found to help lessen the affects of memory loss due to the Cold Sleep process. We know that Castor gave Jamie all the Tea he had, to be given to Charlie. In Book 1, we learn that Phillipe has most of his memories because he was given a dose of the Tea at the same time that Damian received it. Phillipe received his does some time before going into a cryo unit. If Jamie and Nic had taken any, it was as they went into their unit. This could account for their memory loss, they didn't take it soon enough for it to take effect. The same could be the same for Cody and the others. Then there's Charles. Being Red and Black, we know he can't be trusted. He's lead everyone to believe that he doesn't remember a lot but when you think about what we read in Book 2, he had taken his last dose of the Tea while waiting the hov with Jonathan's cryo unit.

PUNS. 1. The fattest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi. 2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian. 3. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still. 4. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery. 5. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering. 6. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart. 7. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie. 8. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it. 9. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. 10. Atheism is a non-prophet organization. 11. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other: 'You stay here; I'll go on a head.' 12. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me. 13. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: 'Keep off the Grass.' 14. A backward poet writes inverse. 15. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion. 16. If you jumped off the bridge in Paris , you'd be in Seine 17. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. One turns to the other and says 'Dam!' 18. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it too. 19. Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, 'I've lost my electron.' The other says 'Are you sure?' The first replies, 'Yes, I'm positive.' 20. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal? His goal: transcend dental medication.

I've started a reread of the story. I've converted it so that I can read on my Nook. It's just over 1500 pages in length and it's not even finished yet.

There seems to be a lot of this going around. I haven't heard from any of the authors that I work with since November of 2013.

"For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness." Ralph Waldo Emerson

Seasons Greetings and Happy Holidays Everyone!

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"Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get." W.P. Kinsella

"You have not failed until you quit trying." - Gordon B. Hinckley

"Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader." T. Boone Pickens

Happy Thanksgiving day everyone.

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Trust me, I've thought about sending the chapter to a our little group here and start up a private conversation about it. To do so would violate a trust between the author and editor/beta reader. I've built up a reputation as being a good editor and I've worked with a number of authors over the years. I could also be a jinx. A fair number of the authors I've worked with no long are posting anything and some of those occasionally. The last email from Mike at AD indicates that as of Labor Day weekend of 2013, the story will be considered unfinished. There is no plans to remove it from Awesomedude. This isn't commonly known, but I spent several months working with Jamie on getting Book 1 updated to then be posted at another site. The Scrolls would then have been posted at two different sites, AD and GA.

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." Mark Twain

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." Peter Drucker

Jamies hotmail account was compromised and everyone one in his address book received some spam. I contacted him to let him know what he needed to do. He was unable to gain access to change his password so he abandoned it. I was able to acquire a new addy for him and only heard from him a couple of times.

"Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself." George Bernard Shaw

"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours." Yogi Berra

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you." Elbert Hubbard

You are correct that the saga started back in 2004. The first forum post to appear was on October 4, 2004 at Awesomedude's. There was a hiatus while Jamie was working on his degree and teaching at Penn State a few years ago. The last time I emailed him, I used a different account just in case my main email went into his spam box and he missed it. I got no reply. I also checked his profile at another site and found the last time he logged in there was back in May of this year. As for Chapter 45, after checking, I see that Ricky and I had it on or around October 30, 2011. Almost 2 years now. I've been waiting that long to be able to discuss that chapter with others. I know we the readers aren't the only one's frustrated.

" A house with books is like a room without windows." Horace Mann