It works!
I'm an author - I write a lot of different things. Here are three examples.
The first is my treatise on love and relationships, called "Three Simple Rules for Marital Bliss."
The second is my book "He's Not A Doorman: A Civilian's Guide to Military Etiquette".
The third is my novel about some people that witnessed the worst airshow disaster in aviation history.
The last one I did as a favor to my personal trainer. He was looking
for a book that had the word "Torture" in the title to use as a
motivational tool for some of his other customers. It's called "The
Physical Therapist's Guide to Classic Torture DEvices, by the Marquis de
Sade." I decided to make it useful, so I filled with with quadrille
ruled graph paper using the US Patent Office guidelines for Intellectual
Property Notebooks.
Finally, if you want to see what Mike Harrod (my illustrator) and I are
up to, I've started working on another novel. THis is one is a modern
retelling of the original Mallory "Morte d'Arthur", told from Merlin's
perspective as a series of Interviews. Obviously, the title is
"Interviews With Merlin":
You'd figure someone at a Bank would be able to write correctly. This
is the actual sign on the driver through windows of all of the SAC
Federal Credit Unions here in Omaha, NE, explaining how "everyday" is
used incorrectly. For those that don't know - everyday means "ordinary
or used frequently" and "every day" means "all days without exceptions".
Oh well.
This is what the intersection looked like, but completely dog free.
Notice that the intersection is full of loose gravel. A little bit more
traction, and who knows.
The ladies that all hung around to give the police reports about what
happened were just super. One of them made it to the truck before I
managed to get out.
She told me that I hit one of the dogs and missed the other, but that
both of them ran off. A Golden Retriever and a Boxer.
I wasn't paying too much attention, I was just trying to avoid killing
the little kid that I was sure was going to come racing out from behind
the bus chasing the dogs.
This is where the truck first became airborne.
Doesn't look too bad from here.
It's starting to look scary here. The bumper doesn't normally stick out that far.
From here, it looks bad. The first thing I noticed from here was that the headlight wasn't broken.
By the time you get around the monument, it's starting to look pretty
grim. See the hood - it was completely untouched. Everything you see
there is from the bumper and the fender folding in. The best part is
that, with the little evergreen in the way, you don't really notice that
this end of the bumper is missing.
Oh - there is it. Yes - that's the outside front corner of the bumper
pressed firmly against the outside of the tire. You'll also notice that
the rim (at least on this side) is dented and cracked from the impact
with the curb This is why, when we tried to back the car up, it
wouldn't move.
After all of that - here is the damage to the monument. I scratched one of their bricks.
Now the damage becomes obvious.
This is to prove that I love my dog enough to keep it safe.
And this is to prove that the Stealth Program at Area 51 is for real.