Reply #135: The Sleeping Dog is Now Awake.

[Botany]

Botany sat in front of his Mac and pounded the keys. Outside 1/3 of a pound
of fresh ground round sizzled on his Weber Smoky Joe grill. Although it was time
for breakfast thoughts of burgers floated in his mind. Somehow he felt a
little "out of body" and wondered if he was really still on "terra ferma" or
if he was not in Valhalla. No matter he always was of the thought that if
you are unhappy or feeling creepy it is up to you to do something and not
up to others. "I am the captain of my fate and the master of my soul." He
said loudly as he skipped from cloud to mountain top to prairie sod with
ease. The burger on a lightly toasted kaiser roll w/ Vadalia onion, mustard,
relish, dill pickle, swiss cheese (from Bass Lake Cheese Somerset, WI) and bib
lettuce tasted out of this world and was nice greasy. Maybe too greasy
because a big drop of grease fell off the burger and dropped through a cloud.

"Hey, some of us are trying to talk down here. Watch your drippings." Came
a very familiar sounding Liverpool accent. The voice seemed like that of
an old friend. So Botany dropped down to the cloud below and found
none other than Abe Lincoln and John Lennon eating apples and telling jokes
about pistol safety.

Abe stroked his beard and asked, "What brings you up here?"

"Outside of his death?" Quipped Lennon.

"Well I got run over by Stephanie Miller in a story I was writing. Can you
look and see if the back of my head is still there? asked a nervous Botany.

Abe stood up and looked at the back of Botany's head and said, "Better see
St. Pete he fix you right up."

"And then I can go back to earth?"

"No but your dome will be more intact when the gang get together for
darts and to watch viking funerals."

BTW asked John, "You wrote your own death in a story? I can not
imagine why you would do that."

Abe flipped open his lap top and pulled up the "Gull Bay thread."
He read it quickly and rolled w/ laughter. "You spent your time and
effort writing this and somebody was whining ? Oh well I saved the
country and got shot for it. Just no pleasing some folks."

"Yes the fact that Whirly Girl was not hanging from a branch high
above above the crashing waves in a pretend cove off a pretend bay
and that you wrote all that stuff for free and to make people happy
seems not to have come her. So just walk away from the KOEB, EDVs
and Gull Bay it is easy if you try." said, John.

"No problem, Guys. Thanks. But John I don't have to hook up with
an older Asian lady, now do I."

"What ever get you through the night."

"Hush John, the Rev. has taken over w/ Berry at Gull Bay and has a
gay Scandinavian thread going."

"Yes, Abe we all know about that side of you. See you across the Universe,
Botany."

To the EDVs :hi: