Chico and Sno

You may ask: Why hasn't Roo written lately? Well, I've been having trouble connecting to the internet (or as I say: Inkerpet). I use my neighbor's wireless, and it doesn't always have reliable connection, at least in my house. If I went nextdoor, it would probably work better.

Secondly, I've been doing NaNoWriMo all month. It takes up a lot of my time. I still want to write a lot. At least it was something to do.

I did finish my novel. Actually, I haven't finished, but I've got 60,000+ words written, so I don't have to write anymore if I don't want to. I might finish it, when I've got nothing better to do.

Right now, I'm working on another idea that I've had. Of course, I've been writing The Chico and Sno Show for quite a few years now. (At least six, according to my calculations.) Unfortanitly, most of them have been lost with time. It's too bad, because I'd love to read my old work. Maybe they're still floating around out there somewhere.

I do have some that were written for last year's season, where Chico and Sno interviewed Mr. Barron Bon Stone (Mr. J, my music teacher), She-Moo (Shamu, the orca whale. My sister wrote that episode), Minor Anteater Bellfun (Major Anthony Nelson, from I Dream of Jeannie; Minor Watch Her Heel (Major Roger Healey, also from I Dream of Jeannie, Copter All For Hellows (Dr. Alfred Bellows. They were running an I Dream of Jeannie special), and of course Beanie Baby (Jeanie, from the same show as the last four. It was a four-part special I wrote back when I loved the show.)

The also interviewed Gutter, Mud of Tin Cheese (from ElfQuest. His real name is Cutter, and he's the Blood of Ten Chiefs), The Dead I Rate Rabbits (The Dread Pirate Roberts, from The Princess Bride), and Lay Low (Lilo, from Lilo and Stitch.

The also make cameos in almost every story I write. They have yet to appear in Last Shards, but I'm sure they will. They also make a trip every year to visit whoever I happen to be obsessed with. One year they went to visit the Sliders, once they went to visit Jeannie, another year they went to visit the world of two moons.

I'd also like to mention that The Chico and Sno Show is now a show within a show. I'm not sure what the show is called (probably The Masked Cokie Show). They used to be independent, "on the Chico channel, all Chico all the time," but for the moment, they aren't. Nobody would want to see all Chico all the time anyway. I know I wouldn't.

This season I plan to have her interview Kermit the Frog (I just finished the episode) and maybe Mr. Ian Woon. Other than that, I'm not sure. It depends on what movies I watch and what books I read this year.

NaNoWriMo Update

According to my calculations I have:

32,500 words written
17,500 words left to go
Written for 13 hours and 40 minutes with a little over 7 more to go
Typed 2.5 k per day (average)
Written an average of 2.2 k per hour (about 26 wpm)

Pretty impressive, huh? I had no idea I would get this far! I honestly thought that last weekend I would quit. Maybe I should do this more often ...

Tales From the Wash Rack

Sorry this is so late. I am having trouble connecting to the internet.

Remember, this is an Urban Legend, passes down from car washer to car washer (okay, not yet).

This story took place on October 31, the day after Day Lights Savings Time ended and we "FALLed Back."

It was the first Monday after we fell back. As a joke, everyone in the city decided that we would not show up on time. We would show up an hour late and freak out the boss. Maybe we cloud claim that we were 'saving' the hour for when we really needed it. It was a great idea!

So, on the first day of our new time, we all got to work on time, but instead of parking in the parking lot, we all pulled into the restaurant across the street. Of course, they told us never to come back again, but that’s because we were drinking all there coffee. From the window, we watched the boss pull into the empty parking lot. I guess it never dawned on him that we might be across the street. He got out of the car, and scratched his head. Then he looked at his watch, shrugged and got back into the car.

“Where’s he going?” one of our guys, Frik, said.

Nobody knew. We watched him pull out of the parking lot and pull out. He couldn’t be going home. Not just because no one was there yet! He pulled into the drive through to a fast food place down the street.

Suddenly I got a great idea. Everyone started scrambling to put it into action before all the words were even out of my mouth.

About an hour later, the boss came in and looked around.

“Hey, Boss!” I said.

“Forget to turn your clock back?” Frik asked.

Everybody was trying so hard to keep a straight face. And we were all doing a good job. At least in my opinion.

Boss looked confused. “Forgot to set my clock back? I came in an hour ago and no one was here!”

We all shrugged. Lots of voices say, “I was here.”

He shakes his head. “No one was here. I remember.”

“Maybe your eyes were memory’s gone bad,” someone says.

Several people turned away so the Boss wouldn’t see them laughing.

“No, I remember. Really. No one was in the parking lot!”

“Sure, Boss. No one was here.”

“No, really!”