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Incentive to get off my booty and write about Tazar + Jaylene= more contact with the mysterious and reclusive K.

You've got a good point. I'm going to finish this story and then go back to Jaylene's storyline.

I still find that when I wrote the stories in sequence time-wise (between Mandates and Dictates), it seemed to flow better. That was when there was 'matching' and people could realize that things were happening at the same time.  Or at least, it was the closest I've gotten.

I'll figure it out. Once the order of events becomes clearer, (by adding the necromancer presence to Acts) I should have a much clearer idea how to thin and then tighten the clues so they don't get buried by the pile of information.

I'm kick-ass at sorting socks, by the way. You gave me a lot of hope with that analogy. It's a patterning skill, so I just reach in and start putting pairs together without even thinking.

OK, I've posted my first draft of Katerin's short story for the Cop Shop contest. Does anyone have any time for a review? Figure if I'm going to write for the contest, I should have something that I can use in my storyline.

More Katerin, NJC…How did I do?

I don't know about slow-burn. They get together and it's just coitus interruptus over and over. I realize that they will get together in the end (as he holds her twitching corpse because she gets killed off by the evil and twisted K), however, I'm thinking that there should be a bit more…well, you get the drift.

Trivia: My great uncle was on the Hindenburg. He was in Russia selling farm equipment and took the dirigible home. When it caught fire, he pulled his Russian coat up over his ears, and jumped out as the ship neared the ground.  Broke his leg, but he lived.

And I can't really grasp what 100,000 kilopounds means."
This is the moment that I'm sure of how great a communicator you are, New Jersey :-)

Setting bones isn't what I'd call fun. The bones crunch under your hands. Everyone in medicine have a weak spot.  This is one of mine, but I've since replaced it with a few things that are more gross.  Desensitization, I believe the term is. When I worked as a medic, I did CPR a lot. That first push where you start compressions usually breaks every bone in an old lady's ribcage. Same feeling as when people crack their knuckles.

But as I said, that has been replaced with a few things that are more gross.

Hey, on a lighter note, did you say your Dad had an iron shop?  Interesting what you can learn from parents even though you never put it on your resume. I learned about bookbinding, knitting, and South African culture from my mother. Oh, add on baking and canning, as well as tree root patterns and gardening.  Odd how the skills come out at unexpected moments. I once showed a friend how to make a pie crust properly, despite the fact I've only baked a pie (maybe) twice in my life.

This is VERY pertinent to our site, because we can use the other people as a resource if we have need them. What are your unofficial skills that never appear on your resume?

Anybody?

Oh, and when I place the order to pump a stomach, my penance for ordering an uncomfortable test is to place the sump myself. If they really need it, then at least I can make that hour a lot less miserable.  However, this is not interesting at all.  If you're my patient and I find your interesting, then you REALLY don't want to be my trauma patient (It means that something about your scenario is tragic/ funny/ weird or medically unheard of before that day)

I was gonna say, like wow and can I have some of your energy?

Brings new meaning to the Big Bang

Brings new meaning to the Big Bang

When I worked as a medic, I learned the best way to get a firefighter. You turn off the battery of the vehicle(usually to the left of the driver's seat), turn on the siren/ lights/ radio (full volume)/ windshield wipers, hazard lights, and then wait for them to come out to the squad. Then they hit the battery and it is a circus until everything is turned off. Don't forget to smear KY jelly on every off switch, underside of the drivers wheel, and the switches for the lights/ sirens. Just to ice the cake, you put more KY on the gas cap so that when they gas the vehicle at the end of the shift, they once again realize that you care.

Sigh. Sometimes I miss the old days. Then I remember my paycheck and come back to my senses.