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Hi all!

Right let we get on with the story! Chapter 3 will be up around 14:00 to 15:00 SAST. Depending on how many stories are in the queue to be moderated. LOL.

Oh, yeah! To the commentators “dragonriderj,” and “Sloredr.” Hmm… The C-130 will only be scheduled to arrive around chapter 9. BUT, there’s a twist in the tail… or is it; “tale”? Whatever! (Again: Evil Laugh!)

Thanks go out to the person or persons that voted the story a 1, a 3 and a 5. Thank you for at least reading it! My sincere apologies that it's not in your taste, but I still appreciate you.

I hope you enjoy the pictures of Bobbie. It takes one to two hours on this stupid laptop of mine to render one picture in HD photo-real! Yeah, I use DAZ 3D for building her model, AND NO! I won’t post a nude picture of her!

And now to get on with chapter 9. (It’s 2300 words done so far.)

All the best and keep the rubber side underneath and the blue stuff overhead!

Until next time.

Bye 4 now!

Hi all!

Thanks for all the emails you guys send me. Yes, I saw there was a few “oopsies” in the text, but I did rectify it and version 1.01 was uploaded. It was some of the leftovers of my first attempt in writing 3 years ago! (LOL!)

Also thanks to those that went to look at the pictures on my external blog and for the one, or two emails I received via the blog. It is highly appreciated.

Please, you are most welcome to drop me mails via the external blog. I don’t get to go onto SOL every day, so, do feel free to use my external mail. As I said before, that one is a discreet email application and not my real private one.

So, without keeping you waiting, here comes Cargo Drop chapter two your way. You will notice that there’s not so much in the line of action and blood and gore, BUT, there might be some later in the story. (Evil Laugh!!!)

All the best and keep the rubber side underneath and the blue stuff overhead!

Until next time.

Bye 4 now!

Hi there All!
Okay, Bobbie now has BLUE eyes. Also there was a paragraph added due to the fact that someone could not find the word "Bahia" on Google. Well, that word do exist in Arabic, Portuguese and Spanish. The word is spelled as "B A H I A" and not "B A I A"

As a matter of fact there's a group of women that is known as "Bahia" in a certain culture, but that is besides the point.

If you guys like to head over to my external blog... I'll post some hi res pics of Bobbie with BLUE eyes, and the two hairstyles she'll use in the story.

It takes forever to render the pics on my Slowwwwwy laptop. (About one to two hours! Grrrr.) But that I do for you guys!

Sorry for the redownloads!

Bye 4 Now!

Hi all!

I trust that you guys and girls are well and have NOT missed me much! LOL. Well I did take a break. About a month! Then it was back to the typewriter. (Okay, okay… Word-processor on the laptop!)

I started writing a ghost story. A real scary ghost story. So scary, it frightened me! LOL! Anyway, then I started a new story. (With the Angels and all the crew from the Angels Universe.) But my wife said: “Boringgggg!” and that went on ice as well.

Still, relaxing on the sofa, I found a story I have started to write long, long time ago, and never published. It came to chapter 3 and I thought: “Nope! Sounds too much as a story I read before.” BUT, a few changes here and there, twisting the plot a bit and here it is. It went up to chapter 7 so far, that is with the editors now, and chapter 8 is running good.

Also remember: This is the very first time that I ventured into the world of story telling. So, there might be a few typos that all four pairs of eyes missed, and the wording might sound strange to some of you. I assure you, no professors of the English language were intentionally harmed while writing this story. (Nit-picker Command? Take note! LOL.)

So without further ado: Let’s get into the first chapter of: “CARGO DROP.”

Well! That’s it! Until next time.

Keep well, and stay safe!

Bye 4 now!

Good morning all!
Yes, I am still around and working behind the scenes to bring you a new story. Okay, I know I gave you all a little snippet of a ghost story I was working on, but that went on ice. Then I started a new story and again… it went on ice.

So, the story that I’m working on now and is into chapter six, will be progressing good, and I will shortly start posting it.

BUT. That is not the reason that I am writing you today. No, I had some good laughs doing research for the story and came upon a piece of info that had me laughing so hard, my wife had to give me sugar water to calm me down. Let me tell you.

I know that I’m not an authority on English. Nope, I leave that stuff for my editors. So, I came across this article on the internet about a teen boy that was caught out “skip Lagging” by American Airlines. I’m not going into the pros and cons of skip lagging, although I found that my one editor also did not know what skip lagging is.

During the debate that followed the article, someone said: “… payed for the ticket.”
Then some other guy jumped on the bandwagon and nit picked the first guy for using “payed” instead of “paid.” He alleged that “payed” is a nautical term. With that in mind, yours truly went and internet searched the term. And yes, it is true. “She ‘paid’ for renting the boat, and then went and ‘payed’ out the line that kept the yacht secured to the dock.”

BarneyR, Rvbuilder and Grumpyoldsquid, have you guys came across that nautical term? (Email me.)

In this context it is used correctly, as per Google. I asked my one editor what’s his take on it. He told me he never heard the term. So, together we investigated, and I was satisfied that the term “payed” is to be used in a nautical environment.

Then my editor send me a link to an article by Grammarly, on the net, that explained this. And low and behold! The article do give the right description of the “Paid” vs “Payed” scenario, BUT, here is where I had a fit of laughter: In their examples they made a little HUGE mistake! They give the CORRECT usage of the term as “She PAID out the line so that it slacked…” Huh? Paid instead of payed? The object of the whole article? Now! Does this prove that Grammarly can also make mistakes? Why pick on little old me?

So, who do I trust and PRAY that I don’t fall “PREY” to the nit-pickers that criticise my spelling? (LOL!!!)

There’s over 150 dialects of English spoken in the world. In the USA alone there're 3 dialects of English spoken. Even with words that sound the same, but have different meanings.

BTW: “PAYED” also refer to the covering, or weather guarding, something. “She PAID John after he PAYED the deck of the boat for her.”

(I’ll use that part in my new story and see who takes me on about it. LOL.)

Have a happy day!

Bye 4 now!