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After the nap where they got no sleep Lauren and his lady friend were bombarded with more bad humor from Daniel Thornton. It was called The wost humor video of all time. It was supposed to be funny since Daniel Thornton thought the jokes on the video were the best of all time. But, he was the only person who held that opinion but, as usual he would not listen to anyone. He would not hear that his jokes were no good.

The jokes were about nature: Trees and plants with traditionally were not fodder for humor and Daniel Thornton showed why. He stood in the middle of a bad set that was supposed make it look like he was in a forest but, instead made him look like he was in the middle of a bunch of plastic plants.

One joke was What do tree's grow? Up, out and leaves and this left Daniel Thornton in hysterics with laughter. He never learned that is was bad to laugh at your own bad and worse jokes. It was a shame and embarrassing to him. After one joked he laughed for a full five minutes he was on the ground rolling around after he feel to his knees with laughter. Lauren thought all that laugher after the jokes was so that Daniel Thornton could fill time because Lauren was convinced that he did not write enough jokes for a full two hour DVD so the laughter helped fill in the extra time that Daniel Thornton did not write enough jokes for.

It was painful to watch the video Lauren was not sure he deserved this even though he did take all the clown womens money. "I do not deserve this he said to her. I did not do anything that was that horrible to you. I only stole all your money but, so what you can always make some more. But, I will not get these hours of misery back. The hours that you have forced me to watch these horrible videos." "Oh, its not that bad the clown lady said compared to what you did to me. You ruined my whole life. So what if I ruin one day for you you deserve it you scoundrel. You deserve anything I can do to you. Well almost anything. Don't worry I will let you go when the sun goes down and then you can go back to your pathetic life of trying to cheat women but, you won't cheat me ever again I guarantee. So I am taking one day of your life. One day is all I ask. Ok I am not asking I am taking one day out of your life. You can go pick up some women to night and ruin her life. So don't expect me to fell sorry for you Lauren and don't expect me to let you go any sooner than I said.

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After the lunch it was time for a workout. Not a hard workout but, the clown women wanted to give her guests some exercise. First can a reps of push ups and sit ups. Ok, that is what the exercise routine consisted of push ups and sit ups.

Then before the next round of videos came. The clown lady wanted to discuss the previous DVD's.

There is nothing to discuss Lauren said the jokes are bad and the lighting is bad, the sets are bad, the DVD's are bad period. I agree with everything that Lauren said he lady friend said. So with that the clown lady agreed that the discussion time was over and it was time to watch more bad comedy video's.

For the next video it was Zip around. Which was Daniel Thornton's take on driving fast and fast cars. Now this DVD's was the one that took the cake for bad jokes. If Lauren thought the other DVD's were bad this one was even badder and not in a good way a really bad way. The jokes consisted of for example. What do you call people who drive to fast? Rude. Daniel Thornton could not contain his laughter on that bad joke he laughed for a good minute after telling it was made it all the more painful to watch. Yes, it was horrible to watch. Another joke was Fast cars are cars that drive themselves, pretty much. That mad Daniel Thornton laugh so hard he fell to his knees and the soda he was drinking went though his nose. Another embarrassing joke to watch or even listen to. How could anyone think that that joke was funny.

The DVD went on in that vain a bad joke followed by Daniel Thornton laughing at his own very bad jokes for minutes after he told them and then finally the bad DVD ended but, Lauren knew that his pain had just begun as the clown lady was going to make them watch more of Daniel Thornton's comedy DVD's.

For the next video it was going to be even worse. But, first Mrs. Clown was going to let her uninvited guests have a nap. Since she thought they would be tired from all of that video watching that they would probably need a nap of a half an hour or more. To help them get to sleep she thought it would help them get to sleep she was going to put on a cd of Daniel Thornton's comedy but, it did not help them get to sleep it only made them lie awake in horror as they listened to more of his bad jokes and editorials on how the would should be run.

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After the clown had forced both of them to watch Daniel Thornton's first video she went on to some truly terrible DVD's. The next video was called To the Apartment. Which was Daniel Thornton's take on the furnishing's in apartments and these were some very bad jokes.

Lauren and his women were or want to scream out in pain after watching just one joke as the joke was the worst joke they had ever heard. But, no they had to keep watching bad joke after bad joke and the worst thing was that Daniel Thornton was laughing at his own bad jokes which was so sad and painful to watch. And Lauren glad he was not the man on the DVD. Which would have left him embarassed.

Lauren knew he was a crook but, at least he did not think he was funny when he knew he could not tell a joke from a clothes hamper. He was temped to send Daniel Thornton a letter telling him just how unfunny he thought Daniel Thornton was. He would think about it if he ever got out of this situation alive. He was sure he probably would but, one never knows about these things. Though he was sure that all these bad DVD's would damage his sense of her forever though no one ever said he had much of a sense of humor anyway. So it would not be much of a loss to him or to the world as he was not going to become a world class comedian anyway though he could always tell the women he was after that he was one of the funniest people in the world that no one had ever heard of.

Lauren did fancy himself somewhat of a ladies man and even joked to friends that he could pickup more women in 20 minutes than most me could all day. That did not get much of a laugh though but, at least he tried to get a laugh. Daniel Thornton also though of himself as a ladies man but, he was just as wrong about that as he was about his humor. Which was very women. So wrong he could have been right but, he was still wrong.

After the second DVD the clown lady game Lauren and his lady friend a rest from the bad comedy for a little lunch. Which consisted of fries and burgers from the computer city hamber joint. The burgers and fries were a much need respite from the bad comedy but, could not get the bad taste out of their mouths after watching Daniel Thornton make a fool out of himself right in front of there eyes. With two of the worst selling DVDS of all time.

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Suddenly a women in a clown suit. She ordered them into a limo and they obeyed as she was very demanding so what else could they do but, obey so the went into the limo. Inside the limo the clown revealed herself as Lana one of Laurens victim's. Lauren had taken all her money and sold all her possessions and left town to find more women to take money from.

Now she was going to get her revenge. She was going to do the most terrible thing imaginable. She was going to force Lauren to watch the comedy Dvds made by the worst comedian on earth, Daniel Thornton.

Daniel Thornton started his career as a bad programmer and then decided to switch to comedy because everyone he knew told him that he was not funny but, he thought he was funny so he wanted to prove everyone he knew wrong. But, all he did was prove them right because no one else thought he was funny either but, he persisted trying to be funny witch only made him unfunny. He had made several of the worst comedy DVDs know to the world. The were so unfunny that they were funny.

The computer city gazette said of the DVDs they should never be watched and the only redeeming quality was that they could be used as drink coasters as they were cheaper than regular drink coasters.

Lana was going to start out with the worst of Daniel Thornton's comedy DVD's. It was called vacation comedy and featured Daniel Thornton's jokes about vacation and taking in-laws on vacation. For the DVD Daniel Thornton was standing on a horribly fake looking beach set. It did not look good but, he thought it looked fine but, everyone else said it looked horrible and would have been embarrassed to be seen on such a horrible set. The jokes as usual were terrible and were unfunny that they were painful to listen to but, Daniel Thornton thought they were the best jokes ever told and as usual wondered why everyone one the world besides him thought that they were not funny. The man was oblivious to criticism he thought he was right and the funniest man in the world and everyone had no taste. He was the arbiter of true taste. He knew it all. And everyone else knew nothing. It was sad really but, he would not listen to anyone else because he thought they were jealous of his talent. And were trying to tear him down and make him feel bad about himself so that they could ruin his life and he was having none of it.

So he kept making terrible DVD's and everyone laughed behind his back. And he did not notice.

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I am reading a book about the smalltalk-80 programming language. I don't recall the title but, Adele Goldburgh is one of the authors. It from 1983 so its old. But its exciting to find out about smalltalk-80. I am reading the pdf version and not a hard copy.

I am also reading blender basics 4th edition. Its a basic book about the blender 3d creation program. I just need to practice what I am learning more so I don't forget what I am learning.

I am reading 2 hard copy books but, I don't get to read them to often because I am on my computer a lot.

I am also trying to read Learn python the hard way by zed shaw.

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After they had finished their dinner and dessert Lauren brought up the idea of taking a romantic walk along the shores of computer city beach. "How about we go to the beach miss for a romantic walk Lauren said." "Sure why not she said." So she paid the bill and the got up and waked out the door of the arcade.

Lauren hailed a cab. It was a cab from the computer city cab service. Which drove around the streets of computer city twenty four hours a day. They got into the cab and told the driver to head to the beach. When they arrived at the beach Lauren asked if she the women he was with could pay the fare and she agreed. The exited the yellow cab and headed out of the beach parking lot to the beach after they paid the admission fee it was nothing but, sandy beautiful beach ahead.

The sounds of the water were calming. The wave machine was on and making artificial waves which made the beach stunning at sunset. The held hand and just walked on the beach and watched the sun set and then decided to sit down on the beach and talk. The both took their shoes off and wiggled their feet in the sand.

So have you been to the beach often she asked Lauren. "No, I have not he said because I have just been to busy doing my work and charity work. Though seeing the beach now I will make it a point to come more often and maybe I could take up surfing or wind surfing or body boarding as an added incentive to make me come to the beach more often. Oh, but, I have so many things I want to do Lauren said." "Have you been to the beach Lauren asked the women." "Yes I come to the beach once a week to watch the waves and I also like to practice my yoga her in the morning when its so beautiful and calming before I go to work in the city where its so hectic and uncalming. It get me off to a great start in my day. So actually I might start coming to the beach everyday she said.

Lauren said that is what I should do to get my day off to a good start. So how about we make it a date for tomorrow to come to the beach and practice yoga and talk some more and get to know each other better Lauren said."

"Sure why not, why don't we do it. I would like that very much Lauren. So what time do you want to show up she said." "Oh, I would say about 6:00am that would fit my schedule fine Lauren said."

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"This pizza is delicious Lauren said. What do you think of it?" "I think its good also." After they finished the pepperoni the desert pizza arrived. "How you ever eaten a desert pizza she asked Lauren." No I have not but, what better to do than try something new on a date with I women who I had not met before going out tonight. I thought I was just going out for another boring night at the computer city video arcade and here I am having dinner with a women I hope to marry someday."

"Lauren said that he goes out to the arcade about once a week but, only skips to help out at a charity. He tried to make himself look as good as possible." "What kind of charity are we taking about her Lauren. Its called Men without recliners. Its stated goal is to provide recliners for men who don't have them. You know its commonly underestimated how important a recliner is to a man's self worth. He needs them to watch the football games or sports in general or he can use the recliner when his significant other be it his mistress, wife, girlfriends, what have you and he have had an argument and he does not want to sleep on the couch so he will choose to tilt the recliner backwards. So if he does not have a recliner he can do no of those all important things.

So its a cause I deeply believe in so I volunteer whenever I can to help at recliner drives or events sponsored by the charity to raise money. I even washed cars one year to help out and we raise a good amount of money. And help by many recliners for the all important men in need. I bet they are watching television in those recliners right now and that makes me feel good. It give me a warm feeling in my heart to know that I am doing some good in the world and not just helping myself."

"That is nice to hear she told Lauren. I don't mean to criticize but, men without recliners does not sound like a big do to me I thought you meant a more important charity. Like say providing stylists for people with bad taste in clothing or say evening dress for women without evening dresses. But, if you think getting recliners to the men who do not have them is important to you than you go ahead and support that charity. Me I don't volunteer because I am to busy working all day at my job that I am just to tired to do anything else at the end of the day. Its good though you are winning points with me for wanted to help those less furnished than yourself. All the while she knew that he was probably lying to him about everything and that she could not believe a word he said but, she had to act like she believed him.

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I can top what you just said mum. I have created many inventions. One in particular was great but, no one had any interest because it was years ahead of its time. I don't want to talk of the particulars of the invention because its not patented and who knows who might be listening to our conversation. I could be bugged or you could be an agent for a company who wants to steal my invention so no talking about the invention. I will say that it would have changed the would as we know it. Honestly.

I have also played professional hokey for the computer city starz. I played from 1990 to 2000 and was pretty good if I do say so myself. I was so good I got into several games for garbage time when the team I played for was either way ahead or far behind and they needed bodies to get on the ice. Very Very good. So do you want to go somewhere a little more romantic then this arcade. Lauren said." "Sure she said." "Where do you want to go then he asked." "First lets get some pizza she said." "ok". "I will order us a large peperoni pizza with cheese and for dessert how about a chocolate chip pizza with a chocolate crust and topped with chocolate chips shavings, chocolate sauce and chocolate candy, and finally strawberry's. Does that sound good he asked." "Sounds good to me she said." "So I will go to the counter to order and be back in a Giffy." "I will be here waiting for you to come back she said." "While Lauren was gone she checked her mini tape recorder that she had hidden in her purse to secretly record her conversation with him for her boss a women who Lauren had scammed many years before out of her family fortuned. She was going to put Lauren into jail. "I am back Lauren said." "Hi" "Oh, I placed the order and the should be bringing it around in a second. I hope you don't mind paying for it as I forgot my wallet at home." "No problem she said silently seething at having to pay for the food. She was going to get this guy as that was her job and now it was personal.

The pizza came and they both dug in and started talking some more. "So do you like computers and surfing the internet she asked Lauren." "No I don't I have never used a computer in my life. I think a computer is good for some things I just don't enjoy sitting in front of one because I have nothing to do on there. So I watch television instead as I really enjoy watching vintage sports games and watching old television shows. I particularly like to watch old games of the computer city starz on the computer city sports channel. I have even made a cameo in one of the games that I have watched. I played pretty well in that game I came so close to making a goal. I was proud of myself because that was the only time I got close to making a goal in a game Lauren said.

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Lauren said I can understand why a women would want to stalk me after all I am wonderful. I never get mad at anyone no not me. I hold it inside for years and argue over and over with the thing that I was mad about and eventually forget what you would have gotten me angry about. Until what I was angry with you about does not matter. Long after you have forgotten what you said that had gotten me angry. I kept it inside and don't take it out on anyone but, myself. See I don't get mad at anyone.

Another one of my qualities that is great Lauren said is that I am loyal. I act like am your friend in front of your face until you get out of earshot if you are my friend then I start the criticisms about you to anyone who will listen. That is what is so wonderful about me I am so phony." "That is wonderful Lauren. You seem to have a lot of great qualities. Now let me tell you about some of my great qualities she said. I am a wonderful cook. I like making cakes and cookies. My favorite cookies to make are sugar cookies. I like to make them from an old recipe from an old book that was handed down from relatives. I like to take about half the day and spend it making the sugar cookies. I make enough for about two weeks. I freeze some and then leave the ones that I want to eat the first week unfrozen. The for the second weeks cookies I spend about two hours cooking them in the oven. I like to take powered sugar and make frosting for the sugar cookies because I think the cookies with frosting taste much better and are sure a lot sweeter. I like to take the cookies to local farmers markets around computer city in the summer and sell them to make a little extra money so that I can get school supplies and money to go to movies and the rest I donate to charity."

"I also like to make 3d models on my computer. I like to spend about four hours a day working on my computer modeling skills. I do the work at night usually since I like to spend the day either watching television or outside in the fresh air and sunshine. Though there is not much fresh air and sunshine where I live since my house is near the computer city freeway which is noisy and polluted but, what can I do I do like the noise really and all the cars make never never feel alone. But all the noise does give me a headache every once in awhile but, only every once in awhile".

"You are fascinating my pet. You are the women of my dreams.

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"you sound like quite the catch Lauren. So why is it your single when you seem so great." "Oh, I just have not found the right women. There either to old to young or untrustworthy. Its not that I have not loved women I have but, then after a few months I found that they were not worthy of that love and trust I so naively gave them. Its so hard to trust someone when you have been betrayed so many times but, I still look for that perfect women even though I have been heart so many times."

"So why are you single my lady Lauren said. "I am single because I have not found the right man. I have been married several times as I have mentioned before but, the were are not so good men as I mentioned also before or hinted at at least. I just like to fall in love and never wait to find out who the man I am dating really is. I can't wait to get married so I won't be alone so I get married to soon and they turn out to be the opposite of what I thought they were. I have been married five times and all of my courtships have lasted no longer than a month on lasted less than a week. I think they were just after my money. I don't want to make the same mistakes again and this time I will be more cautious."

"You don't have to worry about me miss. I am not after your money. No indeed. I want a women that would be the perfect mate. Of course if she has money that is ok but, not required. She has to be nice and sweet and not mean. I have had women that I have dated that have seemed nice and made fun of me and picked on me and made me feel like I have been driven over by an ATV. As I said they seemed nice at first and by the time I found out who they really were I was already to committed to the relationship and the women to end it abruptly. So I stayed in a bad relationship hoping she would change but, she never did and I would eventually have to end the relationship and it would be all the more painful and all the more hard to get away from a women who I had been with lets say for a year or more. I have wasted years of my life on bad relationships hoping the women I choose would change and become better so I would not have to be alone and single again but, it never worked out for me.

I guess it was not all that bad because none of the women staked me after we broke up or anything like that except there was this one women who I was not even dating and I had refused her advances who started stalking me and I had her arrested and I changed my phone number and it was bad because she would call me at all hours of the day. Thats is why I had my phone number changes. She would asked me where I had been if I had not answered the phone the last time she called. It got bad."

Oh, you poor thing Lauren I feel so sorry for you. Is she still stalking you now." "Yes she is but, its not that bad but, sometimes it keeps me awake at night. But, not often.

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Lauren was beginnning to think he had a great women on the line and he was about to get a girlfriend or even a wife with big money which would set him up for a life of riches and the great life.

So what else do you do or have you done in your life you lovely man she said. "I think you should know my name since we seem to be hitting it off so my name is Lauren. Yes in my life I have done many interesting things such as travel the world. I once climbed computer city mountain. I was part of a team that was competing in the computer city mountain climb and we were racing against other teams to get to the top of the mountain and collect the big prize money and the fame. The winner got 100,000 dollars in prize money and a one hour spot on good morning computer city with Sylvia Vales.

Good morning computer city had been on the air for over a decade. It was stated as a cable access show but, had slowly got a strong following that had steadily grown over time and then was put on a regular channel and put on in the morning at about 6:00am until about 10:00am and featured stand-up comedy, comedy skits, educational segments and segments on new life changing technology but, most of the focus was on the comedy to get people a good funny start on the day. Once a month the show also featured a comedy puppet show which lasted the whole show and was put on by the computer city puppet show and everyone thought it was the funniest show on television in computer city television history which was a short his but, a regal one with many many great shows.

Sylvia Vales was a former super model who got into show business when her career as a model ended and she needed another line of employment. She was 5'10" and weighted 140 pounds with black hair and green eyes and no luck with men. So she decided to give up on romantic relationships and go it alone. She did have friends and that was enough for her. She did not need to find a special someone when was happy enough being alone and hanging around her fiends. She was happy not to have to take care of a man as well as take care of herself. She had had many bad relationships in thee past including a man who stole everything she owned including all her money she was lucky that she had friends to help her out while she got back on her feet. That man had been in jail for years after they caught him when he used one of her credit cards at a shopping mall. She was able to recover none of her possessions since he sold everything and hid the money which the authorities still had not found.

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Lauren said he was looking for love. He had always wanted a women he could love and who loved him back. Usually a women loved he and he did not love her back or it was he loved a women and she did not feel the same way about him. So he said he was looking for that special someone who would change his life and remember his name and have a smile on her face every time she saw him. And if she also had a lot of money that was good but, it was not a requirement wink wink.

Wow, she said that is admirable in a man. Most men I know don't look for love they are looking for a women to be a maid and take care of them and they treat women like hired help. The just want someone to do everything for them so that they can sit on the couch and watch television or go to the bar with there buddies and have dinner waiting for them at home. You are a great man whatever your name is, What is your name sir? She said."

My name dear women is Lauren the man ofyourdreams. First name Lauren last name ManOfYourDreams. That is a great name for a man don't you think my dear lady he said." "Yes it is its truly wonderful she said to Lauren.

But I have more than a great name my lady I also have a great resume. I worked at the computer city space center for fourteen days as a waiter but, I wanted more I wanted to work on the space shuttles but, they would not let me because I have no qualifications and have not been to college to get the necessary degrees but, I said the men higher up couldn't you let it slid and let me work on the space shuttles anyway and they were having none of it and the said no and I said shoot. I will get to work on the space shuttles yet and the said you are fired and we don't want to see you in this place again and thats why I only worked there fourteen days.

Pretty impressive wouldn't you say miss whatever your name is he said to the mysterious women in red." "Yes that is impressive but, it would have been a more impressive story if you had been to college and worked on a space shuttle or worked on a computer or done something that lasted for more than fourteen days. That you worked at the space center is impressive but, not that impressive. So have you done anything else she asked." "Well I have traveled the world with my own polka band and I did not even know what polka was I just put an ad in the paper and when some 3 guys came to audition I said no one else came for the audition so all of you are hired and we went on the road as a polka band. We got a lot of gigs because we worked for free but, people were disappointed when we played because the music we played it was not polka music.

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Lauren was now ready for a night out on the town since he had been playing video games the night before. He decided that rather play video games in his apartment why not go to a video arcade.

The computer city video arcade was owned by Cynthia Files the founder and owner of star computer. She decided to start it because she thought that kids needed more places to go after school instead of only going home and sitting on their computers for hours and hours with no one to talk to but, through a computer screen. The building was rectangular with columns on the outside to make it look like a building from ancient Greece.

There were dozens of video games in the arcade along with a pool table and a pizza parlor that also served drinks. Lauren decided to sit down at a table and order a pizza before playing the video games so that he could see if there were any women he was interested in. The pizza was a peperoni with sausage and extra cheese for a drink he ordered regular soda from the computer city soda company brand which was also started by Cynthia Files.

Lauren waited and waited until he saw a women who looked like she had money she was wearing designer clothing and had a fancy hand bag that had gold beads on it. When she sat down he went over and introduced himself as Tom West a world famous cowboy. Who had competed in hundreds of rodeos and worked on his ranch in computer city driving his cattle to and from their summer to winter feeding grounds. "I adore horses because they are a cowboys best friend and companion out there on the trail and in rodeo competition.

"So who are you he said." "I am the owner of computer city tire company which manufacturers tires that are on 90 percent of the cars in computer city and 20 percent of the tires world wide. I am also a yacht captain who has captained in the computer city cup. Which is a competition to see who owns the fastest yacht in time trials and a long journey on lake computer city which lasts a total of about a week and is a great test of speed and endurance. I have place in the top 50 every time I have entered and this year I hope to break into the top 40 out of 200 yachts that enter witch I think is good since I am not a professional boat woman. I hope to one day break into the top 10 or even hope against hope to win the cup but, that is long shot but, why not wish for big things and then they might happen.

So what kind of relationship are you looking for she asked.

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Lauren was also an avid video game player. He would sometimes instead of going out at night spend all night playing video games. He had even competed in sever video game competitions.

One competition was the computer city video game players association world championship. It was composted of several rounds where hundreds of video game players from computer city would compete against each other until the best player was crowned and given a huge cash reward and free video games and a free video game console and a top of the line computer. It Was a competition that everyone who cared about video games wanted to win but, only a few had won.

One year Lauren entered the competition with several friends as a team. The did ok for non-professional video game player but, Lauren knew that he would never be good enough to become a professional video game player so he only competed in a competition once in awhile because of the fun and excitement of it all.

Tonight Lauren decided to stay in his apartment and play video games instead of going out on the town to get a women to marry him. His video game collection included an old hyperdrive video games console made by star computer company. It was in top flight condition because he took good care of it. He liked to play a game called space ball which was a game who's her was named Garish who was from the planet mars who joined the computer city crime fighters to fight aliens from the moon who were trying to take of the planet earth. Even though Garish was not from the planet earth he was certain that if the aliens from the moon took over the planet earth that mars would be the next planet on their agenda.

So the object of the game was for the human payer(Garish) to lead a squadron of attack ships against the mean moon men and save the planet earth from take over from the mean moon men. If he failed the who universe could be lost for all anyone knew. Garish was just one part of earths defense force with the other part on the earths surface itself which consisted of an army hidden in the hills and country sides and cities of earth on the look out for the troops the of the take over men. The was a lot of pressure on Garish because he had so much riding on his success.

Lauren found the role of Garish intriguing and exciting. He also found the graphics of the game to be good considering when the games was made so long ago but, he did wish that a sequel would come out with better graphics and game play but, he was satisfied with the game. He would play the game for hours and hours on end even though he owned many many video games.

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Lauren decided to leave the Disco can asked Patricia for her phone number. He planned on going to his apartment to get some much needed sleep. He had redecorated his apartment to look like candy cane with everything with alternating red and white in color it was an amazing site to see. From the walls to the pillow cases looked like one big candy cane. It looked good enough to eat.

He decided to have a shower and then turn in for some much needed sleep after a night of lying trying to make himself seem more prestigious so that he would seem so much more desirable to a women with money. It plum wore him out and he needed some good rest to get to work tomorrow.

He worked as a sweeper for a man who could not enter sweepstakes himself because he could not stand to sit on his computer all day and enter sweepstakes so he paid Lauren to enter the sweepstakes for him.

Lauren got up at the crack of dawn and made a breakfast of bacon and eggs and had some orange juice. He then started the thirty minute walk to Harkens house; the man who he worked for entering sweepstakes. When he got to Harkens house he went to the front gate and pressed the button on the intercom to say that this is Lauren and that I am ready for work.

He was buzzed inside the grounds of the house by Harkens security guard and he stepped into the main house about five minutes later ready to sit at the laptop for about six straight house with only one break and enter sweepstakes. He did not like sitting in front of a computer anymore than harkens did but, he also did not like the idea of getting a real job so he did what he hated because it was easier than anything else he could think of and it paid well.

At 2:30pm everyday he would get a fifteen minute break to eat cakes and cookies along with a hot chocolate so he could rest his hands and body from all of that sitting and then it was back to the computer until about 4:00pm when he would head home for a night of partying and Disco if he so choose. His boss did not care what he did with his off time since he only worked for him entering sweepstakes.

After work Lauren would go home and shower and watch television for about an hour and then decided were to go to hit on women and see if he could snag himself a rich woman. Which he never seemed to be able to do but, he was sure if he kept trying he would someday succeed. He just knew he would even if he was eighty years old and finally met a rich women.

The Man Who Wanted To Impress, Page 8

Then next women he met was the wife of the owner of the Disco and her name was Patricia. She was looking to have a affair because her husband was not paying attention to her and she was lonely and needed a man to talk to. Someone who would give her some much needed attention.

She was 5'10 with blond hair wearing a black evening dress with a pearl necklace and her hair tied in a bun. She looked amazing. She was wearing an expensive perfume and red lipstick and some nice earrings. She was a site to behold.

She started talking about one of her favorite hobbies, computer programming. She was a self-taught computer programmer well almost a computer programmer she only had read computer programming books and tutorials. She had accounts for repositories on the internet to store her programs but, they were empty. But, someday she hoped to fill them with the programs she had written but, for now it would probably be a long time before they were filled but, there was always hope.

She also had in interest in food. She liked candy particularly the computer city candy company's bugs which were a mix of sugar and a gummy substance with and orange flavoring which she could eat by the bagful.

"So she asked what is your name stranger" "Lauren he said." "Are you a host of the computer city gazette television show." "No but, I am a world famous skydiver with several world records under my belt including a jump from the edge of outer space and he was the first person to make such a jump but, he is semi retired from the skydiving to focus on his first love competitive eating. He was in training now for the computer city competitive eating world championships. He liked hot dog competitive eating because he liked hot dogs and he could eat them really really fast and that was great as far as he was concerned.

"Is there anything else that you are good at Lauren." "No I am afraid that I am only good at about two things but, I am extremely good at the things that I am good at even if I am not good at that many things." "Oh, that is to bad Lauren but, at least you are good at the few things that your can do. So what do you look for in your special women she asked Lauren." "I look for a woman with money and great taste in clothing. I know that might be superficial but, you have got to admit that I am honest and that is better tan saying that I want a women who I love and I don't care about money or clothing. I am proud of myself for being so honest for once in my lifetime. Because I usually lie all the time Patricia.

The Man Who Wanted To Impress, Page 7

Lauren promptly got up and did a cartwheel to impress his new quarry. And she was impressed and then he said look what I can do and promptly did a head stand. Which did not impress her as much but, it still made some points. "So what else can you do she said. I can drink a can of soda in under a minute. I am the soda drinking champion of computer city three years running now.

"That is very impressive can you do anything else. I can spend money like no one else. And I think that is my greatest trait of all. And I can spend it faster than anyone else he said." "She said that is great because I have a lot of money and need a man but, you are not my type and I am sorry for taking up you time. I will take my leave she said.

Lauren was upset by the rejection so he ordered himself another ice water. He sipped on his water and thought of all the money of that women who rejected him that he could have spent and what he could have bought. What kind of expensive car could he have been driving around town in and impressing all the strangers that he would never see again but, the would see him in his fancy car.

He decided to stop feeling sorry for himself and look for a new women to marry. He looked around and he saw plenty of couples but, not many single women and that was ok with him because maybe they were quality of quantity. He decided to go for a red head who sat down at the other end of the bar so he got up off his bar stool and headed for her and when he got to her instead of sitting down he started talking to her. He introduced himself as a millionaire even though he had on sneakers and sweats. He said the reason he was dressed so shabbily was that he did not like to look like he had money because people would try to take advantage of him because they thought he had money and want to rip him off or mug him or something horrible like that.

"She said that that was smart and if she had money she would do the same thing which made Lauren quickly turn and walk somewhere else without saying goodbye because he did not want to waste time talking to a women if she did not have money. He was not here to make friends he was here at the disco to make money and that was it. It was not fun and games. SO with that in min he quickly looked for another women to go after and after about a minute of looking he found her.

The Man Who Wanted To Impress, Page 5

So he left the women and went to the bar to console himself with an ice cold water since he did not drink when was working. He thought he would never get a women to be interested in he and then marry her an spend all her money leaving her penniless and broke and then he would move on to another women whit more money to spent. He thought I should be positive and think that there is always the next women. That there was some poor desperate women ready to fall for his hapless advances and make him a very rich man. He always had to have that hope.

So he looked around the disco and did not see any interesting prospect which he thought was because it was so early so he decide to just sit at the bar and nurse his ice water and see if any women would come to him. And wouldn't you know it some tall brunette waled up to him and asked if she could sit down an buy him a drink. "I don't drink but, you can give me the money it would have cost you to buy me a drink. I think that would be a great thing for you to do." "Unsurprisingly she declined." "Ok so what do you you do for a living he asked her". "I am a welder and I weld underwater on ship that need to be repaired." "Wow, I have never met a female welder before. How did you get into that line of work." Well she said I wanted to be a welder from the time I grew up. Sure some women wanted to be a princess or meet the perfect man and get married but, no not me I was reading welding textbooks and out in my dad shop practicing what I had read in the aforementioned textbooks and getting to be a pretty good weld by a young age. When most girls were playing dress up with there dolls I was dream and working to be the best welder that I could be. I wanted to be the best welder in the world but, I would settle for second best, he he."

"Then I went to a special school that taught underwater welding and learned how to repair ships and other things that needed to be repaired that were underwater." "How fascinating Lauren said. So how much money are you pulling down." "She looked at Lauren as if he was a man from a different planet and said I don't discuss how much money I make with strangers." "But, I am not a stranger because we have already know each other for over thirty minutes." "That still makes you a stranger in my book she said" "Well if you see it that way".

The Who Wanted To Impress, Page 4

Lauren kept talking to the women until he finally worked up the courage to ask her to marry him. "Will you marry me women who's name I don't yet know. Lauren said". "I don't know what to say to the she said and by the way my name is Kat as in Kathrine." "Wow, that is such a pretty name and I will give you no time to think over my proposal so you have to answer me now." "In that case I will answer no because I have married a guy after knowing him for an hour and that marriage did not turn out so well. No, it did not. We divorced after only an hour of marriage."

Lauren abruptly got up from the table and left the women alone without even a goodbye. He then went to the bar to hit on the female bartender who laughed off his advances and Lauren just as quickly moved on. He walked over to an empty table that was empty and took a seat to think about his next victim. There were several women of interest over at one table and then there were several other women at another table. He decided to go for all the women instead of choose one group.

At the first table he went the he introduced and she he was a clown who worked at children's birthday parties. The were impressed right away. A man who liked to be fun was a person women would find irresistible as far as Lauren saw it. "I am also a millionaire he said to the now awed crowed of over-aged women. He now had to see if anyone of them had any money and wanted to go out with him or even he was holding his breath marry him. "So does anyone want to marry me or just go out on a date of course I will let you pay for dinner and a movie. No one showed any interest so he went to the other group of women.

He introduced himself as a small time movie star who had stared in sever low-budget B-movies that no one has ever seen. The women were not impressed so he added that he had once been to a party that was hosted by Rip Thomas the huge mega movie star who was computer city. "The was one green haired women who seemed interested so he made a bee-line to her chair a started making jokes. Knock knock who's there then he realised his big mistake that he was not supposed to say who's there so he tried the joke again. Knock knock. Whos there she asked. Who's where he asked and no one laughed but, he kept trying.

The Man who wanted to impress, Page 3

Back at his house Lauren showered and got ready to go out for a night on the town. He was going to computer city disco. It was a place that just opened up to take advantage of the new disco craze that was enveloping computer city.

The disco was located at the center of the city on main street.

The building was green and blue with a pink roof and was open twenty-four hours a day. Which made it the center of computer city's social life. Lauren had never been to the disco but, he wanted to go and see what it was like and if he liked it he would be sure to go everyday and have a great time trying to impress women. He was ready to go and then he walked out his door and instead of wanking since the disco was only a five minute walk away the decided to walk instead of drive his car. He arrived at the disco at 5:00pm and was ready for a night of partying and drinking and impressing women. He waked into the door and was almost knocked unconscious but, he got up off the ground and opened the door instead of walking into it this time and was greeted by the cold air of an air conditioner and loud disco music.

The music that was playing was by a band called the Pine Trees - a disco group that had been together for over a decade but just got their first hit with Disco Dance. The lyrics were: Disco dance do the disco dance, disco dance. The song was on the album called Pine Tree. It sold over 300,000 albums in just under a week and was the biggest seller of the year 2020. This made the band members who were all women rich women. This was just great. The Pine Tree's were in the studio recording there second album tentatively titled Spruce Tree. It was sure to be a disco hit.

Lauren waked to a table in the back were a beautiful women was sitting who just surely wanted to be impressed by his lies. She walked up the table and asked if he could sit down and she said yes. "Can I buy you a drink he asked." "No she said." "ok". Do you want to know something about me that you don't now he asked." "yes, she said". "I am a world class poker player and have played in the computer city international poler tournament and have placed ten or higher for every year I have entered." "That is amazing she said. "Yes I am playing another tournament this weekend as a matter of fact."

The man who wanted to impress, Page 2

Lauren decided to leave the party abruptly and get in his car and drove to the coast. He raced to the coast to drive fast on the roads that have steep .cliffs. He liked to drive his car at high speed along the cliffs of computer city's highway 203. It was a great thrill because he was always afraid of going over the cliffs and fling 100 feet to his death. He did not want to die he just loved the thrill of going fast.

He would then stop at his favorite fast food restaurant on 203. It is called the Burger. He would always order 2 cheeseburgers, fries, and a milk shake and eat it in the restaurant. He would then drive back to his place of residence by way of highway 203. He always enjoyed the ride back more because he was tired and the risk of making a mistake and getting in an accident was that much more.

Then next day Lauren was at a bar and saw a women he thought might be rich and interested in him. He walked up and introduced himself as a famous musician who had traveled the would with his string quartet. She was impressed she he embellished the story even more. He said he had also traveled the world as a rock musician and even made his own movie. "Wow, that is impressive she said. What was the movie about she asked. "It was about a surfer who was one of the top surfers who was also a bartender. It was a moderate box office success. But he was planning to make another movie that he was sure would be a huge success." "Where did you go that was interesting on you world tour with the bands she asked. Well actually it was close to home the computer city café because all my friends showed up when we did the show and my parents even dropped by. And we had all the candy we could eat backstage. We demanded all the candy we wanted to eat and we got all the candy we wanted to eat now that is amazing". "That is amazing she said. Then there was this time at a little dinner where we preformed with fireworks exploding in the background in the parking lot. Let me tell you you have not lived until you play an instrument with exploding fireworks in the background. That was exciting he said".

The there was another time where I was on stage all alone during a guitar solo when a women came up on stage and punched me in the mouth and I had to be taken by ambulance to the emergency room and she had to be taken to jail and have her hand fixed up because it was a mess after she punched my face.

The Man who wanted to impress, Page 1

Lauren Thomas was a man who would say anything to impress someone. We catch Lauren at a party and he sees and attractive women. He strolls up to her. She is an attractive red head about five feet ten inches tall with a wonderful smile. He introduced himself as a Texas oil tycoon even though he had never been to text and had never seen a barrel of oil. "Oh, how wonderful she said. I have always wanted to meet a rich man who wanted to marry me she said. "I did not say anything about marriage he said. "I am just flirting with you she said. "oh, he said. So do you want a date". "No I don't want a date she said I was just flirting with you. "I hate rejection he said and turned around and looked for the next women to try to impress.

He did not see anyone he was interested so he decided to go sit by the buffet table to see if he could find anything to eat. The buffet was good it have everything from appetizer to dessert. Suddenly a women walked over to get something to eat. She was five two and blond and she looked like she had a lot of money because she was dressed in designer clothing and had the air of a rich person. She he made a bee line for her as she was sampling some of the appetizers.

Hello he said. Hello she said. "I am a flight attendant on a layover and decided to come to this part she said. "How interesting." "yes it is interesting"."I have flown all over the world and lived all over the world she said. "I live on my own private island and my own private jet to get to that island Lauren said. "Could I take a trip to the island." No because I am having it remodeled. "your have a whole island remodeled". "yes I am and let me tell you its costing me a fortuned." "Wow that is impressive spending a lot of money to have a whole island remodeled I so want to marry you Lauren. Oh, believe it or not you are not the first women to say that to me. I am so adorable I know. I am such a catch it surprising I am not married but, I don't want to commit since I want to be single and not tied to a women. I like living the single life.

"How interesting She said. I like independence in a man. I hope you never get married if that is the way you want to live your live.

The Mechanic, Page 3

Patricia had a job now she had to find and apartment. She looked in the real estate section of the computer city chronicle. She had a budget of about two thousand dollars a month and that was a good sum for the computer city realist estate. She circled several listings that were in the paper and called the numbers. She made appointments to see the properties.

The next day she planned to make a day of it looking at houses and apartments to rent. She got up early and ate breakfast and got in her car to drive to the first appointment.

It was an apartment on main street. It was a two story house with 4 bedrooms and 2 bath building. It was a turn of the century building and It was a bit to old as Patricia decided that she wanted to live in a newer house or apartment. The house was yellow with dormers and flower boxes on the windows. It was gorgeous but, to old.

The next place she looked at was an apartment. It was contained in a five story building in downtown computer city positioned next to one of computer city's biggest department store/supermarket. The store was called Carothers and owned by a millionaire name John goodson. Patrice was happy that the apart would be right next to a store so that she would not have to drive to get groceries. She would not have to spend a lot on gas to feed herself. She could go shopping every day if she wanted to and not have to have a refrigerator. Which would saver her having to buy one and save a lot of money on her energy costs wich she had to take into consideration when deciding to rent places. She defiantly liked to save money and save energy in the process. The environment was important to her. The apartment was a one room affair with one bathroom. It was just the right size for a single person like herself. She did not want a place that was to big as that would mean more energy to heat the place during winter. She would give this place strong consideration.

She only had one place to visit. It was a house that she could by not just rent. It was blue with white trim and 2 bed 1 bath that was part of a new building complex on the west side of computer city. Patricia like the idea of buying a house rather than renting a house or an apartment. She would not waste her money on rent and she would own her own place and that provided a sense of security. She liked that. Because if she ever lost her job at least if she had the house paid off she would not have to worry about losing a her house or her place to live.

I don't read my facebook

I dont care if she is from Brasil

I wouldn't know. I have a facebook account but, I only use it for sweepstakes. I did read it for about a month or so a few years back but, I would get upset reading some of the status updates. So I stopped reading facebook and I have never looked back. I spend enough time on my computer and I don't want to spend time reading facebook. I would rather learn about something that interests me using my computer than read facebook.

The Mechanic, Page 2

One of Patricia's hobbies was gardening. She liked to garden with her friend Susan. A typical day of gardening involved Susan coming over to Patricia's house. The would go out to Patricia's garden and start by cutting any plants that need pruning and then they would plant the annuls that would make Patricia's garden look great. They would work for about two hours and then call it a day because they were exhausted.

After computer city college Patricia tried farming because that is what she went to college for but, then she decided that she did not enjoy farming full time and there was not enough money in farming so she decided that she needed to find another job.

She surveyed her interests and talents and decided to become a automotive mechanic. Then she had to decide the best was to lean how to become an automotive mechanic. She picked a trade school. Computer city automotive school. The school was founded in 1980 by a team of people who wanted to bring the joy of learning automotive repair to the masses of computer city.

The building that it was housed in was a former warehouse converted into the school. The building was large and square with many garage doors perfect for an automotive school. There were several class room area's with connected shops. The students would spend time in the classroom learning from textbooks and getting instruction from an instructor and then get go out to the shop and learn hands on experience. The was one one degree. It was two years and guaranteed that the school would help try to find the graduating student a job when they graduated. The tuition was 20,000 dollars but, that was a lot cheaper than going to a university or on an expensive European vacation say.

Patricia graduated at the top of her class. She worked endless hours on cars wanting to get as much practice as she could on different automotive problems so that when she did get a job she would be ready to tackle an problem. She believed that hard work would be the thing that would set her apart from other mechanics and make her one of the best mechanics that computer city or the would had ever seen.

After graduation Patrica got a job at a department store to repair the fleet cars. She was really looking forward to her new job.

The Department store was name computer city department store. A million dollar business that had many many cars to be maintained and repaired. Patricia would be involved preventative maintenance on the stores delivery vans. Its was a job that she thought she was sure to enjoy and look forward to going to everyday.

The Mechanic

Patricia Watson was one of computer city's best automotive mechanics. She did not start out life wanting to be a mechanic. Patricia wanted to be a farmer but there was no money in it especially in computer city.

She grew up on her grandparents farm. He parents died young and then she was sent to live with her grandparents farm. That is when her dreams of carrying on the family business started.

On her grandparents farm they grew tomatoes and corn. And Patricia learned how to work on the farm equipment. Witch she enjoyed very much.

She attended computer city high and got good grades so she could go to a good farming college. One of her favorite activities to do on the farm was to bail hay. She would first cut the grass with a mower. She loved sitting out in the open air on a tractor and cutting the grass and feeling a sense of accomplishment.

She went off to college and she found a love of film making. She had never been much of a move watcher before but, now a college she watched as many movies as she had the time to watch. She had yet to make a film of her own or write a screen play but, she knew eventually she would. She just loved that with movies you could be taken to a fantasy world where anything with possible and magic could happen.

During college she also discovered a love of computer programing. She did not take any programming classes preferring to learn on her own and see if she could learn on her own. She did not have an overwhelming love of computing she just wanted to see if she indeed could make her own programs and she like bossing the computer around and she liked the idea that the computer would do exactly what she wanted it to do with no questing or back talk. She was the boss of the computer and the computer could do nothing about it. She dabbled in many programming languages before settling on two or three that she wanted to learn more about. She wish she had had more focus and started making programs right away the first day she started programming and not had wasted time with trying all those programming languages though. Why waste the time learning many programming languages and not making programs when the whole point of learning to programs was to make programs. It was unwise to waste time not making programs. She knew that she wanted to program video games and since she did not want to program with other people the games would have to be small and easy to play.

The Women Who want to travel space, The End

She started her job in the year 2003 and worked as hard as she could for over a decade until she had enough money saved up to do what she wanted to do in life which was travel in space.

She quit her job in the year 2013 to finally pursue her dream. Space travel had become possible by then and cheap enough so that she could afford it. She booked a fight to a hotel orbiting the earth and then she would go from there. The hotel was name The Orbit. It was the first hotel to be put into orbit around the earth.

It was the idea of a man named Todd Thomas. A billionaire for computer city who had made his money in the supermarket industry. He decided to quit that and go into the hotel business but, not just any hotel business. He wanted to do something great something not done before which was to put a hotel into space. So he contracted a company to build the hotel in pieces and the assemble it in space. It would cost about 500 million dollars to build and send up and assemble into space. It would also take about a year to build down on earth and the it would take about six months of shuttle missions to assemble in space as it was a big hotel. When finished it would have over one hundred room and a state of the art everything, televisions, internet access, kitchen. Nothing would be cheap it would only be the best for the Orbit since it was to be the first hotel in space.

She the would stay at the orbit for about six month just to relax and enjoy being in space and from there she would catch a freighter that would travel all over the galaxy. Her fist stop would be Mars. It took longer than expect to get to the red planet but, when there she was amazed at how awesome it look. There was nothing like being on an alien planet to make you feel good to be alive. Then she travel all over on a freighter but, did not wish to say on any planets but, she just wanted to be in space on a space ship. She would travel in space for the rest of her live and be as happy as could be. She would never again visit the earth her home planted but, she had nothing to go back to on earth so that did not upset her. She would never again she her parents or the sun rise on earth except from a video but, she was happy with her decision to spend the majority of her life traveling space. The End

The Women who wanted to travel space, Page 1

Janet Combs had been obsessed with space travel since her childhood in computer city. She was born in computer city to Ted and Tamara Combs in 1982. She was a happy baby according to her parents. Never crying or waking up in the night. She was a sound sleeper even as an infant.

Her childhood was a good one. She attended computer city Kindergarten and the computer city elementary then computer city middle school and eventually computer city high school. She realised early on the she want to travel in space. Some people want to travel the earth but, she wanted to travel space. So she had decided that she need to get good grades so she could go to a good college and then get a high paying job so she could make her dreams of space travel realty.

She achieved her goal of getting good grades come true. She was a straight A student and valedictorian of her graduating high school class. And then she went on to computer city university and continued her academic success their.

She took classes at the college that had to do with space like astronomy and math, science, aeronautics and she had great fun at college. In addition to getting the best grades she was also very social. She joined the college chess club, she run for political office of her class, she had many friends but, she did not want any romantic relationships because she thought that would interfere with her school work. She thought maybe someday she would like to have a special someone or sometwo but, the would have to be down the road because she wanted to realise her dream of traveling through space.

She did not want anything to get in the way of doing something that she wanted to since the time she was very young. She hoped nothing would get in her way.

She was not sure what she wanted to do after college until after she graduated. What job she wanted to take that is since she had may offers so she decided to take the job the would be the highest paying and that was to be a astronomer for a startup in computer city. The higher paying job would get her to her goal faster. But, since there were no ships that traveled space in the year 2002 she would have sometime to save up her money. She hoped that the first spaceships would be invented before long as she wanted to travel space as soon as possible. She was sure that spaceships would be developed in her life time and possibly in the next decade. Otherwise all her had work would be a waste as she saw it.

The Robot Maker, The End

Stetson started thinking about the wisdom of making robots when he clearly did not have the skills to make one and he was not sure he had the patients either. Might he be more suited to sit on the beach all day and read books like the one he was currently reading. All his life Stetson had this vision of himself as someone who got things done and was destined one day to be brilliant. But, he had never never lived up to that vision of himself and it was making him miserable so he was questioning the vision. Did he really want to be great anymore or was he happy being average.

He still wanted to be great but, he thought it might not be worth the effort. There were smarter and harder working people than he was. He kept thinking about the question over and over until it made him sick to his stomach and he was tired of thinking about it. He did know one thing he wanted to spend the rest of his life learning. Because learning was fun to Stetson. He was not the best or the smartest student he had a passion for learning though. He decided to settle that he would not be as great in his life as he wanted to be and to be happy with what fate had dealt him.

He would not be great and he wanted to be happy with that. Though he would try he just would not think about being great and then when he was not great he would get upset he would be happy.

Stetson decided to make some big changes in his life. He would still keep his job but, he would change the rest of his life. He would spend half the week of his free time reading and learning and the other half of his week at the beach or walking around computer city and just having fun and getting out of the house. He thought all these changes would make him a happier person. And Stetson had spend years of being alone and unhappy. He still did not care if he talked to people or had any friends. He just wanted to make changes in his life and spend whatever he had left of his life having as much fun as he could have. As Stetson saw his life he had thrown away enough of his life and he did not want to throw away anymore being miserable and unhappy and wondering why he could not measure up. So what if he did not measure up as lone as he gave whatever he wanted to do then that would have to be enough. He did not want the fact that he was not brilliant make him miserable or make him believe that he did not measure up. The end.

The Robot Maker, Page 9

He had to start making robots. He was not terribly good at assembling things so this robot making thing would be a challenge. Stetson also had no patience for reading direction either.

So he decided to put off making robots for another day and try something new. Go to the computer city beach. He did not like to go out into the sun because he got a sun burn easily. But, since it was the weekend and Stetson was on a doing new things kick he would take a risk but, wear plenty of sun tan lotion. He set out to the computer city beach with lots of suntan lotion and a towel and swim trunks. It was a mild day with a good breeze going witch made the walk to the beach pleasant.

Stetson paid the admission fee and went onto the beach to find a place to put down his towel so he could relax in the sun. The day was getting warmer and warmer. He found a spot on the beach to sit. He brought alone a book to read at the beach since he did not know if he wanted to go into the water or sit there all day and look at the sand and the waves. He was not sure if he would like that so he brought alone a beach read.

There were surfers in the waves and he was interested to see how surfing worked since he had never had much knowledge about the sport. And there were also sea gals flying around the water looking for food. Stetson decided to get up and walk into the water just a little. He went to the edge of the water. He went into the water and he was surprised by how cold the water was. He had never felt the water of the beach on his feet and it felt great. After a few minutes of that he decided to go sit back down on his beach towel and read his book.

The book was called The Man who wanted to work by Sid Thomas. It was a novel about a fictional character named Daniel Thornton a man who wanted to try every job he could before he died. It was the second novel of a three novel series and this novel saw Daniel Thornton go on a fifty-two week goal of working a different job each week for a year. It was a tough challenge according to Daniel Thornton but, he thought it could be done and would be done if he worked hard enough and Sid was going to make it happen since it was his novel and he could make his character accomplish super human feats of accomplishment.

The book was too long for Stetson to finish reading at the beach but, he could get a huge chunk of the book finished and the was ok with Stetson.

The Robot Make, Page 8

It was time for Stetson to go home and see how everything was doing. It was dark so he decided to call a taxi but, he would have been ok with walking home but, he thought why not get a taxi since he had never ridden in one before.

He called the computer city taxi service and they said the would send a taxi and it would arrive in five minutes to pick him up. The taxi arrived as scheduled. And Stetson stepped into the cab and the driver was a women about thirty years old. And she asked where he wanted to go and he said the address of his apartment building. The cab arrived there about ten minutes later and the driver said ten dollars and Stetson paid the fare and he wished her a goodnight and then he walked up to his apartment.

And to Stetsons delight the paint was dry and the room was looking great. He now had to spend two or so hours uncovering all his furniture from under the plastic that kept it from being covered in paint in case of a drip. And luckily for Stetson the plastic did the trick and did not let any paint get on his furniture.

After he got the tarp of the furniture he then had to change the sheets on his bed to the new pink sheets that he bought and he also change some of the other decor around the apartment. It took him about an hour and then he was finished. When he was done he stood back and admired his handy work and he was amazed at how much better his apartment looked then when he first started. It was dark and cold when he began and now it was warm and filled with plants and other wonderful things.

Instead of watering the plants that night he decided to water then the first thing in the morning. He thought they would survive a few more hours without being watered. He went to bed happy. He went to sleep almost immediately and slept soundly until the morning. He never usually slept that great as he was always anxious. When he got up as promised he watered the plants almost immediately and the plants surely needed a good watering. The plants made the rooms more happy and joyful. And he felt great. He now had to stop procrastinating and start learning about and making robs. After all that is what he wanted to learn. How to make robots so that he could make a robot that looked like a human. Or make a robot that works it did not have to look like a human. But, first he had to eat breakfast. He had oatmeal and toast with some orange juice. After finished his breakfast he the decided to start building one of the robot kits he bought.

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After Stetson went to the restaurant he decided to go to a bar. The bar he went to was the computer city bar and grill. He had never been to a bar because there would be people around and he did not want to be around people so this was something new for him. When he sat down at the bar he ordered a soda and an ice cream. He did not drink alcohol would only drink nothing stronger than a soda. It was early in the evening so there were not many people around yet. They were probably getting ready to go out and were not out yet.

Stetson was sad that there were not a lot of people around because he was trying to get rid of his fear of people so he wanted to be around as many people as possible. But, the people would show up soon enough. He sat watching the fish in the fish tank. He was amazed by the plants and the fish swimming around the plants it was so exciting. He could sit for hours and look at the fish and still be amazed but, he wanted to go talk to some people. He saw a women sitting at the bar so he asked if she minded if he sat down next to her and she said no she would not mind.

Stetson started asking her questions. "Are you waiting for anyone?" he asked. She said no. "I am not waiting for anyone. I am here to get out of the house because of my rocky relationship with my husband. "Oh no, you sound unhappy Stetson said."Yes I am she said. Do you mind if I talk to you about it she asked" "No I don't mind Stetson said."

"Well I got married young and we instantly realised we were unhappy. Or I should say I instantly realised I was unhappy. But, I did not want to get a divorce because I did not want to go though the hassle of hiring a lawyer. Ok to tell you the truth I did not want to be a young divorced women and be alone. I have come to regret that decision. We now fight all the time and there is never piece in the house. The is always yelling and screaming but, I do not want to end the relationship since I have put so much of my life in it. And if I end the relationship I would think that I have wasted most of my life.

"But, on the other hand said Stetson if you get a divorce you will not waste any more of your time and then you can either live alone or find another man. Believe me living alone is not that bad. After awhile you will get used to it and be a more relaxed women" Stetson said.

"You have some valid points" She said.

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Stetson Placed his order from the Web Store That Has Everything. The order arrived in less tan three days thanks to the expedited shipping that Stetson ordered. He was overjoyed when the packages were delivered. He was so happy he even said hi to the delivery men. First he opened up the packages with the pants to see if they were alive. And to his delight and surprise the were alive. She he started to position the plants around the room. The were not to many options for where to put the plants as the only wall that had windows was the south facing wall so he put all the plants in that are as he thought that none of the plants could survive living in the darker parts of his rooms and he did not want to invest in a grow light or pay the bill to keep it on for six to eight hours a day that he thought it would take to keep the plants alive.

Then he unpacked the cans of paint and he realised that he had made a mistake by taking the plants out and setting them up where they would spend their lives. How would he cover them up well enough to be able to pant his apartment. He decided it could be done. He took out the plastic tarps that would cover his floors and valuables and he stated to cover the room. The paint did not need any prepping since the walls were clean and the paint was not chipping. He wonder if the would get to start and finished painting in the same day. And since his apartment was not that big. He decided to go for it and see if the apartment could not be painted in one day. So after he got everything safely covered he started painting with a roller right away. Fast and furious he was with the paint roller.

He had most of the apartment done by 2pm and he only started at 11:00pm. He was sure he would be finished by 5:00pm and then he would go out to eat or get an ice cream cone. He was up for doing new things he was tired of always being a shut in and being afraid of people and he wanted to conquer his fear of people and become a new person. A brand new Stetson is what he wanted to become. After he finished painting he did go out for dinner at the computer city diner. He ordered the roast beef with mashed potatoes and wow, did he think the meal was good. For desert he ordered vanilla ice cram with crushed chocolate chip cookies on top. They were yummy as Stetson said to a close friend. One of his only close friends Teddy the teddy bear who could not talk because he was a teddy bear but, talking to him always made stetson feel better.