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My freind, who was Em's teacher was found smothered by a baby's blanket. What we have here my freinds is...
Da Da Daaaa a Case of MURDER.


Okay, okay, I'll confess. I did it! I spoiled the game of, An evening of murder. At the conclusion of the game, the characters are all supposed to guess who is the MURDERER. I did not realize that the murderer knew they were the murderer, so I accused myself of committing the grizzly crime. All the evidence pointed in my direction. Afterward, I could have sworn I was wearing a "You ruined the whole game" T-shirt.

This is a tough one for me. I don't keep secrets very well. I should say, I don't keep YOUR secrets very well. My secrets are in the vault, never to see the light of day. Okay so... I'm going to get this one out of the way, because I've been thinking all day about what to write and I still don't know.
Sure it would be easy to procrastinate, by changing the subject, so I'd like to get started.

Thundersbeard 30DBC JULY HOST made some additional comments that I'd like to respond to.

Thundersbeard wrote:It's War Chest Tuesday! Much the same as War Chest Wednesday, because in Australia we pronounce Tuesday: Choosday. So, for me, at least, it's another alliterative/consonance prompt day title.

Dear Thundersbeard: Us Canadians pronounce Tuesday Chewsday. it sounds the same but it's a bit grittier. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think our American neighbors pronounce Tuesday Twosday or toosday.

Is it just me, or is this not fascinating enough?

Okay, okay, the prompt...

Secret #1 I never actually passed the test for my drivers license, I failed the eye test, but I sweet talked the (female) tester into passing me anyway.


Secret #2 I wore my mother's new bowling shoes to school one afternoon.


Secret #3 When I was driving my bosses truck one time. I gave a handful of the money he kept in his ashtray to a homeless guy.


Secret #4 I've had a secret crush on Valerie Bertinelli since 1978.

I've heard it said by several people that everybody has at least one book in them that they could write, if they decided to write a book. I spent years thinking about what book was inside me that I could write. I think I discovered a book, but it's a book of short stories. I guess at some point I decided to write a book, because I wandered into this site while I was exploring the internet for sites that teach writing skills. That was just over a year ago, and I'm still here. This site has all the resources to improve my writing as well as other people (writers) who willingly read my crudblab.
Bonus!!
So why haven't I written a best seller yet?
Might have a little something to do with not having anything published YET.
I think I have a ways to go before I can get anything I write published. I have a lot to learn. Then, I suppose I will have to write that book.
When I first joined writing.com the first story I wrote was...

Christmas Play of 1969  (E) Fond memories, of Christmas in 1969. Funny! Published in Shadows Express Magazine. #1745783 by Brother Nature

This story was very poorly written, but still, I received encouraging reviews. I rewrote, and worked on the grammar, and spelling, and sentence structure, and this and that and still...It's nowhere near something that could be sent to a publisher. My story needs to be polished. It just so happens that writing.com has the answer again with..."Invalid Item"  Linda is one of those talented people (writers) on this site I mentioned earlier. I'm looking forward to giving a couple stories a good polishing, and then taking a try at polishing a few stories on my own.
What was the question again?
I'd have to say, that due to my short attention span, I will be writing a book of short stories. I might include some blog entries in there too.

Thank God it's Sunday!
I spent eighteen hours in a vehicle on Monday, traveling home to Winnipeg from Calgary. My friend Tim and I were returning home from a week long visit with friends. We left Calgary at 9:00am but headed the opposite direction from home, in order to visit, Vulcan Alberta. Star trek fans might recognize the significance of the town's name. I included a picture, for my non reading friends.




From Vulcan we headed North East to a place called Drumheller, Alberta. This area is famous for the discovery of dinosaur fossils. There is a museum there, which we wanted to visit. As it turns out, Tim and I should have done some pre trip planning, had we done so, we would have known that the museum is CLOSED ON MONDAYS. Who would have thought?



Tim and I continued driving east until we reached Winnipeg at 3:00am.
Tues was dedicated to sleeping, and on Wednesday I worked, then headed home to Sunset Bay.
Thursday and Friday were happy to be home days, and it was fun to have a puppy to chase about with.




Saturday was rained out, we had plans to entertain the family with a camp over week-end. The rain accounted for a 100% withdrawal from the intended attendees.
On Sunday, my sister, my son, and two of my nephews came out and we had a nice party in the yard.

It's great to include blogging as one of my daily activities again. I miss writing everyday, and it seems like "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS"  is a motivating force in that respect. You are forced to write, right?
It looks to me like we have a good group of participants this round, with a few new bloggers included. I'm excited (in a respectful way.) that blainecindy has returned to The Challenge, but I will miss having Fivesixer around. I'm sure he'll make it back next round.
I was impressed with the entries posted by our newcomers, they appear to be pumped up for the challenge, and I think they all possess some pretty good writing skills. I'm looking forward to getting to know them a bit, and to stealing from learning from their blog entries. One of my favorite entries this week was from Emily . Emily (Em) shared a youtube video (Binaural Beat Meditating) in her post..."Invalid Entry" 
I've listened to this piece a couple of times already, and it is truly a unique and relaxing experience. Give it a try. Thanks again Em.
Class dismissed.