Where Shopping's A Pleasure (gen B7 Drabble)

On his return from Albion, Del Grant found his sister waiting for him with open arms and a dozen armed troopers. "Avon thought you were dead! I wish he'd been right!" he shouted as they dragged him to the nearest wall for target practice. "You've betrayed everyone who ever loved you!"

Anna smiled as she counted the credits, pausing only momentarily when the whine of paragun fire made her doubt whether that was ten thousand and one or ten thousand and eleven.

She chuckled warmly. "Oh, brother. After all these years, you still never learned how much I love shopping*."

*shopping in the British slang meaning of 'selling someone to the authorities for reward'

Giraffes!

EDIT: I forgot- last night I found a site talking about Ola's iphone app which the blogger used to upload a giraffe- the image they showed included some of my giraffes! Scroll down and you'll see some of my giraffes to the left of their giraffe. http://krapps.com/2009/11/05/giraffes-iphone-app/

One million giraffes has a new lease on life! After submissions dropped to worryingly low numbers, yesterday he received the most he'd ever got in a single day, 15,713 giraffes. This may be in part because Ola made an iPhone app that allows people to see his site & upload giraffes to it. I suddenly feel more hopeful about my guess to win a toy giraffe (yes, JUST what I need) that he'd reach the magic number on Feb. 8, 2010, after months of seeing the projected (if he kept the current average which varied from day to day) date recede further into the future. The last time I looked it was set for August 15, 2010.

If you want to see all 710 giraffes I've given to the One Million Giraffes project (I am currently ahead of Denmark-653- as a Giraffe Producing Nation, but behind Russia-823-), go here and put Ehouse into the 'search for a giraffe' box and hit return. That will bring you to the latest of 3 pages of my giraffes. Use the navigation arrows to see more.

( 6 pics. Sketch of baby giraffe from photo I took at the zoo & other giraffizoids I sent to the 1million project )

ARGGH. Just when I thought the pool biz was over.

It occurred to me today that I STILL hadn't got back the signed as completed stuff from the pool folk. I dug out the city URL to check permit status and it shows as incomplete with the Failed Final as the last thing in the file. I called Pool Guy and left a message. I bet what happened is that he picked up the papers & dumped them in the office and they're SITTING there, instead of being signed, copied, copies mailed to me, originals going to City Hall to be filed.

I told Pool Guy PLEASE I want this settled before my birthday, Dec. 7, because I want NOT to have to think about this any longer. GRRRRRR....

Nearly 700 more words of Cosmo!

Of course, now I have NO idea what they'll do next...oh. I noticed a plot hole. I'll have to go back later and note that the Empress was taken, but the case was left behind in the safe. It's funny, I *KNEW* that all along, but I never wrote it in. Can't be bothered to go backtracking. Later. If/when this comes to an ending that makes sense, I'll go over the whole thing.

The whole thing.

Cut just to today's addition.