I had just finished a blue Gibson ES335 style guitar and I was starting on a new stratocaster in zebrawood. Then my boss asked me, could we do it in orange? Fortunately, I knew of a nice paint that would run semitransparent and orange and yet bring the wood grain of...
This is the end …..
After a week or so we were amazed by the appearance of these idiots' parents. In the morning we awoke to half a dozen or so billiards ships, with parents wanting answers. The initial responses were hilarious. “So what, I'll offer half a billion dinkets to just bail...
A Tale of the Belt They aren’t ‘Roids exactly, more like a large, coalesced pile of debris we called Diamond Dust, and I found one. They are full of rare earths, water ice, and yes diamonds, not dust but industrial grade chunks, easier to harvest than grow in...
I visited an old friend, who held my arms and wondered, what stories they could tell? So many years, so much pain.... And She held me tighter..... Most people have Scars, physical and mental, and I have a few, as some of you know, But let’s take a tour of a lifetime,...
After the Vogons wiped the entire Sol system clean, Humans were scattered amongst the worlds, like rats on a ship, the Elon had taken over most of human space, overwhelming the humans there with his mind fuckery, rendering Trillions incapable of being...
Hey, this the Galactic Joe experience…
Earth
Elon The 21st c is known as the age of the Titans, the great free marketeers that took us to the Moon,Mars, the Belt, and then the stars themselves, the Greatest of these was a Man named Elon Musk, he alone was able to overcome the entrenched bureaucracy that was...
I have seen so much, so far, but the Question remains, what happened to Mars? And my Beautiful Wife? So I asked, and It looked askance, I was used to that. They had something to hide, and I needed to find out, “Why did you kill my home world? you know...
Arrival 20 hours Ship time, compressed into minutes, we had a concept of what FTL looked like, but this was beyond all conception, not just visual, but a complete sensory experience, like we had never felt, and then it was gone, and, behold… The System had...
The Void (memory access2552) As a child I read sci fi, all the classics, Niven and Pournelle, Heinlein, and wanted to take my place among the stars, but me as a ne’er do well in a rich family, Pops was already pissed I didn’t at least join the Military, A...
Cap, we have a Sensor lock, 20 minutes, (memory access 2552) we have chased this thing for 2 months now, following a Heliocentric orbit, aimed at Mars again, why? We have been Fukin with it, close fast passes to see when they would bounce us, we got used...
She has become a distraction….
The Black (memory access 2552)The plans Gwen and I had, vacations on Earth, she was fond of the Beach in SoCal, but after the Wars, they had to create a resort with artificial beaches and waves, but she didn’t care. I prefer Big trees, and we still have them,...
The adventure continues.
The Return
But I digress.
Heating isn’t an issue….
The lost Generation I feel as if I am one of a forgotten generation, Maybe you could say a Lost generation, I’m not sure, but here’s a few thoughts. I speak to/of the kids born from ‘62 til about ‘74, basically my age to about 47 now, where do we fit in the...
The earliest migrants followed the trails from spring to spring.
She was my granddaughter’s wish.
Yusef looks back.
Where were we? Oh, the seeds arrived and were planted, 4 in rock wool and one in Miracle Gro Indoor soil, as I thought, the soil planted seeds came up first, 2 days earlier than Rock wool, but the RW had good root structure immediately, so they took to...
A travelogue from Yusef!