Buffyverse Fanfic by Herself

Next chapter up. You won't find out anything else about the coin in this story, it's setup for another.

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Here's the next chapter.

I really appreciate all the favorable comments on my foreword. Thank you.

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Here's chapter two. A bit short on the comments as I have to go help the neighbor with horses. Yeah.

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Well, here it is, my first NCIS story. It's one of those shorts that authors have to write or they make us nuts. (more nuts?) I also really need a 'header list for NCIS'.

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I just finished my first NCIS long story and a short. I'm going to post the long story in short chapters, one a day. But do you want the short first or what? I actually wrote the longer story in a notebook (while my computer was FUBAR) then typed it up on this one. I divided the 50K+ story into chapters after the fact.

So I'm going to post the long story, one chapter a day, then the short. Or short first?

Yes! Finally, another chapter. You wouldn't believe the problems ... oh, yeah, you would. I whined about them enough. *g*

So, enjoy.

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A lady on my knitting guild bought a Vogue book. Now, I hate Vogue with a passion. I tried a couple of their patterns and they were riddled with errors. Not good. The one sweater that I actually finished doesn't fit right. I'm not sure why. Probably (just guessing) because it had 18 errors in the pattern, which I found out about when I went to the web site looking for errata. It looks ok, but it's too large in the arms and fits oddly across the waist.

So, anyway, she bought very nice and expensive silk yarn and started knitting. She was soon in the weeds. Nothing 'stacked' properly. We tried to figure out what she'd done wrong and spent over an hour counting stitches and reading the pattern. Then, one of the other ladies looked the pattern up on Vogue errata. Holy hell! It wouldn't stack properly because there was an error in the first stitch pattern that didn't show up until the fade into the next pattern. She had to either rip out everything or do something else. She decided to rip it out, abandon the Vogue pattern and use a different one. But that was still hours of time, hundreds of stitches, wasted.

I know many knitters that call it Vague knitting. So sad for my friend and fellow knitter.

I love my husband, I really do, but ....

Sometimes I wonder if he's all there. He loves car shows; me, not so much. I usually drive my truck so I can go home when I want.

Now. This is the first show we've had a vehicle in. The '55 Ford is finished and he wanted to show it. Ok. Good idea.

The bad part? He, unlike usual, made absolutely no plans for comfort. I suggested bringing chairs, cleaning kit and a cooler. He blew it off. So, he's still at the show, I'm home. I've had tea, a sandwich, salad and ice cream. He's got nothing, not even a place to sit. (Not allowed to sit in show car, insurance or something) I offered to get him a chair, cooler and Hardee's. He didn't want it. I think he got a hotdog from a vendor. I know he had a soda. I got it.

Now, why the heck did a man who carefully plans the weekly trip to the grocery store not plan an all day excursion to a car show?

Anyone?

The next chapter of 893 is finished, finally. I've never gone so long between chapters before. Getting the flu was bad enough, meds make my writing stream of consciousness babbly crap. Then my computer screen started blanking out. It's not possible to write when you can't open the thing more than 20 degrees or so.

So, off to beta it went. Haven't heard back from her yet. But tis done.