I finally gave in. I've upgraded my StoryOrigin account to the paid level.
I doubt I'll make that money back, but I'm giving myself the opportunity to see what happens.
In other news, I finished the cart I was building for my miter saw. Retractable casters rock. :D
I have no doubt that our forces will make quick work of the hapless Martians. We have already achieved air superiority. Our stealth assault helicopters have annihilated the enemy in the main theater of operations.
Now that we control the skies, our main battle tanks will subdue any remaining resistance.
We do not yet have accurate numbers for casualties and prisoners, but I have been assured that we have completely dominated the enemy so far. We have reduced his cities to rubble, as can be plainly seen in the photos above.
The Martians struck us a grievous blow in the 1930s in New Jersey, but we have finally paid them back. And we won't stop until their entire planet is ours.
Long live Terra!
I'm currently building a cart for my miter saw. I'm just using cheap 2x4s.
I say"cheap," but these things are nearly twice what they cost a year ago. The lockdowns affected sawmills, too, and that created a lumber shortage.
I browsed a sawmill forum (never been there before, but Google showed me the way) and saw where one guy said it would be eighteen months before lumber prices get back to normal.
Eighteen months. :/
In the meantime, housing prices will climb accordingly. Actually, they already have. Almost everything has risen in price already.
We're going to be feeling the economic pinch of the lockdowns for years to come. Tighten your belts, folks.
Once upon a time, there was a made-for-television Star Wars movie called The Ewok Adventure. I actually watched this when it aired. I haven't seen it since.
But I always remembered that giant spider. That thing scared me. Yeah, the effects are primitive by today's standards, but I was just a kid in the 1980s, so... *shrug*
I'm not sure why I thought of this movie just now. But it serves up some useful lessons... lessons like, "don't stick your hand in places you can't see."
