http://allsortsofcrazysmartsforkids.org Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:35:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_146" align="aligncenter" width="120" caption="I did it!!!!"][/caption] http://allsortsofcrazysmartsforkids.org/2009/11/nanowrimo-winner/ Like I said, trouble was afoot, and it didn't take long to find out whose foot it would be. The excess weight of my robotic arm caused some problems. The first of many problems was when I stood up on a rock to look out into the distance. The rock ... http://allsortsofcrazysmartsforkids.org/2009/11/chapter-twenty-three-the-sultan-of-space/ We went and got Alabaster and told him about the collapse. He looked worried for a little bit but he went and got a long rope and we lowered it down into the crevice. We saved Weasel but we couldn't the bottom of the chasm well enough so we had ... http://allsortsofcrazysmartsforkids.org/2009/11/chapter-twenty-two-vital-signs/ After I had explained to Dave all of the amazing things Plittereeg could do, I headed out, followed by an amazed Dave, to check on the progress of our buggy. It was nearly finished, and as luck would have it, they had discovered the key ingredient. They were going ... http://allsortsofcrazysmartsforkids.org/2009/11/chapter-twenty-one-plittereeg-the-protector/ Not the arm as in the arm from the last chapter, no. I mean the robotic arm attached to my body. As we discovered soon after Dave and I arrived at the great flying pickle jar, my arm's functions were limited. The more cool stuff consisted of a large static shock, ... http://allsortsofcrazysmartsforkids.org/2009/11/chapter-twenty-plittereegs-tricks/ I waited for an hour or two to see if #476248 would come back out. It didn't, and eventually I was called in. I was completely freaked out by the tremendous metal machinery. Suddenly, an ominous humming started. It got louder and louder until . . . POW. I was ... http://allsortsofcrazysmartsforkids.org/2009/11/chapter-nineteen-the-mutation-lab/ As I took a seat in the waiting room with lots of other creatures, I attempted to make conversation with one of them. It was around six feet tall and looked like a human except for the fact that it had three black beady eyes rather than the customary two ... http://allsortsofcrazysmartsforkids.org/2009/11/chapter-eighteen-the-arm/ When I awoke, Kaptain Kronk was still babbling on about his favorite childhood pet. There appears to be no stopping him. I guess this is how he tortured his captives, by pelting them aimlessly with an endless hail of words. He slithered, crackled, fuzzed, and popped over to my seeds ... http://allsortsofcrazysmartsforkids.org/2009/11/chapter-seventeen-the-krib/ I swished around inside my glass tube, my eyes darting back and forth from Dave and a hulking shadow steadily approaching me. A creature emerged from the darkness. The humongous creature looked like a deformed octopus with three eyes and more tentacles than I could count. Its mottled raspberry skin ... http://allsortsofcrazysmartsforkids.org/2009/11/chapter-sixteen-kaptain-kronk/ Two things happened after I woke up that morning. The first thing was the lights went on with a blinding flash. The second thing was that when I went into the control room to look for Alabaster, I found that all of the ejection seats had been activated. I told Plittereeg ... http://allsortsofcrazysmartsforkids.org/2009/11/chapter-fifteen-the-containment-area/