Garrett Duke

Hey Roger...I got a lap top with that too, but my dad bought me a cordless mouse to use with it. It's great. David Ragen hasn't done much of anything since you left. Sorry to report that Roger. But you have missed my NASCAR news on AJ probably and you missed Jeff Gordon's rain shortened WIN at Pocono a week and a half ago. Also his poor finish yesterday due to oil on the track...errr. You do have some catching up on. LOL. GO CUBS!!!!!!!!!!!

I like your comparison of writing and the roads. Very true. Didn't think of sci-fi. Guess you wouldn't exactly know. But have a good imagination. Thanks for the great advice about my story. I think I will take it. Might as well as start a new on my computer and see where it takes me. Obviously my other story is not going to go anywhere in the mean time. No worries about the typos...I probably have a few myself.

Wow Jaded Phoenix...that has got to be frustrating and upsetting to go through all that work and to have people in the writing industry interested in it only for it to be destroyed. Glad you still had the intro that should at least jog your memory, but still, be very frustrating. Glad to hear you are going back to it and t hat you haven't given up on it. I wish you the best of luck with your writing. I use to want to be a writer and still would love to do it, but I haven't gotten very far with any other story outside of any fanfic. Guess I can't get past the part of info I read about write about something you know...well I don't know very much about anything that anyone would be interested in reading about. LOL. I wish you the best of luck. I appreciate your help and will keep it in mind. Am trying to figure it all out and if it is worth it. The idea that keeps popping into my mind is of starting over and having Luke return home where as in my series now, he was already home when I started writing it. Write of them working on The General. Where as in my story the General was already built. Have one story with just the original characters before introducing my own personal characters just to have the time line and all that in order. Where as in my series I start the series with my characters coming to Hazzard. Would still like to use the prologue I used for my first story though of how and why they came to Hazzard. I even have an idea that would go with the first story... But feel if I do that would have to start the series over again. Which I wouldn't mind doing, but don't know if I could since my series is on a submitted fanfic site and I had started it over once before. I appreciate your help Jaded Phoenix and for listening.

YAY Roger is back! So glad you are back Roger so I can tell you just how great the Cubs are and how they are better than your Pirates (just don't look at the Central NL standings or stats...they're lying) and how you should ditch the Pirates for the Cubs. After all, who wouldn't want to be a fan of the greatest team of all of baseball..the CHICAGO CUBS????????????? I can't even begin to imagine why anyone wouldn't want to be a Cubs fan...it's great to be a Cubs fan. You should try it. Well now that I got that out of my system, welcome back Roger. Glad to see you got a new computer or a computer up and running at least. I know I would be lost without my computer...

Well the race has just got over and for the most part was just a race...it got exciting during the last half of the race. Jeff Gordon's car was junk most of the race until they put a spring rubber in and the last ten laps came to life. Tony Stewart in second when he spun out by himself and hit the wall. But the real excitement was at the end when Kyle Busch was leading on the last lap and spun out and then it was between Marcos Ambrose and Brad Keslewoski. Jeff Gordon came in to the tenth place until he hit the wall due to all the oil on the track...NASCK shoulda had that cleaned up instead of going for the checkered flag like that. Gordon came home 21st instead. Am not happy about Jeff Gordon. But am excited that Marcos Ambrose got the win. Here is the top ten finishes of Watkins Glen race: 1. Marcos Ambrose 2. Brad Keselowski 3. Jimmie Johnson 4. Clint Bowyer 5. Sam Hornish Jr 6. Greg Biffle 7. Kyle Busch 8. Matt Kenseth 9. Regan Smith 10. Martin Truex Jr We are back to turning lefts next week at Michigan...Jeff Gordon's favorite track.

The prerace show on ESPN is about to start...we are goin' road racing today. Turning left and right. The race all road racers are happy about...Juan Pablo Montoya, Marcos Ambrose, Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart...Boris Said. It is also one that Jimmie Johnson has yet to win at. One of five. Here is the top ten starting positions... 1. Juan Pablo Montoya 2. Kyle Busch 3. Jimmie Johnson 4. Brad Keselowski 5. Marcos Ambrose 6. Ryan Newman 7. Tony Stewart 8. Clint Bowyer 9. Martin Truex Jr 10. Jamie McMurray They may not go as fast as normal on a oval track, harder to pass, but any track my driver is good at, I am excited to be at. Hope everyone's driver will have a fun and safe race today.

Seems like I may have posted this sometime in this thread...if so, sorry for the repeat. Couldn't help but to use this song.

Thanks Jaded Phoenix for your helpful advice.

"Welcome to the Fishbowl" Kenny Chesney The title of Kenny's latetes (GREAT) album. Love this song...but then again, I love all of Kenny's music so I guess I am biased. Great song all the same if I have to say so myself...

Thanks for the quick response Jaded Phoenix. I have most of my stories on a program on my computer. My older ones I wrote on my other computer and can't open them on this one. But my newer ones I do have on a word processor. My problem is with changing my series too many times plus don't know how I can fix it all by just re editing my work. Perhaps it's not impossible... Thanks again.

Well I have been writing one form of fan fic or another for several years now. Started out with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to C.H.i.P.s and then onto the Dukes of Hazzard. Been stuck in Hazzard county well over ten years now...perhaps fifteen? I can't remember, but I can't imagine writing about anything else. Anyway, I have my DOH fanfic series plus a few other stories and the such on Mary Anne's DOH fanfic site (Thanks Mary Anne ). I am on my third story of my series of which my personally created characters Kristy and Garrett Duke are in...and stuck on chapter five since like February. I can't even remember the last time I was motivated to write it not alone know where to take it. Which isn't anything new...writer's block seems to love my stories that and the lack of time. But the past couple of months have been wondering if it is time to hang up the whole idea of writing due to time and other things I have thought of wrong of my own writing...and the many things I would love to change. But I really don't want to quit writing...to quit writing would be to give up on Hazzard it seems. But my series has hit a thick wall with no way of breaking through it seems as I see the same theme etched in each of my stories...just with a different twist. Was thinking about it the other night and what I should do and did come up with an idea, but since my series is on the web, don't know if I should even think of the idea. If it was on my computer, I would do it with little thought and feel good about it... Of starting over. Reintroducing the characters and correcting several mistakes that I have noticed during this fic I started and has been bugging me. Different story ideas. Everything. Of working on erasing that same nagging twist in my stories and perhaps bettering my writing as a whole. I have even been thinking of how it would start... But then again, I had started it over a few years ago as well. And was doing better until I saw a lot of areas of my time line and characters, and so forth that has been nagging at me the past month or so. Don't want to disuade readers, if I have any, away from my stories with all this. But at the same time, I am not going anywhere the way I am going either. Which only leads back to that question, is it time to call it quits? I am sorry for all of my rambling and hope I am making at least a little sense here. I don't know where to go from here or what would be the best idea, so I thought I would throw all this out and see if anyone has any ideas of what I can do with this mess I have created for my writing. Any help would be greatly appreciated at this time. Thanks in advance.

Figured it was about time I updated this page... 1. Dale Earnhardt Jr 2. Matt Kenseth (-5 points) 3. Greg Biffle 4. Jimmie Johnson 5. Martin Truex Jr 6. Tony Stewart 7. Brad Keselowski 8. Denny Hamlin 9. Kevin Harvick 10. Clint Bowyer As of right now the two wild card spots for the chase are: 11. Kasey Kahne 12. Jeff Gordon

Has to be the BEST new Country group out there. Love them, love this song, and love this whole album that this song is on. Can listen to it over and over again. Love their sound.

I am interested in starting a fantasty football league on Yahoo if anyone is interested. If not that is OK as well, just thought I would see if anyone would join if I started one or not. It would all be free to play and only for fun...Roger can tell you how horrible I am in fantasy sports. HA HA. So if anyone is interested or has questions on how it all works, you can PM me or write them here and I will do my best to answer them...though will have to start in the next couple of weeks if I do start it since the season will be starting up in a month or so...

Wow this one brings back old memories. I use to LOVE this song. Still a great song, just been forever since I last heard or thought of it. Makes me wonder where he is...

Well I got some sad news... If you read my review of the Pocono race, you will know it was raining at Pocono today. It was raining hard, lightning and thundering. The sky was a scary dark color. Well I just read an article where three people were struck by lightning out in the parking lot outside of turn three of Pocono, one was killed and nine are injured - including one in critical care. Just so sad...my thoughts and prayers are with them all and their families. They go to the race for a fun time... NASCAR did put on Twitter a couple of times with warning of the severe weather, as well as warned them on TV of how bad they were predicting the weather to be. Someone said that they thought it could be because NASCAR had left the cars parked on the track for a half hour after they had parked the cars and thought the people were waiting around in case it would start up. Like I said, NASCAR had sent warnings a couple of times on Twitter plus on TV...but even if they didn't have access to that, I think the dark skies was warning enough of the bad weather. Don't matter...it is sad all the way around. My thoughts and prayers are with them all and their families...

"My Kinda Party" Jason Aldean What a great song...don't know why it took me so long to think of it. Love Jason's music. Great song for my 3,000 post . Do have to admit, that I have all of his albums that he has out as of now...

I missed last night's race...did want to see it since it was in Iowa. Didn't hear anything about it being on Annett's car, but they did say that they were going to be on Cassill's and Kvapil's cars today. Glad they at least showed Annett's car. But still wished they would give the case more attention for those poor girls' sake.

Well the race just may be over due to rain and I have never been so HAPPY to see it rain during the race. Never thought I would say that, but before I say any more I will start to write my review as they interview the drivers... Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart started 27th and 28th today. But they both were quick to pass and move towards the front. Kyle Busch hit the wall early on in the race, he came back out and later on got caught speeding on pit road. He refused to go in at first and NASCAR was giving him warning they were about to stop counting him on the scoreboard before he went into pits. Kurt Busch hit the wall as well...not a Busch kind of race today it looks. Am very disappointed with ESPN. As I mentioned Cassill and Kvapil had the two missing girls on their car, but I heard no one mention the two girls nor did I not seen any of the two cars as of yet during the race. Know and understand that they are not top names nor up there in points or position, but would think they would take a moment to put their cause in the spotlight. Shame on ESPN and the reporters. Very disappointed with all that. Dale Earnhardt Jr finished 32nd today after finishg 18 laps down due to losing his transmission. Had fallen from first in points to fourth due to this... Well they started talking about rain as soon as the race went half way done...if the race goes halfway, then the race is over if weather interupts enough. Well on lap 95 or so after Kurt Busch's wreck's caution went green Jimmie Johnson was trying to keep in first from Matt Kenseth, Johnson's car got lose to hit Kenseth...Jeff Gordon who was fifth was able to drive around them to take the LEAD! (And since Matt was taken out in the wreck, Dale Jr is now back in first place in points.) During the caution, the rain everyone had predicted and talked about, came. They had parked the cars before it downpoured, lightning, and thundering...NASCAR had called the race...giving the win to JEFF GORDON!!!! Not only that, but now one of the wild card chases for the chase will most likely going to Jeff Gordon due to his position and his top fives...hope he sticks with it. They are racing at Watkins Glen...road course...where Gordon excels at. (This is Gordon's sixth Pocono win btw). I am a little excited as y'all may guess...LOL. I am on cloud nine right now as they say... Here is the top ten finishes of the race: 1. Jeff Gordon 2. Kasey Kahne (who finished with a flat tire) 3. Martin Truex Jr 4. Brad Keselowski 5. Tony Stewart 6. Ryan Newman 7. Carl Edwards 8. Clint Bowyer 9. Regan Smith 10. Marcos Ambrose

They have just said those magical words in NASCAR "Gentlemen Start Your Engines!" Time go racing on ESPN...GO JEFF GORDON!!!!!!!!!!!!