Mako's Message: Once again starting with nothing yielded more materially than I expected.

Anyway, I'm sure the real thing you want to know is who won the contest. That honor goes to TorontoBatFan. I liked all the fics, and it was a really close call between his and Haily C. Black's, but in the end Mindy on Two Wheels was just the better fic. A round of applause for all the entrants please, and be sure to go read them if you haven't yet, they're all worth your time.


Ya know how sometimes there's lot's of stuff going on, and it feels like a day lasts a week? And other times nothing happens and you're suddenly wondering where the last two weeks went? Well, maybe it's the other way around for you, but for me when nothing happens everything just blends together and I start losing track of days until I'm going, "That was a couple days ago wasn't it? What do you mean 'last week'?"

That's kind of what happened here. I sat down to tell you about what happened today and realized that the last thing I talked to you about was new year resolutions. I guess I should follow through on that a bit first.

Marty hasn't told anyone about his resolution, even though he got pressed on the issue a few times.

Turns out the class Katie isn't acing is Phys Ed. We're probably the only school that isn't Pass/Fail on things like that, but the coaches seem to like to push the students to be better than just "passing" They have the standards publicly posted. How many push ups, pull ups, crunches, and laps you have to be able to do to get each grade. Obviously I'm passing with flying colors.

Dave is as well. The coach embarrassed the hell out of him by calling him up and pointing out that he'd risen two grade levels since this time last year and wanted to know why if the comic nerd could do it why couldn't the rest of them?

I thought it was funny. Dave didn't. Apparently he didn't want the guys who used to beat him up to think they had something to prove. When I asked if he was really still afraid of them he said, "No, I just don't want to have to beat the shit out of them. "

Todd's was still an odd one. When I asked him why, "why 20% cooler?" all I could get out of him was that he was tired of being lame. I know there's more to it than that, but I wasn't going to get more out of him without resorting to arm twisting.

And Dave suggested we go for a run every week now that we don't need the car to get places. It seems kind of weird now that I think of it, that we have more freedom with our bikes than we did with the car... but I guess it does make a sort of weird sense.

And speaking of riding our bikes... yeah... I didn't know I couldn't ride a bike. I mean, my balance, reflexes, and coordination are great, how could I know that wouldn't translate to riding a bike? Needless to say, my first time on a peddle bike did not go well. And that's all I'm saying about THAT debacle.

Getting to spend my Sunday mornings with him is worth it though. We ride together, we run, spar a little, then get breakfast.

He's seemed a lot happier lately too, His shifts at work got cut a bit since they're not getting the same kind of business as they were during the Christmas shopping season. He's still busy pretty much every night catching up with school work and stuff, but his mood has definitely improved and he doesn't seem as tired as he was.

I found out what Angela and Jessi's resolutions were. Angela wants to make the cheer squad in her freshman year, and Jessi want's to find a boyfriend. Nothing particularly special, but hey. Everything can't be exciting. And they're better than "I want to lose ten pounds" or some other stupid shit.

My resolution... gotta say it's not looking too good. Dave looks at Katie like he was handed a gift from god. I've got a year though... and I don't need to get him to dump her...just... cheat...a little. Yeah, that's not gonna happen.

Marus hasn't made a move yet... but I keep feeling like he's sizing me up so he can spring a dress on me.

Anyway, now that you're all caught up, today I went over to Angela's house. When I got there she and Jessi were on the computer and they immediately called out, :"Hey Mindy! Is there something you want to tell us?"

The obvious answer was, "No." but I was curious to see what they thought was so funny.

When I looked at the screen I saw my name in the search bar, and, and one of the suggestions it came up with was, "Mindy Mccready sex tape."

"Sure there's nothing you want to tell us?"

"Like why you used your real name?"

"Who was the guy?"

"Was he any good?"

I told them, "Yeah. I guess I do have something to tell you. My name is spelled MACready. M-A-C not M-C."

They laughed and typed it in properly. Would you believe the sex tape thing STILL came up? Unfortunately what also came up was an article about Daddy's arrest. I reached over and shut the window before they could read it.

They did see the link though, so of course they asked about it. I told them the charges were false and not to worry about it. They kept pressing, asking how long he was in prison, where was I, and of course my mother came up and that's when I told them to just drop it.

I shouldn't have let them search my name. I guess I just got too caught up in normal stuff and let me guard down. Stupid.

But it's okay. They let it go and promised they wouldn't look into it. I told them if they did I'd break all their fingers. I think they think I was joking, but it still seemed to get my point across. I hope it did at least. I don't want to break their fingers. I like them.


Mako's Message's Revenge: Btw, the ever talented DangerousBeauty84 made another Dave/Mindy video. Check it out: Vimeo dot com forward slash 24404586