by JM Strasser

I hope your day is good with you and yours

Here is an update on my trials and tribulations of starting a website.

Something upsetting happened recently on my website. I got a “You’re in real trouble” message while improving the presentation. Panicking, I asked for help, and the issue was resolved. I’m unsure whether I did it; everyone is so busy. The important thing is it got fixed. Now, I can go on with the improvements. I like them.

I want to do something for Christmas, so I wrote a short piece about the first Christmas celebrated by our intrepid travelers. I am taking some license with a Sonoran Desert winter day. A desert means little rainfall, but the Sonoran Desert is unique in that it has a monsoon.

Yeah, I was surprised, too. A monsoon is where a lot of water comes down quickly, like an inch in a few minutes. As such, there is an excellent downpour (you better pull over if you are driving); you only have to wait a bit and then go on your way. This is in the summer, but in the winter, it rains, too. It’s not as much as summer, and this rain is cold and pretty steady. We even get snow (maybe once a year)! It is for a day and melts quickly, but it does cover the ground.

Since the weather is controlled on the trip through the stars I thought I could play with it. When the travelers reach the planet prepared for them, the world will have been terraformed to match Earth as closely as possible (can’t be perfect, can we). However, on their way, it will closely match what they are used to, with a little more forewarning (or a lot) on how it would all go for the residents and some tweaks, at least for morale’s sake. So please enjoy my little tale.

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