• In my taskbar there is a plug. It seems to be like any other plug on any other screen on any other computer in any other home. But it isn't! This little plug was once the proud ruler of the kingdom of Valencia! A mystical kingdom where antelopes bounded amongst the trees and the willows swayed in the light breeze. This plug held his land in the highest regard. Only the finest of food and grass was given unto his subjects. And all he asked in return is that they would not abandon him in his hour of need. Of course this seemed like a very good deal to his subjects so they agreed. But then one day there was a rift in the space time continuum! It sucked up all of the trees of the kingdom and turned the grass a lightish browny color. The noble plug, fearing the worst, called for a council meeting and they all had a light lunch.
    "Whatever shall I do? Wherever shall I go?" cried the plug in his distress.
    "I dunno" replied the councilors very sincerely.
    "All righty then!" said the poor plug, "I'll find it myself."
    So he quickly created a time machine and opened a small portal into the year eighteen oh two. He then jumped through and promptly started looking for the trees. He searched far and wide for those trees but he just couldn't find them. There were lots of trees that looked almost the same, but they just weren't perfect like the trees of Valencia. Luckily a passing traveler happened to know of a place where you could find the most fantastic tree seeds ever! The plug promptly headed off to the troubled land of Huhubonkananapoh. A foul place this was. There was hardly a health looking tree in sight. Just miles of sludge and strange viney type things. So the plug said unto himself "Odd..." for he thought it rather odd that there were no trees in such a wonderful tree seed good findingability type place. (For those of you who do not understand morning gyberish, there will be lessons on that next Tuesday at exactly sometime. In the meantime the translation is 'for he thought it rather odd that there were no trees in a place where there are supposedly wonderful tree seeds') Anyways he started his meticulous search of this strange land called Huhubonkananapoh and promply noticed an eerie swallowing noise coming from a place with excessive amounts of sludge and strange viney type things. He slowly made his way towards it and there he discovered a large water bottle filled with As and Ms. He looked at the water bottle for a bit and then decided that that was quite boring and continued to look for a little while longer. Finally the water bottle cried "Why are you staring at me you strange little plug?".
    "I'm terribly sorry. It's just that all those As and Ms are rather fascinating." replied the plug.
    "Too true. Too true." sighed the water bottle.
    "AMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA" muttered the As and Ms.
    The plug went on to explain his plight in great detail while the water bottle listened intently and the As and Ms muttered "AMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA" to themselves.
    "I can give you some really nice tree seeds but first you must bring me............... Ps and more Ms!" Announced the water bottle after the tale was finished.
    So the plug set out to find Ps and Ms. He went to the mountains but there weren't any there. He went to the prairie but there weren't any there. He went to the big cities but there weren't any there. He even went to his old aunts house who wasn't really crazy but just seemed like it so no one ever went out to see her, but there weren't any there either. As he trudged dejectedly back towards Huhubonkananapoh, he was stopped by a little child.
    "You're weird!" said the kid.
    "That's slightly rude but I don't really mind because I'm rather in need of some Ps and Ms." coughed the plug dejectedly.
    "I don't have any of those," giggled the child with a twinkle in his eye, "but I do have some peas and some m&ms!"
    The child giggled and laughed and chortled and gaffawed and just had a merry old time and dropped the peas and m&ms on the plugs back.
    "Thanks a bunch!" called the plug as he set off in quite higher spirits.
    "You're weird!" yelled back the kid with a little wave.
    The plug concluded his journey to Huhubonkananapoh and showed the water bottle his findings.
    "Oh that'll do just wonderfully!" crowed the water bottle.
    "AMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA" agreed the As and Ms.
    So the plug received two thousand nine hundred and eighty four seeds and a little card that read 'Thanks for shopping at Huhubonkananapoh! Hope you come back again!'. The plug returned to his small portal and went back to his own time. Luckily by this point all the seeds had grown into beautiful trees and so were distributed around the kingdom. Unfortunately the grass was still a lightish browny color!
    To be continued...