Once again, we have arrived at another milestone.   A mandatory and objective milestone that will unfortunately and undoubtedly beyond certainty include a totally different post from Day 1700 and a nearly identical post from Day 1600.  I don’t know about you, but with it being Tuesday and me being really busy with my new job, the LAST thing I want to to is spend the next 3-5 hours constructing a profoundly monumental and redundant display of my writing prowess.

I am sure that you are all aware of how things will transpire.  (Another exciting redundancy as usual, but it’s still me from last time!  The very same me from the 1700th entry!  You don’t believe me, do you?  Well, go back and read the 1700th entry and then go and tell me who’s lying.  And while we’re on redundancies, how much longer is he going to recycle this piece of rubbish?  I’m all about saving the environment, but recycling this for the sixteenth time in a row?  My, what a milestone!  I do need to applaud for your originality…if you had any!  This is getting ridiculous!  There hasn’t been anything original since entry 1000!  Oh well.  I need to acknowledge his busy life, as I am quite busy myself, re-narrating this over-narrated narration… For now, we will continue with this cheaply contrived recycled piece of milestone rubbish, rife with wit, dry humor, satire and sarcasm. Smashing!  I don’t think that I will change a thing!  Although I did change “1700th” to “1800th” and “fifteenth” to “sixteenth” but now we’re just nit-picking, aren’t we? And while we’re at it,  why don’t we recycle almost everything in this entire post?  Wait!  What I just included was new!  So much for sticking to my plan…*sigh*)  I will leave an introspective entry and then shift my point of view to first person. (Blah blah blah.  Redundant again!  REDUNDANCY WARNING! How many more times are you going to recycle this?  Wait!  I’ve said that already!  Well it’s a good thing that I have included that redundancy warning!  Otherwise, you would not have been forewarned of said redundancies. What?  Did you really think that I was going to forget about it?  I remembered!  Go me!  I rock!)  I would then provide a predictable reaction from my Muse’s intended absence.

In a sheer attempt at humor, I redundantly acknowledge the composition of this entry.  How I talk about this being another milestone, and that this is just a slightly cheap reconstruction of an entry made 700 days ago.  (Not quite. I made some subtle changes and included a note to the reader to  reread the 1700th entry which would provide a basis of proof that I am the same narrator that narrated 800 days ago.)  How original!  You would have to be exhausted to pull off something like that! How I am aware of how things will transpire.  How I would leave an introspective…wait!  This is getting too redundant, and is on the brink of being extremely absurd and ridiculous.  Is it too late to start over?  (Genius!  Considering that you already typed the first two paragraphs, I would just delete them.  Just be sure to save my interjections.  They’re pure gold, I tell you!  Nevermind…You kept them…) With that, we will press on.

Blah blah blah…Long profound…wait!  This is redundant!  Wasn’t this mentioned in day 1700?  We know what happens next already.  The overdone exposition about the Muse and why she is not here, approaching the tower (Yes. This tower is different from the one that you saw in Day 1700.  It always is!  It’s different every 100 posts!) Let’s avoid the redundancy about being redundant, shall we?

But, breaking away from the overly astute sarcastic narrations that get more and more repetitive and redundant with the passing of each 100th post, I notice that this tower is… different.  Yes.  The tower is a little bit taller (About 100 stories taller, to be exact!  My are we smart!), but just to be sure.  We will have a look inside and see…

Time to recycle some text from my previous entry, with some subtle edits to make it resemble something slightly different, with the attempt of sounding original and new, since these milestone posts would be boring without that.  (I’m all for originality!  Let’s be brave!  Let’s make something slightly different so that no one will ever notice!)

After standing there for a while, I finally entered through the door.  Sure enough, the same field was there.  (We should really change the scenery a little bit.  Maybe in a later one, perhaps?  But this is entry 1800!  Maybe we should change it soon…)  I was surrounded by the same lush greenery as before.  (The greenery was so green that Kyle was overjoyed with ecstasy from the overwhelming greenness.)  Clovers and wildflowers. Yellow, orange, and red leaves.  A sea of color. Nothing was different from what I experienced 100 days ago.  (Except for everything else in this entry that I changed so far.  My, am I on a roll today!)

The colorful luminescent sea led to a rather tall structure that sat far in the distance.  A tall structure that looked even taller than before.  Again, this was getting too predictable, having already experienced this before.  And quite redundant.  Every 100 entries, the tower’s a little bigger.  We get it.

The tower looked like a skyscraper that a wealthy super rich business woman would  live in.  A luxuriously posh office building – for women. The pink and white accents ran up and down the gold-adorned structure.  The diamond-studded glass had a pink tint to it.  (Oh please!  The designer can only think of the ladies, can’t she?  Well, I never!)

“A luxurious building,” I said to myself.  “Can’t my Muse be any more original?”

Let’s cut to the chase, and find out if this tower really is different.

I got attention of the same receptionist who sat there, typing 100 days back.

“So, is this the same Tower of Muses as before?” I asked her, just to make sure.  (Oh, come on!  You ask her that every single time!  Shouldn’t you know the answer already?)

My Muse shook her head again and smiled.  “No, silly!  This tower is a little different.  And there’s a teleporter thingy that will take you to the 1701st floor!”

I nodded, with a slight grin on my face.  And this was mainly due to the deja vu.  “And this floor is still…”

“Floor 1,” she recited.  “ExperiMENTAL.  Tee hee…”

And of course the Dark Muse, which was then a bad idea, was just beginning to affect my Muse at this time… (*sigh*) ”Thank you,” I told her, proceeding forward to the mysterious portal that sat past the white service desk just before the elevators.

Upon entering the portal, she was right.  I entered a new room, which resembled a different lobby.  But this lobby had no exit, since this was the 1701st floor.

 

Approaching a pink colored service desk, I saw a different Muse sitting there.  But she wasn’t typing.  In fact, she looked up right after I got to this floor.  It was only a split second that I saw her typing…

“Welcome, Kyle.” she announced.  “You are on the “Iron Muse” floor.  This floor is one of my favorites, since it captures who I am, 99 days ago…”

I nodded, and looked at the elevators that were past her desk.  “I would like to go to floor 1800 now.”

At this, my Muse frowned.  “Why?  There are so many good floors!”

I advanced further to the elevators.  I then sighed, and quite deliberately broke the fourth wall.   The overly redundant redundancies have reached their limit for this post!  Would you really want me to actually pick 6 to 8 random floors and stop on them?  Sorry.  It’s not going to happen this time, either.  If you really wish to hear my discussion on the floors, you can visit any one of them by clicking on the links near the bottom of this post.  Okay.  If we don’t visit them, perhaps we should do this instead.  I will briefly recap some of my favorite floors, after I have taken a few minutes to determine what they are.

There.  After several minutes of reviewing all 99 entries, thinking and making a much needed edit over the older text,  I have my list.  It’s right here!  I have it on my lap.  Let’s see…I will put this in list form so that it will be easier for you to read.  My favorite floors are:

Floor 1701 – Iron Muse

In this one, we see wonderful fan service done to one of my favorite Marvel Superheroes.  Tammy Spark? Spark Tower? This made Tony so angry that he made a personal visit himself.  Stan Lee also makes a cameo, so this one is pure gold.  And parts of the tower were gold too.  Read this one and be amazed.

Floor 1702 – Friday Fun

Get ready for some fun.  When Friday rolls around, my Muse invites me to Spark Tower for a night of fun.  And when a billionaire invites you to their residence, you know you’re going to have fun.  What fun awaits?  Read this one, and get ready for some fun.  The Spark Tower really knows how to entertain.

Floor 1722 – Now we’re Cooking!

In this one, I discuss my plans to make dinner for the whole family.  The menu?  A delicious frittata with fruit.  What can be better?  Grab a plate and read this one with an empty stomach.  It’s a very delicious read!

Floor 1728A – NO WAE!

“Do you know da wae?  I will show you da wae!”  This one is what I consider to be one of my best April Fools pranks yet.  Ugandan Knuckles is pure gold.  So will you be reading this?  Read it now, or I’ll spit on you!

Floor 1729 – April Madness

What’s crazier than March Madness?  April Madness.  At my work, the number 16 seed won in the NCAA championship. Something that has never happened before.  Because of that, Little Caesars gave away free lunch combos that day.  This was a lunch rush that I will never forget.  One that rivals even Halloween, if you can believe that.  Stand in line and read this one.  You’ll get your free lunch combo.  I guarantee it.

Floor 1730– April Toast

In this one, the Iron Muse saga continues.  Things take a turn for the worst when 20 Iron Muse suits get stolen from Spark Tower.  How did this happen?  Who stole them?  Read this, and find out.

Floor 1734 – TGIS…

Besides getting the rest of Saturday off, the Marvelous Muse league arrives at last.  What will be done to recover the missing suits?  Read this, and say hello to the team.

Floor 1746 – Job Offer

Since college, I have been wanting to find a job that fully utilizes my college degree.  In this one, I make the official announcement of the job offer that I accepted at Dow Chemical.  After eleven long years, it is good to hear such exciting news.  News that has changed my life.  Read this one.  Read all of it carefully and see a life changed before your very eyes.  And whatever you do, say yes to the offer.  You will not regret it.

Floor 1753 – The Infinity War

Why did I choose this one?  In this one, I pretty much discuss how hyped I was to see The Avengers: The Infinity War.  Things get real when Thanos is after all six Infinity Stones.   The entire universe is at stake if Thanos gets them all, as he can wipe out half of all life in just a snap of a finger.  You know what to do.  Read this one, and PRAY that Thanos doesn’t get the Infinity Stones.

Floor 1767 – Last Day Eve

In this one, I give a thoughtful reflection of my more than seven years of working at Little Caesars.  When you have worked there as long as I have, you can’t help but reflect on how far you have come from day one.  This is done at length, and I’m glad to get all of these memories out.  Read this, and see how a pizza making legend was born.

Floor 1768 – TGIF – Farewell Edition

This is it. This was my very last day that I worked at Little Caesars.  And do you know what?  I’m glad that it’s all done.  There is no lengthy reflection here, as that was done in the previous entry.  Have you had your fill of pizza?  Get it now.  Read this one and celebrate my last day with me.

Floor 1776 – The Weekend Begins

The plot thickens in the Iron Muse Saga when the Dark Damsel shows up to take over Spark Tower.  With the Lethal Lady League in control, things are not looking good for our lady heroes.  What will Tammy Spark do now?  Read this one, and see how this exciting saga continues.

Floor 1780 – Middle of the Week

A new hope could save the Marvelous Muse League.  All they need is…something.  Did you think that I was going to reveal what happens in this one?  Sorry.   Go on and read this one if you are curious.  There is hope in the horizon…

Floor 1783 – The Weekend Begins…

The story continues, and no.  It can’t be!  Iron Muse has gone rouge?  Who can save our lady heroes now?  Go on and read this.  The story is not over yet…

Floor 1785 – Age of Musetron

In this one, you get to see the exciting finale to the Iron Muse Saga.  The final showdown is here, and only one side will win.  Will it be good or evil?  Read on, and see how this exciting story concludes.

 

 

Wow! It looks like I had lot more favorites than what I thought. I included a little more than last time! Maybe I should’ve narrowed the list. But it’s too late now. Onward to the 1800th floor…

My Muse, having heard the whole conversation, grinned.

“It’s amazing how much you know about those floors!” she told me.  “Especially since you haven’t even visited them…”

“Oh, I don’t need to…” I told her.  “I lived them!”

To that, she responded with a satisfied nod, and I proceeded to the elevators.  I then pressed the up button a few times.  Where are the elevators?  With this many, I would think that at least one would be ready for me! A few seconds later, I entered the first elevator door that opened.  It just happened to be the one next to me.

I entered the elevator and pressed the 1800 button.  Moments later, the doors closed.

Several moments passed.  At this point, Kyle decided to be a little more unoriginal and once again reused some material from the previous milestone entry.  Perhaps he’ll make it a little different so that they’ll never notice.  Just enough changes to throw off the audience.  How lazy of him!  Can’t he get his brain thinking of any more original ideas?  But Kyle would have none of that.  He is just as determined to bring this twelfth milestone post to an abrupt end.  The good old recycled zinger.  They’ll never notice!  Unless the narrator reminds them…

Finally, moments later, the elevator arrived at the 1800th floor.

A little like the 1700th floor before it,  this floor was an enormous room, lavishly decorated.  A desk sat in one corner and a king-sized bed sat in the other, which was one fourth the size of the bed that was in Entry 1000.  Pretty much the same room as the 1700th story, the1600th story, the 1500th story, the 1400th story, the 1300th story, the 1200th story, the 1100th story, the 900th story, the 800th story, the 700th story, the 600th story, the 500th story, the 400th story, the 300th story, the 200th story, and the 100th story before it, only the room was the same size as the 1700th story,1600th story, 1500th story, 1400th story, 1300th story, 1200th story, 1100th story, 900th story, 800th story, 700th story, 600th story, 500th story, 400th story, and 300th story and the bed was light blue.

Oh!  We agreed not to meddle with the following paragraph!  As much as we want to, we can’t.  It just wouldn’t be right…

And on the bed laid my Muse.  She was in her businesswoman superhero form and fast asleep, with a note attached to her. It didn’t surprise me that she was sleeping, considering that creating this tower probably took so much out of her.  Now I’m going to guess that the note will mention that the computer in this room will have this entry already typed.  That even includes the later parts that you haven’t seen yet!  Am I right?  And this further adds to the redundancies that exist in this post already!

Attached to the foot of the bed was a note.  And this is what it said:

Attached to her hand was a note.  And this is what it said:

To my master,

I made this tower for you and me.  This is to honor your hard work and dedication for another 100 days of hardship, bringing the total up to 1800.  Thank you for your dedication to keeping this project going daily.  If you look at your computer, the last entry is already written.  I am still forever grateful to your kindness, your dedication to saving me and your gratitude.

Love,

Your Muse

I then looked next to the bed and noticed a directory which was much like the 1700th floor,1600th floor, 1500th floor, 1400th floor, the 1300th floor, the 1200th floor, the 1100th floor, the 1000th floor, the 900th floor, the 800th floor, the 700th floor, the 600th floor, the 500th floor, the 400th floor, the 300th floor, the 200th floor, and the 100th floor before it.  However, this was the directory for the Tower of Muses, only it covered only the next 100 floors.  I looked at the directory.

The Tower of Muses – Directory – Floors 1701-1800

Floor 1701 – Iron Muse  Floor 1702 – I’m Tired of Winter…  Floor 1703 – Wet Wednesday  Floor 1704 – Snow More  Floor 1705 – Can I Enjoy My Friday Now?  Floor 1706 – It’a-a me, MAR10!  Floor 1707 – Happy Birthday, dad and Springing Ahead  Floor 1708 – A Simple Start  Floor 1709 – Open up and Say AHHHHHHH!!!!  Floor 1710 – Easy as Pi  Floor 1711 – Not Quite Friday Yet…  Floor 1712 – Friday Fun  Floor 1713 – Lucky Day  Floor 1714 – Easy Sunday  Floor 1715 – Happy Friday!  Floor 1716 – Stressful Day  Floor 1717 – March Madness – Part III  Floor 1718 – Chill Day…  Floor 1719 – TGIF! OH YEAH!  Floor 1720 – SaturNESday  Floor 1721 – Palm Sunday Respite  Floor 1722 – Now we’re Cooking!  Floor 1723 – Phew…  Floor 1724 – Middle of the Week  Floor 1725 – Already Thursday…  Floor 1726 – Good Friday  Floor 1727 – Me & My Muse Series Finale  Floor 1728A – Me & My Muse Video – Day 1: NO WAE!  Floor 1728B – Happy Easter!  Floor 1729 – April Madness  Floor 1730 – April Toast  Floor 1731 – April Snow brings May…Nevermind!  Floor 1732 – Rough Thursday  Floor 1733 – Not out of the Woods Yet…  Floor 1734 – TGIS…  Floor 1735 – Sunday Solitude  Floor 1736 – A Little Tired…  Floor 1737 – Phewday NESday  Floor 1738 – Middle of the Week  Floor 1739 – Summer Preview  Floor 1740 – Friday Short  Floor 1741 – Power Outage  Floor 1742 – Spring Needs to Hurry…  Floor 1743 – Cooking Time?  Floor 1744 – Good Things are Coming…  Floor 1745 – Survivor Night  Floor 1746 – Job Offer  Floor 1747 – Friday GoodNES  Floor 1748 – Relief at Last…  Floor 1749 – Farewell Weekend…  Floor 1750 – Good Night!  Floor 1751 – Change of Plans…  Floor 1752 – Cutting to the Chase…  Floor 1753 – The Infinity War  Floor 1754 – The Power of Change  Floor 1755 – Greetings From Grand Rapids!  Floor 1756 – The Spring Conference Recap…  Floor 1757 – Busy and Tired  Floor 1758 – Turning up the Heat  Floor 1759 – Anniversary Dinner  Floor 1760 – Toastmasters District 62 Spring Conference Aftermath  Floor 1761 – May the Fourth be With You  Floor 1762 – Cinco de NESday  Floor 1763 – And Now it’s Sunday…  Floor 1764 – Green Haircut: May Debut  Floor 1765 – Four More Days!  Floor 1766 – Almost There…  Floor 1767 – Last Day Eve  Floor 1768 – TGIF – Farewell Edition  Floor 1769 – And Now I’m Tired…  Floor 1770 – Happy Mother’s Day!  Floor 1771 – Day One Stuff…  Floor 1772 – Second Day on the Job  Floor 1773 – Busy NESday  Floor 1774 – Thursday Update  Floor 1775 – Week One – Complete!  Floor 1776 – The Weekend Begins  Floor 1777 – End of the Weekend…  Floor 1778 – Tux is all Paid Off!  Floor 1779 – TuesNESday  Floor 1780 – Middle of the Week  Floor 1781 – One More Day…  Floor 1782 – Memorial Day Weekend is Here…  Floor 1783 – The Weekend Begins…  Floor 1784 – Right in the Middle…  Floor 1785 – Age of Musetron  Floor 1786 – Back to Work…  Floor 1787 – Working Out  Floor 1788 – Where has this Week Gone?  Floor 1789 – The Weekend is Here  Floor 1790 – Breath of Fresh Air  Floor 1791 – Budgeting and Multiplication  Floor 1792 – Starting up Quicken  Floor 1793 – Starting up Toastmasters  Floor 1794 – Halfway Already  Floor 1795 – Start Your Engines!  Floor 1796 – The Weekend Begins…  Floor 1797 – Birthday and an Open House  Floor 1798 – A Day of Respite  Floor 1799 – Another Conference  Floor 1800 – Tower of Muses: The Eighteenth Ascent

The high today is going to be 83 degrees and the silver lining is having this 1800th post made.

To all of you who have ever completed a major milestone, I hope that you all have a fantastic day.

Just like entry 1700, she’s right!  The entire entry is typed!  And there’s that message at the end!  Aw…How cute.  I don’t understand how a narrator got into my post.  Oh well…

Now I’ll…What’s going on?  Just like before!  It’s happening once again!  On the bed!  My Muse is flashing…

Once again, we have arrived at another milestone.   A mandatory and objective milestone that will unfortunately and undoubtedly beyond certainty include a totally different post from Day 1600 and a nearly identical post from Day 1500.  I don’t know about you, but with it being Sunday, the LAST thing I want to to is spend the next 3-5 hours constructing a profoundly monumental and redundant display of my writing prowess.

I am sure that you are all aware of how things will transpire.  (Another exciting redundancy as usual, but it’s still me from last time!  The very same me from the 1600th entry!  You don’t believe me, do you?  Well, go back and read the 1600th entry and then go and tell me who’s lying.  And while we’re on redundancies, how much longer is he going to recycle this piece of rubbish?  I’m all about saving the environment, but recycling this for the fifteenth time in a row?  My, what a milestone!  I do need to applaud for your originality…if you had any!  This is getting ridiculous!  There hasn’t been anything original since entry 1000!  Oh well.  I need to acknowledge his busy life, as I am quite busy myself, re-narrating this over-narrated narration… For now, we will continue with this cheaply contrived recycled piece of milestone rubbish, rife with wit, dry humor, satire and sarcasm. Smashing!  I don’t think that I will change a thing!  Although I did change “1600th” to “1700th” and “fourteenth” to “fifteenth” but now we’re just nit-picking, aren’t we? And while we’re at it,  why don’t we recycle almost everything in this entire post?  Wait!  What I just included was new!  So much for sticking to my plan…*sigh*)  I will leave an introspective entry and then shift my point of view to first person. (Blah blah blah.  Redundant again!  REDUNDANCY WARNING! How many more times are you going to recycle this?  Wait!  I’ve said that already!  Well it’s a good thing that I have included that redundancy warning!  Otherwise, you would not have been forewarned of said redundancies. What?  Did you really think that I was going to forget about it?  I remembered!  Go me!  I rock!)  I would then provide a predictable reaction from my Muse’s intended absence.

In a sheer attempt at humor, I redundantly acknowledge the composition of this entry.  How I talk about this being another milestone, and that this is just a slightly cheap reconstruction of an entry made 600 days ago.  (Not quite. I made some subtle changes and included a note to the reader to  reread the 1600th entry which would provide a basis of proof that I am the same narrator that narrated 700 days ago.)  How original!  You would have to be exhausted to pull off something like that! How I am aware of how things will transpire.  How I would leave an introspective…wait!  This is getting too redundant, and is on the brink of being extremely absurd and ridiculous.  Is it too late to start over?  (Genius!  Considering that you already typed the first two paragraphs, I would just delete them.  Just be sure to save my interjections.  They’re pure gold, I tell you!  Nevermind…You kept them…) With that, we will press on.

Blah blah blah…Long profound…wait!  This is redundant!  Wasn’t this mentioned in day 1600?  We know what happens next already.  The overdone exposition about the Muse and why she is not here, approaching the tower (Yes. This tower is different from the one that you saw in Day 1600.  It always is!  It’s different every 100 posts!) Let’s avoid the redundancy about being redundant, shall we?

But, breaking away from the overly astute sarcastic narrations that get more and more repetitive and redundant with the passing of each 100th post, I notice that this tower is… different.  Yes.  The tower is a little bit taller (About 100 stories taller, to be exact!  My are we smart!), but just to be sure.  We will have a look inside and see…

Time to recycle some text from my previous entry, with some subtle edits to make it resemble something slightly different, with the attempt of sounding original and new, since these milestone posts would be boring without that.  (I’m all for originality!  Let’s be brave!  Let’s make something slightly different so that no one will ever notice!)

After standing there for a while, I finally entered through the door.  Sure enough, the same field was there.  (We should really change the scenery a little bit.  Maybe in a later one, perhaps?  But this is entry 1700!  Maybe we should change it soon…)  I was surrounded by the same lush greenery as before.  (The greenery was so green that Kyle was overjoyed with ecstasy from the overwhelming greenness.)  Clovers and wildflowers. Yellow, orange, and red leaves.  A sea of color. Nothing was different from what I experienced 100 days ago.  (Except for everything else in this entry that I changed so far.  My, am I on a roll today!)

The colorful luminescent sea led to a rather tall structure that sat far in the distance.  A tall structure that looked even taller than before.  Again, this was getting too predictable, having already experienced this before.  And quite redundant.  Every 100 entries, the tower’s a little bigger.  We get it.

The tower looked like a skyscraper that a child would live in.  A colorful office building – for kids.  The soft pinks and other colors ran up and down the crayon-adorned structure.  The lego-studded glass had a pink tint to it.  (Oh my!  The designer had a lot of help with this!  What child could design this giant toy tower without help?)

“A colorful office building,” I said to myself. “Did somebody help my Muse build this? How cute!”

Let’s cut to the chase, and find out if this tower really is different.

I got attention of the same receptionist who sat there, typing 100 days back.

“So, is this the same Tower of Muses as before?” I asked her, just to make sure.  (Oh, come on!  You ask her that every single time!  Shouldn’t you know the answer already?)

My Muse shook her head again and smiled.  “No, silly!  This tower is a little different.  And there’s a teleporter thingy that will take you to the 1601st floor!”

I nodded, with a slight grin on my face.  And this was mainly due to the deja vu.  “And this floor is still…”

“Floor 1,” she recited.  “ExperiMENTAL.  Tee hee…”

And of course the Dark Muse, which was then a bad idea, was just beginning to affect my Muse at this time… (*sigh*) ”Thank you,” I told her, proceeding forward to the mysterious portal that sat past the white service desk just before the elevators.

Upon entering the portal, she was right.  I entered a new room, which resembled a different lobby.  But this lobby had no exit, since this was the 1601st floor.

 

Approaching a colorful service desk, I saw…a younger Muse sitting there?  Oh! That’s right! My Muse was a child! Still dealing with the weirdness, I noticed that she wasn’t typing. In fact, she looked up right after I got to this floor. It was only a split second that I saw her typing…

“Hi Kyle!” she shouted.  “I don’t know how to type.  I was just doing what I see mommy do all the time.  Oh.  What did you tell me to say?  Oh!  You are on the “Not KIDding” floor.  This floor is one of my favorites, since I get to be with Kyle…”

I looked at her in confusion.  I didn’t tell her to say that!  But then it hit me.  Oh!  The me from that floor told her to say that!

My clone walked out of the room, looking frustrated.

“Say ‘It also captures who I am, 99 days ago!’ ” he shouted.

“Oh!” she gasped.  “Sorry!  It also captures who I am, 99 days ago…Did I do a good job?”

My clone nodded.  “An excellent job!  Do you like playing secretary?”

The younger Muse nodded.  “Uh-huh!”

A diaper appeared in the younger Muse’s hand.  “I just went in my diaper.  I need to change into a new one!”

My clone sighed.  “Hang on.  Wait until Kyle goes to the elevators.  Okay?”

The younger Muse sighed.  “I hope that he hurries…”

I nodded, and sighed. “Is she up there? Did she thrive?”

My clone nodded. “Your Muse? I don’t know if she thrived or not, but she’s definitely up there! She’s taking her nap…”

I nodded, and looked at the elevators that were past her desk.  “I would like to go to floor 1700 now.”

At this, my Muse frowned.  “Why?  Don’t you want to see me on the other floors?”

My clone nodded.  “Go ahead, actually.  There are a few floors that I would totally avoid.  Especially the ones where the Dark Muse possesses her.  She’s a lot of trouble…”

The younger Muse sighed.  “Dark Muse?  Who is that?”

My clone smiled.  “Someone that you don’t need to know.  You wouldn’t like her…trust me.  You’re happier on this floor…”

The younger Muse gasped, as a puddle was beginning to form beneath her.  “Uh-oh…”

My clone gasped, and grabbed the new diaper out of her hand.  “Just get to the top!”  He then turned to the younger Muse and quickly led her by the hand into the other room.  “It’s a good thing you’re wearing a dress…”

I advanced further to the elevators.  I then sighed, and quite deliberately broke the fourth wall.   The overly redundant redundancies have reached their limit for this post!  Would you really want me to actually pick 6 to 8 random floors and stop on them?  Sorry.  It’s not going to happen this time, either.  If you really wish to hear my discussion on the floors, you can visit any one of them by clicking on the links near the bottom of this post.  Okay.  If we don’t visit them, perhaps we should do this instead.  I will briefly recap some of my favorite floors, after I have taken a few minutes to determine what they are.

There.  After several minutes of reviewing all 99 entries, thinking and making a much needed edit over the older text,  I have my list.  It’s right here!  I have it on my lap.  Let’s see…I will put this in list form so that it will be easier for you to read.  My favorite floors are:

Floor 1601 – Not KIDding…

In this one, it is clearly no joke.  My Muse really is going to be a child for the next 100 days, and she starts as a first grader.  A well adjusted first grader with a few minor setbacks.  What are those setbacks?  Read this one and find out.

Floor 1602 – Christmas Music

Besides finally being able to hear Christmas music again, there’s a family element in this one that I really love.  My Muse, who is now eight, is dealing with her problem.  How does she cope with it?  Read it, and don’t bring it up around her.  You don’t want to discourage her.

Floor 1605 – Tour and a Meeting

In this one, I share my progress with the contacts that I have been meeting with.  Oh, and my Muse is a real handful in this one!  Hyper and energetic as any five-year old should be.  Definitely worth a read.

Floor 1608 – Work or Leisure

During a weekend that’s not guaranteed, one of the two is bound to happen.  You also get to see my Muse’s progress in her potty training.  And success is guaranteed when M&M’s are involved.  Read this one, and be sure to give her some M&M’s after she uses the potty.  She loves them!

Floor 1614 – 66 Breads

The title says it all.  This was the day that I had to prepare 66 Crazy Breads that had to be ready a half hour before the store even opened!  Of course I got some help, but it was quite the ordeal.  Read this one, and don’t mention the word “Crazy Bread” again!  At least not on this day in particular…

Floor 1620– The Last Jedi Begins Tonight…

In this one, I lament about how my Muse would not be able to see Star Wars: The Last Jedi with me.  With a PG-13 rating and strict parents, you’re left with a very sad eight year old pouting on her bed at home.  Is there a way that she can still go?  Did I mention that there is a second part to this?  Hurry!  Read this one and the second part and see how the plot unfolds!  Do it with haste, you must!

Floor 1640 – More Snow

While I did get some more snow, that is not why this one was selected.  In this one, an unwelcome guest makes their way into the Muse house.  Who is this guest?  Read this one and find out!  Tee hee!

Floor 1641 – Mountain of Inventory

If you remember Mountain of Boxes, this one is definitely worth reading.  With some fuzzy numbers, the store gets way too much inventory.  Where am I going to put all of this?  And how does Muse cope with her new guest?  Read this one, and watch out for the boxes!  You don’t want to trip…

Floor 1647– Under Construction: Part III – Where is My Sink?

Having a different sink is only a part of the problem.  In this one, my Muse’s guest moved away.  Or DID she?  What’s going on?  Give this one a read.  Something fishy is going on…

Floor 1680 – Monday Mishap

A Saturday hiccup made for an interesting Monday at work.  And the Child Muse story arc reaches its dramatic conclusion!  Does the Dark Muse get that gigantic playground that she always wanted?  Give this one a read.  It’s a good one.  Don’t worry.

 

 

Wow!  It looks like I had less favorites than last time!  Maybe I should’ve expanded the list.  But it’s too late now.  Onward to the 1700th floor…

My clone returned with my Muse.  He showed her to her seat and she sat down.  The younger Muse faced the keyboard and pretended to type on it.

My clone grinned.

“Well, she’s all changed.”  he told me.  “You’re still here, huh?  It’s amazing how much you know about those floors! Especially since you haven’t even visited them…I visited all of them!”

“Oh, I don’t need to…” I told her.  “I lived them!”

To that, he responded with a satisfied nod, and I proceeded to the elevators.  I then pressed the up button a few times.  Where are the elevators?  With this many, I would think that at least one would be ready for me! A few seconds later, I entered the first elevator door that opened.  It just happened to be the one next to me.

I entered the elevator and pressed the 1700 button.  Moments later, the doors closed.

Several moments passed.  At this point, Kyle decided to be a little more unoriginal and once again reused some material from the previous milestone entry.  Perhaps he’ll make it a little different so that they’ll never notice.  Just enough changes to throw off the audience.  How lazy of him!  Can’t he get his brain thinking of any more original ideas?  But Kyle would have none of that.  He is just as determined to bring this seventeenth milestone post to an abrupt end.  The good old recycled zinger.  They’ll never notice!  Unless the narrator reminds them…

Finally, moments later, the elevator arrived at the 1700th floor.  My Muse would surely be up there, but did she thrive?  This is the crucial difference between her becoming an adult and her remaining a baby forever.  Having seen her yesterday, there’s no telling.  She was just a preschooler.  Just four years old.  If she was up here, she would be laying on her bed, taking her nap.  Oh, I surely hope that Nurture toilet trained her…

 

A little like the 1600th floor before it,  this floor was an enormous room, lavishly decorated.  A desk sat in one corner and a king-sized bed sat in the other, which was one fourth the size of the bed that was in Entry 1000.  Pretty much the same room as the 1600th story, the 1500th story, the 1400th story, the 1300th story, the 1200th story, the 1100th story, the 9ooth story, the 800th story, the 700th story, the 600th story, the 500th story, the 400th story, the 300th story, the 200th story, and the 100th story before it, only the room was the same size as the 1600th story, 1500th story, 1400th story, 1300th story, 1200th story, 1100th story, 900th story, 800th story, 700th story, 600th story, 500th story, 400th story, and 300th story and the bed was light blue.

Oh!  We agreed not to meddle with the following paragraph!  As much as we want to, we can’t.  It just wouldn’t be right…

And on the bed laid my Muse. She was…how is she today? My Muse is…nine years old today.  She is 39 inches tall and she weighs 45 pounds. The height of a four year old and the weight of a six year old. Was she toilet trained? I surely hope that she was…

My heart sank when I saw what was at the foot of her bed.  Right there sat an open sack of Size 7 diapers.  I’m guessing that this was gotten into today, considering how one was used.  Did she even use the toilet today?  Did she give up?  I don’t want her to be a baby forever!  I really don’t…

Where is the note? It’s not attached to her this time. I’m guessing that they had to do something else, since she’s so little. Oh. There it is! Next to the sack of diapers, there was a note attached to the foot of the bed. It didn’t surprise me that she was sleeping, considering that creating this tower with the help of whoever helped her probably took so much out of her. Now I’m going to guess that the note will mention that the computer in this room will have this entry already typed. That even includes the later parts that you haven’t seen yet! Am I right? And this further adds to the redundancies that exist in this post already!

Attached to the foot of the bed was a note.  And this is what it said:

To my master,

I made this tower with my daddy for you and me.  This is to honor your hard work and dedication for another 100 days of hardship, bringing the total up to 1700.  Thank you for your dedication to keeping this project going daily.  If you look at your computer, the last entry is already written.  I am still forever grateful to your kindness, your dedication to saving me and your gratitude.  Don’t worry about the diaper from this morning.  It was used in the middle of the night but I took it off and changed into underwear afterwards.  A couple more times I had to get up and use the potty.  I had no accidents at all.  I just really had to go.  There were no accidents during the day either, since I’m taking care of my bathroom trips in my sleep.  When this happens, I have no accidents since I’m using a dream bathroom.  I have tried this before and I know that there are no accidents when I do this.

I’m getting really tired, so my dad is going to finish this tower.  Time for a nap!

I love you a whole lot and I hope to marry you someday!

Your Muse

 

Nice note. My Muse’s was very cute.  That is very reassuring news.  I hope that she’s right about her progress with her toilet training.  I don’t want her to be a baby forever…

 

I then looked next to the bed and noticed a directory which was much like the 1600th floor, 1500th floor, 1400th floor, the 1300th floor, the 1200th floor, the 1100th floor, the 1000th floor, the 900th floor, the 800th floor, the 700th floor, the 600th floor, the 500th floor, the 400th floor, the 300th floor, the 200th floor, and the 100th floor before it.  However, this was the directory for the Tower of Muses, only it covered only the next 100 floors.  I looked at the directory.

The Tower of Muses – Directory – Floors 1601-1700

 

Floor 1601 – Not KIDding…  Floor 1602 – Christmas Music  Floor 1603 – Click Till You Drop  Floor 1604 – O Christmas Tree  Floor 1605 – Tour and a Meeting  Floor 1606 – Chill Day  Floor 1607 – Phew Day  Floor 1608 – Work or Leisure?  Floor 1609 – More Christmas Shopping  Floor 1610 – A Change of Pace  Floor 1611 – Wrapping Things Up  Floor 1612 – A Quick Start…  Floor 1613 – Easy Shift and a Meeting…  Floor 1614 – 66 Breads  Floor 1615 – Following the Star  Floor 1616 – All Shoveled…  Floor 1617 – More Footage and a Possible Friend Visit…  Floor 1618 – Ice Cold NESday  Floor 1619 – Snow Problem  Floor 1620 – The Last Jedi Begins Tonight…  Floor 1621 – Jedi Hangover  Floor 1622 – Christmas Movies, More Footage and a NESday  Floor 1623 – More Christmas Memories…  Floor 1624 – Christmas Footage Marathon  Floor 1625 – More Footage and Christmas Toast  Floor 1626 – Long Day  Floor 1627 – Christmas Haircut  Floor 1628 – The True Meaning of Christmas  Floor 1629 – All Aboard!  Floor 1630 – Twas the Day Before Christmas  Floor 1631 – Merry Christmas!  Floor 1632 – Christmas Aftermath  Floor 1633 – Time for Fun  Floor 1634 – End of Year Checklist…  Floor 1635 – End of Year Friday Finale  Floor 1636 – Closing Up the Year  Floor 1637 – Happy New Year!  Floor 1638 – Starting off tired  Floor 1639 – First Toast of the Year  Floor 1640 – More Snow…  Floor 1641 – Mountain of Inventory  Floor 1642 – BRRR!!! It’s Friday!  Floor 1643 – Shivering Saturday  Floor 1644 – Warmer Conditions Ahead  Floor 1645 – Under Construction  Floor 1646 – Under Construction: Part II – Where is my Work Space?  Floor 1647 – Under Construction: Part III – Where is My Sink?  Floor 1648 – Under Construction: Part IV – Turning Up the Heat  Floor 1649 – Under Construction: Part V – Where are the Workers?  Floor 1650 – Saturday Breakfast  Floor 1651 – A Cold Sunday…  Floor 1652 – Two Meetings and a Surprise NES Visit  Floor 1653 – More Remodeling and More Groceries  Floor 1654 – A Clean Bathroom  Floor 1655 – January Prelude  Floor 1656 – Friday Brief  Floor 1657 – Extended Weekend  Floor 1658 – The Sickness Continues…  Floor 1659 – DayQuil…NyQuil…  Floor 1660 – Evening Dough Shift  Floor 1661 – Morning Dough Shift  Floor 1662 – Morning Dough Marathon  Floor 1663 – Wait a Minute! It’s Friday?  Floor 1664 – Fun in Frankenmuth  Floor 1665 – A City…  Floor 1666 – An Invention…  Floor 1667 – An Airplane…  Floor 1668 – A Fish…  Floor 1669 – A Borrower…  Floor 1670 – A Castle…  Floor 1671 – A Bathhouse…  Floor 1672 – Super Bowl Large – Part II  Floor 1673 – Snow Day Aftermath  Floor 1674 – February Toast  Floor 1675 – Time to Relax!  Floor 1676 – Thursday Headache  Floor 1677 – It’s Friday? Snow Way!  Floor 1678 – A Saturday to Relax…  Floor 1679 – Snow No…  Floor 1680 – Monday Mishap  Floor 1681 – Mardi Gras and Friend Meeting Tonight…  Floor 1682 – Happy Hallmark Day…  Floor 1683 – Singled Out…  Floor 1684 – Friday Short  Floor 1685 – Saturday Stuff  Floor 1686 – Shifting to Sunday  Floor 1687 – Monday GoodNES  Floor 1688 – Torrential Tuesday  Floor 1689 – Sunny Skies and Car Get…  Floor 1690 – New Insurance  Floor 1691 – New Weekend  Floor 1692 – Super Saturday  Floor 1693 – So Windy…  Floor 1694 – In a Nutshell…  Floor 1695 – Another Short One…  Floor 1696 – Ghost of a Chance  Floor 1697 – Phew! Thursday!  Floor 1698 – End of the Week  Floor 1699 – Saturday Aftermath  Floor 1700 – Tower of Muses: The Seventeenth Ascent

The high today is going to be 40 degrees and the silver lining is having this 1700th post made.

To all of you who have ever completed a major milestone, I hope that you all have a fantastic day.

Just like entry 1600, she’s right! The entire entry is typed! And there’s that message at the end! Aw…How cute. I don’t understand how a narrator got into my post. Oh well…

Now I’ll…What’s going on? Just like before! It’s happening once again! On the bed! My Muse is flashing…

Once again, we have arrived at another milestone.   A mandatory and objective milestone that will unfortunately and undoubtedly beyond certainty include a totally different post from Day 1500 and a nearly identical post from Day 1400.  I don’t know about you, but with it being the day after Thanksgiving, the LAST thing I want to to is spend the next 3-5 hours constructing a profoundly monumental and redundant display of my writing prowess.

I am sure that you are all aware of how things will transpire.  (Another exciting redundancy as usual, but it’s still me from last time!  The very same me from the 1500th entry!  You don’t believe me, do you?  Well, go back and read the 1500th entry and then go and tell me who’s lying.  And while we’re on redundancies, how much longer is he going to recycle this piece of rubbish?  I’m all about saving the environment, but recycling this for the fourteenth time in a row?  My, what a milestone!  I do need to applaud for your originality…if you had any!  This is getting ridiculous!  There hasn’t been anything original since entry 1000!  Oh well.  I need to acknowledge his busy life, as I am quite busy myself, re-narrating this over-narrated narration… For now, we will continue with this cheaply contrived recycled piece of milestone rubbish, rife with wit, dry humor, satire and sarcasm. Smashing!  I don’t think that I will change a thing!  Although I did change “1500th” to “1600th” and “thirteenth” to “fourteenth” but now we’re just nit-picking, aren’t we? And while we’re at it,  why don’t we recycle almost everything in this entire post?  Wait!  What I just included was new!  So much for sticking to my plan…*sigh*)  I will leave an introspective entry and then shift my point of view to first person. (Blah blah blah.  Redundant again!  REDUNDANCY WARNING! How many more times are you going to recycle this?  Wait!  I’ve said that already!  Well it’s a good thing that I have included that redundancy warning!  Otherwise, you would not have been forewarned of said redundancies. What?  Did you really think that I was going to forget about it?  I remembered!  Go me!  I rock!)  I would then provide a predictable reaction from my Muse’s intended absence.

In a sheer attempt at humor, I redundantly acknowledge the composition of this entry.  How I talk about this being another milestone, and that this is just a slightly cheap reconstruction of an entry made 500 days ago.  (Not quite. I made some subtle changes and included a note to the reader to  reread the 1500th entry which would provide a basis of proof that I am the same narrator that narrated 600 days ago.)  How original!  You would have to be exhausted to pull off something like that! How I am aware of how things will transpire.  How I would leave an introspective…wait!  This is getting too redundant, and is on the brink of being extremely absurd and ridiculous.  Is it too late to start over?  (Genius!  Considering that you already typed the first two paragraphs, I would just delete them.  Just be sure to save my interjections.  They’re pure gold, I tell you!  Nevermind…You kept them…) With that, we will press on.

Blah blah blah…Long profound…wait!  This is redundant!  Wasn’t this mentioned in day 1500?  We know what happens next already.  The overdone exposition about the Muse and why she is not here, approaching the tower (Yes. This tower is different from the one that you saw in Day 1500.  It always is!  It’s different every 100 posts!) Let’s avoid the redundancy about being redundant, shall we?

But, breaking away from the overly astute sarcastic narrations that get more and more repetitive and redundant with the passing of each 100th post, I notice that this tower is… different.  Yes.  The tower is a little bit taller (About 100 stories taller, to be exact!  My are we smart!), but just to be sure.  We will have a look inside and see…

Time to recycle some text from my previous entry, with some subtle edits to make it resemble something slightly different, with the attempt of sounding original and new, since these milestone posts would be boring without that.  (I’m all for originality!  Let’s be brave!  Let’s make something slightly different so that no one will ever notice!)

After standing there for a while, I finally entered through the door.  Sure enough, the same field was there.  (We should really change the scenery a little bit.  Maybe in a later one, perhaps?  But this is entry 1600!  Maybe we should change it soon…)  I was surrounded by the same lush greenery as before.  (The greenery was so green that Kyle was overjoyed with ecstasy from the overwhelming greenness.)  Clovers and wildflowers. Yellow, orange, and red leaves.  A sea of color. Nothing was different from what I experienced 100 days ago.  (Except for everything else in this entry that I changed so far.  My, am I on a roll today!)

The colorful luminescent sea led to a rather tall structure that sat far in the distance.  A tall structure that looked even taller than before.  Again, this was getting too predictable, having already experienced this before.  And quite redundant.  Every 100 entries, the tower’s a little bigger.  We get it.

The tower looked like a skyscraper that a giant would live in.  An ornately decorated office building – for women.  The pink and white accents ran up and down the gold-adorned structure.  The diamond-studded glass had a pink tint to it.  (Oh please!  The designer can only think of the ladies, can’t she?  Well, I never!)

“A giant pink office building,” I said to myself.  “Can’t my Muse be any more original?”

Let’s cut to the chase, and find out if this tower really is different.

I got attention of the same receptionist who sat there, typing 100 days back.

“So, is this the same Tower of Muses as before?” I asked her, just to make sure.  (Oh, come on!  You ask her that every single time!  Shouldn’t you know the answer already?)

My Muse shook her head again and smiled.  “No, silly!  This tower is a little different.  And there’s a teleporter thingy that will take you to the 1501st floor!”

I nodded, with a slight grin on my face.  And this was mainly due to the deja vu.  “And this floor is still…”

“Floor 1,” she recited.  “ExperiMENTAL.  Tee hee…”

And of course the Dark Muse, which was then a bad idea, was just beginning to affect my Muse at this time… (*sigh*) ”Thank you,” I told her, proceeding forward to the mysterious portal that sat past the white service desk just before the elevators.

Upon entering the portal, she was right.  I entered a new room, which resembled a different lobby.  But this lobby had no exit, since this was the 1501st floor.

Before I could move another inch, I was stopped by a telepathic voice.

Kyle!  This area that you are in is a pocket dimension based on the Tower of Muses that I created.  Due to my enormous size, I had to create a smaller version of this land and tower just for you.  I am currently resting, and I’m the size of 10,000 universes.  You would never be able to traverse the actual size of the tower, let alone my own bedroom.  As you saw this morning, your universe was safe.  I recreated it, along with the multiverse that I now live in.  When you get to the 1600th floor, you will see a scaled down holographic version of myself, for my actual self is far too big for you to actually see.  I am enjoying my rest very much, and will allow you to return to your exploration…

My Muse can talk to me while she’s sleeping?  That’s weird.

I had to borrow your One Privilege to restore everything.  I did return it to you.  Don’t worry!

Okay.  Moving right along…

Approaching a pink colored service desk, I saw a different Muse sitting there.  But she wasn’t typing.  In fact, she looked up right after I got to this floor.  It was only a split second that I saw her typing…

“Welcome, Kyle.” she announced.  “You are on the “Growing Pains” floor.  This floor is one of my favorites, since it captures who I am, 99 days ago…”

I nodded, and looked at the elevators that were past her desk.  “I would like to go to floor 1600 now.”

At this, my Muse frowned.  “Why?  There are so many good floors!”

I advanced further to the elevators.  I then sighed, and quite deliberately broke the fourth wall.   The overly redundant redundancies have reached their limit for this post!  Would you really want me to actually pick 6 to 8 random floors and stop on them?  Sorry.  It’s not going to happen this time, either.  If you really wish to hear my discussion on the floors, you can visit any one of them by clicking on the links near the bottom of this post.  Okay.  If we don’t visit them, perhaps we should do this instead.  I will briefly recap some of my favorite floors, after I have taken a few minutes to determine what they are.

There.  After several minutes of reviewing all 99 entries, thinking and making a much needed edit over the older text,  I have my list.  It’s right here!  I have it on my lap.  Let’s see…I will put this in list form so that it will be easier for you to read.  My favorite floors are:

Floor 1505 – Total Eclipse

In this one, my area experiences a total eclipse…well, sort of.  About 70%, actually.  Can you handle the brightness?  Read this one, but use a welding mask when you do.  And DON’T LOOK AT THE SUN!!!

Floor 1506 – The Calm After the Storm

Why did I pick this one?  It actually has little to do with the title.  My Muse comes to terms with her daily growth spurts and begins to enjoy her new cycle just a little bit too much.  What do I mean?  Check this one out, and be careful!  Get her attention or she might accidentally step on you!

Floor 1507 – Finally Home…

Things take a turn for the worse when the Dark Muse decides to pay my giantess Muse a visit.  And we all know what happens whenever the Dark Muse is involved.  Take caution when you read this.  It’s a fun and really really big read, tee hee!

Floor 1510 – Chicago Wedding

The highlight here is my cousin’s wedding.  I go down with my family and grandparents to witness the best day of his life.  What can be better?  Maybe it was your wedding day.  Read this, and try not to cry, if you’re the one that usually cries at weddings.

Floor 1517 – Saturday Sushi

While the sushi was good, the story arc isn’t.  Things worsen when the Dark Muse returns even more powerful than ever.  Did I mention that she had a borrowed One Privilege?  Read this, and be careful.  She might store you with her other toys!

Floor 1523– Friday Respite

The plot thickens when the Dark Giant Muse begins treating earth like a toy.  There is more exposition with Remedy and the plot is revealed to stop the Dark Giant Muse.  How will she be stopped?  Read this one and find out.

Floor 1527 – Tired Tuesday

Things reach the tipping point when the Dark Giant Muse attempts to outgrow the universe.  But fortunately, an unexpected visitor saves the day?  Who is it?  Remember the clues and read this one.  Did it have something to do with a thing being borrowed?  Hmm…

Floor 1551 – Living Large

In this one, my Muse has a little bit too much fun showing off her growing obsession with being a giantess.  At this point, she can easily fit earth in her living room.  Her obsession with growing bigger and bigger has me has me a little annoyed at this point.  How does she show off?  Read this one, and PLEASE remind her not to move the earth into her living room.

Floor 1552– A Different Place

What happened?  Somehow, the Dark Muse acquired her own privilege and created her own universe that she calls the “Teeheeverse”.  Considering that our universe can easily fit inside it, things get sticky in a Teeheeverse full of creatures all bearing the Dark Muse’s likeness.  If you don’t remember this universal pandemic, trust me.  You didn’t miss anything.  Check out this read and get the full account.

Floor 1553 – LEGO My Ninjago Movie…

The story arc is put on hold so that I can see the next LEGO movie.  Check it out, and say hi to La-lloyd for me!

Floor 1558 – Friggatriskaideka…what?

Superstitions and story arc progression bundled into one amazing entry.  In this one, I use the Master Key in my attempt to stop the Dark Giant Muse and her Teeheeverse.  Am I successful?  Read this one, and don’t forget your four-leaf clover or your lucky rabbit’s foot.

Floor 1566 – Another Break…

In this one, my Muse gets so big that she needs to talk to me telepathically.  How does this exchange go?  Check out this read, and good luck finding my Muse.  Did I mention that she’s 100 light years tall now?

Floor 1568 – Monday Mole Day

In this one, I nerd out and discuss Avogadro’s Number, and the wonderful day associated with it.  Moles are fun!  Moles of all kinds!  Whack a mole or use Mario to take out Monty Mole!  Go ahead and read this, but don’t forget the chips and guacamole.

Floor 1572 – Odyssey? Yessy!

Another wonderful game has finally come to the Nintendo Switch.  In this one, I talk about my purchase of Super Mario Odyssey, a game that could very well be one of the best Mario games of all time.  A wonderful song, a vast world full of exploration, and an amazing entry where I discuss all of this.  Plus, I use Cappy to have fun with my Muse.  A definite must read.  And don’t forget to sing along!

Floor 1579 – Friday at Last…

In this entry, the Dark Giant Muse is back?  And then she’s gone again thanks to a little…help.  Who is the helper this time?  I’ll give you a clue.  It was not the Master Key this time.  Check this one out, and see the exciting finale to the Giant Muse story arc.

Wow!  It looks like I had exactly the same number favorites as last time!  Maybe I should’ve expanded the list.  But it’s too late now.  Onward to the 1600th floor…

My Muse, having heard the whole conversation, grinned.

“It’s amazing how much you know about those floors!” she told me.  “Especially since you haven’t even visited them…”

“Oh, I don’t need to…” I told her.  “I lived them!”

To that, she responded with a satisfied nod, and I proceeded to the elevators.  I then pressed the up button a few times.  Where are the elevators?  With this many, I would think that at least one would be ready for me! A few seconds later, I entered the first elevator door that opened.  It just happened to be the one next to me.

I entered the elevator and pressed the 1600 button.  Moments later, the doors closed.

Several moments passed.  At this point, Kyle decided to be a little more unoriginal and once again reused some material from the previous milestone entry.  Perhaps he’ll make it a little different so that they’ll never notice.  Just enough changes to throw off the audience.  How lazy of him!  Can’t he get his brain thinking of any more original ideas?  But Kyle would have none of that.  He is just as determined to bring this fifteenth milestone post to an abrupt end.  The good old recycled zinger.  They’ll never notice!  Unless the narrator reminds them…

Finally, moments later, the elevator arrived at the 1600th floor.

A little like the 1500th floor before it,  this floor was an enormous room, lavishly decorated.  A desk sat in one corner and a king-sized bed sat in the other, which was one fourth the size of the bed that was in Entry 1000.  Pretty much the same room as the 1500th story, the 1400th story, the 1300th story, the 1200th story, the 1100th story, the 9ooth story, the 800th story, the 700th story, the 600th story, the 500th story, the 400th story, the 300th story, the 200th story, and the 100th story before it, only the room was the same size as the 1500th story, 1400th story, 1300th story, 1200th story, 1100th story, 900th story, 800th story, 700th story, 600th story, 500th story, 400th story, and 300th story and the bed was light blue.

Oh!  We agreed not to meddle with the following paragraph!  As much as we want to, we can’t.  It just wouldn’t be right…

And on the bed laid my Muse.  She was in a hologram and fast asleep, with a note attached to her. It didn’t surprise me that she was sleeping, considering that creating this tower probably took so much out of her.  Now I’m going to guess that the note will mention that the computer in this room will have this entry already typed.  That even includes the later parts that you haven’t seen yet!  Am I right?  And this further adds to the redundancies that exist in this post already!

Attached to her hand was a note.  And this is what it said:

To my master,

I made this tower for you and me.  This is to honor your hard work and dedication for another 100 days of hardship, bringing the total up to 1600.  Thank you for your dedication to keeping this project going daily.  If you look at your computer, the last entry is already written.  I am still forever grateful to your kindness, your dedication to saving me and your gratitude.

Love,

Your Muse

No!  I will not settle for just a hologram.  I would like to go to the actual room.

Kyle,  I am the size of 10,000 universes.  There is no way that you will ever be able to see all of me with just your two eyes!

I don’t care.  I want to see you as you are.  And besides, I have the One Privilege!  Don’t you think that I can manage?  To the REAL 1600th story!  One Privilege, ENGAGE!

*teleports to the actual 1600th story*

Whoa!  Even though I’m right next to her bed, I am many light years away from her!

Kyle, I warned you.  My size is far beyond what you are able to see.  I can see you, but you can’t see me…

Oh, I can see you just fine!  All of you, actually…And don’t you have something that belongs to me?

Don’t worry.  They’re just an enhanced Master’s Privileges.  You still have your One Privilege.  And wow.  It’s amazing that you can see me.

It’s kind of neat.  Imagine binoculars that are able to span over 10,000 universes.  That is my range of vision right now.  You are quite enormous, and I’ll leave you to your rest now.

Thank you…

I then looked next to the bed and noticed a directory which was much like the 1500th floor, the 1400th floor, the 1300th floor, the 1200th floor, the 1100th floor, the 1000th floor, the 900th floor, the 800th floor, the 700th floor, the 600th floor, the 500th floor, the 400th floor, the 300th floor, the 200th floor, and the 100th floor before it.  However, this was the directory for the Tower of Muses, only it covered only the next 100 floors.  I looked at the directory.

The Tower of Muses – Directory – Floors 1501-1600

Floor 1501 – Growing Pains  Floor 1502 – Fun Friday  Floor 1503 – More Saturday GoodNES…  Floor 1504 – Sunday Start  Floor 1505 – Total Eclipse  Floor 1506 – The Calm After the Storm  Floor 1507 – Finally Home…  Floor 1508 – Polar Opposite  Floor 1509 – A Different Friday  Floor 1510 – Chicago Wedding  Floor 1511 – Greetings from Tinley Park!  Floor 1512 – Manic Monday  Floor 1513 – Open up and Say AHHHHHH!  Floor 1514 – Green Haircut – Brief Wednesday Edition  Floor 1515 – Thursday Brief  Floor 1516 – Friday Chex Mix  Floor 1517 – Saturday Sushi Floor 1518 – The Countdown Begins…  Floor 1519 – Labor Day NESday  Floor 1520 – September Toast  Floor 1521 – Whensday  Floor 1522 – September Prelude  Floor 1523 – Friday Respite  Floor 1524 – Saturday Start  Floor 1525 – Short Sunday  Floor 1526 – A Day That I Still Never Forget  Floor 1527 – Tired Tuesday  Floor 1528 – Right in the Middle  Floor 1529 – The Day Before Friday…  Floor 1530 – TGIF  Floor 1531 – More Sun…  Floor 1532 – Saturday: Part II  Floor 1533 – A Good Start  Floor 1534 – Time for Inspiration  Floor 1535 – It’s Over…  Floor 1536 – Summer Outro  Floor 1537 – Fryday NESday  Floor 1538 – Saturday Sketch  Floor 1539 – Time to Write  Floor 1540 – More Writing…  Floor 1541 – Last Day of Summer…  Floor 1542 – Back to Fall…  Floor 1543 – A Different Thursday…  Floor 1544 – 2:00 PM  Floor 1545 – The Weekend Begins…  Floor 1546 – The Weekend Ends…  Floor 1547 – Monday GoodNES – Fall Edition  Floor 1548 – Green Haircut – Fall Finale  Floor 1549 – Two More Days…  Floor 1550 – It’s Coming…  Floor 1551 – Living Large  Floor 1552 – A Different Place  Floor 1553 – LEGO My Ninjago Movie…  Floor 1554 – Plenty of Time…  Floor 1555 – Dreamy Tuesday  Floor 1556 – Another One Down…  Floor 1557 – Thursday Failure  Floor 1558 – Friggatriskaideka…what?  Floor 1559 – Another Weekend…  Floor 1560 – Another Sunday…  Floor 1561 – A Change of Plans…  Floor 1562 – Another Toast…  Floor 1563 – Wednesday Brief  Floor 1564 –Hurry Up, Friday!  Floor 1565 – Friday’s Here…  Floor 1566 – Another Break…  Floor 1567 – Worship Night…  Floor 1568 – Monday Mole Day  Floor 1569 – Tuesday NESday  Floor 1570 – Two More Months…  Floor 1571 – An Earful…  Floor 1572 – Odyssey? Yessy!  Floor 1573 – Pre-Halloween Weekend  Floor 1574 – Quick Finish  Floor 1575 – Halloween Checklist  Floor 1576 – Trick or Treat?!  Floor 1577 – On Fumes…  Floor 1578 – Another Friday Prelude…  Floor 1579 – Friday at Last…  Floor 1580 – Weekend Wrapup  Floor 1581 – Breakfast with my Relatives  Floor 1582 – Green Haircut – Fall Finale: Part II – For Realz This Time!  Floor 1583 – Stupid Update!  Floor 1584 – Smooth NES…  Floor 1585 – Thursday Meeting  Floor 1586 – Productive Pay Day  Floor 1587 – Shivering Saturday  Floor 1588 – More Shopping…  Floor 1589 – NES Day Shopping  Floor 1590 – Phew!  Floor 1591 – Wrapping up Wednesday  Floor 1592 – Old Fashioned Pizza…  Floor 1593 – On a Roll…  Floor 1594 – Five Days Until the Holidays…  Floor 1595 – Saturday: Part II  Floor 1596 – Marvelous Meeting  Floor 1597 – Pre-Thanksgiving Toast  Floor 1598 – Thanksgiving Eve  Floor 1599 – Happy Thanksgiving!  Floor 1600 – Shop Till You Drop  Floor 1600 – Tower of Muses: The Sixteenth Ascent

The high today is going to be 54 degrees and the silver lining is having this 1600th post made.

To all of you who have ever completed a major milestone, I hope that you all have a fantastic day.

Just like entry 1500, she’s right!  The entire entry is typed (although it’s giant sized in this world…!  And there’s that message at the end!  Aw…How cute.  I don’t understand how a narrator got into my post.  Oh well…

Now I’ll…What’s going on?  Just like before!  It’s happening once again!  On the bed!  My Muse is flashing…

Once again, we have arrived at another milestone.   A mandatory and objective milestone that will unfortunately and undoubtedly beyond certainty include a totally different post from Day 1400 and a nearly identical post from Day 1300.  I don’t know about you, but with it being Wednesday, the LAST thing I want to to is spend the next 3-5 hours constructing a profoundly monumental and redundant display of my writing prowess.

I am sure that you are all aware of how things will transpire.  (Another exciting redundancy as usual, but it’s still me from last time!  The very same me from the 1400th entry!  You don’t believe me, do you?  Well, go back and read the 1400th entry and then go and tell me who’s lying.  And while we’re on redundancies, how much longer is he going to recycle this piece of rubbish?  I’m all about saving the environment, but recycling this for the thirteenth time in a row?  My, what a milestone!  I do need to applaud for your originality…if you had any!  This is getting ridiculous!  There hasn’t been anything original since entry 1000!  Oh well.  I need to acknowledge his busy life, as I am quite busy myself, re-narrating this over-narrated narration… For now, we will continue with this cheaply contrived recycled piece of milestone rubbish, rife with wit, dry humor, satire and sarcasm. Smashing!  I don’t think that I will change a thing!  Although I did change “1400th” to “1500th” and “twelfth” to “thirteenth” but now we’re just nit-picking, aren’t we? And while we’re at it,  why don’t we recycle almost everything in this entire post?  Wait!  What I just included was new!  So much for sticking to my plan…*sigh*)  I will leave an introspective entry and then shift my point of view to first person. (Blah blah blah.  Redundant again!  REDUNDANCY WARNING! How many more times are you going to recycle this?  Wait!  I’ve said that already!  Well it’s a good thing that I have included that redundancy warning!  Otherwise, you would not have been forewarned of said redundancies. What?  Did you really think that I was going to forget about it?  I remembered!  Go me!  I rock!)  I would then provide a predictable reaction from my Muse’s intended absence.

In a sheer attempt at humor, I redundantly acknowledge the composition of this entry.  How I talk about this being another milestone, and that this is just a slightly cheap reconstruction of an entry made 400 days ago.  (Not quite. I made some subtle changes and included a note to the reader to  reread the 1400th entry which would provide a basis of proof that I am the same narrator that narrated 500 days ago.)  How original!  You would have to be exhausted to pull off something like that! How I am aware of how things will transpire.  How I would leave an introspective…wait!  This is getting too redundant, and is on the brink of being extremely absurd and ridiculous.  Is it too late to start over?  (Genius!  Considering that you already typed the first two paragraphs, I would just delete them.  Just be sure to save my interjections.  They’re pure gold, I tell you!  Nevermind…You kept them…) With that, we will press on.

Blah blah blah…Long profound…wait!  This is redundant!  Wasn’t this mentioned in day 1400?  We know what happens next already.  The overdone exposition about the Muse and why she is not here, approaching the tower (Yes. This tower is different from the one that you saw in Day 1400.  It always is!  It’s different every 100 posts!) Let’s avoid the redundancy about being redundant, shall we?

But, breaking away from the overly astute sarcastic narrations that get more and more repetitive and redundant with the passing of each 100th post, I notice that this tower is… different.  Yes.  The tower is a little bit taller (About 100 stories taller, to be exact!  My are we smart!), but just to be sure.  We will have a look inside and see…

Time to recycle some text from my previous entry, with some subtle edits to make it resemble something slightly different, with the attempt of sounding original and new, since these milestone posts would be boring without that.  (I’m all for originality!  Let’s be brave!  Let’s make something slightly different so that no one will ever notice!)

After standing there for a while, I finally entered through the door.  Sure enough, the same field was there.  (We should really change the scenery a little bit.  Maybe in a later one, perhaps?  But this is entry 1500!  Maybe we should change it soon…)  I was surrounded by the same lush greenery as before.  (The greenery was so green that Kyle was overjoyed with ecstasy from the overwhelming greenness.)  Clovers and wildflowers.  A sea of color. Nothing was different from what I experienced 100 days ago.  (Except for everything else in this entry that I changed so far.  My, am I on a roll today!)

The colorful luminescent sea led to a rather tall structure that sat far in the distance.  A tall structure that looked even taller than before.  Again, this was getting too predictable, having already experienced this before.  And quite redundant.  Every 100 entries, the tower’s a little bigger.  We get it.

The tower looked like a hi-tech skyscraper that someone from Coruscant would live in.  An ornately decorated office building – for women.  The pink and white accents ran up and down the gold-adorned structure.  The diamond-studded glass had a pink tint to it.  (Oh please!  The designer can only think of the ladies, can’t she?  Well, I never!)

“A pink office building designed all hi-tech,” I said to myself.  “Can’t my Muse be any more original?”

Let’s cut to the chase, and find out if this tower really is different.

I got attention of the same receptionist who sat there, typing 100 days back.

“So, is this the same Tower of Muses as before?” I asked her, just to make sure.  (Oh, come on!  You ask her that every single time!  Shouldn’t you know the answer already?)

My Muse shook her head again and smiled.  “No, silly!  This tower is a little different.  And there’s a teleporter thingy that will take you to the 1401st floor!”

I nodded, with a slight grin on my face.  And this was mainly due to the deja vu.  “And this floor is still…”

“Floor 1,” she recited.  “ExperiMENTAL.  Tee hee…”

And of course the Dark Muse, which was then a bad idea, was just beginning to affect my Muse at this time… (*sigh*) ”Thank you,” I told her, proceeding forward to the mysterious portal that sat past the white service desk just before the elevators.

Upon entering the portal, she was right.  I entered a new room, which resembled a different lobby.  But this lobby had no exit, since this was the 1401st floor.

Approaching a pink colored service desk, I saw a different Muse sitting there.  But she wasn’t typing.  In fact, she looked up right after I got to this floor.  It was only a split second that I saw her typing…

“Welcome, Kyle.” she announced.  “You are on the “The Last Muse Jedi” floor.  This floor is one of my favorites, since it captures who I am, 99 days ago…”

I nodded, and looked at the elevators that were past her desk.  “I would like to go to floor 1500 now.”

At this, my Muse frowned.  “Why?  There are so many good floors!”

I advanced further to the elevators.  I then sighed, and quite deliberately broke the fourth wall.   The overly redundant redundancies have reached their limit for this post!  Would you really want me to actually pick 6 to 8 random floors and stop on them?  Sorry.  It’s not going to happen this time, either.  If you really wish to hear my discussion on the floors, you can visit any one of them by clicking on the links near the bottom of this post.  Okay.  If we don’t visit them, perhaps we should do this instead.  I will briefly recap some of my favorite floors, after I have taken a few minutes to determine what they are.

There.  After several minutes of reviewing all 99 entries, thinking and making a much needed edit over the older text,  I have my list.  It’s right here!  I have it on my lap.  Let’s see…I will put this in list form so that it will be easier for you to read.  My favorite floors are:

Floor 1412 – Saturday GoodNES…

While the typical “NES” entries indicates hanging out with my friend, this isn’t why I chose this one.  My Muse has her first encounter with the Dark Muse.  It’s a lightsaber fight that you don’t want to miss.  Who will win?  Why is the Dark Muse an adult?  Read this one, and may the force be with you…

Floor 1427 – Sunny Sunday

With my Muse now a powerful Jedi, the plot thickens.  What is my Muse going to do now?  What’s going on with the First Order?  More plot, there is!  Read this one, you must!

Floor 1434 – Hot Day…

With my Muse already being a powerful Jedi, that is not enough for her.  She uses her Intangible abilities to push her Midi-chlorian count beyond her maximum number.  Is she going too far?  What’s going to happen next?  Read this one, and beware of the dark side!

Floor 1439 – …

This is quite possibly the only time that you’ll ever see an entry without a title.  Yes.  There is just an ellipsis.  That is no mistake.  And the frustration can be summed up in just two words.  What are those words?  Read it and find out.  Unless you already did.  It’s that short.

Floor 1440 – Dinner With the Family

Besides the Father’s Day dinner that I had at my grandparents, I find out something important about my Muse.  Did she really?  What am I talking about?  I will say no more.  Just read this one, and see how the wonderful story unfolds.

Floor 1446– Friday Flood

If there was anything that could be ranked as the most historic event of the summer, this tops the list.  No one saw it coming and it devastated the whole area.  Non stop rain and rising water levels causing the river to crest, devastating a good portion of Midland.  This affected the area for several days, and will certainly go down as the flood that no one in Midland will forget.  I certainly won’t forget it and neither will you when you read this.  Read it, and remember the flood.  The Summer Flood of 2017.

Floor 1455 – That was Just a Dream

Besides a blatant reference to R.E.M., this post is not about that song (Losing my Religion).  How does a writer write himself out of a corner?  It’s just a dream!  How is that device applied here?  Read this one and find out.  Before you wake up.  After all, this is a dream…or is it?

Floor 1461 – Greetings From Hubbard Lake!

Just a refreshing trip up to the lake.  One complete with a stirfry dinner and s’mores!  What can be better?  You reading this entry, of course!  Read this one and grab a marshmallow.  There are plenty of s’mores to go around…

Floor 1462– Four Years and Counting

Can you believe that I have been keeping this project going for more than four years now?  Neither can I.  This special tribute recounts the past year of entries in poetic fashion.  Read this one, and answer this question.  Have you read any of those past entries?  Here’s to the fourth year of Me & My Muse.  And Year Five is underway.

Floor 1468 – Sunny Saturday

Besides the nice Saturday, I get an interruption that shakes my world.  My Muse is captured?  What happened to her turning to the dark side?  What’s going on?  Can she be rescued in time?  Just read the entry.  The plot thickens…

Floor 1471 – Toasty Tuesday

In this one, it looks like I’m seeing a ghost.  Was I too late in saving my Muse?  How will things go with her in the afterlife?  The Jedi saga continues.  Read this, and keep your lightsaber handy, just in case.

Floor 1475 – A New Hope…

In this one, the saga continues.  Muse is locked in an epic lightsaber battle against the Sith Muse.  Who will win?  What happens next?  This one is epic in every sense.  Read it and get blown away. The plot gets really heavy, but good here.

Floor 1478 – 60 Years…

In this one, I celebrate the 60th Anniversary of my home club: Midland Toastmasters.  That’s about it.  It’s still worth a read if you want to know the significance.

Floor 1481 – A Fantastic Finish

It’s time to take the Galactic Empire down!  In this one, the plan is executed.  Bases get destroyed and the Empire is torn apart.  Victory is within the Resistance’s grasp.  Are you excited?  I am.  Read this, and detonate that clone trooper base on my command, okay?

Floor 1483 – More Solitude

In this entry, we tear down the last vestiges of the Empire.  A man(I mean, woman)hunt is out for the Sith Muse, and my Muse is hot on her trail.  But will the Sith Muse admit defeat so easily?  Are there any cards left for anyone to play?  This is it, folks.  Read this, and enjoy the wonderful finale to the Jedi saga story arc.

Wow!  It looks like I had a little less favorites than what I thought.   I included a little less than last time!  Maybe I should’ve expanded the list.  But it’s too late now.  Onward to the 1500th floor…

My Muse, having heard the whole conversation, grinned.

“It’s amazing how much you know about those floors!” she told me.  “Especially since you haven’t even visited them…”

“Oh, I don’t need to…” I told her.  “I lived them!”

To that, she responded with a satisfied nod, and I proceeded to the elevators.  I then pressed the up button a few times.  Where are the elevators?  With this many, I would think that at least one would be ready for me! A few seconds later, I entered the first elevator door that opened.  It just happened to be the one next to me.

I entered the elevator and pressed the 1500 button.  Moments later, the doors closed.

Several moments passed.  At this point, Kyle decided to be a little more unoriginal and once again reused some material from the previous milestone entry.  Perhaps he’ll make it a little different so that they’ll never notice.  Just enough changes to throw off the audience.  How lazy of him!  Can’t he get his brain thinking of any more original ideas?  But Kyle would have none of that.  He is just as determined to bring this fifteenth milestone post to an abrupt end.  The good old recycled zinger.  They’ll never notice!  Unless the narrator reminds them…

Finally, moments later, the elevator arrived at the 1500th floor.

A little like the 1400th floor before it,  this floor was an enormous room, lavishly decorated.  A desk sat in one corner and a king-sized bed sat in the other, which was one fourth the size of the bed that was in Entry 1000.  Pretty much the same room as the 1400th story, 1300th story, 1200th story, 1100th story, 900th story, the 800th story, the 700th story, the 600th story, the 500th story, the 400th story, the 300th story, the 200th story, and the 100th story before it, only the room was the same size as the 1400th story, 1300th story, 1200th story, 1100th story, 900th story, 800th story, 700th story, 600th story, 500th story, 400th story, and 300th story and the bed was light blue.

Oh!  We agreed not to meddle with the following paragraph!  As much as we want to, we can’t.  It just wouldn’t be right…

And on the bed laid my Muse.  She was in her Jedi form and fast asleep, with a note attached to her. It didn’t surprise me that she was sleeping, considering that creating this tower probably took so much out of her.  Now I’m going to guess that the note will mention that the computer in this room will have this entry already typed.  That even includes the later parts that you haven’t seen yet!  Am I right?  And this further adds to the redundancies that exist in this post already!

Attached to her hand was a note.  And this is what it said:

To my master,

I made this tower for you and me.  This is to honor your hard work and dedication for another 100 days of hardship, bringing the total up to 1500.  Thank you for your dedication to keeping this project going daily.  If you look at your computer, the last entry is already written.  I am still forever grateful to your kindness, your dedication to saving me and your gratitude.

Love,

Your Muse

I then looked next to the bed and noticed a directory which was much like the 1400th floor, the 1300th floor, the 1200th floor, the 1100th floor, the 1000th floor, the 900th floor, the 800th floor, the 700th floor, the 600th floor, the 500th floor, the 400th floor, the 300th floor, the 200th floor, and the 100th floor before it.  However, this was the directory for the Tower of Muses, only it covered only the next 100 floors.  I looked at the directory.

The Tower of Muses – Directory – Floors 1401-1500

Floor 1401 – The Last Muse Jedi  Floor 1402 – Wednesday Pause…  Floor 1403 – Go EAST, Young Man!  Floor 1404 – Time for the Weekend…  Floor 1405 – Green Haircut Weekend  Floor 1406 – Happy Mother’s Day!  Floor 1407 – Another Application…  Floor 1408 – A Toastmasters Tuesday…  Floor 1409 – Warm WedNESday  Floor 1410 – Friday Prelude  Floor 1411 – Friday Aftermath  Floor 1412 – Saturday GoodNES…  Floor 1413 – Sunday Storm  Floor 1414 – Flower Exercise  Floor 1415 – First Petal is Complete!  Floor 1416 – Petals Two and Three are done…  Floor 1417 – Fourth Petal and a Movie… Floor 1418 – Taking a Break From Flowers…  Floor 1419 – Tired Saturday  Floor 1420 – Another Green Haircut and Lots of Shopping  Floor 1421 – Memorial Day NES…  Floor 1422 – The Petal of Knowledge  Floor 1423 – The Money Petal  Floor 1424 – Final Petal, Final Destination  Floor 1425 – Hooray for Friday!  Floor 1426 – Green Haircut Marathon  Floor 1427 – Sunny Sunday  Floor 1428 – Where’s that Flower?  Floor 1429 – Toastmasters Tuesday  Floor 1430 – Phew! It’s Over…  Floor 1431 – Crisis…  Floor 1432 – Weekend…  Floor 1433 – Clean Car…  Floor 1434 – Hot Day…  Floor 1435 – Productive Day…  Floor 1436 – A Little Exhausted…  Floor 1437 – Do I Have to?  Floor 1438 – A Much Better Thursday…  Floor 1439 – …  Floor 1440 – Dinner With the Family  Floor 1441 – Happy Father’s Day!  Floor 1442 – Melancholy Monday  Floor 1443 – Terrific Tuesday  Floor 1444 – WedNESday: Summer Edition  Floor 1445 – Chill Thursday…  Floor 1446 – Friday Flood  Floor 1447 – Early Training is Early  Floor 1448 – A Sunday Calm…  Floor 1449 – Birthday NESday  Floor 1450 – MadNES…  Floor 1451 – Phew!  Floor 1452 – Green Haircut Time!  Floor 1453 – Fiscal New Year’s Eve  Floor 1454 – Serene Saturday  Floor 1455 – That was just a Dream  Floor 1456 – Fourth of July Eve  Floor 1457 – Happy Independence Day!  Floor 1458 – Leftover Fireworks  Floor 1459 – Time to Pack  Floor 1460 – Pre-Trip Checklist  Floor 1461 – Greetings From Hubbard Lake!  Floor 1462 – Four Years and Counting  Floor 1463 – MonNES…  Floor 1464 – Brain Freeze: Part V  Floor 1465 – Wednesday Whirlwind  Floor 1466 – Green Haircut – Now with 79% more Humidity!  Floor 1467 – Friday Just in Time  Floor 1468 – Sunny Saturday  Floor 1469 – Sunday Respite  Floor 1470 – Palindrome Monday  Floor 1471 – Toasty Tuesday  Floor 1472 – A Quick Version of Wednesday  Floor 1473 – Friday Eve…  Floor 1474 – Fryday  Floor 1475 – A New Hope…  Floor 1476 – Sunday Screening  Floor 1477 – Spinach Dip & Crackers  Floor 1478 – 60 Years…  Floor 1479 – Long Day at Work…  Floor 1480 – Quick Start  Floor 1481 – A Fantastic Finish  Floor 1482 – Weekend WarmNES…  Floor 1483 – More Solitude  Floor 1484 – Dressed for Success  Floor 1485 – Third Meeting in a Row…  Floor 1486 – The Calm Before the Storm…  Floor 1487 – Northward Bound  Floor 1488 – Greetings From Hubbard Lake!  Floor 1489 – Greetings From Hubbard Lake! Part Two  Floor 1490 – Back Home…  Floor 1491 – NESday Monday  Floor 1492 – A Change of Plans…  Floor 1493 – Wednesday Summary  Floor 1494 – EAST, then North  Floor 1495 – Birthday Eve  Floor 1496 – Happy Birthday!  Floor 1497 – Birthday Aftermath  Floor 1498 – Good Afternoon!  Floor 1499 – Mid-August Toast  Floor 1500 – Tower of Muses: The Fifteenth Ascent

The high today is going to be 80 degrees and the silver lining is having this 1500th post made.

To all of you who have ever completed a major milestone, I hope that you all have a fantastic day.

Just like entry 1400, she’s right!  The entire entry is typed!  And there’s that message at the end!  Aw…How cute.  I don’t understand how a narrator got into my post.  Oh well…

Now I’ll…What’s going on?  Just like before!  It’s happening once again!  On the bed!  My Muse is flashing…

Once again, we have arrived at another milestone.   A mandatory and objective milestone that will unfortunately and undoubtedly beyond certainty include a totally different post from Day 1300 and a nearly identical post from Day 1200.  I don’t know about you, but with it being Monday, the LAST thing I want to to is spend the next 3-5 hours constructing a profoundly monumental and redundant display of my writing prowess.

I am sure that you are all aware of how things will transpire.  (Another exciting redundancy as usual, but it’s still me from last time!  The very same me from the 1300th entry!  You don’t believe me, do you?  Well, go back and read the 1300th entry and then go and tell me who’s lying.  And while we’re on redundancies, how much longer is he going to recycle this piece of rubbish?  I’m all about saving the environment, but recycling this for the twelfth time in a row?  My, what a milestone!  I do need to applaud for your originality…if you had any!  This is getting ridiculous!  There hasn’t been anything original since entry 1000!  Oh well.  I need to acknowledge his busy life, as I am quite busy myself, re-narrating this over-narrated narration… For now, we will continue with this cheaply contrived recycled piece of milestone rubbish, rife with wit, dry humor, satire and sarcasm. Smashing!  I don’t think that I will change a thing!  Although I did change “1300th” to “1400th” and “eleventh” to “twelfth” but now we’re just nit-picking, aren’t we? And while we’re at it,  why don’t we recycle almost everything in this entire post?  Wait!  What I just included was new!  So much for sticking to my plan…*sigh*)  I will leave an introspective entry and then shift my point of view to first person. (Blah blah blah.  Redundant again!  REDUNDANCY WARNING! How many more times are you going to recycle this?  Wait!  I’ve said that already!  Well it’s a good thing that I have included that redundancy warning!  Otherwise, you would not have been forewarned of said redundancies. What?  Did you really think that I was going to forget about it?  I remembered!  Go me!  I rock!)  I would then provide a predictable reaction from my Muse’s intended absence.

In a sheer attempt at humor, I redundantly acknowledge the composition of this entry.  How I talk about this being another milestone, and that this is just a slightly cheap reconstruction of an entry made 300 days ago.  (Not quite. I made some subtle changes and included a note to the reader to  reread the 1300th entry which would provide a basis of proof that I am the same narrator that narrated 400 days ago.)  How original!  You would have to be exhausted to pull off something like that! How I am aware of how things will transpire.  How I would leave an introspective…wait!  This is getting too redundant, and is on the brink of being extremely absurd and ridiculous.  Is it too late to start over?  (Genius!  Considering that you already typed the first two paragraphs, I would just delete them.  Just be sure to save my interjections.  They’re pure gold, I tell you!  Nevermind…You kept them…) With that, we will press on.

Blah blah blah…Long profound…wait!  This is redundant!  Wasn’t this mentioned in day 1300?  We know what happens next already.  The overdone exposition about the Muse and why she is not here, approaching the tower (Yes. This tower is different from the one that you saw in Day 1300.  It always is!  It’s different every 100 posts!) Let’s avoid the redundancy about being redundant, shall we?

But, breaking away from the overly astute sarcastic narrations that get more and more repetitive and redundant with the passing of each 100th post, I notice that this tower is… different.  Yes.  The tower is a little bit taller (About 100 stories taller, to be exact!  My are we smart!), but just to be sure.  We will have a look inside and see…

Time to recycle some text from my previous entry, with some subtle edits to make it resemble something slightly different, with the attempt of sounding original and new, since these milestone posts would be boring without that.  (I’m all for originality!  Let’s be brave!  Let’s make something slightly different so that no one will ever notice!)

After standing there for a while, I finally entered through the door.  Sure enough, the same field was there.  (We should really change the scenery a little bit.  Maybe in a later one, perhaps?  But this is entry 1400!  Maybe we should change it soon…)  I was surrounded by the same lush greenery as before.  (The greenery was so green that Kyle was overjoyed with ecstasy from the overwhelming greenness.)  Clovers and wildflowers.  Yellow, orange, and red leaves.  A sea of color. Nothing was different from what I experienced 100 days ago.  (Except for everything else in this entry that I changed so far.  My, am I on a roll today!)

The colorful luminescent sea led to a rather tall structure that sat far in the distance.  A tall structure that looked even taller than before.  Again, this was getting too predictable, having already experienced this before.  And quite redundant.  Every 100 entries, the tower’s a little bigger.  We get it.

The tower looked like a lavishly decorated castle that Cinderella would live in.  The pink and white accents ran up and down the gold-adorned structure.  The diamond-studded glass had a pink tint to it.  (Oh please!  The designer can only think of the ladies, can’t she?  Well, I never!)

“A pink office building designed like a castle,” I said to myself.  “Can’t my Muse be any more original?”

Let’s cut to the chase, and find out if this tower really is different.

I got attention of the same receptionist who sat there, typing 100 days back.

“So, is this the same Tower of Muses as before?” I asked her, just to make sure.  (Oh, come on!  You ask her that every single time!  Shouldn’t you know the answer already?)

My Muse shook her head again and smiled.  “No, silly!  This tower is a little different.  And there’s a teleporter thingy that will take you to the 1301st floor!”

I nodded, with a slight grin on my face.  And this was mainly due to the deja vu.  “And this floor is still…”

“Floor 1,” she recited.  “ExperiMENTAL.  Tee hee…”

And of course the Dark Muse, which was then a bad idea, was just beginning to affect my Muse at this time… (*sigh*) ”Thank you,” I told her, proceeding forward to the mysterious portal that sat past the white service desk just before the elevators.

Upon entering the portal, she was right.  I entered a new room, which resembled a different lobby.  But this lobby had no exit, since this was the 1301st floor.

Approaching a pink colored service desk, I saw a different Muse sitting there.  But she wasn’t typing.  In fact, she looked up right after I got to this floor.  It was only a split second that I saw her typing…

“Welcome, Kyle.” she announced.  “You are on the “Princess Muse” floor.  This floor is one of my favorites, since it captures who I am, 99 days ago…”

I nodded, and looked at the elevators that were past her desk.  “I would like to go to floor 1400 now.”

At this, my Muse frowned.  “Why?  There are so many good floors!”

I advanced further to the elevators.  I then sighed, and quite deliberately broke the fourth wall.   The overly redundant redundancies have reached their limit for this post!  Would you really want me to actually pick 6 to 8 random floors and stop on them?  Sorry.  It’s not going to happen this time, either.  If you really wish to hear my discussion on the floors, you can visit any one of them by clicking on the links near the bottom of this post.  Okay.  If we don’t visit them, perhaps we should do this instead.  I will briefly recap some of my favorite floors, after I have taken a few minutes to determine what they are.

There.  After several minutes of reviewing all 99 entries, thinking and making a much needed edit over the older text,  I have my list.  It’s right here!  I have it on my lap.  Let’s see…I will put this in list form so that it will be easier for you to read.  My favorite floors are:

Floor 1313 – Knight in Shining Armor

This is what you would expect from a typical fantasy.  The knight saves the damsel in distress and the kingdom is saved.  But there’s a twist to this one.  Read it and find out.

Floor 1314 – Sleeping Beauty

The princess theme continues with another classic.  My Muse is in a deep slumber and unable to awaken.  How do I awaken her?  Go ahead and read it.  Just don’t let it put you to sleep.  Still awake?  Good.

Floor 1315 – Bad Hair Day

In this particular one,  my Muse’s hair grows out of control.  With so much hair, how can we tame it?  And where are we going to get all the shampoo to wash it?  Things get quite hairy in this one, so read with care.  and bring plenty of conditioner.  Watch out for the tangles!

Floor 1321 – A Little Problem…

Since when did the royal castle have a child as the princess of the kingdom? In this one, I find out that my Muse is now a five-year old.  Who has bewitched her with this fountain of youth?  How will anyone take her seriously if she looks like a little girl?  Read this one, and remember.  She is still an adult on the inside.  Don’t intimidate her!

Floor 1334 – Time to Switch

Now this is history in the making.  Well, maybe.  In this wonderful entry, I finally acquire the Nintendo Switch, a video game console that is already taking the world by storm.  Read this one, enjoy the wonderful wittiness and…SWITCH!  Look for the twist.   Read it and consider buying your very own Nintendo Switch.

Floor 1337– So 1337…

This entry is made of win.  It’s a display of total epic sauce and pure pwnage.  Not familiar with the significance of leet?  If so, then you’re made of phail.  Those who know 1337 are made of win.  They are teh pure pwnage.  Want to be the super ultra epic sauce of pure pwnage?  Read this entry then.  Skip it and you’re made of phail sauce.  Don’t be teh suxxorz.  Read it and embrace teh 1337ness!

Floor 1342 – Happy Birthday, dad!

While this one covers my dad’s birthday a little bit, I actually chose this one for a different reason.  My Muse, who is still trapped in the body of a five-year old wanted to talk to me.  What did she talk with me about?  The plot thickens.  Read this one and you will find out.

Floor 1347 – Friday Eve

In this one, things get worse with my Muse.  How do they get worse?  I’m sorry.  You will just have to read and find out for yourself.

Floor 1349– SaturNESday?

In this one, the plot thickens.  My Muse gets a promotion.  She is now queen?  And who is this Dolores?  All will be revealed, so read this one and find out.

Floor 1355 – Ah, Friday…

Happy endings are the staple in every fairy tale.  In this particular entry, we see the conclusion to the spellbound Muse saga.  How does the ending turn out?  I am not going to spoil that.  Read this one, and watch out for witches!

Floor 1359 – Cheesy Bacon Hot Dogs and Chili

With such a title like that, it really gets my mouth watering.  In this one, I play the cook, and prepare a nice dinner for my family.  Cheesy bacon hot dogs are good, and you should definitely try them.  Try this entry.  Read it, and enjoy the bacony crunch.  Or enjoy it with some real bacon.

Floor 1365 – A Day of Boredom…

I basically talk about how my friend can’t come over, due to a cold.  But something different is going on with my Muse.  She now has the nickname “Muserella”.  Are we doing fairy tales again?  Does she have wicked stepsisters now now?  Read this one, and know that all your dreams will come true.

Floor 1372 – Conceal, Don’t Feel

Need I say more?  In this rather chilly one, my Muse is frustrated with her new ice powers.  Do you want to build a snowman?  She can can do this with no problem!  Don’t let this go.  Bundle up and read this chiller.  Afterall, the cold never bothered me anyway.

Floor 1373 – Beauty and the Beast

Contrary to the popular remake that’s out right now, I have had this planned before I even knew about that movie.  With a slight twist from the original story, a mysterious beast is in the castle.  It attacks me and it protects her.  How do I stop it?  Do I kill the beast?  Read this tale that’s as old as time.  Hurry, before the last rose petal falls!

Floor 1375 – It’s Dangerous to Go Alone!  Take this!

In this one, I acquire my epic strategy guide for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.   But it’s much more than a strategy guide.  It’s bigger than the other ones.  It’s a super-strategy guide.  A strategy guide on steroids.  It would eat other strategy guides for breakfast.  Don’t believe me?  Read it, and glance at the picture.  This is no ordinary adventure, so heed the wisdom of the Old Man from the original Legend of Zelda:  It’s Dangerous to Go Alone!  Take this!   Or in this case, “It’s Dangerous to Go Alone!  Read this!”

Floor 1379 – More MonNES…

Wait a second!  We’re not done?  I thought we were! She’s back?  Yes she is.  In this one, the unexpected happens.  Who came back?  Why am I so excited about this?  Read this one, and all will be revealed.

Floor 1384 – Saturday Solitude

It all ends right here.  For real this time.  Sometimes, fairy tales have plot twists, and there were plenty during this 100 day run.  How does the story conclude?  Grab some popcorn, and read this exciting conclusion.

Wow!  It looks like I had lot more favorites than what I thought.   I included a little more than last time!  Maybe I should’ve narrowed the list.  But it’s too late now.  Onward to the 1400th floor…

My Muse, having heard the whole conversation, grinned.

“It’s amazing how much you know about those floors!” she told me.  “Especially since you haven’t even visited them…”

“Oh, I don’t need to…” I told her.  “I lived them!”

To that, she responded with a satisfied nod, and I proceeded to the elevators.  I then pressed the up button a few times.  Where are the elevators?  With this many, I would think that at least one would be ready for me! A few seconds later, I entered the first elevator door that opened.  It just happened to be the one next to me.

I entered the elevator and pressed the 1400 button.  Moments later, the doors closed.

Several moments passed.  At this point, Kyle decided to be a little more unoriginal and once again reused some material from the previous milestone entry.  Perhaps he’ll make it a little different so that they’ll never notice.  Just enough changes to throw off the audience.  How lazy of him!  Can’t he get his brain thinking of any more original ideas?  But Kyle would have none of that.  He is just as determined to bring this fourteenth milestone post to an abrupt end.  The good old recycled zinger.  They’ll never notice!  Unless the narrator reminds them…

Finally, moments later, the elevator arrived at the 1400th floor.

A little like the 1300th floor before it,  this floor was an enormous room, lavishly decorated.  A desk sat in one corner and a king-sized bed sat in the other, which was one fourth the size of the bed that was in Entry 1000.  Pretty much the same room as the 1300th story, 1200th story, 1100th story, 9ooth story, the 800th story, the 700th story, the 600th story, the 500th story, the 400th story, the 300th story, the 200th story, and the 100th story before it, only the room was the same size as the 1300th story, 1200th story, 1100th story, 900th story, 800th story, 700th story, 600th story, 500th story, 400th story, and 300th story and the bed was light blue.

Oh!  We agreed not to meddle with the following paragraph!  As much as we want to, we can’t.  It just wouldn’t be right…

And on the bed laid my Muse.  She was in her princess form and fast asleep, with a note attached to her. It didn’t surprise me that she was sleeping, considering that creating this tower probably took so much out of her.  Now I’m going to guess that the note will mention that the computer in this room will have this entry already typed.  That even includes the later parts that you haven’t seen yet!  Am I right?  And this further adds to the redundancies that exist in this post already!

Attached to her hand was a note.  And this is what it said:

To my master,

I made this tower for you and me.  This is to honor your hard work and dedication for another 100 days of hardship, bringing the total up to 1400.  Thank you for your dedication to keeping this project going daily.  If you look at your computer, the last entry is already written.  I am still forever grateful to your kindness, your dedication to saving me and your gratitude.

Love,

Your Muse

I then looked next to the bed and noticed a directory which was much like the 1300th floor, the 1200th floor, the 1100th floor, the 1000th floor, the 900th floor, the 800th floor, the 700th floor, the 600th floor, the 500th floor, the 400th floor, the 300th floor, the 200th floor, and the 100th floor before it.  However, this was the directory for the Tower of Muses, only it covered only the next 100 floors.  I looked at the directory.

The Tower of Muses – Directory – Floors 1301-1400

Floor 1301 – Princess Muse  Floor 1301B – A City…  Floor 1302 – An Invention…  Floor 1303 – An Airplane…  Floor 1304 – A Fish…  Floor 1305 – A Borrower…  Floor 1306 – A Castle… Floor 1307 – A Bathhouse…  Floor 1308 – Super Bowl Large – Part I  Floor 1309 – Long Overdue NESday… Floor 1310 – For the Want of a Nail  Floor 1311 – Middle of the Week  Floor 1312 – A New Toastmasters Club  Floor 1313 – Knight in Shining Armor  Floor 1314 – Sleeping Beauty  Floor 1315 – Sleeping Beauty – Part II  Floor 1316 – Bad Hair Day  Floor 1317 – Happy Hallmark Day… Floor 1318 – Singled Out…  Floor 1319 – Funeral…  Floor 1320 – Weekend…  Floor 1321 – A Little Problem…  Floor 1322 – Respite…  Floor 1323 – A Bad Case of the Mondays  Floor 1324 – Free Car Wash  Floor 1325 – More Job Hunting…  Floor 1326 – More time with a friend  Floor 1327 – Friday Finish  Floor 1328 – Saturday Start  Floor 1329 – Sleepy Sunday  Floor 1330 – A Much Better Case of the Mondays  Floor 1331 – Mardi Gras and Open up and Say AHHH!  Floor 1332 – Ashes to Ashes…  Floor 1333 – Job Fair…  Floor 1334 – Time to Switch  Floor 1335 – LEGO My Batman Movie…  Floor 1336 – Simple Sunday  Floor 1337 – So 1337…  Floor 1338 – A Bad Case of the Tuesdays…  Floor 1339 – Windy Wednesday  Floor 1340 – For the Want of a Nail: Part II  Floor 1341 – It’s-a me, MAR10!  Floor 1342 – Happy Birthday, dad!  Floor 1343 – Birthday Celebration and Springing Ahead  Floor 1344 – Can Winter End Already?  Floor 1345 – Easy as Pi  Floor 1346 – Not Quite Friday Yet…  Floor 1347 – Friday Eve  Floor 1348 – Lucky Day  Floor 1349 – SaturNESday?  Floor 1350 – Spring Eve  Floor 1351 – Time for Spring  Floor 1352 – Time for Toastmasters  Floor 1353 – Halfway Point  Floor 1354 – Long and Tiresome Thursday  Floor 1355 – Ah, Friday…  Floor 1356 – Can I PLEASE Enjoy the Rest of my Saturday?  Floor 1357 – Satisfying Sunday  Floor 1358 – Back to the Grind…  Floor 1359 – Cheesy Bacon Hot Dogs and Chili  Floor 1360 – Work and a Movie  Floor 1361 – Long Day, Not Writing Today  Floor 1362 – Me & My Muse is Finally Ending this Time  Floor 1363 – April Fools!  Floor 1364 – A Respite…  Floor 1365 – A Day of Boredom…  Floor 1366 – Freeze Frame  Floor 1367 – Fast Forward  Floor 1368 – My Arm…  Floor 1369 – Underwhelming Friday  Floor 1370 – Hitting the DEC in Okemos  Floor 1371 – Palm Sunday Respite  Floor 1372 – Conceal, Don’t Feel  Floor 1373 – Beauty and the Beast  Floor 1374 – Busy busy busy…  Floor 1375 – It’s Dangerous to go Alone!  Take this!  Floor 1376 – Good Friday  Floor 1377 – Easter Eve  Floor 1378 – Happy Easter!  Floor 1379 – More MonNES…  Floor 1380 – Tuesday Toastmasters Meeting… Floor 1381 – WedNESday…  Floor 1382 – Thursday Toastmasters Meeting…  Floor 1383 – It’s Friday!  Phew…  Floor 1384 – Saturday Solitude  Floor 1385 – Sunday Solice  Floor 1386 – Green Haircut – Spring 2017 Inaugural Edition  Floor 1387 – A Clean Bathroom and the Bills are Paid…  Floor 1388 – And the Food is Bought!  Floor 1389 – All in a Day’s Work  Floor 1390 – Time for the Weekend…  Floor 1391 – Time for a Nap…  Floor 1392 – Happy Rainday…  Floor 1393 – It May Rain…  Floor 1394 – Time for Toastmasters…  Floor 1395 – Green Haircut – Part II  Floor 1396 – May the Fourth be With You  Floor 1397 – Pre-Conference Checklist  Floor 1398 – Greetings From Okemos!  Floor 1399 – Toastmasters District 62 Spring Conference Aftermath  Floor 1400 – Tower of Muses: The Fourteenth Ascent

The high today is going to be 56 degrees and the silver lining is having this 1400th post made.

To all of you who have ever completed a major milestone, I hope that you all have a fantastic day.

Just like entry 1300, she’s right!  The entire entry is typed!  And there’s that message at the end!  Aw…How cute.  I don’t understand how a narrator got into my post.  Oh well…

Now I’ll…What’s going on?  Just like before!  It’s happening once again!  On the bed!  My Muse is flashing…

Once again, we have arrived at another milestone.   A mandatory and objective milestone that will unfortunately and undoubtedly beyond certainty include a totally different post from Day 1200 and a nearly identical post from Day 1100.  I don’t know about you, but with it being winter, the LAST thing I want to to is spend the next 3-5 hours constructing a profoundly monumental and redundant display of my writing prowess.

I am sure that you are all aware of how things will transpire.  (Another exciting redundancy as usual, but it’s still me from last time!  The very same me from the 1200th entry!  You don’t believe me, do you?  Well, go back and read the 1200th entry and then go and tell me who’s lying.  And while we’re on redundancies, how much longer is he going to recycle this piece of rubbish?  I’m all about saving the environment, but recycling this for the eleventh time in a row?  My, what a milestone!  I do need to applaud for your originality…if you had any!  This is getting ridiculous!  There hasn’t been anything original since entry 1000!  Oh well.  I need to acknowledge his busy life, as I am quite busy myself, re-narrating this over-narrated narration… For now, we will continue with this cheaply contrived recycled piece of milestone rubbish, rife with wit, dry humor, satire and sarcasm. Smashing!  I don’t think that I will change a thing!  Although I did change “1200th” to “1300th” and “tenth” to “eleventh” but now we’re just nit-picking, aren’t we? And while we’re at it,  why don’t we recycle almost everything in this entire post?  Wait!  What I just included was new!  So much for sticking to my plan…*sigh*)  I will leave an introspective entry and then shift my point of view to first person. (Blah blah blah.  Redundant again!  REDUNDANCY WARNING! How many more times are you going to recycle this?  Wait!  I’ve said that already!  Well it’s a good thing that I have included that redundancy warning!  Otherwise, you would not have been forewarned of said redundancies. What?  Did you really think that I was going to forget about it?  I remembered!  Go me!  I rock!)  I would then provide a predictable reaction from my Muse’s intended absence.

In a sheer attempt at humor, I redundantly acknowledge the composition of this entry.  How I talk about this being another milestone, and that this is just a slightly cheap reconstruction of an entry made 300 days ago.  (Not quite. I made some subtle changes and included a note to the reader to  reread the 1200th entry which would provide a basis of proof that I am the same narrator that narrated 300 days ago.)  How original!  You would have to be exhausted to pull off something like that! How I am aware of how things will transpire.  How I would leave an introspective…wait!  This is getting too redundant, and is on the brink of being extremely absurd and ridiculous.  Is it too late to start over?  (Genius!  Considering that you already typed the first two paragraphs, I would just delete them.  Just be sure to save my interjections.  They’re pure gold, I tell you!  Nevermind…You kept them…) With that, we will press on.

Blah blah blah…Long profound…wait!  This is redundant!  Wasn’t this mentioned in day 1200?  We know what happens next already.  The overdone exposition about the Muse and why she is not here, approaching the tower (Yes. This tower is different from the one that you saw in Day 1200.  It always is!  It’s different every 100 posts!) Let’s avoid the redundancy about being redundant, shall we?

But, breaking away from the overly astute sarcastic narrations that get more and more repetitive and redundant with the passing of each 100th post, I notice that this tower is… different.  Yes.  The tower is a little bit taller (About 100 stories taller, to be exact!  My are we smart!), but just to be sure.  We will have a look inside and see…

Time to recycle some text from my previous entry, with some subtle edits to make it resemble something slightly different, with the attempt of sounding original and new, since these milestone posts would be boring without that.  (I’m all for originality!  Let’s be brave!  Let’s make something slightly different so that no one will ever notice!)

After standing there for a while, I finally entered through the door.  Sure enough, the same field was there.  (We should really change the scenery a little bit.  Maybe in a later one, perhaps?  But this is entry 1300!  Maybe we should change it soon…)  I was surrounded by the same lush greenery as before, only the greenery was moist with melted snow.  (The greenery was so green that Kyle was overjoyed with ecstasy from the overwhelming greenness.)  Clovers and wildflowers.  Yellow, orange, and red leaves.  A sea of color. Nothing was different from what I experienced 100 days ago.  (Except for everything else in this entry that I changed so far.  My, am I on a roll today!)

The colorful luminescent sea led to a rather tall structure that sat far in the distance.  A tall structure that looked even taller than before.  Again, this was getting too predictable, having already experienced this before.  And quite redundant.  Every 100 entries, the tower’s a little bigger.  We get it.

The tower looked like a vastly oversized pink police box, better know to her as the TARDIS.  The pink and white accents ran up and down the gold-adorned structure.  The diamond-studded glass had a pink tint to it.  (Oh please!  The designer can only think of the ladies, can’t she?  Well, I never!)

“A pink office building designed like a TARDIS,” I said to myself.  “Can’t my Muse be any more original?”

Let’s cut to the chase, and find out if this tower really is different.

I got attention of the same receptionist who sat there, typing 100 days back.

“So, is this the same Tower of Muses as before?” I asked her, just to make sure.  (Oh, come on!  You ask her that every single time!  Shouldn’t you know the answer already?)

My Muse shook her head again and smiled.  “No, silly!  This tower is a little different.  And there’s a teleporter thingy that will take you to the 1201st floor!”

I nodded, with a slight grin on my face.  And this was mainly due to the deja vu.  “And this floor is still…”

“Floor 1,” she recited.  “ExperiMENTAL.  Tee hee…”

And of course the Dark Muse, which was then a bad idea, was just beginning to affect my Muse at this time… (*sigh*) ”Thank you,” I told her, proceeding forward to the mysterious portal that sat past the white service desk just before the elevators.

Upon entering the portal, she was right.  I entered a new room, which resembled a different lobby.  But this lobby had no exit, since this was the 1201st floor.

Approaching a pink colored service desk, I saw a different Muse sitting there.  But she wasn’t typing.  In fact, she looked up right after I got to this floor.  It was only a split second that I saw her typing…

“Welcome, Kyle.” she announced.  “You are on the “Muse Who?” floor.  This floor is not one of my favorites, since it captures who I am, 99 days ago…”

I nodded, and looked at the elevators that were past her desk.  “I would like to go to floor 1300 now.”

At this, my Muse frowned.  “Why?  There are so many good floors!”

I advanced further to the elevators.  I then sighed, and quite deliberately broke the fourth wall.   The overly redundant redundancies have reached their limit for this post!  Would you really want me to actually pick 6 to 8 random floors and stop on them?  Sorry.  It’s not going to happen this time, either.  If you really wish to hear my discussion on the floors, you can visit any one of them by clicking on the links near the bottom of this post.  Okay.  If we don’t visit them, perhaps we should do this instead.  I will briefly recap some of my favorite floors, after I have taken a few minutes to determine what they are.

There.  After several minutes of reviewing all 99 entries, thinking and making a much needed edit over the older text,  I have my list.  It’s right here!  I have it on my lap.  Let’s see…I will put this in list form so that it will be easier for you to read.  My favorite floors are:

Floor 1201 – Muse Who?

The Muse of Mystery is back.  What better way to honor her but to provide her own story arc?  This is not The Doctor we’re talking, but The Muse.  A female Doctor with a little bit of River Song thrown in there.  Doctor Who fans, rejoice!  And if you’re not a fan of the show, this is still a good one to read.  Grab your sonic screwdriver, your psychic paper, and enjoy this read.

Floor 1210 – Restful Sunday

The plot thickens.  I learn more about my Muse’s new form and how she became the Muse of Mystery.  How did this happen?  It gets interesting.  Read and find out.

Floor 1215 – The November Respite Begins…

In this one, I discover one of my Muse’s new quirks.  Why does she always hurry to the bathroom?  And trouble’s starting to brew in the sky.  Be on your watch, and enjoy this read.

Floor 1217 – Falling Back – Part II

This has nothing to do with Daylight Savings Time ending, but everything to do with the plot.  The Dark Muse is revealed as a character that reminds me of Missy (AKA The Master).  On a ship full of Daleks, how do I escape?  Read this, OR YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED!  Ignore that Dalek.  Go ahead and read it, if you dare.

Floor 1220 – It’s Time to Make America Great Again!

The 2016 Presidential Election was quite the memorable one.  Whether your candidate won or lost, one this is for sure.  Trump won, and things are going to be a little different now.  Interested?  Check out this read.  Or if you’re a Democrat, avoid it at all costs.

Floor 1229– Freaky Friday

In this one, a new epidemic has emerged.  People around the world are mysteriously transforming into babies.  Why is this happening?  What mother is going to take care of them all?  Read this, but at a distance.  You could be next.

Floor 1233 – Saying Goodbye

Farewells are so hard for me.  Especially when it’s a co-worker that I’ve worked with for so long.  Having seen him go from assistant manager to general manager, I knew the store was in good hands.  But when I heard of his planned departure, I was floored.  This read is dear to me, as this person will be missed.  Have you ever said goodbye to a co-worker before?  This read is for you.

Floor 1241 – Smart Phone and a New Computer!

Well, it finally happened.  I never thought that I would see this day, but it just happened.  I got a smartphone, and to make things even better, I got my new laptop on the same day.  This read pretty much covers these things and my excitement about them.  Christmas is here early.  Unwrap this read and enjoy it.

Floor 1243– They Grow Up So Fast

Who am I talking about?  In this one, the Baby Epidemic is finally brought under control.  How was this resolved?  Read it and find out.

Floor 1256 – The Mission Begins Tonight…

In this one, I talk about my excitement in seeing Rouge One: A Star Wars Story.  Are you ready for the mission?  Here are your orders.  Read this entry.  That is all.

Floor 1286 – Sweet Saturday

While my Saturday may have been sweet, the war going on in the sky wasn’t.  War ships from all over the universe were zeroing in on earth with one goal:  Obtain my One Privilege at all costs.  Do they succeed?  Is there any bloodshed?  Read on.  This might get dangerous.

Floor 1287 – Making the Switch

Have I succeeded in making a light switch?  Don’t be silly.  No.  What I am referring to in this one is my latest acquisition.  I pre-ordered a Nintendo Switch: Nintendo’s newest console.  Will you make the switch?  Good luck finding one, but read this anyway.

Floor 1291 – Frithursday

Have you ever had a work week end on a Thursday?  That explains the title.  Furthermore, this is the finale of the Time Lady Muse saga.  It’s a wonderful conclusion to a wonderful tribute.  Read, and see how it all ends.

Floor 1292 – President Donald Trump

Like it or not, we have a new president in office.  If you’re put off by the title, just remember how others felt and how you felt eight years ago.  To be straightforward, I pretty much share my excitement for the president-elect being sworn in as president.  If this doesn’t pique your interest, the protesters are over there.  But if you are interested, it’s definitely worth reading.  It’s the culmination of one of the most historic elections in history.  Let’s make America great again.

Floor 1295 – Slow Monday

Wait a second!  She’s back?  Yes she is.  In this one, the unexpected happens.  Who came back?  Why am I so excited about this?  Read this one, and all will be revealed.

Wow!  It looks like I had lot more favorites than what I thought.   I included a little less than last time!  Maybe I should’ve narrowed the list.  But it’s too late now.  Onward to the 1300th floor…

My Muse, having heard the whole conversation, grinned.

“It’s amazing how much you know about those floors!” she told me.  “Especially since you haven’t even visited them…”

“Oh, I don’t need to…” I told her.  “I lived them!”

To that, she responded with a satisfied nod, and I proceeded to the elevators.  I then pressed the up button a few times.  Where are the elevators?  With this many, I would think that at least one would be ready for me! A few seconds later, I entered the first elevator door that opened.  It just happened to be the one next to me.

I entered the elevator and pressed the 1300 button.  Moments later, the doors closed.

Several moments passed.  At this point, Kyle decided to be a little more unoriginal and once again reused some material from the previous milestone entry.  Perhaps he’ll make it a little different so that they’ll never notice.  Just enough changes to throw off the audience.  How lazy of him!  Can’t he get his brain thinking of any more original ideas?  But Kyle would have none of that.  He is just as determined to bring this thirteenth milestone post to an abrupt end.  The good old recycled zinger.  They’ll never notice!  Unless the narrator reminds them…

Finally, moments later, the elevator arrived at the 1300th floor.

A little like the 1200th floor before it,  this floor was an enormous room, lavishly decorated.  A desk sat in one corner and a king-sized bed sat in the other, which was one fourth the size of the bed that was in Entry 1000.  Pretty much the same room as the 1200th story, 1100th story, 9ooth story, the 800th story, the 700th story, the 600th story, the 500th story, the 400th story, the 300th story, the 200th story, and the 100th story before it, only the room was the same size as the 1200th story, 1100th story, 900th story, 800th story, 700th story, 600th story, 500th story, 400th story, and 300th story and the bed was light blue.

Oh!  We agreed not to meddle with the following paragraph!  As much as we want to, we can’t.  It just wouldn’t be right…

And on the bed laid my Muse.  She was in time lady form and…I felt for a pulse.  Two hearts.  Yup.  She’s still a Gallifreyan…There was a note attached to her. It didn’t surprise me that she was sleeping, considering that creating this tower probably took so much out of her.  Now I’m going to guess that the note will mention that the computer in this room will have this entry already typed.  That even includes the later parts that you haven’t seen yet!  Am I right?  And this further adds to the redundancies that exist in this post already!

Attached to her hand was a note.  And this is what it said:

To my master,

I made this tower for you and me.  This is to honor your hard work and dedication for another 100 days of hardship, bringing the total up to 1300.  Thank you for your dedication to keeping this project going daily.  If you look at your computer, the last entry is already written.  I am still forever grateful to your kindness, your dedication to saving me and your gratitude.

Love,

Your Muse

I then looked next to the bed and noticed a directory which was much like the 1200th floor, the 1100th floor, the 1000th floor, the 900th floor, the 800th floor, the 700th floor, the 600th floor, the 500th floor, the 400th floor, the 300th floor, the 200th floor, and the 100th floor before it.  However, this was the directory for the Tower of Muses, only it covered only the next 100 floors.  I looked at the directory.

The Tower of Muses – Directory – Floors 1201-1300

Floor 1201 – Muse Who?  Floor 1202 – Singles Gathering  Floor 1203 – Speech Contest Planning…  Floor 1204 – Friend Visit?  Floor 1205 – Green Haircut and Open House  Floor 1206 – Ideas and Speech Contest Planning Floor 1207 – Busy Day is Busy…  Floor 1208 – E Division Contest Eve  Floor 1209 – E Division Speech Contest and then rest… Floor 1210 – Restful Sunday  Floor 1211 – Trick or Treat?!!  Floor 1212 – Leftover Candy  Floor 1213 – Bread, Ideas, and Toastmasters  Floor 1214 – Pepperoni & Jalapeno Pepperoni Stuffed Crust Deep Dish  Floor 1215 – The November Respite Begins…  Floor 1216 – Falling Back – Part I  Floor 1217 – Falling Back – Part II Floor 1218 – Election Eve  Floor 1219 – Election Day  Floor 1220 – It’s Time to Make America Great Again!!!  Floor 1221 – Celebration Night  Floor 1222 – Give Humor a Chance!  Floor 1223 – Greetings From Midland!  Floor 1224 – The Fall Conference Recap…  Floor 1225 – NESday Aftermath…  Floor 1226 – Toastmasters District 62 Fall Conference Aftermath  Floor 1227 – A Different Wednesday  Floor 1228 – A Head Start…  Floor 1229 – Freaky Friday  Floor 1230 – Snowy SaturNESday  Floor 1231 – Sunday Shopping  Floor 1232 – NovemBRRR…  Floor 1233 – Saying Goodbye  Floor 1234 – Thanksgiving Eve  Floor 1235 – Happy Thanksgiving!  Floor 1236 – Shop Till You Drop  Floor 1237 – Making a List and Checking it Twice  Floor 1238 – Sleepy Sunday  Floor 1239 – Click Till You Drop  Floor 1240 – A Couple Big Updates…  Floor 1241 – Smart Phone & A New Computer!  Floor 1242 – Wrapping Things Up  Floor 1243 – They Grow Up So Fast  Floor 1244 – O Christmas Tree  Floor 1245 – Good Night…  Floor 1246 – Another NESday…  Floor 1247 – Hot Water Problem  Floor 1248 – A Good Start  Floor 1249 – Forget the Hot Water…  Floor 1250 – More Footage and a Possible Friend Visit…  Floor 1251 – To NES or Not to NES?  Floor 1252 – Tired…  Floor 1253 – Monday Snow Day  Floor 1254 – Tuesday Dough Day  Floor 1255 – Millennials vs. Gen X ends tonight!  Floor 1256 – The Mission Begins Tonight…  Floor 1257 – Jedi Hangover  Floor 1258 – Playlist is Done!  Floor 1259 – And Now the Bedding…  Floor 1260 – Twas the NES Before Christmas…  Floor 1261 – Christmas Toast  Floor 1262 – I’m All About That List…  Floor 1263 – The True Meaning of Christmas  Floor 1264 – All Aboard!  Floor 1265 – Twas the Day Before Christmas…  Floor 1266 – Merry Christmas!  Floor 1267 – Christmas Aftermath  Floor 1268 – The Mission Continues…  Floor 1269 – End of Year Checklist…  Floor 1270 – Christmas: Part II  Floor 1271 – Closing Up the Year  Floor 1272 – Happy New Year!  Floor 1273 – Starting off sick  Floor 1274 – Ketchup NESday  Floor 1275 – Hold the Mustard…  Floor 1276 – Here Comes the Pain…  Floor 1277 – Rough Day…  Floor 1278 – And Now the Weekend…  Floor 1279 – A Different Kind of NES…  Floor 1280 – Sunday Sushi Floor 1281 – Monday Meeting  Floor 1282 – Tuesday Terrain  Floor 1283 – Woeful Wednesday  Floor 1284 – Treacherous Thursday  Floor 1285 – Fun Friday  Floor 1286 – Sweet Saturday   Floor 1287 – Making the Switch  Floor 1288 – Growing Pains  Floor 1289 – Icy and Wet  Floor 1290 – Wet Wednesday  Floor 1291 – Frithursday  Floor 1292 – President Donald Trump  Floor 1293 – Friday a Day Late  Floor 1294 – Time for Fun  Floor 1295 – Slow Monday  Floor 1296 – Two Jobs  Floor 1297 – More Job Hunting…  Floor 1298 – Thursday Thunder  Floor 1299 – Friday Fireworks  Floor 1300 – Tower of Muses: The Thirteenth Ascent

The high today is going to be 33 degrees and the silver lining is having this 1300th post made.

To all of you who have ever completed a major milestone, I hope that you all have a fantastic day.

Just like entry 1200, she’s right!  The entire entry is typed!  And there’s that message at the end!  Aw…How cute.  I don’t understand how a narrator got into my post.  Oh well…

Now I’ll…What’s going on?  Just like before!  It’s happening once again!  On the bed!  My Muse is flashing…

Once again, we have arrived at another milestone.   A mandatory and objective milestone that will unfortunately and undoubtedly beyond certainty include an nearly identical post from Day 1100.  I don’t know about you, but with it being just 11 days before Halloween, the LAST thing I want to to is spend the next 3-5 hours constructing a profoundly monumental and redundant display of my writing prowess.

I am sure that you are all aware of how things will transpire.  (Another exciting redundancy as usual, but it’s still me from last time!  The very same me from the 1100th entry!  You don’t believe me, do you?  Well, go back and read the 1100th entry and then go and tell me who’s lying.  And while we’re on redundancies, how much longer is he going to recycle this piece of rubbish?  I’m all about saving the environment, but recycling this for the tenth time in a row?  My, what a milestone!  I do need to applaud for your originality…if you had any!  This is getting ridiculous!  There hasn’t been anything original since entry 1000!  Oh well.  I need to acknowledge his busy life, as I am quite busy myself, re-narrating this over-narrated narration… For now, we will continue with this cheaply contrived recycled piece of milestone rubbish, rife with wit, dry humor, satire and sarcasm. Smashing!  I don’t think that I will change a thing!  Although I did change “1100th” to “1200th” and “ninth” to “tenth” but now we’re just nit-picking, aren’t we? And while we’re at it,  why don’t we recycle almost everything in this entire post?  Wait!  What I just included was new!  So much for sticking to my plan…*sigh*)  I will leave an introspective entry and then shift my point of view to first person. (Blah blah blah.  Redundant again!  REDUNDANCY WARNING! How many more times are you going to recycle this?  Wait!  I’ve said that already!  Well it’s a good thing that I have included that redundancy warning!  Otherwise, you would not have been forewarned of said redundancies. What?  Did you really think that I was going to forget about it?  I remembered!  Go me!  I rock!)  I would then provide a predictable reaction from my Muse’s intended absence.

Speaking of absences, it just occurred to me.  My Muse is a baby.  How is she going to construct a Tower of Muses by herself?  (Easy!  Just look at the title of the post!  Oh!  You haven’t read it yet?  That’s right!  You’re in the story so you can’t read it yet…Anyway, back to the action…)  Will there even be a Tower of Muses?  I don’t know if there will be…

In a sheer attempt at humor, I redundantly acknowledge the composition of this entry.  How I talk about this being another milestone, and that this is just a slightly cheap reconstruction of an entry made 100 days ago.  (Not quite.  I added some other information regarding the Muse being a baby and included a note to the reader to  reread the 1100th entry which would provide a basis of proof that I am the same narrator that narrated 100 days ago.)  How original!  You would have to be exhausted to pull off something like that! How I am aware of how things will transpire.  How I would leave an introspective…wait!  This is getting too redundant, and is on the brink of being extremely absurd and ridiculous.  Is it too late to start over?  (Genius!  Considering that you already typed the first three paragraphs, I would just delete them.  Just be sure to save my interjections.  They’re pure gold, I tell you!  Nevermind…You kept them…) With that, we will press on.

Blah blah blah…Long profound…wait!  This is redundant!  Wasn’t this mentioned in day 1100?  We know what happens next already.  The overdone exposition about the Muse and why she is not here (Well, she’s a baby so her parents are probably taking care of her…) and approaching the tower, if there is one this time (Yes!  There WILL be a tower, and it is different from the one that you saw in Day 1100.  It always is!  It’s different every 100 posts!). Let’s avoid the redundancy about being redundant, shall we?

But, breaking away from the overly astute sarcastic narrations that get more and more repetitive and redundant with the passing of each 100th post, I notice that this tower is… different.  On the other hand, it just might not be there.  The only tower that my Muse can construct right now would be made of building blocks.  If there is a tower, the tower is a little bit taller (About 100 stories taller, to be exact!  My are we smart!), but just to be sure.  We will have a look inside and see…

Time to recycle some text from my previous entry, with some subtle edits to make it resemble something slightly different, with the attempt of sounding original and new, since these milestone posts would be boring without that.  (I’m all for originality!  Let’s be brave!  Let’s make something slightly different so that no one will ever notice!)

After standing there for a while, I finally entered through the door.  Sure enough, the same field was there.  (We should really change the scenery a little bit.  Maybe in a later one, perhaps?  But this is entry 1200!  Maybe we should change it soon…)  I was surrounded by the same lush greenery as before, only the greenery was covered in leaves.  (The greenery was so green that Kyle was overjoyed with ecstasy from the overwhelming greenness.)  Clovers and wildflowers.  Yellow, orange, and red leaves.  A sea of color. Nothing was different from what I experienced 100 days ago.  (Except for everything else in this entry that I changed so far.  My, am I on a roll today!)

The colorful luminescent sea led to a…rather tall structure that sat far in the distance?  Wait!  Who constructed the tower?  My Muse could not have done it all by herself!  (Don’t worry about who built it!  That will be explained soon!  Trust me…)  I’m sure that someone did it.  Anyway…A tall structure that looked even taller than before.  Again, this was getting too predictable, having already experienced this before.  And quite redundant.  Every 100 entries, the tower’s a little bigger.  We get it.

The tower looked like a colorful office building – for kids.  Babies in particular.  The soft pinks and other colors ran up and down the crayon-adorned structure.  The lego-studded glass had a pink tint to it.  (Oh my!  The designer had a lot of help with this!  What baby could design this giant toy tower without help?)

“A colorful office building,” I said to myself.  “Did somebody help my Muse build this?  How cute!”

Let’s cut to the chase, and find out if this tower really is different.

I got attention of the same receptionist who sat there, typing 100 days back.

“So, is this the same Tower of Muses as before?” I asked her, just to make sure.  (Oh, come on!  You ask her that every single time!  Shouldn’t you know the answer already?)

My Muse shook her head again and smiled.  “No, silly!  This tower is a little different.  And there’s a teleporter thingy that will take you to the 1101st floor!”

I nodded, with a slight grin on my face.  And this was mainly due to the deja vu.  “And this floor is still…”

“Floor 1,” she recited.  “ExperiMENTAL.  Tee hee…”

And of course the Dark Muse, which was then a bad idea, was just beginning to affect my Muse at this time… (*sigh*) ”Thank you,” I told her, proceeding forward to the mysterious portal that sat past the white service desk just before the elevators.

Upon entering the portal, she was right.  I entered a new room, which resembled a different lobby.  But this lobby had no exit, since this was the 1101st floor.

Approaching a colorful service desk, I saw…a clone of myself sitting there?  Oh!  That’s right!  My Muse was a baby!  Still dealing with the weirdness, I noticed that he wasn’t typing.  In fact, he looked up right after I got to this floor.  It was only a split second that I saw him typing…

“Welcome, Kyle.” he announced.  “You are on the “One Man and a Baby” floor.  This floor is not one of my favorites, since I have to take care of my Muse for the next 99 days!”

I cleverly smiled at my clone.  “So, there’s no Muse secretary this time?”

My clone bashfully grinned.  “Very funny.  Would you like a Muse secretary?  I can get her.  She’s only 5 months old and still wearing diapers.”

I laughed and looked at my clone again. “Okay.  I get it!”

“Wait…” My clone quickly responded.  “I can’t get her for you.  I suddenly remembered.  She’s taking a nap right now.”

I scratched my head and frowned.  “You don’t have to take care of my Muse for 99 more days.  Eventually, you’ll get Remedy and Nurture…”

My clone nodded impatiently.  “Yeah.  I know what happens.  I’ve seen every floor.  But remember.  Time doesn’t change on any of these floors.  For me, it’s still 99 more days.  Okay?”

I nodded, and sighed.  “Is she up there?  Did she thrive?”

My clone nodded.  “Your Muse?  I don’t know if she thrived or not, but she’s definitely up there!  She’s taking her nap…”

I then looked at the elevators that were past his desk.  “I would like to go to floor 1200 now.”

At this, my clone smiled.  “Go ahead.  I’ve seen them all.  Raising her for 100 days was a whole ordeal.  There are so many bad floors that it’s just not worth it.  The newborn floors, all of the terrible two floors, and don’t get me started on her becoming all-powerful and redesigning our entire universe.  I left those floors quickly and…just get to the top.”

I advanced further to the elevators.  I then sighed, and quite deliberately broke the fourth wall.   The overly redundant redundancies have reached their limit for this post!  Would you really want me to actually pick 6 to 8 random floors and stop on them?  Sorry.  It’s not going to happen this time, either.  If you really wish to hear my discussion on the floors, you can visit any one of them by clicking on the links near the bottom of this post.  Okay.  If we don’t visit them, perhaps we should do this instead.  I will briefly recap some of my favorite floors, after I have taken a few minutes to determine what they are.

There.  After several minutes of reviewing all 99 entries, thinking and making a much needed edit over the older text,  I have my list.  It’s right here!  I have it on my lap.  Let’s see…I will put this in list form so that it will be easier for you to read.  My favorite floors are:

Floor 1102 – The Terrible Twos

This one is iconic.  What happens when my Muse becomes a two-year old terror?  Let me answer that.  Bad things happen.  This is her debut as a toddler and it doesn’t get any prettier from here.  Read this, and put the little one to bed for me, okay?   And don’t forget the diapers.

Floor 1105 – Quiet Time

If you have gotten this far, you know that I am already tired of raising my Muse.  In this one, help comes along.  The father takes the Muse child off my hands and I can now rest.  Read this and you’ll agree.  Babysitters are awesome.

Floor 1106 – NESday is Over…

With my Muse being a baby again, this gets attention of the mother, who quickly comes to her aid.  This strange story arc gets stranger.  A second lifecycle?  Rebirth?  Read it and believe it.  Intangibles can be pretty interesting from what I’m told…

Floor 1108– Ideationesday

In this one, the parents are trying to figure out my Muse’s abnormal aging patterns.  She ages like a rubber band.  Infant, toddler and newborn.  It’s randomly older or younger.  This makes clothing a major problem.  What’s an Intangible parent to do?  Fortunately, all you have to do is one thing.  Read this, and learn with them.

Floor 1112 – Another “Twos”day…

Oh no.   My Muse is two again.  And with this happening, the parents are not ready to be parents again.   Oh, and the Dark Muse is back.  Great.  Read this to me!  Tee hee!  Here we go again…

Floor 1113 – Monday Movie…

In this one, the Dark Muse has already began her destruction inside my Muse.  What could possibly go wrong?  Read this, and beware.  There are lot of “tee hee”s in this entry.  You have been warned.

Floor 1120 – August Rotation

Have you figured out the pattern of when my Muse turns two?  When you mix the Dark Muse with the Terrible Twos, you get a complete disaster.  And yeah.  The storm has just begun.  Read this, and get me the bravest babysitter you can.  May I suggest the One Privilege?  It will come in handy.  Trust me.

Floor 1124 – Greetings From Hubbard Lake!

Yup.  She’s still two and I can’t even get a vacation from her!  In spending my vacation at the lake, it is interrupted by Little Miss Sunshine.  Can I go back to the lake?  You have your parents, right?  Read this, and see how a 25 month old Intangible can be annoying.  For the best vacation, leave the kids at home with a babysitter.  Especially if they’re Muses.

Floor 1125 – Greetings From Hubbard Lake! Part Two

This one pretty much continues from yesterday, only worse.  She’s almost three and still a nightmare.  It’s my second day at the lake, and this time, she decides to pay a visit by becoming a giant and draining the entire lake.  Read this and watch the nightmare continue.  Where did she get all this power?  I guess that three-year old Muses can be just as bad.

Floor 1131 – Happy Birthday!

Do I really have to raise a baby Muse on my birthday?  Yes I do, but surprisingly, it goes better than I thought.  Read this and help yourself to the cake.  It is not a lie.

Floor 1142 – Special Toastmasters Tuesday

Wait a second!  My Muse is an adult again?  What’s going on?  I don’t know.  You better read this and find out!  Sorry.  I couldn’t resist…

Floor 1143 – I Hate Wednesdays

This could quite possibly be the shortest entry that I ever left.  This description is longer than the post itself.  Somebody call Guinness.  We have a record.  Read it…Oh.  You already did?  Okay.

Floor 1145 – Unfixable

A blatant lie, but I was having a bad week.  This day took the cake.  What can fix this day?  Nothing.  But fortunately, that day is over, and this is the record of it.  Read it.  It’s another short one.

Floor 1152 – Green Haircut Pay Day

In this one, it’s Deja Vu all over again.  Don’t know what I’m talking about?  You haven’t read the other one, have you?  My Muse is two again and she’s larger than life.  And with her getting more and more powerful, she’s harder…to…control…ugh!!!  Can I best a giant toddler?  Check out this exciting read and grab some animal crackers.  She just LOVES them!

Floor 1153 – The Countdown Begins…

Something feels off with this one, as I can’t control my Muse anymore.  And when she’s 12 months old, this can be a bad thing.  I am not a toy, but she thinks I am.  This one’s rough…for me.  Read it and see.  The ending is pretty humiliating!

Floor 1155 – Movie and a Sushi

An forgettable night of catching a flick and eating sushi and I have to babysit?  No way.  In this one, I get my clone involved.  Taking care of my Muse turns into a game of hide and seek when I can no longer care for her.  Where is that One Privilege? Does she have it?  Oh no. Read this and HIDE.  A floating toddler can be dangerous.  Especially when she’s taller than the Chrysler Building.

Floor 1161 – A Day That I Still Never Forget

My annual 9/11 entry, only a little different.  Besides that, it’s pretty much the same.  Read it, and see if you can spot the differences.

Floor 1162 – GoodNES MonNES…

With my Muse being so powerful now, things start going out of control.  Power incontinence happens and she starts growing out of control.  Will the universe be safe?  I hope so.  Read this and find out.

Floor 1163 – Baby Universe

In this one, I observe a new universe.  A universe without adults.  I was the only one left.  Don’t believe me? This actually happened.  Read, and see the horror that you missed out on.

Floor 1165 – No Toastmasters?

In this one, I begin to grasp the reality of a world made in my Muse’s image.  No adults.  And that means No Toastmasters.  This is the horrible world you missed.  Read it, and be glad that you weren’t here to experience it.  Oh, and I get some much needed help in this one.  That was quite a relief for me.

Floor 1167 – Entering My Muse

The plot thickens.  I finally enter my Muse and have a reunion with someone I haven’t seen in a while.  This is getting good.  Stop reading this description and read this entry.  It’s a really good one.  Trust me.

Floor 1170 – Back to Normal

The title is self explanatory.  In a cataclysmic explosion, everything is back to normal, and my Muse is her sweet little self…for now.  Will she be an adult in a month?  If she’s raised right, there’s a good chance that this will happen.  This is the dramatic conclusion to the Dark Baby Muse saga and is definitely worth a read or two.

Floor 1172 – Area Speech Contest

Surprisingly, why I picked this one has nothing to do with the title.  With my Muse in the midst of being toilet trained, “no” becomes her favorite word.  And you can all guess what happens from here.  So read this one, and PLEASE don’t say no.

Floor 1181 – Catch-up Day

Why this one?  It’s not so much the catching up, but taking the “exciting” tour with Nurture of all the different closets of clothes that she has for Muse.  When an Intangible baby changes its age every day, you need to be prepared.  And from what I saw here, I was really impressed.  And you will be too.  Moms and dads, take notes.  And even if you’re not a parent, have a read and check this out.

Floor 1185 – Mountain of Boxes

For once, I chose this one from the title.  There’s a good story here and you should read it.  Have you ever been in a work situation that involved profound change?  This is a learning experience that I want all of you to benefit from.  Read it and see for yourself.

Floor 1197B – Cavern of Coins II – SUCCESS!!!!

In this one, we revisit the fun little tour of Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker’s Mummy-Me Maze Forever.  What is this success all about?  Maybe you would like to read this entry.  The tour comes complete with your own headlamp and pickaxe.  It’s fun for the whole family.  Just beware of the mummies.

Wow!  It looks like I had lot more favorites than what I thought.   I included a little more than last time!  Maybe I should’ve narrowed the list.  But it’s too late now.  Onward to the 1200th floor…

My clone, having heard the whole conversation, grinned.

“You’re still here, huh?” he told me.  “It’s amazing how much you know about those floors! Especially since you haven’t even visited them…I visited all of them!”

“Oh, I don’t need to…” I told him.  “I lived them!”

To that, he responded with a satisfied nod, and I proceeded to the elevators.  I then pressed the up button a few times.  Where are the elevators?  With this many, I would think that at least one would be ready for me! A few seconds later, I entered the first elevator door that opened.  It just happened to be the one next to me.

I entered the elevator and pressed the 1200 button.  Moments later, the doors closed.

Several moments passed.  At this point, Kyle decided to be a little more unoriginal and once again reused some material from the previous milestone entry.  Perhaps he’ll make it a little different so that they’ll never notice.  Just enough changes to throw off the audience.  How lazy of him!  Can’t he get his brain thinking of any more original ideas?  But Kyle would have none of that.  He is just as determined to bring this twelfth milestone post to an abrupt end.  The good old recycled zinger.  They’ll never notice!  Unless the narrator reminds them…

Finally, moments later, the elevator arrived at the 1200th floor.  My Muse would surely be up there, but did she thrive?  This is the crucial difference between her becoming an adult and her remaining a baby forever.  Having seen her yesterday, there’s no telling.  She was brand new.  Less than a day old.  If she was up here, she would be laying on her bed, taking her nap.  Oh, I surely hope that Nurture toilet trained her…

A little like the 1100th floor before it,  this floor was an enormous room, lavishly decorated.  A desk sat in one corner and a king-sized bed with removable fencing sat in the other.  Pretty much the same room as the 1100th story, the 9ooth story, the 800th story, the 700th story, the 600th story, the 500th story, the 400th story, the 300th story, the 200th story and the 100th story before it, only the room was the same size as the 1100th story, 900th story, 800th story, 700th story, 600th story, 500th story, 400th story and 300th story and the bed was light blue.

Oh!  We agreed not to meddle with the following paragraph!  As much as we want to, we can’t.  It just wouldn’t be right…

And on the bed laid my Muse.  She was…how is she today?  My Muse is…36 months old today.  3 years old exactly.  She is 33 inches tall and she weighs 27 pounds.  The height of a 21 month old and the weight of a 2 year old.  Was she toilet trained?  I surely hope that she was…

My heart sank when I saw what was at the foot of her bed.  Right there sat an open sack of Size 5 diapers.  I’m guessing that this was gotten into today, considering how many were already used.  Did she even use the toilet today?  Did she give up?  I don’t want her to be a baby forever!  I really don’t…

Where is the note?  It’s not attached to her this time.  I’m guessing that they had to do something else, since she’s so little.  Oh.  There it is!  Next to the sack of diapers, there was a note attached to the foot of the bed.    It didn’t surprise me that she was sleeping, considering that creating this tower with the help of whoever helped her probably took so much out of her.  Now I’m going to guess that the note will mention that the computer in this room will have this entry already typed.    That even includes the later parts that you haven’t seen yet!  Am I right?  And this further adds to the redundancies that exist in this post already!

Attached to the foot of the bed was a note.  And this is what it said:

To my master,

I made this tower with my daddy for you and me.  This is to honor your hard work and dedication for another 100 days of hardship, bringing the total up to 1200.  Thank you for your dedication to keeping this project going daily.  If you look at your computer, the last entry is already written.  I am still forever grateful to your kindness, your dedication to saving me and your gratitude.  Don’t get mad at me. I tried using the potty every time that I had to go potty like a big girl.  I tried but I keep not making it!  I told mommy every time and I stopped going every time we got to the potty.  Mommy says that I’m doing a good job but I don’t think I am.  Big girls can use the potty.  Mommy says that I am a big girl because I’m trying.  I disagree with mommy.  Big girls don’t wear diapers!  Don’t be mad.  I’m still a baby.  I will try to use the potty again when I wake up from my nap.  I want to be a big girl and wear underwears like mommy.

I’m getting tired, so my daddy is going to finish this big building.  Time for nap time!

Love you lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots,

Your Muse

P.S.  What Muse said about her potty training struggle is correct.  We tried to have her use the potty every time, and she was very eager to do so.  But every time we finally got there, she had already finished going.

Remedy’s right.  After every time we got to the potty, her diaper was wet when I changed her.  She’s got the determination, but we ran out of time.  I don’t count nap times since it’s much easier to do it when she’s awake.  But that’s besides the point.  We failed.  Remedy thinks that she will be an adult anyway, but I think he’s wrong.  I’ve resigned to the fact that I will probably have to raise her forever…

And that’s where you’re wrong, my dear.  Muse only needs the idea and the desire.  She understands how to go, but her body isn’t prepared for that yet.  This will come with time, and her bladder should be strong enough as an adult.  Well, she already left the room.  Just know that your Muse has succeeded.  When have I ever been wrong?  Just let time resolve itself and we’ll see what happens tomorrow.

I’ll see you in the morning!  Thank you for helping raise Muse with us.

Remedy & Nurture

Nice note.  My Muse’s was very cute.  As for Remedy’s and Nurture’s, I don’t know which one is right.  Will she mature into an adult or remain a baby forever?  There’s no telling what’s going to happen.  Only time will tell…

I then looked next to the bed and noticed a directory which was much like the 1100th floor, the 1000th floor, the 900th floor, the 800th floor, the 700th floor, the 600th floor, the 500th floor, the 400th floor, the 300th floor, the 200th floor and 100th floor before it.  However, this was the directory for the Tower of Muses, only it covered only the next 100 floors.  I looked at the directory.

The Tower of Muses – Directory – Floors 1101-1200

Floor 1101 – One Man and a Baby  Floor 1102 – The Terrible Twos  Floor 1103 – Crunch Time  Floor 1104 – Rest Time  Floor 1105 – Quiet Time  Floor 1106 – NESday is Over…  Floor 1107 – Tuesturday  Floor 1108 – Ideationesday  Floor 1109 – Toastmasthursday  Floor 1110 – Turning up the Heat  Floor 1111 – The Heat Continues…  Floor 1112 – Another “Twos”day…  Floor 1113 – Monday Movie  Floor 1114 – And Now the Aftermath…  Floor 1115 – Brainstorm  Floor 1116 – Overdue Green Haircut  Floor 1117 – Hello Weekend!  Floor 1118 – Saturday of Solitude  Floor 1119 – More Peace  Floor 1120 – August Rotation  Floor 1121 – Time for Toastmasters  Floor 1122 – Hitting the DEC at…Home  Floor 1123 – Toastmasters Meeting and Northward Bound  Floor 1124 – Greetings From Hubbard Lake!  Floor 1125 – Greetings From Hubbard Lake!  Part Two  Floor 1126 – Back Home…  Floor 1127 – Brown Haircut; Green Haircut  Floor 1128 – GoodNES Awaits…  Floor 1129 – Hot Ideas  Floor 1130 – Birthday Eve  Floor 1131 – Happy Birthday!  Floor 1132 – Birthday Aftermath  Floor 1133 – Sunday Short  Floor 1134 – Good Night!  Floor 1135 – Cleaning Marathon  Floor 1136 – PENNIES!!!!!  Floor 1137 – BUFFALO!!!!  Floor 1138 – FRIDAY!!!!  Floor 1139 – Ice Cream Day  Floor 1140 – Sunday Brunch  Floor 1141 – Birthday Dinner: Part II  Floor 1142 – Special Toastmasters Tuesday  Floor 1143 – I Hate Wednesdays  Floor 1144 – Open Up and Say Ahh…  Floor 1145 – Unfixable  Floor 1146 – A Terrible Rain  Floor 1147 – Green Haircut SUNday  Floor 1148 – Back to the Grind  Floor 1149 – Early Start  Floor 1150 – Full of Ideas  Floor 1151 – Kind of Short  Floor 1152 – Green Haircut Pay Day  Floor 1153 – The Countdown Begins…  Floor 1154 – A Day of Leisure  Floor 1155 – Movie and a Sushi  Floor 1156 – Cereal Number  Floor 1157 – Noodle Craving  Floor 1158 – Almost there…  Floor 1159 – Yay, Friday…  Floor 1160 – Hitting the DEC in Lansing  Floor 1161 – A Day That I Still Never Forget  Floor 1162 – GoodNES MonNES…  Floor 1163 – Baby Universe  Floor 1164 – Short Idea Monologue  Floor 1165 – No Toastmasters?  Floor 1166 – Almost There…  Floor 1167 – Entering My Muse…  Floor 1168 – A Quiet Sunday  Floor 1169 – Time to Think  Floor 1170 – Back to Normal  Floor 1171 – Summer Outro  Floor 1172 – Area Speech Contest  Floor 1173 – Round Robin Green Haircut  Floor 1174 – Writing Time  Floor 1175 – A Slightly Different Sunday  Floor 1176 – A Brief Monday  Floor 1177 – TuesNESday  Floor 1178 – Why Wednesdays are Exhausting  Floor 1179 – Why Thursdays can be Pretty Much the Same…  Floor 1180 – Why Fridays Can Be So Relieving Floor 1181 – Catch-up Day  Floor 1182 – Green Haircut Delay  Floor 1183 – Manic MonNESday  Floor 1184 – Toastmasters Night  Floor 1185 – Mountain of Boxes  Floor 1186 – Mountain of Boxes – Part II   Floor 1187 – Return of the Radio  Floor 1188 – Hitting the DEC in Midland  Floor 1189 – Easy Does It  Floor 1190 – Ketchup Day  Floor 1191 – Mustard Day  Floor 1192 – Ideation Day  Floor 1193 – Thursday Quickday  Floor 1194 – Fun Friday  Floor 1195 – Let the Weekend Begin…  Floor 1196 – Cereal and Rain  Floor 1197 – More NES…  Floor 1197B – Cavern of Coins II – SUCCESS!!!!  Floor 1198 – Oil Change and More Toastmasters  Floor 1199 – Ideas, Conference Call, and Survivor  Floor 1200 – Tower of Muses: The Twelfth Ascent

The high today is going to be 57 degrees and the silver lining is having this 1200th post made.

To all of you who have ever completed a major milestone, I hope that you all have a fantastic day.

Just like entry 1100, she’s right!  The entire entry is typed!  And there’s that message at the end!  Aw…How cute.  I don’t understand how a narrator got into my post.  Oh well…

Now I’ll…What’s going on?  Just like before!  It’s happening once again!  On the bed!  My Muse is flashing…