Cat Tuesday: Mike the Mysterious Travels

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Mike the Adventurer

As you all know, Mike wants to be a writer. This week he's narrowed the field down a bit and wants to try his hand as a journalist. He also told me he wants to travel. He wants excitement in his life…(sorry, Mike, I know it is rather dull around here at times).

Last night, Mike broke into my mind, in that mysterious way he has, his golden eyes flashing in the lamplight, "I've decided to expand my horizons and travel. I want to meet new friends and have faraway adventures."

I was aghast at his request. "Mike," I said, rather haughtily, "You can't go anywhere. You're just a fluffhead like the rest of the stuffed animals Gretchen puts up with. You're legs don't really work and everything you do is done through mind tricks. Besides, where on earth would you go? How would you get there? I'm not putting you in a box and mailing you. Why, you'd get crushed or worse yet, lost, forever. I couldn't take that. What were you thinking?"

Mike glowered at me through narrow slits, his golden eyes barely visible. He transmitted wave after wave of thoughts, coming so fast that I had to put my hands over my ears. "Stop!" I demanded. "Enough. We'll give it a try. I'll ask Gretchen to find out if any of her friends wants you to come to their house for a week."

Well, I told Gretchen what Mike had in mind and she agreed to write to her best friend, a kind of sister-friend, or internet cousin, if you will, and ask her if she would like Mike to teleport over to her house for a week. She lives in East Tennessee and has a house full of feline companions. She wrote Gretchen back and said it would be fun to have Mike come for a visit. She also agreed that teleporting was a better way of transportation for a fluffhead these days.

So it was decided. I told Mike the plan. He got so excited he started rattling off a list of things for me to write down. His mind was racing and it was giving me a headache trying to keep up with his thoughts so I just put him in front of the computer and let him do his own typing.

"Mike, here," he wrote. "I'd like to introduce myself to all of Catdom. I'm Mike the Mysterious looking for adventure and stories. I've written up an itinerary for when I come to visit. First of all, I'm very easy to take care of. I am mysterious, you know, and I can hear, and see and think, and do just about anything I have a mind to. I speak to the feline species and other fluffheads and, on occasion, to extra sensory enhanced humans. I don't need food, and since I don't eat or drink, I don't need the use of a little box. I need no special place to sleep and I carry no luggage. Well, there is one thing I might come with, my little blue blanket, if I can figure out away to bring it along through cyberspace...hmm, I wonder if traveling through cyberspace is gonna hurt. I'll have to report on that after I've traveled through the cable lines. If it's anything like traveling through a wormhole, like they do on the TV show, Stargate, I think that'd be way cool.

"My best friend, Gretchen, has arranged for me to visit the Ballicai first. That's the home of Marilyn MonREOW, Chairman Mao, Brainball, Dorydoo and her really cool humans… I think their called beans in blogging language. I've seen their pictures and read their blogs so I'm really excited about visiting them.

"If that goes well and my little idea works, I'll have my secretary/human take care of scheduling my appointments for my next adventure. Thank you all and I look forward to visiting you soon."

Mike wrote out his interview sheet. He's got a ton of questions for his host. He hopes that his host family will also let him say a word or two on their blogs when he gets there. Like letting Gretchen and me know that he arrived safely and when he will be teleporting home. He has hopes that he will come back home full of anecdotes for me to write stories about. He will come and go through Gretchen's portal. So, the next time you hear from Mike the Mysterious on Scrungy and Friends, he will be giving his account of what life was like in East Tennessee.

Look out cyber world, there's a fluffhead on the prowl. He's intelligent, reads minds, and is sometimes very tricky.