I am sure you have all been wondering where I have been.  Well.. after I arrived in Tucson, Arizona last Thursday, things got a bit weird immediately.  

 I thought I had stepped into a trap when I first arrived.. having already discovered a few Imperial K.A.T.S. at other Fan Force Stations around the System I was very wary of these three.. but it seems that Tiger, Shadow, and Shaak (whom I am told is actually named for a Jedi of the Republic my father served with as a Jedi Knight along with Obi Wan)are actually quite harmless and intelligent, to the point that on several occasions at night when I have been attempting to sleep Tiger has somehow managed to open my bedroom door and come into my room and on one particular night even chased Yoda onto the balcony right when he was getting ready to have me do some extra meditation sessions .. for that I must say I am a bit more grateful than perhaps I should be, after all this is a crucial time in my Jedi training and I am in need of all the meditation I can get.. but I have to confess.. it was my first night here in Tucson and my hosts were entertaining another friend who was leaving town the next morning, she was a "Poker" Player just starting a semi-professional career in what is called Texas Hold em. Quite similar to Sabaac in fact, Han would have enjoyed it for sure, in any event Cathiecat's Poker playing friend Iva did not wind up winning on this night.. so afterwards they decided to take her out to relax. We went to a local hang out. Mos Eisley had nothing on this place.. turns out in fact it has quite the reputation, it is the oldest cantina in the entire town of Tucson, Peggy, the 74 yr old lady, with the dark sunshades on,  that waited on us explained to me that the place had opened in 1934, the year after Prohibition was repealed ). This place had what one would call a lot of character and it also had what MasterJediDragonSir called, a billiard table, and MasterJediDragonSir taught me how to play what's called a game of pool on it. First we played a game of 8Ball, and then we played some very interesting looking men a different game of pool called cut throat, pool is played with a bunch of colored balls on a waist high green table and you knock them around with a white ball using a stick, the object is your trying to get the colored balls into these pockets on the corners and sides of the table.. I have a feeling Han would simply love this game.. Chewie would as well.. I am wondering if I can fashion one for us once I get back, perhaps with Wedge's help I could, I will have to see if there is some way to get Wedge a message about it and he can get started.. we'll do it as a surprise for Chewie and Han. It was very enjoyable and I am quite good at it.. In fact I would have to say that I am good enough to give a go to anyone in the Fan Force and go out again while I am here in town and play some more if anyone is up for the challenge. In any event it leads me to my next point, that Yoda felt was the need for my midnight meditation that Tiger saved me from. Playing pool made me thirsty and I asked for some water.. I guess water in the southwest is not what it is in other places..I am not quite sure what transpired after I drank the water.... I began to feel something a bit funny in my stomach.. and then a bit light headed.. then I began to feel the force move in ways that I never knew it could..I may never be able to explain it.. but after a few moments someone started screaming and the pool table started levitating and then all of the sudden Master Yoda began to beat on my head with that darn gimmer stick and then Cathiecat started hollering "ya'll.. oh my gawd... Ya'll.. somebody help him" and then MasterJediDragonSir reached for my arms, shook me gently, and said "Luke, get a hold of yourself".. Immediately of course I calmed down.. the table gently settled back to the floor and the amazing thing was pretty much immediately the whole bar went back to what it had been doing .. just like that... reminded me of the time Obi Wan cut off that guy's arm in Mos Eisley's Cantina.. So whoever it was said the Force isn't present on Earth.. they havn't been to Tucson, Arizona.. cause I levitated that pool table and after Cathiecat stopped her hollering no one even looked twice... Iva even said she just couldn't figure out why Yoda was using the gimmer stick on my head instead of Cathiecat's. Go figure....In any event.. MasterJediDragonSir thinks that I might have gotten food poisoning from the restaurant food earlier in the night, he said that sometimes happens at places when they don't keep the food the right temperature, that kind of thing never happens on Tatooine or Hoth.. that's for sure. All I know is that after that night it took a few days for the effects of the event to wear off, so you will understand why my first weekend in town I had to take it easy and no one really saw much of me around and I failed to get a chance to blog in my myspace or anything. I am making an extra long entry tonight to make up for that though. To put it mildly, I hope to never encounter anything again that does to me what that Habanero Chicken Tamale did, and I am fairly certan that Master Yoda would not take kindly to my ever ingesting it again either. So now you know the rest of that story.

Last night I met RebelMom and she offered to take a few of us to Tombstone tomorrow.  I will check back in some time on Tuesday of this week most likely. 

May the force be with you.