limerick

There once was a man named Michelangelo
Who's master is a decedent of Cosimo
He made David from stone as white as snow
For he is an artist
And not a fighter such as Leonidas   

photo safari about some famous Art and Buildings in florence.

  This is the Florence Cathedral also know as Basilica Of Saint Mary Of The Flower.



This is one of the Medici bank buildings


 










This is Michelangelo's stature of David, finished in 1504




















This the Plazzo Vecchio where Cosimo De Medici was held captive and waited for his execution.








 









 




This a painting in the Brancacci Chapel
The Brancacci Chapel was constructed in 1386

photo safari of my time in Ancient America

 
                              These are the weapons that I used during my trip to the ancient americas, and had that unfriendly encounter with Biko.



       
        This is a more modern but still deadly version of the war in a neighboring city of Tenochtitlan.
More of a firefight.























                         


            This is the armor I wore in the war between two clans traped in a fued for over 50 years.

peoms

Capable                                 Ready                       Many
Of                                          Opponent                  Evil
Pain                                        Bringing                    Doctors
                                              Big                            In
                                              Explosive                  Every
                                              Rockets                    Village
                                                                               And
                                                                               Loser

photo thing

             This is my police car and the funny thing is I was finally caught and brought to court in this same car.




 
                              This is my standard issue tazer that has saved my and many other people.




                                This is the angry mob that chased Biko and I around the ancient city of Florence

FLORENCE     ITALY

This is the knife wound Biko inflicted on me when I went berserk and eventually killed him.









This is what happened when Biko and I, but I would rather say Biko accepted our latest mission
an ambush!!!! with no support.

Still a cop

              After getting out of the little rumble we encountered  earlier in the renaissance we ended up in the hospital. Biko was severely injured and won't be joining any missions soon. I was also injured but still in action, unlike biko I took the time to dodge attacks. This prevented little openings for fatal wounds. Luckily Biko has no fatal wounds but if the blade were to cut an inch deeper then he'd be in serious trouble.


              After Biko gets better we're going to help protect Cosimo De Medici the second in Florence. I have a bad feeling about this mission but Biko seems to be over joyed. My bad feelings usually aren't wrong and if I'm right then we're in serious poo. Although Biko is taking things easy because he's so care free, his partner for this mission is packing anything non leathal  but will knock out an ape. These items include rubber pistol ammo, a few high powered tazers, police baton, tranquilizer pistol ammo for extreamly dangous people.


           This sould be an easy mission except for the fact that almost every bad guy or assassin within a 100 mile radious of florence is after our employer. Yep no problem there especially since I got Biko to watch my back, that is if he dosen't stab me in the back. Even though we're friends I don't trust even a little bit. When we arrived the medici cautiously welcomed ME into there home. Thats when everything wen't crazy, we got ambushed inside the house but luckily we escaped unscathed. Having Biko just recover from the last rumble and joining the next is just too careless.


       

Turning to a cop : STRANGE

      Well here I am finally in Florence and teamed up with Biko. You know he's not such a bad guy once you get to know him. Anyways we came to Florence after we heard about the major robberies. Yes, I am changing into a cop, but only because these robber guy really piss me off. I'm supposed to do the robbing I mean my name is Robber after all.

    The first shop Biko and I visited seemed OK and pretty peaceful, that is until we saw the grimy bankrupt thugs. One guy stole some bread and ran away but Biko caught up with him,  I handcuffed the thug and brought him back to the owner of the store. The next store wasn't a pretty sigh, there was a riot and we had one heck of a time trying escape the angry mob chasing us. Oh yeah I forgot to tell you I shot one guy with a taser and that's how the started chasing us, but it was only in self-defense


The mob finally caught up with us and managed to disable Biko. After Biko passed out I had to drag him into a corner so that I could defend both of us. I managed to fight off most of the low ranking thugs but when the real guys started coming in I knew I was in trouble. So I brought out the taser again, shot a couple guys and bought a few minutes. You should have saw the look on their faces, it was priceless.


Anyways, in those few minutes I got both of us out of the corner and into a barren desert. Not the best idea but         it gave me enough time to transport Biko into a modern hospital and back. I did at one point eventually have to bring out the 40 caliber hand guns. They got the crowd to back off and keep their distance but then they brought out the crossbows and guns. Of course my guns had more accuracy and distance, with 135 grain bullet and a projectile traveling 1420 feet per second.

M10

     I will now be attending a samurai school and will be using a katana.  A katana will cut strait though my old Greek sword, so I have to go to school unarmed. Dangerous job and if I die I'm taking a lot of people with me. Meaning I'll take the people who attacked me or possibly blow the whole town up. Nothing big, just a giant change in ancient history. Just kidding, I wouldn't die here or anywhere but in my house and of old age.

   First day of Samurai school, NOT fun !!!!! I had to focus on aiming my bow and shooting targets on house back. Actually the horse back bow shooting was pretty fun. Then i had to fight some guy with no weapons, and guess what. I won but lost at the same time, here's how it happened I beat up the guy pretty good but not the right way. You see, I was just slugging the guy in the face when I was supposed to be using his energy or force or something like that against him. So first day at new school was not so good, but hey at least I made a new friend.

   Uh-oh I just got promoted to a higher class and will be getting more advanced lessons. This is not good because I will probably fail. I don't get enough sleep these days and really want to go home, but I can't because I promised I would come here and tell my wife about the samurai era. On the other hand the food here is great, even though I really only eat the sushi.

M9 Japan!!!

    Im going to be traveling to japan disguised as an aristocrat. I have already made sure that I have a nice simple home to live. Nothing big or glamorous like a castle or a mansion, because I might get used to being all high and mighty. One things for sure, if I get high and mighty here I probably won't go back to the present time.

    Yesterday I wen't to the market and bought some sea food, and had a big fight that I obviously won. Well I didn't kill the man I just dodged all  of his attacks, and after a while he killed himself for not being able to kill the new guy in town. I came back home to a  find a large group of aristocrats waiting at my door. I greeted them and let them all inside, there we talked about the wonderful painting that I drew, and about how awful the market place has become.

     Then it hit me, I should disguise myself as a samurai serving under myself. Then I could take out the evil doers and not get in too much trouble. That is if I don't get caught or killed in a one on one battle with another samurai. Ok, here is my first night out sneaking around town catching evil doers..........  Yes !!! I just caught my first bad guy. The bad guy is, what the ??????!!!!!!!  Surprise here it's one of the aristocrats. Why would he be stealing, I mean this guy is rich, he could get whatever he wanted.

 
 Wait a minute this guy is no aristocrat he is a peasant dressed as an aristocrat. I should be a cop or an investor gator but that's no fun.  

m8 WAR!!

 I am going to WAR again finally some action for once. I'll get to use an obsidian studded club thing called a Macuahuitl. Some other weapons such as the Tepoztopilli or a spear with an obsidian tip and the Tecpatl or knife. I've got Ichcahuipilli a cotton woven vest like thing dipped in salt water then dried to let the salt crystallise inside the vest. Now this my first major war and I'm not used to the weapons here yet so I'm probably going to stay near the middle. Just to avoid some fatal injuries and I don't want that. Especially since my wound from those cheetahs hasn't completely help yet.

Oh yeah I also brought old chuck here with me. Who after all this time he'd still be trying to catch me for those bank robberies. So this mean we might start that whole operation butter cups again. If only we had seth with us we could do operation butter cups without fail. But seth is a snake thing so he'd probably get all of us sacrificed to the gods. Man, just like the good old days. Sort of since there were three of us and now there are only two of us. Just for the time being, we still got seth on our side, I think.

Uh oh my plan to be in the middle failed because were fighting a flower war. Meaning I get to fight with the less experienced warriors and it seems I'm the best in my group. You know the worst part is that I don't know anything about Aztec warfare. Just hope my group doesn't get slaughtered on become sacrifices. Yes Chuck got moved to my class so that means we have a pretty good chance at not getting slaughtered. Unless Chuck here draws the wimpy card again like in Rome. I'm being weighed down with my scars so I might not be able to get to him in time.

Oh my there's so much blood, and my Macuahuitl is losing all of it's obsidian pieces. My spear lost it tip a long time ago and now I'm down to my  Tecpatl. Which means close quarter combat and you all know that's my specialty. Looks like my opponents are going lose their life today. Ha ha ha. I haven't fought like this since I was in Greece and this is more fun. More fun because if you do get all cut up like me for example some obsidian might get stuck in you. And guess what, chuck did draw a wimpy card and now I have to go save his butt... Again.

Only chuck and I are going back because we're the only ones alive.
Oh yeah and some grimy prisoners , to bad for them. They have to die and on this nice day with the radiant sun beaming down upon us too. Now we must consolidate the priests and see what ranks we get to be in since we or I defeated the enemy  and brought back prisoners. Ok chuck you did help with with guarding the prisoners. Not much in fighting though but still enough to be in the high military ranks, I think we are. But hey Rome wasn't built in a day so if we can stay alive long enough we could be famous. No, I'm not that kind of guy but maybe chuck is. Hmm? Maybe so but hey who am I to judge him. Til next time guys.

M7 Safari

 Finally vacation time, well sort of a vacation. I'm going on a safari in Nigeria but also taking notes about the wild life for my wife. Only because my wife is afraid of lions and other predators. I think she shouldn't be afraid because  I am an expert warrior trained the deadly arts, wouldn't you trust me on this? Never mind lets get back to the safari. Boy,am I excited to see my favorite animal the cheetah, but I still have to be very careful. Especially since I'm not traveling in an armored car or have modern day fire arms.

And because there are MUCH  MORE animals in the ancient world. Speaking of which how am I going to get around the great plains or savannas, hmm... probably by sneaking around with my awesome sword. Not to mention trying to not get caught because I have a STEEL sword. Not iron or bronze because I think steel is more effective than bronze. I mean bronze will bend when it hits something really hard like bone. Just saying I don't want to be caught by some lions with a weak sword.

Now we all know how dangerous that is, only an idiot would do that. Hmmmm.... or not because then it would cost more to get the really good sword and you probably won't even need it. So I conclude that the idiot is the smart one, and the smart one that's not so very smart is the idiot. Too confusing? Well too bad for you ! And if you do get it awesome!! Uh oh while I was writing to you I got surrounded by some, um cheetahs. I can't hurt the cheetahs but if I don't hurt or possibly kill some of them I can't escape.

I think it's time to break out the sword, sorry cheetahs but you want to eat me and I don't want to be eaten so..... Ahhh!!! ouch!!!!!!!!!!! I HATE cheetahs now their bite hurts a 100 times more than those pesky lions in Rome. Or maybe it just hurts more because I don't have armor on. Oh well, all you need to know is that it hurts like uhhhh...... stab yourself fifty times in the arm and you'll know.

Man, for once I'm glad to go home early. Mainly because of my wound on my arm and because I don't want to get an infection. I'm not saying there isn't good medicine here, by the way the medicine here dominates quite a few pain killers we have in the present day. I wonder why? Anyways I can't wait to go to the ancient Americas next, then I can tell you all my anecdotes.

M6

I'm traveling to Nigeria to examine what the people there do, eat, and play.So far It seems the people here mine for gold or iron to trade. Uh-oh looks like another fight and this time I actually get a weapon. But it's uh a spear and I am NOT a big fan of this weapon. I have used a spear before and I think it's too long. But that's just me because I'm much better with a sword or bow then a spear.

The battle has just begun and our side has already lost roughly about half our men. I can already tell this is not going to end well. I was right !! Our side lost and now all of the survivors are being taken to be sold into slavery or get executed.Or I could  could break everyone out and take over the enemy  camp. Yeah I like that idea, breaking out, possibly getting myself killed, and what for. FREEDOM!!! Or DEATH!! either one works.

Ahhhh!!!! Ouch!!!!!!  I just got stabbed !! can you believe it!! That's never happened to me before. Ok maybe once or twice but only because I wasn't looking and this time the guy ran right up to me. And guess whaaat  he stabbed me. Oh well I speared him in the face and that pretty much scarred all the other guys off. Freeing me and the people of Nigeria.


 OH MAN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There's another battle going on in a neighboring town. Now this one I'm going to sit out on and that's not what I usually do. But all these years of fighting have been catching up with me. So I think I'll be laying low for a while. That's only if I manage to scurry out of site from buffoon friends who like to compare their adventures with mine.




Well It looks like I'll be going away from Nigeria for a while"MAN IS THERE TOO MUCH FIGHTING OVER HERE". It's going to be a long quite life in PRESENT day Europe with my wife and new pet dog. Or if I can't escape from my friends I'll end up on another adventure. But he more news for you guys, see you next time....Maybe.