It had been several years now since Andrew put aside his paper cutter, his laser, engraver, and garage, full of tools and possibilities, and moved on to things more “otherworldly”. Elon had failed his mission to Mars, an oversight and bathroom malfunctions between earth and mars, and the converting of urine into fresh drinking water was miscalculated. Everyone died on board. Alone now, Andrew decided to scale things up a little and begin working on a plan to colonize space. His father had once told him, “I believe that someday it will be a case that only the strongest shall survive“.
In the early days, Andrew believed that these words were literal. He went to the gym to attain the physique the any would be proud of and a strength that still lingers today. But in his later years, and with the wisdom that was gathered over time, he realized that strength was also a power of the mind, to improvise, adapt, and overcome. Andrew enjoyed being in situations that tested his grit, his ability to overcome those situation‘s that he found himself in. And after multiple failed efforts, he finally found a love (Dee) that nurtured his hunger and passion for learning. At first, it was drawing, then playing with clay, then building cute things out of wood, then as his experience, knowledge, base and understandings grew of how to work with his hands and his mind, his projects grew bigger and bigger and bigger.
He launched a successful business, making and selling, works of art that only a select few could afford, eventually. But he didn’t care about the price so much as being able to express what was inside his heart and releasing it to the world. To him it meant that someday even after his disappearance, or as his gentle, fading away into the darkness, a piece of him will continue to live on. Centuries from now someone lifting up an item or hanging it on their wall and wondering who made this? To have the ability to make someone centuries from now ask “who made this?” was payment enough for all that he strived to do in his lifetime.
Andrew moved on from his craftsmanship days, moving into an era of rocket propulsion, and the little known propulsive, power and exponential combustion abilities of the corn kernel. His wife, Dee had always said that corn must have such a hidden innate ability to do something special on this planet. She said for it to be able to travel through the human system and still come out intact, it must hold some secrets. After 10,001 experiments, Andrew finally broke the code on the elusive kernel of corn, and in the early years of experimentation, he heated his entire neighborhood on one husk of corn.
The poor we’re very grateful, although by the end of the first year, everyone was a little sick of the smell of popcorn (one side effect of heating with corn kernels) After this initial phase of rocket propulsion exploration, Andrew decided to set his sights on bigger goals. Back in 2015/17 Andrew had designed simple plans of a jet engine called the Prometheus. Just a simple sketch that he later drew and turned into a Photoshop creation, then a cardboard cut out fully diagrammatic, realistic version, and then using his laser cutter, he created a 32 inch 1/10 scale version (The Prometheus 2) of the later created system that would take Andrew and his followers to a new world.
Little did he know back then that the mechanism he had drawn into the initial plans become a corn, husking, kernel synthesis device. Crucial to be able to synthesize corn kernels into their base constituents, and through an accidental discovery of beard, oil dripping into the synthesize corn, kernel juice that the single drop caught on fire and could not be put out for eight weeks. EIGHT WEEKS! It was at this moment that Andrew realized he had stumbled upon possibly one of the greatest discoveries the human race that ever encountered. We were not meant to be eating corn, we were meant to be using it as fuel. With the passing of Elon, and his 500 crew-members, Andrew new that all of his callings, his waking up at 2:30 in the mornings to get out of his head and onto paper.
All of the concepts and ideas that were flowing through his mind was all a part of the universe’s master plan to save the human race. Andrew had created several Facebook groups over the years, initially they played with the cricket maker, and then they graduated to laser, engravers, and one by one, those crafting mothers and men that enjoyed to make all things became more and more empowered and by virtue of all of their learnings, that there was nothing that they could not overcome, nothing that they could not create and build for themselves. By this time their education had forged within them, and enter a belief and understanding that they could learn, grow and become anything they wished to be.
In 2028, Andrew took the 50 brightest minds of all of his crafting groups together, they began to form, a think tank that would overcome the world’s biggest problems. One of the biggest that had been solved early on in the journey of space exploration was the eventual cure of type one and type two diabetes. In the early days of exploration, Andrew had tried every single methodology of eating and supplementation and found several gems along the journey. Discovering which foods were golden nuggets of health, the foundational elements of a vibrant and youthful existence. He found that some foods, although could be eaten for short periods of time would cause credible inflammation and gastrointestinal issues, until the body could no longer handle things, and the body turned upon his self. These food groups were medicine, supposed to be eaten periodically to help cleanse the system, but if eaten for too long, the oxalates would build, and create more damage than they cured.
Andrew new, that parts of the souls journey was an internal quest to overcome the forbidden apples in life‘s journey. The sugar, the alcohol, the candies in the richness of treats that lay before us. He realize much later in life that these were just addictive substances that would pull us off of our mission in life. It wasn’t until 2019 that Andrew really stumbled over an incredible personal discovery that changed his life. Eventually tipping the scales in the mid 170 pound range, he discovered a foundation thrush on which to build his new physique and mental prowess. Some saw these efforts as showing off or thinking that he was expressing “his fake best life“ on social media, when possibly it was all a lie.
But what others failed to see is that all he was doing was trying to motivate others to try and live their best life. Andrew had his failings, his struggles and fears, just like everyone else, but he had learned long long ago, to not focus on the shortcomings, or hurdles that lay before him, to only feed the one wolf inside, and that helping others, even if through social media, and showing a silly post of “look what I made“ would inspire another to possibly make what was inside of them to come true. Back to the current day, Andrew put on his self designed, self created space suit, and was ready for his final long-distance journey.
This was the journey that would dwarf his single-man, journey across the United States, towing the self built mini electric powered boat that he eventually sold to the world renowned famous psychic from the New Jersey housewives. In a converted football stadium, Dee was preparing the five corn husks that it would take to power the craft, holding 5000 souls to a newly discovered planet Stones Throw from Saturn. She would hold off from adding the five drops of beard oil to the kernels just moments before takeoff. In 2020 Andrew purchased a hobby telescope from Amazon and turned his focus away from earth and into the abyss.
One evening while sipping a buttered coffee, and after years of slowing his pulse and heart rate down to record lows, he inadvertently tuned his pulse into the beats and pulsating light frequencies of a quasar, which, in the oscillation and frequency of light emitted from that portion in the sky, discovered that there was, in fact, a Hidden Planet, obscured by the waves and pulses of refracted light of nearby planets in that section of the star system. Even NASA and Elon musk had missed this hidden gem, as Andrew named it planet, “SunDee” for everything revolved around around his wife, Dee.
His one truest of loves. (how could it not) On the final weeks before departing for planet SunDee, and for old old times sake, they threw the biggest baking party the world had ever seen. Family and friends and people of all races and creeds came to make their favorite cookies as they talked about times long past and the happy experiences, and the lessons learned along the way. Recipes were exchanged, while Andrew secretly snuck off into his private room to eat the occasional steak and drink some coffee, but no one knew.
The light blue/teal colored flare of light that was the byproduct of beard oil and corn kernel juice lit up the sky as the engines began to warm up for the final countdown. This was the final selfie that Andrew took with his iPhone, 12+ and a macadamia and white chocolate chip cookie was in each one of my top pockets unbeknownst to anyone. The smell of popcorn filled the air.
So now you know…
