Tomorrow morning's headline to read: "Local Boy Rushed to Hospital in Complete Dillerium".

Local Pegasuraus rider Johnny GoFast was found on death's door last night as he attempted to summit Mount Diablo. Apparently the blazing heat overcame him as he neared the Junction at the 2000 foot level of the mountain. Park Ranger Carl Nielsen, a fellow Pegasuraus teammate, was the first on the scene shortly before 6pm. "There was an unusual amount of vultures circling in one area. I was in my post looking for fires and racoons and other things that rangers do on the mountain, when I noticed the unusual avian activity. I decided I'd better take a look and was startled to find Johnny lying in the gutter muttering something about the cool waters of the Truckee river." Recently returned from the cool environs of the Sierra Nevada where GoFast actively rode his bike, boated with his family, and fished every evening on the Truckee river, it would appear that GoFast has not fully made the adaptation to the incessantly hot local weather. Nielsen is credited with saving GoFast's life as he was able to get him to the Lindsey Wildlife Museum just before closing. "Normally we work with animals that are rescued from the Open Space in Walnut Creek and from the State Park on Mt. Diablo," said Vernon Raptor of the museum. "But Carl said that Johnny is a real animal, as one would have to be to ride in this heat." According to Raptor, Johnny was given an IV to replenish his fluids and was bedded down next to a rescued bobcat where he was sleeping comfortably when we went to post. He is expected to make a full recovery. Johnny GoFast and his family request that all donations be made to him directly.

Anyway, hope you are well.

Johnny WiltFast