I can ship twelve acrylic paintings in two months, but the show after San Diego, wherever it is, won't take place until four months after Darrell's sh...w. I'm switching from acrylics to oils. Oils will give me a greater range of color depth than acrylics, something I'll need with the direction I'm taking with my art. I'll be renting a studio so I can work on a dozen paintings at the same time."Frazier nodded. "I agree. Oils would be a better medium for your style of painting." Go ahead. Find my. I swear, the only purpose of those infernal devices is to work when you don’t want calls. I looked at my watch. Just about 3 AM. Being who I am, I naturally check the weather forecast for the time of sunrise. I had about three hours. The car wasn’t like my van, now parked in a Federal parking lot in DC. That I could have climbed in and simply pulled the curtains. Here, it appeared my only option would be to crawl into the trunk and lock it. Fat chance. With my luck someone would pop it open at. Since my business was still going through the pains of infancy, I had contemplated renting out a basement room in our home for extra income. I wanted to be able to plow the profits from my business back into it, making it grow so that it would eventually provide a living for my young son and I. I knew that I was taking a small chance when I rented this room to Mark, but there was something about him that convinced me that he wasn't any threat to us.We began a routine that continues to this day,. Hell to live with in the summer. There were several rear deck houses to choose from. But only two forward wheelhouses.The iron boats were longer, wider, heavier and usually oil fired. The wheelhouse is taller, more capacious and some of the interiors were beautiful. Many of the rear deckhouses were two storied. More crew I guess."You deliver?" He had said. "Ann Arbor?" I wanted to be sure."Yep ... tomorrow. Which one?" How much?" Two thousand five hundred cash." Take a check?" What's your.