Monday came, and I closed on the new condo. Mom had helped pick out furniture somewhere between crappy, and overpriced.She explained that what she sel...cted was purely functional furniture that looked nice. In the future, as I found other things that I liked, or found a style that pleased me more, then I could replace it piece-by-piece, room by room, or do a total make over. After we signed the papers in the sales office, the installers, who had parked by the freight elevator, then started. Let's do some lines." I think I've got another drugs swimming through my veins."Penny handed me some Xeroxed pages. "Silly boy, I mean let's work on the play. It'll take our minds off our troubles and pain."By the time the nurse arrived with breakfast, a couple of egg sandwiches and juice for the two of us, the narcotic kicked in."I want to make love," said Penny with a wicked smile as soon as the nurse left."The nurse might object," I said."We could always invite her to join in. You wouldn't. The rest of the room faded away. Her only focus was on Mistress and “him”. She smiled knowing that she had his undivided attention. The first thing that Mistress did was to demand she remove her clothes. The only thing she could leave on was her undergarments, if she had any on. Without any protest she did as she was told and stripped, seductively, almost playfully, down to her stockings, garter and thong. She got a sharp slap on the ass from Mistress for being bold, playful, forgetting her. " Trade."We went on for some time, me scribbling down each of the things we thought were strengths."Now, what do we see as weaknesses?" We don't know when and where the Vikings or others will attack us." Not enough men." Illness, although things have improved, people still die regularly from illnesses." Skills, we don't have enough of them." Raw materials."Another few minutes and I had a lengthy list of things we considered weaknesses, more of these than strengths."Right. What about.