There were some items I need Patti to do research on.I e-mailed Jake with a request that he call me. I wanted a general idea of what I should be looki...g for in a construction auditor. I also had a very personal question I need to talk to him about. On that topic I spent some time doing research. I found a facility not far from where Jake lived in Japan that could do what I wanted if Jake agreed and it was well received on this end. Jenny and I had already had a general discussion. I was pretty. If you had a contribution to the plan or an idea to offer, he would listen. Although maybe that was just me never knowing when to shut up and let the people in charge run things. I had been sort of mouthy before my transformation. Afterwards, the knowledge that I could pound anyone in the room into sand loosened my tongue even more.The other implication in leaving things in the hands of the people 'on the ground', 'in the field' or however you want to describe it, was the assumption that the. We all waved bye as Sherri and Coco looked out from the back of the car. Sherri was waving his little paw to us as they drove away.John turned to Cathy and I as he said, “Damn shame we don’t have a hot tub,” smiling at us.“Yeah like at Carrie’s Place,” Cathy replied.I was not for sure what Cathy had said so I asked, “What did you say?”The smile from John’s face disappeared as he looked to Cathy then to me. Like at Larry’s place Cathy answered smiling to John. I was not sure but I believed they. She stepped out of the tub and only then did she pick up the towel and begin to dry off.She smiled at me then. "Which one are you? Are you the one who's banging the cheerleader or are you the one who is flunking out?" I didn't know how she knew so much about us, but it amazed me that she seemed to lack any self-consciousness about me standing there watching her dry off her naked body. She flipped the towel between her legs, caught it behind her with ease, and sawed it roughly (it seemed to me).