Our conversation turned to what we all liked to read. "I've been following Cussler since his first best seller, which was "Raise the Titanic"," I told...them. "I have all his books and even a few of them have been autographed. "I also read Barry Eisler, a little Grisham, Ben Bova, and Steve Alten, to name a few. I love anything dealing with Star Trek and, when I have time and am in the mood, I also do some cross stitching." That got a look from LuAnn. "You do cross stitch?" she asked. "Since I. That's what we do, right?" Right," she said quietly to herself. She nodded, wiped her nose on the rough cotton sleeve of her tunic and fell backwards on the bed. After a minute she touched the ITE and got an immediate response from Io."Io," Arti said, "give me a rundown on this mission ... Again ... Please?"Starting with the outing tomorrow, Io gave her all the details she had. I listened to the start and recognized the briefing – I'd heard it more than ten times already. I touched the ITE and. When these fail they indicate definitively there was some hardware tampering at some level. My last analysis resulted in a customer who found that holding certain buttons, after a specific reel sequence came up, caused the machine to ignore the payout percentage to trigger a jackpot. Given the specific reel sequence only began to appear when the machine counters would allow it to pay a jackpot, only the perpetrator getting greedy caused it to be found. No one has the luck to always hit the. Trying to avoid the matter of the non-existent girl I'd rather be going out with I replied, "As long as I can go out with you, why should I look elsewhere."Mother looked at me quizzically her head tilted slightly to one side, and then simply said, "Oh." She continued to look at me for a few moments as if trying to determine what I was really thinking, and then kissing me on the cheek she said, "Well, goodnight then."That seemed to end the matter, and certainly she never questioned me again.