Say, Tom said he’d pick me up at Parkside after my class observation tomorrow. I’m riding there with someone else and Tom said he’d wait in the ...taff lot for me and then we’re meeting with the Polytech group on our study project. You’ve got practice again later, right? So do I, so see ya later, okay?”“Wait!” Cynthia called. “Text from Tom. He says there’s some incredible TV news report about the Program—a major blowup happened!”“Cyn—we’re near the Comm Arts Building—let’s get over there and. Tag was not interested in other sports, so he was finished with that sort of thing for the rest of his high school career. Jane found that she just could not go outside to wait for Tag when the time came that Upson was able to post bail. She waited for him in the school office so that they walked out of the school together to his car. By the way, he now had his red Cadillac back.Jane heard nothing from Upson, and he had returned to his job at the gasoline station. Nevertheless, she was fearful. Rock music had been overlayed on that foundation and he'd taught himself the blues style - a natural extension of seventies rock. He could do folk, flamenco and, at a pinch, Country and Western, and could make a living from session work - if that work was available in quantity.Mick needed to work at something. For the past two years he'd thrown himself into shaping and guiding The Curse, playing the music and touring, and enforced idleness was unnatural. He'd been living fast and hard and the. He poured warm water into the chicken house water bowls so they could drink before it iced over again. The chicken run lay littered with bowl-shaped blocks of ice.Other winter chores included splitting massive firewood blocks to useable size for both house stoves. They'd cut wood from fallen or standing dead trees upriver along abandoned logging roads. Sometimes a block would hold a huge knot. Graydon would swing a sledge hammer to drive a splitting wedge down through the knot until it would.