He looked good! And I think he got tallersince I last saw him. He was wearing a black sport coat, open collarwhite shirt, dark jeans, and dress shoe.... I was just in a dressy t-shirt, jeans, and white Chuck Taylors, so I felt a little under-dressed.Nate held the door as he greeted me and followed me in. He chose a tableoff to the right were we would not be disturbed. The waitress came overand greeted us, asking what we?d like. Before I could respond, Nate saidhe?d have the local stout and. "Astrid nods pitifully."I know you are going to make your Mistress proud and really, really havea great week."Astrid nods even more enthusiastically."Thank you Jezebel, your mother has certainly molded you into a finesissy. You should be very thankful for her instruction and herdiscipline; and thank you for your words of support for this, this - ohI'll be kind, this challenge." Thank you Mistress, I am very lucky to have my mother."I'll just make sure Astrid gets on the bus, but first,. The DOD has a tremendous job ahead of it now.”“I think that is about all the time we have. Any of you gentleman and ladies have a closing statement?”When no one did the VIPs scattered.I saw Hanna was off to the side giving a report to her station for the noon day report; I stepped off the patio to go speak to her. Four Secret Service agents followed me. She was just finishing up.“Hey girlfriend, did you hear we bought the radio station we talked about?” I asked.“No, are you still going the play. Just enough time for two more drinks in the small bar and more chat. There were 5 of us but we met other people we knew there. Iooking around I would say the audience was middle-aged but as I looked around I spotted a blonde woman around 50 I would say, attractive about 5 foot 6 white shirt with black leather jacket, she was with 2 or 3 men of similar age but she gave me a look which lingered a little and she went back to her conversation. Over the next 5 minutes I looked around the room a.