This was just great! Not only did I not get the computer that I needed. I got a typewriter that was so old it wasn't even a typewriter yet. It was a v...sible writer!It was in great shape and there was even an extra ribbon sitting next to it besides the new one already in the machine. I decided to give it a try so I got a piece of paper out of my desk drawer and rolled it into the old machine. I was sitting there in front of it trying to figure something to write when the phone rang. Mom called. Not that Alfonso thought Thomas could really doanything to him. Yes, Thomas was marrying one of the most powerful menin the nation, his closeness and intimacy with the Duke combined with thepower Thomas would wield on behalf of the Duke once things began tosettle would make Thomas a very powerful person in his own right. Ofcourse, being the wife his decisions would have to be approved by theDuke in order to be valid and enforced. Getting the Duke's approvalshouldn't be a problem by that. ..Half an hour or so later she'd come into the kitchen her long braid halftangled and dirty wearily asking if I'd seen her ring, as she'd suddenlyremembered she'd forgotten a small but intricate wood carving job thathad to be ready and finished by the end of the following week, but tryingto turn back into Brendan to do it she couldn't and didn't know why....MY GOD THAT'S IT..........!!!!!!It just had to be the ring I'd realised in total disbelief!!How on earth could I have possibly forgotten. Cast after cast, throwing the lure out and reeling it back it. Casting and reeling, casting and reeling. Somehow he never got bored, but I sure did. I finished off my beer and then decided to switch to red wine – I’ve never met a shiraz I didn’t like and the beer was going to make me feel bloated. At this point my shorts were off and I was enjoying the sun lying on the dog house in my bikini.“Baby, why don’t you take your bathing suit off and get rid of those tan lines?” he asked while sending.