For nine of those years I worked in the Middle East Oilfields and flew back and forth to work through Amsterdam. I always spent at least two or three ...ays, and often as much as a week at a time, there, both going to work and coming home from leave. I also spent several entire leaves there, thirty days each time. The people in the Middle East Oilfields normally work either one month on and one month off (28-28) or two months on and one month off (56-28). I was able to spend quite a lot of time. WHACK LASH SWACK! Mummie's thorny stick had slashed vicious redstreaks up and down his pale buttocks and how painful it'd been! How thepretty girls had laughed with their boyfriends watching the star quarterback ofJames Buchanan High getting lashed like a three year old in hearts lingerie!"You are such a pathetic geek, Bobbie!" Pam Collins, captain of thecheerleading squad had laughed at the poor boy as he rolled around on theground in the front yard! And to think he'dgotten so close to asking. He was a lefty, and the only batter I faced that inning. The next guy scheduled up was a left-handed hitter, also, so I stayed in for one hitter in the fifth before Warren came and got me.Hmmm. Looks like I've gone from being a starter, to a middle reliever, and now to a just-get-out-the-lefty specialist. Well, it was no way for me to make it into the Hall of Fame, but if it would get me to Camden Yards, so be it! I was ready to be the club's get-out-the-lefty specialist all the way to the. Oh, yes, I almost forgot. We bought a hundred and fifty foot motor launch today. This thing is plush and ready for any kind of party known to man. It was such a good deal that Tiny and I couldn't keep from buying it." That's not normal, John. How many charters are we going to get to keep up a hundred and fifty foot boat?" Lots Steve," John said. "The boat is chartered continuously up through next July. I think we'll do okay with it." So why was it on the market if it's in so much demand?" I had.