When I asked, he told me that the cable ran from a strobe, or flash, on a light stand to the camera to trigger it. The little plastic things were call...d slaves, and when one strobe went off, they sensed the light and triggered the strobe they were attached to, so you didn’t need to have wires running everywhere. He was finished in a minute and sat down at the table across from me with his glass of wine. I asked him what he wanted to do, and he said it was pretty much up to me. “Just go into the. The hotel clerk lowered his voice to Jim. "You guys might want to try the new games in the Avacado room. Our vendor just delivered them this morning, and folks have been saying how much fun they are to play. Lots of money going out there too." He leaned closer and dropped his voice to a loud whisper. "Insider's tip: that's how the casino and hotel make their money. They let folks win on the new games until they become popular, then lower the win-rate to something that makes money. So have at. It seemed that horses instinctively knew incompetence when they saw it.After finishing his work in the barn, Pepper then learned the meaning of the expression: ‘a tough row to hoe’, by working in the garden.His idea of a garden was a little space that was eight feet long by three feet wide, filled with one or two rows of flowers. He discovered that out in the country, a garden was a hundred feet long and fifty feet wide, and was planted with row after row of vegetables. Weeds grew up between. And neither could his memories. He had never forgotten the beauty of his mother when she was pregnant with his brother, Mateo. How she had cuddled him against those heated breasts and clutched him to her nurturing body. He’d long to suckle on her taupe nipples like his baby brother but she had denied him. He was too old and the milk was for the baby. Oh, mother! ‘Leon.’ His entire body stiffened as her hand closed gently over his, her small fingers lacing through his. ‘Come to my bed.’ ‘No.’.