A pattern had developed where he would dress two or three times a week after school or longer on the rare occasions Clair and Richard were away. Life ...as busy and the year quickly passed with mid course exams once again to the fore. Simon felt he was lucky to have Sarah with him. It made studying relaxed and fun."We've decided to have an early holiday this year and we're going to Scotland touring," said Clair one evening over dinner just as the term was finishing, "Would you like to come with. Not that I was going to live as a monk. Tuesday, after school, I met up with one of the guys I knew, one of the Vo-Tech crew who looked like he was better at robbing liquor stores than buying from them. Really, he was a very nice guy who just liked to ride and repair motorcycles. He ended up owning a Harley-Davidson franchise and did very well for himself. James ‘Tusker’ Tusk was in the tenth grade like me, but had been held back a year, and looked older anyway. I had him drive his car over to. Plus their medical corps were top notch and tended to their wounded quickly. The dead lay where they fell. There was no need to stop to minister to them unlike the foolish Americans always did.They reached the northern parts of the Russian oil fields and seized them with little effort. The Russians were in complete retreat to muster up getting ready to counterattack. Never did anyone from Lenin to Koinivich ever think that the Chinese could accomplish what they just did. The Chinese dug in.. The extra size doesn't hurt anything, I'm just glad we don't have to pay for it." We're sure as hell out in the country here Jackie. What's on the land?" Mostly nothing. They got a few barns, mostly to make it look good, besides the two big ones you saw. Nothin much in 'em though; I told 'em we ought to get some cows, a few tractors, a mower and a baler, and some horses to ride around. It'd make it look more natural if we were raisin cows and balein hay and stuff like that. Hell I'd even like.