“May I help you, sir?”“It’s a bit early, but perhaps a glass of wine?”“Certainly, sir. Would you like to sit here? Or over there?”“Thi... will do. What is available?”“May I suggest a Gruener Veltliner? Or a yellow Muskateller? Or a Riesling?”“Muscatel is too sweet for me. The Veltliner is new?” He nodded. “Ein achtl Veltliner, bitte.” An eighth-liter.“Sofort!”I drank my wine, cool and tart. I raised my hand. “Mein Herr?”“Noch ein Achtl, bitte.”He brought it. I drank, still thinking of my cousins.. “Andy, repeat after me,” I said.“I Andy Reddick do solemnly swear,”“That I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”“That I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion.”“That I will and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter; so help me God.”My people in the room added the whistles and applause.“May I be. Now I will talk about significant figures and statistics. (grins) The significant figures of a number are those digits significant to its precision. For example, pi with nine significant figures is 3.14159265. We could add more digits since this is a non-repeating decimal fraction. One percent, on the other hand is 0.01 and has only one significant figure. For calculations, the calculator may introduce more digits than warranted by the original data. These are spurious digits. Rounding to a. "Hey! Damn kids get away from her!" I yelled as I kicked an incoming rock into one of their guts and scooped her up. They ran off as I hurridly got her into the passenger seat of the car. I flipped her on her back as I stared into her crystal blue eyes. They were filled with hurt. Once I saw that face, it broke my heart into a billion pieces. I cradled her face, kissing her cheeks as I looked into her eyes. "Are you okay baby?" I ask worried."Im fine daddy." she says as I wipe away one of her.