“Steve Jobs is going to slit Gil Amelio’s throat sometime soon and take over again.”“So what? They threw him out once before for screwing up. ...hy would he do any better now?”On the face of it, that was true. He had been forced out back in ‘85 in a boardroom coup and had spent the next decade puttering around Silicon Valley and Hollywood. NeXT Computer proved a bust; Pixar and the Disney connection were wonders. When Apple bought NeXT last year, they were letting a wolf back into the fold.. The other players were a little different to those playing in the Omaha tournament, at least in their dress sense. It may have been the venue, but the people in the poker room seemed to be paying due deference to their surroundings and had dressed with a degree of respectability that seemed unfamiliar to him in his Vegas experience so far. For a while he got into conversation with a young guy immediately to his right, who told Daniel that Table Poker had promised to pay him a ten million dollar. I had reached a point where I wanted one more drink. I leaned towards Liane and asked if she wanted to have another drink in our hotel room.Steve mistook what I had said and answered, "Why thanks! We don't have a bar in our rooms!"He had misunderstood and thought I was asking them up for a drink, too! We had all been having fun together, so I kind of looked at Liane and she shrugged her shoulders as if to say ok. So, off we went, Ted and Steve thanking us in advance for one more drink.When we. “Yeah, right now I’m the owner and the only employee. Not only do I get lonely between appointments, but business is declining because I get booked on the same day a walk-in ‘desperately’ needs a cut o whatever.”I hugged Steph, my friend of less than twenty-four hours who was already my lifesaver-as I was possibly hers.My arms were around her neck. Hers were on the small of my back. I leaned my head back so I could see her face but didn’t pull away. The space between us was full of.