"She shrugged. "It's not as good as I want it to be." Well," I smiled, "would you like me to help you get better at that?"She nodded, in an uncommitte... way. I smiled, anyway. "Hey, do you haveyour bag for the weekend?"She nodded and pointed towards the teacher who'd signed me in. "It's atthe sign in desk."I offered my hand and we walked back to the door, grabbed her bag andleft the building. Once I had Marie secured in the backseat of my new,red, hybrid car, I got in, looked in the mirror and. Once again, he heard Kirsten's yell of "Come on, Tiffany," shouted right into the videocamera's microphone, and once again he followed the teams racing down the chute as Kirsten had panned to follow them across the finish line. He and Mark had seen the tape the first time as they sat shivering in the hot tub an hour after it happened, and though they'd watched this segment several times, they couldn't fault Ryan Clark's judgement of the viewfinder playback that Ringo had about a nose-length as. As she had to go do apartment hunting in Dallas when she got back, I didn't have a way to phone her directly.Well, I settled back into my 'routine' and Beanie and some other lovers of mine warmed my bed and kept me fairly content sexually. One funny thing that had happened when I was gone was that Laurie (my sublease land lady) had found a box of my gear in the hall closet that I had forgotten and given me a call to come and get it. Beanie had answered the phone and said she was house sitting. We found the customs officer at the bar along with the harbor master, and immigration official. We paid ... good for 180 days ... the paper work done we settled into spicy and refreshing island brewed beers ... Cassie and Krys included. They were legal in the Islands.Cassie sipped, made a face and set the bottle down. “What do you guys see in this swill?”We chuckled and sipped. We ordered what they cooked and sipped.Dinner was served ... there was a lot ... and WE didn’t have to cook it or wash.