This was not the way Lani wanted to gain pounds. She just hoped they wouldn't discover the slices of cheesecake hidden in the seldom visited recesses ...f the refrigerator. "A friend came by today and she brought them to share with me." Your fat friend Carolyn probably," said Patrick."Carolyn is not fat," snapped Lani, "and I resent your name-calling. You're not exactly Mr. Physical Fitness yourself. You could afford to lose 20 pounds easily." Ooh, that hurt, honey," replied her husband as he. Motor and installation $3,000 including throttle and propeller installation. Plus installing gas tank.Purchase of propeller and gas tank $850.Avionics controls. Compass ... airspeed ... motor temperature gauge and oil gauge ... altimeter ... GPS navigational aid. A simple attitude and directional gauges. And a few other non essential things. It also had a radio with limited range. Those added another $5,000 toss in another $5,000 labor for getting it airworthy tested and certified. In other. School went byfairly slowly, as I tried to wade through the boredom that would only bealleviated by Saturday's concert. Since I was performing in Los Angelesagain, I'd get to take Emily and Ethan, or more specifically, Chloe andXander, with me. Ethan had been working with Emily to create a new lookfor Xander, and I was eagerly anticipating what they had decided upon.I was unsuccessfully trying to get Ethan to tell me about the new Xanderas we walked to Chorus. Suddenly I was shouldered hard. I have been sent with a message from Apollo."Her shoulders slumped, and she turned away from him, resuming the task she had to complete before dawn. Hermes was not here to guide her poor broken son's spirit to Hades, but only to deliver a message from the father who had abandoned them both years ago.She had feared this day, known in her heart just how likely it was to come to pass, but had fooled herself into thinking that it never would. Ordinarily, all the women of the family would be here,.