Couldn't we have just stayed there?"I replied, "No, we still have too much to do here. I have to go back to work on Monday."This created a collective ...roan from everyone."Well, I need to catch up on the mail. I'll be in the office if you need me Mel." Ok Honey."I went and started to catch up from our week away. Bills sure know how to take a great vacation and cause heartbreak when you get back. I must have spent 2 hours between going through the mail and catching up with my e-mail as well.I. With Bob's help, our controllers were reprogrammed to alarm when they received that shutdown confirmation. Our controllers would acknowledge, but we'd know when the sensors started going down. Another part of Bob's devious little setup was that some of the sensors, on receiving the acknowledgement, would explode rather vehemently.The sensors dying would be a tipoff, both that the attack had begun and that the attackers were who we expected. I made my way to my little 'panic room' in the. " Let me just look you up on our computer. Alright, you are Daniel Ian Steele, date of birth July 14, 1992 ... so that would make you a sophomore, previous school attended ... St. John's College, Cambridge. Is that a Christian school?" Errr ... Yes."She laughed slightly. "Well, you'll certainly find a few differences here." No doubt." Alright, fill out the classes you want to take on this sheet." I selected the courses my target was taking."Ok, and I'll need to speak to your parents ... who are. But like I said, I know nothing specific. Gretchen..."The Colonel smiled. "Yes? Go on."Karl sighed. "From the beginning of our troupe, Yablonski added to our plays, giving Gretchen a monologue, very eloquent and stirring, though oddly phrased. The grammar or semantics or whatever was kind of twisted, weird, but actually kind of poetic. It was like a signature thing for us, Gretchen's odd speech midway through a play. I found it rather Brechtian in its distancing effect, flattening the.