. and don't come out here staven drunk," the valley's richest and most powerful bachelorette warned. "Or I might just have two pair of balls hanging o...er my bed... !"Steve was up for lunch, then away on his quest for story material, leaving Jean and Carol to rattle uneasily around the small house. Both girls sensed the unwanted strain between them, but neither could put a finger on the actual crux of the other's reasoning. While Mark, who had come home shortly before noon in a miserable,. Have fun.”I was in a good seat sipping tomato juice when a spotlight illuminated an obese man dressed as an Elvis-impersonating vampire.“Good evening, girls and ghouls. We have a number of lovely entries (or maybe that's entrees, mwahahahaha!) for tonight's competition. If you don't remain in your seats while the girls are on stage, the zombie bouncers will eat your brains. Now, without further ado, naughty schoolgirls!”A troupe of young woman walked onto the stage. A few wore traditional. Chris & I are in a odd place right now. A holding pattern, if you will.”“Much of it related to this school thing we’re discussing?” My plan was taking shape.“Well I am a bit more than $10K short just to make the gap, and I need a little more than $2k in the next week, so yep, that’s it all right…” She let it trail off and stared out the window. The classic mid-90’s Acura NSX was dead sexy & had a great engine hum, and I let it drone for a bit, but she broke off her trance when I took it out. They need him so that the great moronic mass you admire can sleep soundly in their beds at night. They need him for the safety of ordinary, crummy people like you and me.”(Excerpt from “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold” by John Le Carre)Looking back on my third trip into past history, I found it strangely difficult to accurately estimate the distance between southern Germany and the warmer climate of the Spanish Plain. I had visited Spain a few times during my normal life before the adventure.