. they could be stuck in one spot, bored and consuming supplies, for two months. Now, really, in a space ship there's not much difference between movi...g and not moving for those inside it. If you could keep busy. The hard part would be, beyond that, trying to gather enough information to make their next move. If a move was to be made. He still held out hope this delay would let Lessa calm down a bit, but then he was an optimistic man.Realistic, but an optimist.Mel fell in next to him, seemingly. There had been one or two occasions when she had seen him drive by on his way to somewhere, and he had held his hand up in a wave and nodded his head to her through the window of his old black pick-up truck, but that had been the closest she had come to him all this time. Aunt Jean had said that between being away so often on business trips, (he was some sort of consultant, whatever that meant), he was also home for long intervals, but she just could never pin him down with any kind of. "The play went around and around, and most people were remaining reasonably even. The exception was Jeff, who seemed to be on a losing streak. I continued to get the guys drinks and refill the snacks throughout the evening.Finally, Jeff was nearly out of chips, and the pot was growing. There was a raise that he could not meet, and Jeff said, "How about I call your raise with this?" and he threw one of the small chips off his special pile into the pot."What is that worth?" Stephan asked."That. "My phone is off right now." I replied as I put the book I was holding away. The school's policy about cellphones was that they had to be off while in class. Which allowed students to check their phones between classes. Except for lunch, it was easier for me to leave my cellphone off while I was at school. This saved me from having my phone ring in class and getting emberessed by the teacher, which I seen many of my fellow class mates suffer."Well hurry up." Jeremy practically bounced in place.