That actually came as a surprise. Up until that moment, it hadn't occurred to me that I could have been taken to court. That rocked me for a moment. B...t it was over. I needed to take stock.The first thing I realised was that I was still simply responding to events. I had been so busy juggling everything that I had just gone with the flow. There were some things I needed to take in hand, and one I had to stop taking in hand.As they say, when one door closes, another opens. Closing that door. I went home to a quiet house. The boys were back with Jack for the weekend. Kate, I was told, was out. Wendy was at work. Melody said she was spending the night with Bree to watch TV.“Okay, what happened?” Lissa asked. She was the only one of us who hadn’t been on the job at all today. She was pretty pressed to get schedules and shipping arranged for Nationals.“What do you mean?”“Don’t play innocent, Tony. Kate stormed in about three o’clock, cleaned up in her room and stormed out again. She. This time with “Origins Award Winner” clearly on the cover.Finally, it was all done, and we were all on the way to the hotel. This time both Mr. Cummings and Ginger were with us, and Deana was waiting for us in the lobby when we got out of the car. She had thought ahead and grabbed 2 more bottles of champagne, and soon we were relaxing and sipping it as we talked about the last several days.“Well Pete, now you know what the big conventions are like. And yea, the LA ones are some of the biggest. Nikolai did pretty good at that. They finished doing ten chin-ups on abar. Nikolai did them all. Some of the men couldn't do one.That was pretty much the routine for the first two weeks and by the end,he could march at pace for the full 20 miles. That was when they beganworking on weapons training to become a real soldier. He received aKalashnikov model 74 to learn from. He inspected it, the instructor toldthem how to take it apart, service and clean it. Load it and they had tomaster that.