“The Greek Ambassador in Washington called Charlie to apologize on a personal level for the difficulties two of his country’s citizens caused by t...eir boarding the cruise ship. He didn’t mention how Greece intends to officially respond to the US. My guess is that there will be a quiet written apology, and everyone will let the incident fade into history. If that is the Greek Government’s intent, I suspect they will make their wishes known to the two reporters, and warn them of what may happen. . sorry, didn’t mean to say that. Oh My God, why didn’t I think about that? Oh, Shit . . . sorry, didn’t mean to say it again.’ Jiao is laughing her ass off at me. ‘Jack, Jack, it’s okay,’ she insisted. ‘I knew you didn’t have a ring, that’s why I brought it up,’ she said, continuing to laugh at my reaction. ‘How long did the General say it would be before we could leave?’ she asked. I told her probably about two weeks. ‘Okay,’ she said, ‘I’ll give you a two-week, what do you call it . . .. He tackled me, and down we went. To everyone else we looked like we were playing, slipping on the slimy bottom as many others were. To us, this had suddenly become intensely serious. Extreme lust and his flash of anger had lit a spark of something deep and dark. I saw it burning intensely in his eyes and knew I was in trouble. He landed on top of me, so big, so heavy, with foam all around and no air. His hands groped, mauling me wherever they could, his mouth bruising on mine in the hardest,. ”“Everything’s a defense application, you know...”“Yeah. Sunny, how’s Luggage holding up?”“He’s working wonderfully. We use ‘im. The construction crew uses ‘im. He usually hits his charging station at lunch.”“What about his undercarriage? Mechanicals?”“You guys said NOT to use a high pressure water gun on ‘im, but we’ve used a regular water hose and nozzle. That clay on the jobsite’s sticky.”“Tear-down’s gonna be revelatory,” Chris said. “Can’t wait until the job’s over.”“Then don’t wait,” I.