.. well, it's getting close to that time of the month, you know? I guess I'm just easily upset these days."The close-cropped blonde looked disbelievin...ly at David's girlfriend in her expensive car, a forced smile of concern on her red-painted lips, lips that had once been David's until this rich girl with her fancy clothes came along. Sure, I'm worried about you, all right, she said to herself, you could drop dead for all I care! You and all the rest of those Valley Farms swells! But Sally was. ~Nikita Khrushchev~When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.~Clarence Darrow~Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.~Author unknown~Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.~John Quinton~Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the. I put them in a net bag to take to the laundromat, then I climbed into the shower. My plan was to stay in there till I ran out of hot water or shriveled like a prune which ever came first.The hot water ran out after twenty two minutes which was about average. Without any more hot water I dressed. I had decided that I would mash in just one barrel. That would be more than enough to cover my fun money which I really hadn't used. I got around eight gallons of hooch from 30 gallons of mash. Six. Bane, who may have just saved my life, yes – I couldn’t say, I’d had my eyes closed – but who also just killed my client, who is (was) a VIG (Very Important Gastropod) and whose demise my manager will surely not be happy about. My manager and the rest of the Krgotu race, probably.Bane, who just effectively ended my life on this planet, or any planet near Krgotu central, and quit my job for me without even checking in with me first.Bane, who said he’d be back sooner.Bane, whose fault this whole.