.." And with that, she abruptly turned and walked out of the room, leaving me there alone. Once my mother was gone, I let out a sigh of relief, feelin... shaken by the realization that I had finally stood up to my mother. After so many years, I knew that it was about time and I was excited to have finally done it. Of course, I knew that there would doubtlessly be consequences for my defiance, but for once, I was willing to take them. It had been well worth it to be my own man for once. I savored. While they were a little more portly than the chiseled Adonises she was used to seeing on the station, that one male in particular looked like he could crush a marble pillar in his arms, after getting over her initial surprise it had taken all of her willpower to avoid conspicuously drooling over him. She felt butterflies in her stomach at the thought of it, she could really do it, she could really make her fantasy a reality tonight if she played her cards right. The snowstorm was now seeming. I didn’t have any trouble with the physical side of Basic Training, I was probably in the best shape of my life somewhere in that first year in the service.I just never kept up the active lifestyle and every year I added a few more pounds. On the way up in size I was probably the most comfortable around the 200-220 pound area.I really should start doing something for exercise. Swimming would be my preference, but walking or maybe hiking might be an alternative I could get behind. I would never. This time it assembled without problems, as did the Reaper program.We ran the test, varying all the switches. Running from regular memory, it didn't fail. Running from fast memory, but with no other activity in that memory, it ran OK. The problem seemed to have something to do with both Reaper and Stretch accessing the fast memory at the same time, and it was more consistent when the Stretch program was using the memory, not the tape.I said, "It's possible that there's a problem with the fast.