Will you do that?” she urged.“Sure.” I shot back.“Ok, here goes. My Mom has a free weekend stay at the Holiday Casino on the Coast. She has tw... free nights, free meals and some slot play. They decided not to go at the last minute, they were ... well I was wondering if we would like to go?” she asked.“Like tonight?” I asked.“Yes, like right now. We could be there in a few hours, we would come back Sunday.” she answered.“I don’t know Courtney, I mean ... let me finish eating, I will call you back. You girls might want to get comfortable. You men as well. After all, this is a fantasy site, right? Let me indulge myself for a while. I think I deserve it...my fantasy goes something like this....When I was working back at my friend Rich's telephone business, we hired a new guy named Carl. Carl was one of these techy type guys, a real nerd, so to speak. He was smart though, I have to admit. Got something like a 790 on the math portion of his SAT's. He was really a smart guy and that was what. It seemed strange after a year. I'd been running around getting the Plant set up and operational as well as getting the problems that Karuska was having ironed out and now I was back.The first thing Sgt. Major Mackey did was bring in all the orders and Battalion mail that had come in for the past year. Most of it had been handled but some of the later stuff needed to be seen to now. Yes, Master Sergeant Travis Mackey is now my Battalion Sergeant Major. He was getting too old to be running a. .."Watching Mrs. Fawkes' response, I realized that I'd never seen a conniption before ... The woman had one, though. I was wondering whether we needed to call the paramedics when the woman rounded on me and howled, "You! Get out of my house! I won't have you in it, corrupting my daughter! Leave, while she's still unsullied anywhere but her mind..."Shannon grew fangs and announced, "Oh, he did THAT last night, Momma! And it was WONDERFUL!"In her rage, Mrs, Fawkes seemed to grow a foot -- and.