"The desk comp is secure and, once you log on and chose an encryption key, is supposedly tamper proof and accessible only by you." Here he gave a litt...e wink, obviously not expecting her to be convinced by his spiel. "There is an outside communications link accessible through your comp. Inter-planetary and inter-system personal calls are frowned on. Not because of charges, we own the company, but because security on the public network is problematical. For secure communications in connection. Oh well she might be in later I suppose. I don't wait for the librarian and head off on my own, I've been coming here at least three times a week for the last 5 years and can find my own way to the warm oak desk that has almost become my own. She tags along just to be sure, I suppose it's part of the job, but I'm too tired to join in the whispered small talk. I place my hand on the back of the leather upholstered chair, my index finger resting in the place where the missing metal stud should be. "I never wouldhave dreamed they'd be needed though. That first layer is not your averagesystem..." Let me go take a look at it," Joe said and I watched as he left the room."Joe's your dad?" The older detective asked Amanda."Yes sir, he is, how do you know him?" He's helped us out a number of times over the years. I also sparred withhim during a training seminar he did one time when I was younger anddumber... Didn't make that mistake again!"Amanda laughed. "He's pretty intense."There was another. “Yes,” replied Kate. “We work together well. Plus she makes it fun, so that makes it even better.”“What is the event tonight?”“I’m going out to dinner with the clients. It’s important to keep up a good relationship, so we do things like this. You know, not just the official things, but the personal things that help build up a positive relationship.”“Going out for dinner doesn’t sound so difficult though,” said Steve.“No, it isn’t very difficult. But it means you’ve made time for them outside.