Foster's unique punishments."I...I saw Andy and just went over for a minute. Wayne was there too.We just said hi is all!" Dale gasped as he awaited h...s fate."If I hadn't made plans for you tomorrow you would be getting apunishment right now young lady. You've been so good over the past weekstoo. It's been a while since you were a 'blushing bride' hasn't it?Maybe you need a refresher course, another treatment," she said as shestood there her arms crossed in front of her. "What, what plans. “I wanted to put him on OPS for an hour or so. Soe he might get a feeling for it.He is just a Midshipman after all. I had him on OPS the entire time. He kept growing into the challenging post very fast. None of my officers had any problems with him doing it. They all liked him; he was polite, collegial and listened to advice. I can only say he is missed aboard the Hyperion. He often appears deep in thought, even a little depressed or very quiet, so I had him take out the Hyperion and like all. We were at about double that distance right then so it would be at least a twenty-minute round trip for the radio beams to take the wonderful news there and back. It doesn't make for an easy conversation ― more like leaving messages to each party ― but you get used to it.Now normally there wouldn't be a prayer in hell for someone like me to get a message through to these rich muckity-mucks so I used the girls' names in the From line in the header; that ought to draw some attention. I knew they. Now it was time to reel him in."Well, look Tony," I said, "I have to get going, so I'm going to grab some coffee at Starbuck's.We said goodbye and as I walked to my car, I saw that he was still standing there looking kind of like a dejected puppy. I wanted to know if he might be further interested."Hey, Tony," I called from my car door, "do want to get some coffee?"He responded immediately, jumped in his car, and followed me to the coffee house where, for the next two hours, we discussed.