His wife had done an amazing job raising them and was making noises about having one more. 'One more shot at James Hollerith, III.' was what she'd sai.... He'd tried to be home as much as possible, and it had even cost him a promotion to Captain last time around, but being the leader of a SEAL team meant he simply couldn't arrange a stateside job. Yet.The girls were fine, and Cmdr. Hollerith knew that Carol could figure out that he was close to Japan from the kinds of gifts he'd sent. Japan was. I planned to go with a good friend and colleague, but he cried off at the last minute saying he,d got a hot date, so hot in the end she gave him gonorrhea! So I decided to soldier on driving to Koln in my old Fiat 500 hoping my dodger battery would last the weekend. I say old, but it was only three years old and needed a new battery which I couldn,t afford then. The weather was beautiful sunny and in the eighties and there were many people in Cologne of all nationalities. Of course I had to. "That one was years later. Remember when I went to New York to visit Janice at NYU?" Yeah, she lived in that little closet of an apartment," I reminisced."Yeah, her roommate, Carrie was gay. She and Jan had a thing but they weren't exclusive since Jan was basically straight. Jan hooked up with some guy from one of her art classes and Carrie and I went back to the apartment. The funny thing was that she was really butch but I was more tempted by her than Trish. I think it was her personality". That problem, while not difficult, had prevented me from applying Frieda's updated code and databases.Frieda had compared the version and revision numbers of my database and rejected them out of hand as obsolete. She also refused any "tribal knowledge" updates until such time as I was running her current code, perhaps feeling they wouldn't be legitimate until validated against up to date rules. That's what made our interaction so short.Since it was stored in holding memory, once my.