40 with 3.1. (India is last at 3 partners while Turks are tops with 14.5).Internet notice of this affair, hosted by an expat German furniture manufact...ring baron I'll call ``Albert'' and his Chinese wife, ``April,'' was in (slightly mangled) English and (presumably more literate) Chinese. The English version read: ``Dear Friends,``We have the pleasure to invite you at the Spring Naughty Party on Saturday March 25th.``The party will take place at April & Albert's home : big/warm/comfortable. . Have a package for this address." I replied."Okay... I'll be right there."My heart started pumping as I heard her footsteps walking towards the door. I had a big grin on my face just in case she decided to look out the peephole. I placed my left hand in the small of my back just as she started to open the door."Hi... Um... You're not the regular UPS guy... Are you new on this route" She said smiling."Um Yes... I'm... new." Where's your truck?" She asked, looking around behind me."Oh... My. ’ she pauses, her face now bright red. ‘The winner gets Julie and myself.’That will be Mike. ‘The looser,’ she goes on, ‘gets a date with the SL 2200 tennis ball machine.’ And that will be me. To be fair, I guess anyone could win. However, there are two major things going against me. One, Mike played college basketball, whereas I haven’t touched a basketball since the 6th grade. Two, and even more importantly, Heather is the ref. By the time Heather starts her next sentence, I’m so nervous I’m. " What about the gold diggings? I've heard that anyone can make a fortune just picking up gold from the surface."Willy and I told him about what we had seen in the camps and how late it was in the season to start over the Siskiyou Mountains right now. He had heard about the Donner party and blanched at the prospect of getting snowed in for the winter while going through the mountains."There's still land unclaimed to the north of here in the next prairie that you can file on. You'll need more.