Beneath the Assistant Secretary is the Deputy Assistant Secretary and the SORDID Chief of Staff.”“We have our own Chief of Staff?”“Of course! ...hat’s how government runs. Without a Chief of Staff, nothing would ever get done. You see, though, that he isn’t nearly as important as the Chief of Staff for the Department of Health and Human Resources. He only has twelve boxes under him and six of those are still empty. But the department only started Monday, so he still has a lot of space to fill.. "I imagine the party was pretty much over after everyone learned of your article. But as you note, Shawn, I wasn't there." And the BDSM?" I asked."Neither the Governor nor I have any recollection of any unusual behavior on the plane," he said. "But it was a fair-sized aircraft." So it's possible?"He gave me a rueful look."Anything is possible." Did you save room for dessert?" the waitress asked us when we had finished our meals. "Some tiramisu, perhaps?" Some what?" I asked her."Tiramisu," she. "I think we need to consider getting a bigger place in Pennsylvania," I said. "We will need that if we get a live in nanny or an au pair. What do you think?" You're probably right," Penny agreed. "I'm not sure about raising our child in the city." She needs to experience the outdoors the way we did when we were growing up," I stated. "Maybe I need to talk with Trevor's dad about that place he told us about earlier in the week. A farmhouse on a wooded lot with a creek in the back sounds pretty. The days when EVERY pilot was tail-dragger qualified, those are long gone.”“You got that right,” I said. “People think you’re some kind of cross between Charles Lindbergh and a dinosaur.”“We got a stable-full back in Alabama,” Cindy said. “Everybody’s checked out. Some of ‘em are less comfortable than others, but they’re checked out.”“Our 180 was the company pick-up truck when we first started.”“Comes up kinda short on cargo space, don’t it?” Mister Dukes asked.“It did, but we didn’t need it.