Joyce for your new name. Such a more suitable namefor a proper and feminine lady don't you agree princess?" She giggledstill holding the lighter. Sh... then switched the switch on causing theruby to glow red, the remote control sending out the activation signal."Yes, you're going to become a regular lady."Grant went rigid momentarily and gasped in wide eyed surprise at theeffect of Editha's activating the switch. She smiled with satisfactionas he squirmed in his seat. He was soon dabbing the. " These words of my mother to our next-door neighborwere my first introduction to sexuality. I was nine at the time, justcoming into sexual awareness and I wondered what those words meant. I hadan inkling, but I wasn't sure. I sought out my older next-door neighborand asked him the meaning of these words. Red was quick with hisanswer. "It means," he said, "that your mother and father had sex at a latedate in their life and you were the result." Thinking about it, my motherwas 48 when I was born. " Sgt. Papa hoisted his pants over his beer belly but they didn't reach.Given the distinct logo, the drive bay had been used by Zenellis in his company. Maybe the exact one that had housed the drives I'd confiscated. "I'll take it." Five hundred bucks." He grinned.The guy probably had a stack of them in back. "You wouldn't be able to get me a few more, would you? I'm putting together a small data center." My turn to be less than honest."I probably could. How many?"I made a guess. "Twenty?"His. Just coming off the street with no qualifications and saying 'I'll build your bridge', will get you laughed out of that office. You have no official training that can save them, in a court of law. They would be crucified," Lord A.S. told me."I know. It's just a big game though. A lot of people are never given a chance or the pay for a job they could do because they don't have half the alphabet soup behind their name. Take the hardware store I worked at. I have watched them, and I could run that.