You asked me to call?" He sounded so innocent, like we were in school and he was nervous about talking to a girl for the first time."Oh my God! You ...INALLY called! What the hell took you so long?" I asked, surprised and pleased at the same time."I'm sorry, I actually completely forgot about it until tonight, when I was doing my laundry and re-discovered your note."He 'forgot'? Uh oh, I thought, this may not be what I was hoping it was..."Oh...so you've been busy?" I asked, a little less. I had always known on an intellectual level that Lexi was - by objectivestandards - decently attractive. I'd never taken the notion any furtherthough - she was my sister for gods sake. The thought of her naked wasgross. This though... this wasn't the Lexi I'd grown up with.It was like the girl who had been playing Lexi all these years had beenreplaced by a supermodel porn star lookalike.Her hair was longer and fuller, falling around her shoulders in messybrown waves that accented the softer. She makes her presentation and with some minor changes, I approve her design. She proposes lots of dark wood and leather furniture. The paint scheme will be a blend of earth tones. It fits my style. Alice loves the design also. Alice makes a few suggestions and I have Sylvia put them into the plan. I give her authorization to put the plan into effect and I write her a check for 90 percent of the total. I treat Alice, Sylvia, Steve, and Erica to lunch. They choose Chinese and after the meal we. .. just don't expect me to believe it.According to the literature EVERY navy aviator during the war trained on the paddlewheel carriers. Splashing along training carrier pilots in the U-boat infested waters of the Atlantic and Caribbean is a very good way to make a U-Boat captain extremely happy. Every operational carrier was needed in the combat zone.End of Rant.We accumulated hours behind the stick at a phenomenal rate. Rather than suffer through the hundred hour teardown, the Navy replaced.