We agreed to provide a 10-pound ingot of gold and a 10-pound ingot of platinum for the names and backing plates and the jeweler would give us credit f...r any excess bullion to cover the cost of the chains, clasps, labor, and a five percent profit.“Bob, can you make me a 10-pound ingot of gold and one of platinum by this evening.”“No problem Jon, I will let you know when the ingots are ready. Sharna and I have finished refining the bullion and casting it as ingots. We currently have 7,752 ingots. I told her that she would have to put on some "peds" to try on shoes, and we weren't allowed to have customers' bare feet in the shoes. I walked over to the register and got a pair of the thin nylon booties. Then I disappeared into the stockroom, and returned a few moments later with her three samples in the correct sizes.I handed her the peds. "Put them on me," she said. That was also new. I'd never had a woman tell me to do that; they'd always just taken the little slippers and put them on. I haven't been able to do it with anybody, and it started driving me crazy. I couldn't make myself come. I felt like crap all the time." You were acting kind of bitchy," I told her."That's nice!" she snapped, jokingly. "I know I was. Anyway, I was going crazy last night - I couldn't sleep at all. So I snuck in here and, well, you know." Wow." Yeah." You totally need to do it, huh?" Yeah." Okay," I said. I was very, very conflicted. Part of me felt unbelievably lucky, but I was sort of icked out. It answered him.Images of the Praetor recording court proceedings from all thirty-two districts, formal occasions, such as weddings, funerals, transfers of property and other legal duties.‘Goodness!’ Jeff thought. ‘How will it have time to educate an entire generation of youths?’Another image appeared in Jeff’s mind showing a pie chart of how much processing time the Praetor used to record all this data compared to its maximum input/output capabilities. The Praetor was operating at about five.