We'll come here for dinner and I'll look at your new list. But the issues will be the same, only the names will have changed." You're scaring me," I s...id, not really believing her."I know you, Sammy Oldham," Alice said, taking a sip of wine from the glass that had just been delivered. "You've made a list that you think is unique to you but really, it's no different than what we all experience. It shows that you've thought about each relationship but have you really analyzed what went wrong? It. I finished my classes and went to the kitchen for a cold drink. Carol came up behind me, wrapped her arms around my waist, and hugged me.“It looks like my little brother has a girlfriend,” Carol said.Turning in my sister’s arms, I smiled as I shrugged my shoulders. “I don’t know if I do or don’t.”“From what Kim’s told me, she’s really attracted to you. She said you’re the nicest man she’s ever met,” Carol said.“I like Kim. She’s sexy, smart, and fun. I keep thinking of what’s going to. A tenth of an ounce would do.But that fucking military once again involved themselves in my life.I don't want to hate them. Really, I do not. But how can I respect them when every behavior they show ranges from the tactless to tonight's attempt of thievery?I managed to sit in the command chair. It took me several minutes to remember the most obscure code the ship had. A code even more obscure then the one I told the girl.Who was that girl?And why did I feel it necessary to tell her that. A few more ideas came to mind from thebrainstorming sessions. One of them, a gravity tractor had a simpleenough concept, but required a lot of time. It called for a massivevessel a bit larger than the Deliverance to act as a tugboat, using agravitational towline to create an attraction, gradually drawing theasteroid off course By producing enough thrust to equal out the vessel'sattraction to the asteroid, the rock would slowly over time follow theship off it's present trajectory.It sounded.