.. A little HP filled the bill nicely. I sprang for a fast mini-switch and a network storage appliance called a Buffalo Box to back everything up.(Tru...t nobody--trust nothing). I called the trailer manufacturer and had them add a cut-out under the couch for the computer, and add a power outlet down there. Yup, the credit card came out again.I hit a Barnes and Noble bookstore for a few things--a cookbook or two, a couple new CDs and a writing guide.Double crap! I wouldn't have room for CDs. I. Impressive, I had to admit. Except that it was from the International University of Santa Clarita. At best an online scam, a mail-order diploma mill. She knew it and I knew it.“Tell me about Mindy Montgomery.” I didn’t need to spell out the implied threat -- I’d sic every licensing agency in the state of Kansas on her. She’d be shut down, perhaps do some jail time. No, probably not, not with the overcrowding these days. But she probably didn’t know that.“Mindy is a troubled child. It goes back. .” he reached down and took the stylus from Listens Deeply’s gripper. “If you tell me that Project Etemenanki is close to some kind of break through. You’ve had a year out of cryo and two months in orbit around Proxima. I want. Results.”Listens Deeply chittered – and the collar turned it into a laugh. “Results you shall have. Admiral.”Bosch nodded.“Bring out ... Echo 3...” Listens Deeply said and one of the doctors hurried out – showing more deference to an Upkin than Bosch liked to see. But. Next to me stoodBrandi. With my pink shades of makeup, blonde hair and pink lingerie, Iwas in sharp contrast to her ruby red lips, her long mane of auburnhair and the black satin gown she wore. "Well?" She asked. I continued to stare at myself and finallygiggled. I didn't intend it to, but I sounded like a silly girl. "I look pretty amazing," I replied. Brandi always wore heels. Nowwith both of us standing in heels, I realized we were the exact sameheight. "You actually look a lot like me," she.