I'd gotten a touch of malaria on the Canal, and now here I was playing guard dog to the damned Seabees, watching to see that no sniper took a potshot ...t those hotshot 'dozer jockeys.Kathleen her name was, the name the missionaries gave her. I couldn't get my mouth around her native name. Damned if she didn't initiate me into the mysteries, and with none of the nonsense the girls stateside used to insist on. Got right to the point. And whatever else the missionaries taught her, it didn't include. She put them down and said her father's boat was not there. She said " Maybe he and my mother got away".The lead Tug turned his lights on and the rest followed suit.About day break the flotilla rounded the point at Dauphin Island and began to feel the Gulf swell.Tim was still at the wheel. Cami offered to take it for a while.Tim hung around long enough to become satisfied that she knew what she was doing.Early in the afternoon two days later they docked at Galveston.The power was on in the. I ordered his favourite drink and mine for when he returned.I like sitting around talking mostly. After a while the music changed to disco with the BeeGees and I saw my friend on the dance floor with two or three ladies around him.A woman dressed in a sexy white dress came up to our table and asked to join me.You can never hear with loud music so I beckoned her to sit.I pointed to my drink and she put her thumb up.I beckoned the waiter and he took my order for food and drinks. The music died. But a 1 to 3 and she flops.There were several other variables. Filming in Hollywood, Vancouver, NewYork, Toronto or on location all had associated costs. Hollywood was thehighest cost, but your stars would cost 10% less, because they couldwork near their home. On location was most expensive.The groups would spend one period making their choices, and then anotherhour doing calculations to try and calculate costs and revenues fortheir picture, based on the defaults. (Of course there was.