As soon as the first musical note sounded Dan asked Rachel to dance and she looked over at me like a good little wife asking if it was okay and I told... her to go ahead.If Rachel had really been my wife and knowing that Dan was an asshole I would have kept a close eye on the two of them, but she wasn't so I didn't. Instead I sat and talked to Bill and that got me part of the story. He and Dan were in town to look at our facilities, at our quality control in particular. They were interested in our. "Yo!" he said."Yo, yourself," Janie replied. "You sound out of breath." I bought an exercise machine," he fibbed. Actually, he'd bought a room full of them; weight machines, free weights, a running treadmill, exercise bike. All professional grade equipment, and he'd been putting it to use. "How's school?" I shipped the last of my dorm stuff home," she said. "All I have left is what I can carry on the plane, or don't plan to take with me." When's your last day?" The twelfth, as if you didn't. "Do you have any idea where to get one?" Actually with Jeff's version of green tea we need a giant stainless steel chopper. We can get one from any industrial kitchen supplier I expect," I suggested. "But we also need a steamer to get rid of the hard woody texture. He swears it will stay pliable if we steam it before we chop it. I have no idea if that will work or not. But it will be easy enough to test. We can take a couple of woody stalks' and put them in a little tent and put a teapot in. Since the hotel was sort of an aging flea bag, he decided that their own camp was the better choice and they started setting up the tents and the other necessary work of settling down with a four hundred personnel fighting force.A runner came into the command tent and informed him his presence would be required at a "staff meeting" the following morning at 0800 hours. It was good news because he was afraid he would be ignored before they took time to hear his report.Fortunately, the shower.