Of course, it may not be much, for a town’s treasury. I had no idea about that.While Erna was building the cofferdam, I was trying to come up with p...umps that could make headway against all the leaks. I had no idea how bad the cofferdam would leak, but whatever the leakage rate was we needed to pump water out faster than it leaked in or the water level inside would never go down.A US Navy mechanic could describe quite a few different types of pumps, but most of them depended upon materials not. ..you know? Be near you..."She developed a sour face and made the sarcastic sounding comment of,"Oh that's great," while rolling her eyes in an expression of distaste.I had never seen a young woman so full of herself and I was desperate tocome up with some way to justify getting closer to her and I certainlycould not imagine living my life without her so I blurted out a deepdesire that must have been there since I first saw her. I was tremblingwhen my next statement was made, I said, "My. "Okay, I've got an idea," he said, and he turned to a blank sheet of paper in his notebook. He started drawing symbols and doing calculations.Joey frowned. "What are you doing?" Calculating hex codes for some seven-segment patterns." He looked up and saw Joey squinting at him in bafflement. "It's technical," he offered as an explanation.Joey watched him as Simon worked out details for eight patterns, and then arranged the numbers into a sequence. "Got it," he announced when he finished. "Okay,. Finally he said OK and that he had figured out a way to get away, on some excuse. So we set the weekend and time. We were finally on our way to fulfill our fantasies. Two weeks away on the weekend. We didn't talk as much anymore while we were online. And we only hadthe online sex once during the two weeks. I think it was the anticipation of what was to come. And a little bit of worrythat one of us would back out at the last minute. The two weeks went by so slowly. The day finally.