I'm wondering if we shouldn't start heading west and see how long it takes. I'd like to conserve fuel on the auxiliary and use the sails as much as we... can." From what I could find out," Tracy added the rest of her information for him, "it looks like light winds in the morning, then picking up later in the day. Long term reports say that's what we can expect for the next month or so. Sounds like an equatorial version of the 'slow boat to China'." Let's think about getting underway after lunch. Not that I had anything against that kind of thing. Ijust didn't want to associate with it, was all. I'd been planning ontelling him off today, but thankfully he hadn't shown up.Allison was flouncing off followed by her entourage, not having waited fora reply to her last crack, and I returned to my platter of the daystasteless franken-food."What is up with Julia, anyway, man?" asked Dave. "First you take yourlife in your hands to be with her, then she vanishes?" Beats the hell out of me," I. . and the girls." What about them?" Well, Frank and I both knew that the girls would have urges, and that there were very few boys around, at the best of times. And we really didn't want them settling for just anybody. So as the man of the house, it became Frank's job to satisfy all of the women's urges in the house." You mean he fucked them?" Not all of them, just Shawna and Helen, just like you have." Y-you knew?":"Of course I did, you don't think you could get away with something like that. There he was, about half way down the alley, waiting for me. Except this time, he was going the other way, and he was only one house away from the street!"Oh, jeez, Virgil. Pleeeeze don't go out in the street!" I walked quickly toward him, just praying he wouldn't spook. Just like before, when I got close, he moved away. And you know what? When he got to the street, he stopped, looked both ways, then sprinted across into the next alley. He might have been a pain in the ass, but he had good.