"May I join you? I was going crazy sitting up in that room." Forget to bring a book?" I brought three of them, but not one of them can hold my interes...t."I asked her what she would like to drink and then I waved the waitress over and ordered for both of us. Then we drank and talked shop for half an hour. Janice was just finishing her third drink when she said:"Can I ask you something?"Expecting it to be something about work I said, "Sure, go ahead." Am I attractive?"I don't know what I read on. You’ll never see a group of Thais working a calculator to see who owes what at the end of a meal. You are obviously better off than your new Thai friend. So it follows that you will indeed be his meal ticket. If your relationship extends past the first night, your wallet will become his. And Thai bar bois love to shop. If he needs a pack of smokes as you walk past a 7/11, get your wallet out. If he likes the color of the T shirt he spied as you walked past a street vendor’s stall, get you. I had never seen him so excited about anything before, now that really got my attention.“The reason I brought you here is so that I can teach you how to use your new powers, how to master them.”“Well no offence gramps,” I said, trying to be as polite about this as I could, “but I seem to be doing okay getting my head around this on my own, I just need some more practise.”At this my grandad laughed again, like I had just said something profoundly foolish. “You think that getting one girl to. I saw your latest bid for the MCDV program. It turns out you were right. They are going to be changing the requirements and want more than just a sweeper. My question is, what are all the empty spaces for? They can’t all be storage. They are all spread out, and there is no obvious reason for them.”“By now, you know I tend to think ahead.“Look at what NASA said in the 70s about our orbit and how it will change our environment so that it is warmer and the poles will start to melt. They have it.