<div class="floatleft">(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/7697/f55qjnf6qr2h0cf6g.jpg) <span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"> </span><div align="center"><strong> <span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Steffy – CC</span></strong></div></div>Al is an interesting one.  Seamlessly he gets/negotiates his way to a nice situation as he sits in the bar.  Not getting killed, that was easy.  The rest though, getting drink and food and attention and smiles and more attention, quite skilled!  I’m thinking even a new-age politician.  (<em>’We’ll vote for you Al’)</em><br/><br/>His only mistake?<span class="bbc_u">Everyone</span>is nice!  He has that look--am I sure that's what he thinks?  No, but . . .<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">The</span>Blonde is not nice, not sweet, not . . . there is a quite clear principle at play I think.<br/><br/>My first move to work on reality is to not agree with his assessment.  I’ll have to think on strategy.  Maybe just shake my head or signal, nuh-huh, not me.  Maybe recruiting Taffy—she’d be quite the word-master.  I wonder if she’d do that as a favor or if I'd have to pay.  (I could agree to pay and then not—not sweet for sure! And not nice!)<br/>