Chapter 12: Rest of the Week and The Lab

Virginia and I spent the rest of the week until just before noon Friday at the Lab making the necessary changes. Several proposals had been dusted off and resubmitted. I could see where a couple had real good merit but had been skipped over because of the person making the proposal expected to be placed in charge of it. Virginia, Randy, Bill and I had a discussion about this on Friday morning. We agreed that certain individuals would become team leaders while the proposal writer would be the lead scientist to the team leader. We shelved this decision to be announced at a later date. Bill and Randy were told how to get in touch with us in case of an emergency and we left.

At the same time during the week Linda and Virginia had been busy with the computer. They had two women one in the United States and one in Catania, (Sicily) Italy. All had preformed the tasks and would be taking the personality tests shortly after we had developed a baseline for judging them. Linda and Virginia were very taken with Teresa Trevani who lived in Catania but had been trained at the University of Washington and had since divorced her no good husband, as Linda described him.

Thursday evening Linda was excited about the going to the ranch on Friday. I was surprised to find out this was to be her first vacation in over ten years. Linda's schedule was so cleared that she said she could pack for us Friday morning but we went ahead and packed ourselves. At 8PM we drove Linda's car to the airport and parked it for her return. This, more than anything, seemed to make Linda believe the trip was going to happen as planned.