Chapter 222

I woke up the next morning and felt a lot better about everything. A new week was starting and I was ready for it. The first thing I did after my ride and shower was call Jeremy. "Jeremy I'm going to have to bring that stuff to you in the back of the cruiser, so what do you want first?"

"God Sylvia, we haven't even had breakfast yet. Wait a couple of hours and bring in the computers. I need to decide what I'm going to do to them," he said.

"Jeremy, I need to decide what I want to do about your retail space today. I know you have the place to store this stuff, so since you are going to be selling it, I feel like we should move it all to your second floor at least."

"That's fine, you can bring a load every time you come to town," he said.

"That's what I thought. So the first load will be computers." I said. I went out and loaded the cruiser. I got almost all of the crate inside the back and front seat. I had three that wouldn't fit, so I decided to keep those. I knew that I could load the Linux program on them and get up to the net easily. I could use the small program on line and be almost guaranteed not to be hacked. I could keep my current computer for work related junk.

"So any idea what your plan is?" I asked Jeremy.

"My plan is to put them on ebay first with the Linux system. Just to see how they go. Want to read my description of the computer," he asked.

"No thanks, you know much more about this shit than I do," I said.

"Well thanks for the compliments. Allen and I want to buy two for ourselves. With that little Linux system they would be great for banging around the Net. If they got lost, we would have nothing to lead back to us. Allen says they are kind of like a burn phone. He says we need to market them that way. I'm going to try it, and see what happens."

"Sounds good to me. That is all of the ones I want to sell in on load." I said. "So what do you want next the book readers?"

"Sure why not. I have to experiment with them to see what you have," he said.

"You mean what we have," I said smiling. Why not it cost me nothing to stroke his ego. I had breakfast and never ate lunch any more, so I went by the county board of elections to get the form for entering the race for Sheriff. I had given it some though and I had come to the conclusion that rumor didn't count. I had never been convicted of anything so fuckem.

I dropped off the computers then went to the courthouse. "Hello there, I would like a form to enter the primary for Sheriff," I told the small white haired lady behind the counter at the board of elections office.

"Well are you registered to vote?" she asked.

"No I'm not," I replied.

"Well first you have to register to vote. You have been a resident for over a year haven't you?" she asked.

"Yes ma'am I have," I replied.

"Do you own property in Warren County?" she asked. "You don't have to, but it's the easiest way to prove residency."

"Yes I do," I said. Then I gave her my address. Under the new 911 system I had a real street address.

"Well then you are all ready to join the race. All I need now is $500 for the filing fee," she said.

"That sounds fair," I said paying her in cash with gray money. It had a certain poetic justice to it.

I left the board of elections office and drove home. I had a pitcher of iced tea in the refrigerator. I was trying to cut by on the diet coke. I drank way too many of those. That said I had a formula for making iced tea that was easy and pretty darn good. I didn't cook it either.

So I poured a glass of iced tea and took my burn computer to the Internet. I used the throw away to see if Mary Ellen's site was still up. It seemed that if you didn't pay your rent the provider suspended your site. Which meant my porn from Mary Ellen was off the net. Now I was stuck wondering how many people locally knew about me, and Lamar's porno. Those were the most likely things to haunt me during a run for Sheriff.

I was also chatting in an adult room at the same time. I was really enjoying the back and forth when my phone rang. I saw that it was Kara and I knew it was time to put and end to her, but I decided just to see what she wanted first.

"Well hello there Kara," I said.

"You have already forgotten your lessons?" she asked.

"Sweetie don't confuse sexual playacting for real life," I warned her.

"Then I guess we need to quit, because I wasn't playacting," she said.

"Then I guess we do. I do want to wish you a lot of luck with your career." I said. Blow her out was a hard thing to do, but in an election, shit like that would kill my chances. No matter how much I enjoyed her, and I did enjoy her, I had to look at the bigger picture.

I went back to the chatroom and enjoyed being someone else for another half hour. It wasn't the same as sex with Kara, but it was something.

I realized that it was time for dinner, so I just disappeared from the chatroom like everyone else did. when they were through. My idea of through had more to do with food, than with sexual gratification.

I drove to the steak house in the plaza. It was one of those that you walked down the line and placed your order at the grill, then a girl brought it to you. I really didn't much care for the service setup, but it was close and the food was pretty okay. I picked up a salad and turned down the potato and bread options. I had the sirloin steak and salad with a glass of iced tea that was a bit better than mine. Of course their's was probably made with real tea.