Chapter 320

I spent the rest of the day with my mates. We hit the gym for some r & r working out. Even with her large size Jenny was still doing exercises that her doc had approved. Jenny had another appointment with the doc on Wednesday the birth date was closing fast. After working out we had a quick lunch at the refreshment center.

We cleaned the house from top to bottom and even Crash and Marlene helped. Crash kept the trash cans empty and Marlene took a turn at the wash machines and driers. With the eight of us in the house plus guests we had two big commercial units. They made life easy until it came time to fold that big - assed pile of laundry when it came out of the drier. After the chores were done Jenny let us know it was time for dinner and where she wanted to go.

We went out for an early supper at the inn. Jenny wanted the surf and turf. Their seafood was always good, so not one of us objected to going there. There was always a crowd and a lot of people we knew. We asked for and got a table off to the side and out of view. It allowed us to have more quiet time together.

We had another wonderful evening, this time in the living room. We were just holding, touching, talking, and caressing - doing all the things that made us the family that we were.

We talked about my TV appearance for tomorrow. Jenny reminded me again and again to be careful in answering their questions so that I did not fall into any traps or divulge any potential classified information. All my mates were going with me; I had requested 5 tickets for audience seating. The producers told me that two were all that was allowed for a guest. "Not a problem, I won't be there then, find yourself another guest," I replied. It didn't take long for them to find three more seats in the front row.

Sunday morning we ate at the Country Kitchen on the Island. It was on the way to Washington where I was to appear on the ZZN Sunday Morning Washington show. It was to be a solo appearance. There was no one from any agency to go with me for backup.

The show was to be live at 10. We arrived an hour early as instructed. They said it was to meet the panel, make up and sound test. I always wore a business suit as did all my mates. In the gym it was shorts, and at home it was over-grown tee shirts with nothing underneath.

I felt sorry for the poor makeup girl. She nearly had a heart attack when I took off my jacket. I never go anywhere without my Glock. The look on her face when she saw my holster tucked under my arm with the gun was priceless. She said nothing and quickly regained her composure.

With ten minutes to go, I went to the bathroom one more time then had a quick walk to the girls for one last piece of advice from them. Vicky and Ching Lee were the designated laptop holders. I kept my secure phones but set them to vibrate.

At 10 on the dot, the stage lights came up and the announcer went through the show opening spiel by announcing the panel and the guest for today's show. It was strange to hear my name called out by the baritone announcer.

Candy Brown was the only female on the panel and the most liberal of this bunch. Her dislike of me was obvious in the pre-air meeting. Arthur Kennedy played the role of moderator and came across as being maybe slightly left of center. David Young, on the other hand, was hard right and proud of it.

"Today the panel welcomes for the first time, Roberta Jones, President of Jones Business Groups. Good morning Roberta, it is good to have you here this morning," Arthur said.

"Good morning Ms. Brown, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Young - it is a pleasure to be here. Please call me BJ; everybody does," I replied.

Starting off round one Mr. Kennedy made the opening statement, "According to your website, JBG is a multifaceted company with divisions in security, aviation, transportation rental, real estate rentals, training and a gym. That is a wide scope of business ventures. Yet JBG is a privately owned company. How do you manage all that?"

"Well Mr. Kennedy, we have to get it right don't we, you left out one of the most important parts of my company – the tanning salon. One cannot forget the importance of ones beauty can we?"

At that point there was laughter coming from the audience.

"As I stated, the six of us are the sole owners of JBG. As I said that the studio cameras panned to the girls.

We started small with an idea and never stopped. Each of us has department responsibilities and yet we cross-train to be able to run the other lines of business. However, I must admit the CFO position might be over my head," I replied.

"Jones Business Groups is the new kid on the block; how is it that you secured such a prestigious contract with the state department?" Candy asked.

"JBG supplies security for 10 colleges with 20 thousand students and faculty with over 500 security personnel. Those employees are trained in-house with our own training program. We developed that training program with experts from many law enforcement agencies. It is a complete training program with firearms, self defense, first aid, CPR and takedown skills offered, along with annual recertification," I replied and then added.

"Now state, local, and federal law enforcement go through our program. Our program convinced the Rochester police department to allow JBG to form our own college police department at Rochester University. It works well for JBG and the city of Rochester. Expanding internationally with the State Department contract was the next logical step," I said.