PrivateTim

I am in Chapter 8 of PoA.

December 25, 2005: Jack Hobart passes away.

Can I say that peace just sucks.... I want Granger out on the seas firing broadsides. Thank goodness Napoleon is such a butthead that peace won't last long. Thanks Mark for the spider's web of intrigue that you have weaved.

Except of course for the annoying fact that it is/was a Chinese project. One of many failed/stalled Chinese projects in LA.

CAP Timeline 1900?: Jack Crampton is born 1903: Gail “Tonto” Crampton is born, married to Barry Schluter. April 1925: Jim Crampton is born. May 27, 1925: Steven Schluter is born. 1936: Billy Schluter is born. June 20, 1936: J.P. Crampton is born, the result of an affair between Marie Crampton and Bill Hendrickson. December 17,1944: Steven Schluter dies in World War II. July 14, 1945: Stefan Schluter, the son of Steven Schluter, is born. November 12, 1945: Jeff Hayes is born. 1962-1963 School Year: J.P. Crampton begins teaching at Northwestern University. June 1962: Stefan Bordet Schluter arrives in Claremont to live with Gail Schluter. October 4, 1962: Brad Schluter is born. He is the adoptive son of Billy Schluter, and the biological son of Kevin Carmichael. Janice his mother leaves him with JP & Isidore, March 13, 1968, then commits suicide in SF. December 1962: Andre, JP's partner, is killed in action in Vietnam. March 6, 1963: Andre Charles Clerreault “Ace” is born to Isidore, having been fathered by J.P.'s lover Andre. March 1963: Robbie Hayes is born, the youngest of three children. He is the son of Frank and Brenda Hayes. April 10, 1963: Billy Schulter dies at sea on USS Thresher October 27, 1964: Clare and Billy Crampton are born. Clare is JP's biological daughter, and Billy is Jeff Hayes's biological son. 1968: J.P. Crampton begins teaching at Stanford. July 13, 1968: Jeff Hayes dies of an heroin overdose. March 8, 1969: Marcel is born. He is the biological son of Jeff Hayes, but is raised in France. April 24, 1980: Matt Carrswold is born. He is the biological son of Robbie Hayes, but is adopted by the Carrswold familyand grows up in Shaker Heights, Ohio. May 15, 1980: Wade Danfield is born. He becomes Matt Carrswold's boyfriend after meeting him on the hockey team at Stanford during the 1998-1999 school year. October 19, 1980: Billy dies in a car accident on the night of a party at Escorial. January 19, 1982: Darius Schluter is born. He is the son of Bitty Schluter and a random Persian man, but is raised by Brad, Robbie, and Jeanine. He has one biological half-brother, JJ, and one adopted brother, Will Schluter. July 25, 1982: Gathan Hayes is born. He was raised in Claremont, Ohio by his uncle and aunt, Wally and Clara Hayes. February 1983: Kristin Hendrickson is born. August 26, 1983: Ella Hayes, daughter of Richard Crampton, is born. May 30, 1985: Zach Hayes is born. 1985: J.P.'s lover Roger, and one-time lover Sam, both die of AIDS that year. December 7, 1985: Jeremy Schluter, aka J.J., is born. He is the biological son of Jim Crampton and Bitty Schluter, and has been raised in Malibu, CA with Brad, Robbie, and Jeanine. February 19, 1986: Marie Crampton, aka Maman, dies of natural causes. April 18, 1986: Marie Hobart, daughter of Jack and Clare Hobart, is born. April 20, 1986: Travis Buck is born. September 14, 1986: Will Schluter, son of Brad and Jeanine, is born. July 21, 1987: John Hobart, son of Jack and Clare Hobart, is born. 1990: Gail “Tonto” Schluter dies an old woman, warm in her bed surrounded by grandchildren and great-grandchildren. A death we should all hope to have. March 28, 1995: Greg Anders, Stefan's long-time companion, dies of a heart attack. August 4, 1995: Beatrice “Bitty” Schluter dies of a drug overdose. September 4, 1995: Ace's daughter, Courtney, is born. August 7, 1998: Robbie Hayes reunites with his long-lost son, Matt Carrswold. September 13, 2000: Madison Graves is born. September 14, 2000: Riley van den Boss Danfield is born. September 11, 2001: Robbie Hayes, as well as Jeanine and her partner Hank, die in the Towers. Senator Danfield dies at the Pentagon. March 24, 2003: Robert Edward van den Boss Carrswold is born.

I love how Mark weaves reality into the stories. This story is in 2005 and shortly after this, the Ortega Cartel, tired of people dying to the larger, more powerful cartels opened a small food business. Well you know the rest.....

Should have been "Computers don't need to be connected to networks. If the computer isn't on a network, there is no way for the Trojan to communicate with anybody."

“I’m sorry I sucked in bed,” he spat. “Maybe Preston is better. You should try him out. Or maybe you already have.” And with that, I finally had my answer. Oh please, as if that wasn't the most obvious thing ever. Travis has a right instinct to be threatened by Preston. If Will hasn't made a move to seduce him yet, that says Preston is more than recreation. As to Petrovic, if the boyfriend story was phony, maybe the whole "there is no trust account to mess with Travis" is false too. Maybe there really is. Maybe Petrovic blew up his own car to convince Brad his story was real. Computers don't need to be connected to networks. If the computer is on a network, there is no way for the Trojan to communicate with anybody. I think Will needs to have an adult conversation with Travis about why Will needs to support him at the GBL club, but Will will agree to stop the post club socialization, if that is what Travis wants. I think in a week on Maui it should be possible to mellow enough and have a rational, non-emotional conversation. Maybe Will can take Travis to Mama's Fish House for some Hawaiian bouillabaisse and work it out.

Ha ha! Just as I finish Northern Exposure again!

Funny, I remember all of those well except Flux, which is kind of a blur.

Believe it. Those damn people are everyplace! 🤣

What a worthless chapter..... no blow job for Preston, we don't even know how big his dick is and we don't know what files are on the memory stick!🤯 Okay... just kidding. But I do want to know how big Preston's dick is. I hear the Beacon Hill types are pencil dicks. 🤣 Thanks Mark for the intrigue, the drama, the blue balls.... all of it. I really appreciate the craft. It is so ingrained in me, I was watching the Australian detective show True Colours the other night and had a dream about Connie that night. Totally weird. I hope Preston sticks around, I like seemingly normal characters. I also wonder if the Ortega problem will get fixed this book? Will the files neutralize them and Fellowes? Didn't someone named Fellowes get hacked to death by natives in Bridgemont? Something to think about.

So is Barry 🤣

And here I thought Jeremy was going to do something useful like become a baker...

In a major plot twist.... Travis marries a chick in NY, Will is crying his eyes out, inconsolable in the Harvard Quad and someone sits down next to him and puts his arm around Will. It is Alistair.... the rest is pure magic.

No one from Beacon Hill would be caught dead in a tank top unless they played for the Celtics. Can you imagine Charles Emerson Winchester III in a tank top?

Thanks Mark for the twin spin of Granger and the Will Schluter Story (formerly known as CAP) 🤣🤣 “Yeah, it’s probably the only way I’ll get laid unless I want some sketch encounter,” I groused. I don't remember timelines when various tech/media came out. I know 2005 was way before Grindr, and if I remember correctly after the heyday of AOL M4M chat rooms. I don't remember what programs we used to meet guys. Maybe PlanetOut/Gay.com? Craig's List? The third floor bathroom at Nordstrom? The guys who were more flaming seemed to like that I was masculine and had that ‘jock next door’ look... I do remember several things about the gay scene and how controversial it was to some people if you said a) you were straight acting or b) you wanted a guy who was 'straight acting'. That drove the flame queen set nuts. They didn't just go nuts over the above, but anyone who they judged ("they judged" being the key phrase) was actually too masculine got their scorn. Which brings to this point. Sexual orientation is a self selected identity. No one can tell you you are gay or straight or whatever. You are what you say you are. A lot of truly straight guys used college as a time of exploration. It is entirely possible to have "gay sex" and be completely straight, if that is what you say you are. No amount of queens sniping at you or saying you live in that Egyptian river can change or determine your sexual orientation. If Will and Mr. Beacon Hill wind up having sex, it is still up to Mr. Beacon Hill to determine what his sexual orientation is. In truth Mr. Beacon Hill may not actually KNOW what his sexual orientation is. When you are living with your parents in a home where homosexuality is considered an abnormality (as opposed to an evil) a person is more likely to conform to the norms of the home on a whole host of issues. If you are able to go away to college, live on campus and be out of that environment, that is where you will start maturing and developing ideas of your own. You may become a Democrat because your parents are Republican, only to return to Republican views as you get older because now you have independent life experience. The same may be true in many areas of your life.

Was getting worried about you 😁 I am stuck with George in the Baltic at the moment. I'll get back you! Thanks for the newest chapter.

So that’s why Cavendish didn’t want to leave England. He didn’t want to leave Ward. Granger waited until the sail was drawing as it should be, then went to his cabin, ignoring Cavendish who was still standing on the deck, where he could torture himself in solitude. This is when George annoys me, when he acts like a sophomore girl. "Well do you think he likes me likes me Mr. Weston?" It isn't always about you Georgie Porgie.

"Hey Horatio, give me one, extra-large, spicy Sicilian sausage to go!"

I had some sympathy for Caroline when I thought the bath episode was a drunken mistake, but with the notion that she feigned drunkenness to trap Freddy in an admission about Granger, then use that to blackmail Freddy is despicable.

I love George. But sometimes he can he a butthead. I get he is still a very young man, maybe 20 or 21 or some such thing, but he is horribly hypocritical and takes much more risk every time he has sex on board his ship (or any of the King's ships). The consequences to Caroline could be embarrassing, but for George they would be disastrous to his career, his standing, his family's position and so much more. When I was in high school it was not known by many people I played for both teams and it have been very bad for the sports I played if it were known. As a result I never got drunk at parties. I understood that alcohol was bad for self control. It was bad enough being 16 and filled with hormones.

Granger found that he didn’t feel bad about how he had treated Caroline. He had asked her to tell him about her relationship with Treadway, and she had declined. I think Granger is being a hissy little bitch ala Calvert. It isn't very manly. Granger has has 20 lovers to every one of Caroline's. Has he confessed them all?

First Jack Aubrey, now Mr. Hornblower. Who is next?