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J'accuse! (see, I can do that too 🤣 )

I feel the future is going to be rocky because Will thinks monogamy is an outdated hetero-normative construct. Apparently The Gays didn't really want marriage, which is a bond for "no man to put asunder" and "forsaking all others". Will has no intention to do such a thing.... Casey told him it is okay to be a man whore 🤣 No one mentioned Juno, ju neau what I mean?

Remind me who Jeremy is 🤣

“The Rubios and the Ortegas,” I said. Okay, as a SoCal guy I am sorry, this sounds like a joint venture between Rubio's Fish Tacos and Ortega's chilies. It is like when I see someone in the movies, like Mr. Gower, and I know his name came from the street by Paramount Studios. So thank you Mark not just for the final chapter, but for the continuing saga of Chronicles of an Academic Predator. I hope you stay healthy and productive..... or at least program an AI to carry on your work. As to Preston... I kind of agree with Travis that he could be a threat, but if he is a threat then maybe Will and Travis aren't the eternal couple. How many people in the 2000's stay with their high school sweetheart? If it was 1950, sure, but it ain't 1950. Even Brad and Robbie broke up in college. Jack and Claire did not and look what happened. And I still want Alistair to fuck Will while they are at Harvard.....

How interesting would it be to have Granger be the one to convey Nappy to Saint Helena?

Wow, almost exactly one year since I last read this chapter. I'd forgotten how kind, generous and without guile Tallyrand is. Plus George gets some plonk in the deal too. If we can't send John Paul to 19th century France, perhaps Alex Granger's grandfather can find a case of Château Haut-Brion vintage 1801 in an ancient cellar that had been sealed off.

You don't mention it, but surely since Granger is involved, the opera is going to see must be The Magic Flute.

Happy Thanksgiving again Mark and thanks for the newest Granger. Have I ever told you how much I love Spain? The first time I went I think I was 11 or 12 and I expected Spaniards to look like Mexicans. I was shocked by the number of blonds with blue eyes. I also fell in love with Spanish food, especially tapas. I was already obsessed with the Sharpe and Hornblower series and familiar with all the battles in the Peninsular Campaign and Trafalgar so I started a love affair with Spain that has never ended. Please don't kill anyone I like. Re-reading Bridgemont over the last couple of months reminded me how many great people died. They can lose a leg like Freddie or an arm like Nelson, but that's it. I don't remember if I read of the deaths of powder monkeys and ships boys in Hornblower or other sources, but the idea of 9 and 10 year olds being killed just saddened me. The same is true of drummer boys in the armies of the day. I am looking forward to George in Spain, renewing old friendships.

As if I peel potatoes 😮

Happy Thanksgiving Mark and thanks for the newest chapter. With no WSJ today and no mail, I was desperate for things to read! Can I just say that Slater is my least favorite recurring character in the series even back to the B-rad days. "Juno" is someone we know.... a Dalby, Danfield, etc. The progression in surfing is amazing. One it was enough to just go down a wave and not fall off. Then you had to do a bottom turn and cutback. That progressed to floaters and the next logical step of an aerial. Aerials gave way Air 360s, but even those are so common now that 12 year olds are doing them. Hughie Vaughan was the first, but a few months from now 12 year olds will be doing flips too because they will obsessively work at completing one.

Well I for one, am going to be a little sad when the cartel takes out Travis...... and Will is collateral damage 🤣 Thanks Mark for the newest twist and the continuing saga. I was going to object to drinking daiquiris on Maui as opposed to Mai Tais, until I remembered one of the best drinks I ever had was a pineapple daiquiri at the now gone Pineapple Hill restaurant in Kapalua. I really have no clue where the story is going, or even how many chapters are left, but it is a fun ride.

OMG, never did I expect "dripping pussy" in a Mark Arbour story... 🤣

Math was not my best subject, but I believe 1,000 x 0 = 0.

No, Will needs someone more like him. Travis is no more suited for Will than Calvert is for Granger.

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! 🤣