Message-ID: <59063asstr$1243843802@assm.asstr.org> X-Original-To: story-submit@asstr.org Delivered-To: story-submit@asstr.org X-Original-Message-ID: <1306c15a0905311712p33750fb5xaa2da95117aa49fd@mail.gmail.com> From: John Darts <johndarts@gmail.com> X-ASSTR-Original-Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 20:12:46 -0400 Subject: {ASSM} Life and Its Little Oddities Ch 6 (By: TheSearch4) Lines: 731 Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:10:02 -0400 Path: assm.asstr.org!not-for-mail Approved: <assm@asstr.org> Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.moderated,alt.sex.stories Followup-To: alt.sex.stories.d X-Archived-At: <URL:http://assm.asstr.org/Year2009/59063> X-Moderator-Contact: ASSTR ASSM moderation <story-admin@asstr.org> X-Story-Submission: <story-submit@asstr.org> X-Moderator-ID: emigabe, RuiJorge This is a fictional story. Any relationship to truth is in your mind. This is a story owned by the author and may not be sold or used for commercial purposes. It may be posted in full to any site where it is freely given to any and no fees are required to join or belong. Life and Its Little Oddities By: TheSearch4 Chapter 6 Things were now going well and you could bet sometime would screw it up. The building behind the house went up fast and the pool at the square was moving along fine. The pool crew had promised they would be done at least three days before Christmas with the big one and a week before with the small one. The electric heaters were in place in the smaller building. The large one had been converted many months ago. Today's news was constantly talking about how sales were down at the retail stores and malls. How odd with so many unemployed, jobs being lost and unemployment funds running out, John thought. States could raise their taxes as much as they wished and never get enough money to pay their employees. Cities and counties in Virginia were now going bankrupt at an amazing rate. To be solvent you need to be able to pay your bonds that were due, payrolls and buy needed supplies. Without state help for schools many governments were having to close them. The sales tax was not producing enough income either as less was being bought. Looking at the current picture it was slowly still sliding down hill. Government said a lot of things that were just smoke to cover just how bad things were. It was sound bites that the news media bought and sold to people. When it all fell apart the media would sit wondering how it happened? They would never see they were a big part of the how it happened? Real news reporting had long been gone from its place. Today if it was sensational and not germane to the story, report it and cause a scandal. That reporter would be rewarded for it. Ethics in news did not exist any more. Sam came in to John's office and sat. "Well I need more blood and another scan." John had to laugh at this. "This time Sam I am not playing your silly game without answers." Sam knew he had to at least let some of his research out. "OK I tell you some of it." "Good bye Sam and have a nice day." John went back to reading. "Are you always this tough?" "Ask David that question Sam." He kept doing what he was into. "No thanks I have heard all about it from David and Carlton. You do know you can be a real prick don't you?" "Sam do you know who you work for? You just stepped way over the line and I will not allow that. So get your ass out of my office and when you can come in here and act like a man then may be we can discuss what you want." Sam knew he had been dismissed and got up and left. He went to Dana and confessed his transgression. "It makes me mad Sam, what were you thinking?" "I was not thinking or this problem would never have happened." "I would suggest you not try to see him for a day or two. The economy is crumbling and it is cutting in to his heart. He knows the amount of children that are going to die from this and it eats at him. Many will not see a good Christmas this year and some will see their last Christmas. That he can do nothing about. We don't have the resources to take them in and could never find them all if we tried." Sam felt the knife John was feeling now. "I have never felt like this before Dana. How can he carry that kind of pain?" "He knows the people here will survive and many children will end up here. He has planted information on safety for children on the Internet and some will see it. Parents looking to start a new life will leave them here. We will only take the very young, like from infant to around ten or eleven. Older children can work and help build a life for their family. We can feed 2-3 young children for every adults food ration. So we take in no adults and just children." Sam knew better than to question where children could live here. If Dana said that would happen you could bet on it. He was watching Dana run a test. "Who do we have pregnant now?" "Just me Sam so it is no big deal." Sam's eyes shot up and he was looking intensely at her. "Your just pulling my chain right?" "Not in the least Sam. I have run it twice and both results say I am going to have a baby. So now I get to tell the father. Do you think he will marry me?" "God girl he will be the oldest man I have ever seen produce a child." "He told me his great grandfather produced one at 70. I just prayed that ability ran in his family. You know Kelly is going to be beside herself when she hears this." Sam was pleased for her and yet he wondered just how long the improvements in John's health would hold up? That was all new ground and he just could not believe it was a long-term thing. Dana decided she was just going to have to call a family meeting. Once John and Kelly were seated in the family room she decided to get started. "We have two issues to be considered here. One is the nano shot has cured seven cases of black lung and two cases of cancer. I don't mean slowed down I mean cured." John was amazed at this report. "Darling your dad was a genius that is for sure." "Now the big issue is we are going to have a baby and I need to know how you two feel about that?" Kelly was up and hugging her mother in a flash. "Is it a brother or sister mom?" "To early to tell dear as I am just a couple weeks pregnant." John walked over to her and held her and kissed her. "I thank you love. You need to slow it down a little and let me carry more of the load." "John I am doing fine and will keep moving at my current pace. The wrong thing to do would be slow down. But thank you for trying dear. Now do you think you might be willing to make an honest woman out of me?" "Any time you complete the arrangements as I told you before." "Do you have the license?" "Yep and a circuit judge willing to stop by and do the service. I also have the paperwork for him to sign for Kelly making her mine. He has already reviewed it and it was published in the paper. So it just takes our wedding to finish it." Dana pulled his face down to hers and kissed him. It was an earth shaking experience for her. She had never felt this before and hoped she would again if that were possible. Her panties were soaked and her breath was coming in short gasps. It was something she had never experienced with John. But his willingness to marry her with no questions was just more than she could handle. Then having the paper work for Kelly was beyond what she had ever expected. God she loved him and she knew Kelly did as well. Then there was noise in the kitchen. "What is that John?" "Hopefully it is our dinner being cooked." John said and Kelly laughed at her mom's expression. "Mommy, daddy got us a cook so we have more time together. Mrs. Minch is very nice and her kids are grown and long gone. Her husband died three years ago and she is lonely." Kelly spit it out like a machinegun. This was another of John's good deeds. "I assume someone came and ask about doing something for her?" "Nope she pulled a gun on one of the security men who came and asked her if she might not be more comfortable in one of the small apartments. She told him when the company tried to do that she shot the man. I found out she did that just as she said. So I was asked to go talk with her." Dana was still waiting for him to go on. "Well don't just stop there." "Well I got there and she gave me coffee and pie and we talked. She had applied for several jobs and was never given one. Before her husband died she ran the club restaurant and bar. She wants to stay at her old home and will work for us. Our agreement is she will cook breakfast and dinner for us. We eat little at lunch and often nothing. But she said she would be sure we had things to warm up." That seemed like a good plan to Dana. It would make the baby coming easier for her. "Fine as long as I get to cook on weekends." "Sorry dear the deal she wanted was for 6 days a week. So you get Sundays only unless there is a Saturday night dance at the club. Then she will help handle that." "The two dances a month will always be on Saturday nights. The first dance will be New Years Eve and then the second and fourth Saturdays. The band has all new instruments and Tammy has a full wardrobe for performing. That seemed fair as they are not getting paid for the shows." "I am not arguing in any way dear. Will the stage, lights and sound system be done by then?" "The stage is done now with and entrance from the back. The band and Tammy have dressing rooms now. The sound system is wired and the speakers will be installed just after Christmas. The lights were a little trickier in that the ceiling was not the right height. It was far too high for a normal system. So platforms had to be built for that. Two platforms with one on to either side of the room, a light bar in front of the stage and one platform for the back of the room. Those will be installed next week. But come New Years all will be ready and checked out." Just then Mrs. Minch called them to dinner. They all demanded she sit and eat with them. She did argue, but you could see she was pleased. The talk flowed about their day and the older woman knew she was included, as they said just what they felt. She would never repeat it to anyone else. What was said was family business and not for others to know. But she felt that she was part of one once more and that was a very good feeling. After dinner Dana, Kelly and John walked the city. They stopped by the city pool and looked over how it was coming along. "This will be a great place to come a few evenings a week. The fact that the whole family can come and use it together makes it very nice." Dana was able to see just how busy the pool would be. As they walked through the cold weather it did make them come closer together. Kelly hung on John's hand and arm as did Dana on the other side. John enjoyed this closeness and savored it. Once back up the hill and into the house the warmth felt good. Kelly headed to get her bath and Dana went with John to the living room. "I saw the Governor of California today closing down many programs and departments of government. This is really getting bad isn't it?" "California was a welfare state and one that tried to transfer wealth from one group to another. That is a socialist ideology. Now the far liberal left are socialists and the far conservative right are fascist. They are so close together it is frightening. But these groups are small compared to the many they sell what sounds like good ideas to. So here the fact one group worked and one did not, didn't make any difference. It does not work because the need for more and more money keeps growing to support those not working, that is until there just is no place for it to come from. The left demands more and the right fights to keep what they have. That is where civil war comes from." Dana looked at John and she knew he was educating her. "Why do these problems start and grow?" She had heard civil war and did not want to go there. "First of all, understand education is the key to making money and supporting a family. I assume you have noticed everyone here gets paid and has a job, even if it is housewife? She does not get paid directly, but her husband does and she really works for him keeping their home and also raising their children. So they are partners in his job." "I never looked at it that way before. But we have a lot of adults taking classes to learn more here. Wives also seem to take them as well. Why?" "Your going to have our baby and you have Kelly now. Are you going to have to help them grow up forever?" "No." "Then you had better be prepared to get a job when they no longer need your help right? Jobs give people self satisfaction. Here pay is based on many issues. It is not nearly what people could make elsewhere. But they can live very well here on what they do make. Here there are no taxes on their income." Now it dawned on her. "OK they are preparing for later. But how do they know what kinds of classes to take?" "Jimmy and Tommy have every job we see needing to be filled for the next ten years listed on our local area network. It shows the education we would like for the person filling that job." "I assume you will have several apply and say they are all qualified what do you do?" "Every job will have a test that must be taken and passed. The high score gets the job, if they passed the interviews. The interview is a week working with people doing that job. They each get to evaluate that person before our testing them. Finding good people with good attitudes is important to successfully filling any job. So people doing that job know what is needed to succeed best of all." "Why is California having so much of a problem now?" "Because it paid so much more for government employees their cost of living grew like mad. Take most of the large states by population and their cities and they all have a high cost of living. It would shock you at what living in New York City costs. The utility bills or cost of an average apartment in New York City would support a family in many small towns. Many of these costs come from taxes by government. So it is not just California that has this problem. Theirs is just larger than most." This whole problem John was planning for, was starting to make a lot more sense to her. "Did this happen over night?" John laughed at this. "No way dear, it has taken many years to bring the house of cards down. Many bad moves were made to get us here. One being social security was a large fund and was sitting there waiting to be needed. The politicians decided to take it and put IOU's in the fund for it. They spent that fund on welfare and new programs they wanted. So today paying social security is draining the governments tax collections. They don't have more money coming into the fund than going out today. This happened a good number of years ago and now it can't be fixed and keep the programs it stated running as well." "It all comes back to poor management by government?" "My dear most of the politicians are lawyers. They don't think long term at all. Their idea of long term is finished with a judge's decision. They don't even have to worry about the effect the decision they created causes ten years from now. That is some other lawyer's job. Here you have people who could not manage any manufacturing plant, large retail store or for that matter a restaurant and they are running a country. They have little respect for those they are supposed to serve. God forbid they should ever be honest in what they say." "You really don't care much for lawyers do you?" "Nope at least not for most of the arrogant fools. Sorry sugar that group just is one I would not trust and will have zero of them here." Dana go up and came over and sat on his lap. "Thanks for answering my questions love. I am sure to you some sound dumb." John looked at Dana and she could feel his frustration. "My love I am willing to share anything with you. Your never dumb in any way. Hell I am still learning each and every day." Now Dana smiled at him and melted his heart. "I jumped on Sam after he told me how stupid he had been." "Now Sam was dumb dear. He forgot just who he worked for. The problem here is I have to draw a line and never allow others working for me to step over it. Thank God I have you and Kelly to be completely human with. Pulling this together has been hard and the two of you have given me a lot of relief from the pressure." She had seen his way of dealing with others but never questioned it. They headed up stairs and she went to get a bath and John to read to Kelly. He read every night to the girl and she loved the time with him. This had also made her understand he did always keep his promises to her. Once he had Kelly tucked in and kissed goodnight he went to get his shower. That was part of his day he did enjoy. The shower here had twelve heads and hit him from many angles and levels. The pressure was high and he loved the way it relaxed him. As he crawled into bed Dana rolled over and held him. "Lover I don't understand this but you have turned me into a wanton woman." "Baby you have been adjusting to me for some time now. You never trusted any boy or man after the rape. There were many walls built up to protect you. So it has been slow going for you to take them down." His understanding of this did surprise her. "I still don't trust most men or older boys John." "But my love you finally completely trust me and that is what counts here. You have opened yourself up completely to me without reservations." She had to agree this was very different and it felt good. But she did not see that before her trust was not really complete. "I have always trusted you John." "Yes that is true Dana. But there is trust and then there is trust. One is hard to tell from the other outwardly. But it is much deeper and one where you have completely opened yourself to the other. For you I would never have expected to see you do that due to your trauma. But thank God for some reason you did and I appreciate it." Dana had to consider these comments and look very deep inside. It was not something that was conscious as a decision. But she did feel different with John than before. The old defensive part of her just was not here between them. "I don't understand it but I do like it also." He kissed her and she like to passed out from the feelings she had. It was emotional and yet electric. Every nerve in her body was vibrating as they kissed. She just held on tight and enjoyed the release of her own passion. As his hands rubbed over her body she felt small tremors hitting her body. When he touched her breast she liked to explode as the nerves just over loaded and she came right then. This had never happened before, as she just could not have a climax. He had felt her climax and slid his hand down onto her small pussy. She kept it shaved as she did not like the hair. He slipped his finger down into her crack, she liked to have gone nuts. Then he started sliding it in circles around her clit and she was shaking all over. Once he started playing with her clit she exploded once more. Now he mounted her and slowly slid into her as deep as possible. As they had intercourse she found very new feelings from her body. Sex had never been like this before and she loved it. But it was not fast or slow. It was a feeling of being loved completely and without reservations. This lasted for well over an hour and she could have gone on forever. The messages she was getting from John were so satisfying, she could not believe she never felt them before now. Once they climaxed together John lay beside her and held her. Her body was still firing off small explosions and she loved how this felt to her. Just tonight she must have climaxed at least ten times and that was something she never knew was possible. God she loved this man and would do anything for him. "Darling what do you say we take a shower together? Your pretty wet and sleeping might be more comfortable for you after one." Dana looked down into John's eyes with such passion he almost came himself. "I will follow you anywhere my love. You have reached into my soul and I love having you there. Now I understand how Kelly can love you as she does. She loves you so much and knows daddy will always be there for her. There is never any question in her mind on just where you stand in her world. Now there is none in my world either." She held him so tight she left marks on him. After showering and drying each other off they went to bed with John holding Dana in a soft embrace. That next morning they sat down for breakfast and were shocked at the food ready for them. Mrs. Minch had really fixed a big breakfast. "Now Greta sit down and eat with us. We will never get all this down." They ate and talked about plans for the day and things that needed finishing before Christmas. It was an enjoyable hour spent together and Greta fit right in. She had suggested they build a toyshop and only sell toys made here in the town later on. That many ladies could make dolls and dresses that the shop could buy and sell. John decided it might be a good time to just after Christmas to buy some toys returned to the manufactures. Then just store them for other holidays and birthdays. He knew his next check from VEPCO was going to be around three hundred thousand dollars. He would see just how many toys he could buy with that and stock his toy store. But he also would use a vault to store more than the store could take. He had a small shop with injection molding machines and die cast machines. They could do some toy work as well that would be modeled off ones he bought. That was added to his list of items to do. The morning went quickly and Jimmy and Tommy had spent a very good period rebuilding several large computers. Now they had a very good Internet system on their machines. They were backing up all the data they got each day and downloading schools, universities and government systems. We would have the very best base for building new knowledge later. A child could take every class from 1st grade to graduating college on our computer system. The two had done great and John was very pleased. The small issues that had worried him were slowly being solved now. They could do most things that a community would need to survive. But they did not build firearms, make gunpowder or produce anything lethal. If they had to they most likely could figure it out. But food, clothing, education and a good family environment were being built here. The furniture shop made everything by hand and some was sold over the Internet to the few who could afford it. It helped pay for the equipment and provide some against salaries. But getting hand carved solid wood furniture was today not easy. We were one of the very few who did that. Each set was different as there was no line of the same things. So that group of the very rich still bought things like this. The hard woods here allow the production of top quality products. The ranches were now producing meat animals and shelters had been cut into the mountainside. Just two valleys were used for this. We would produce over a thousand head of cattle, five hundred head of sheep and a couple thousand pigs each year. There would be chickens and turkeys as well. The trick that was worked out were the tanks for producing fish. We produced several types of fish and processed them, then stored them frozen. Meat was something we would not run out of. A big need was grains and wheat, oats and corn were the main ones for us. All these were bread grains and cereal ones as well. Next were potatoes both white and sweet ones. These were often freeze dried so we lost none. We needed sugar and that came from sugar beets. The unused portion was great food for feeding animals out. Of course we had some cows to supply milk and that took silage and ground corn. So our farming was something we had to protect. We had good tractors and plenty of fuel for the diesel engines. It would be several years before we needed more fuel for that. Here the mountains allow for the fruit trees to be grown up the sides of them. Knowing that there would be frosts when trees were in bloom protected areas were picked and electric heaters placed to assure that would not kill the blooms. By blowing the heat up the side of the mountain and holding it in a smaller area, frosts could be prevented for destroying a harvest. Many steps had to be taken to prevent crop failures and weather disasters. But as each was identified a study was done to find solutions that would work. It was all going to be planning and having answers before there were problems. But elevation, cold temps and moisture were the main issues here. This is where the hydroponic gardens would help. The case study John had built was growing each day. He had been documenting each day's work and accomplishments. It provided him a reference to go back and look at why a decision was made or what factors were involved. That allowed him to go back and change some decisions based on better data. Being on computer he could search for key words and find where that decision was made and why. Tommy took John's notes each day and built a decision tree for him to use. That gave him a good visual picture of what was happening and what was done. It also helped John focus on where he needed to go next. Anyone assigned a task was required to fill out the decision tree form when they were done. These were shown in red on the tree and allowed John to check them out before they were passed over. Each decision needed to be reviewed and he spent lots of time doing that. -- John Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man. - Leon Trotsky <1st attachment begin> <HTML removed pursuant to http://assm.asstr.org/erotica/assm/faq.html#policy> <1st attachment end> ----- ASSM Moderation System Notice------ Notice: This post has been modified from its original format. 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