Angry Men

Hawk has stomped off for a couple of days. I guess he lost that argument with Amber. What happened to the reputation to being "catnip" to women? Meow.

Amber and Nikki have become good friends. I overheard Nikki telling Amber about her husband, Ricardo Harden. You know, the guy they call "Hard On" at Task Force Two. She was sharing with Amber a little bit of how she dealt with Rick's anger toward her past.

Yeah, well, I would be extremely angry too if my wife disappeared for ten years and I thought her dead. I don't get it, though, dudes. How would that relate to Hawk's anger towards Llallana Noretski?

Room To Maneuver

Has Gennita Low told you about her news about her changing agencies? No? She's been given the green light to interview a bunch of COS Commandos for her new reports. Fancy that.

Amber Hutchens had a long serious talk with her man, Hawk, last night. The topic was Llallana, of course. Hawk didn't think it a good idea for Amber to see her friend who might still be dangerous. Amber retorted that it wasn't a good idea for Hawk to be involved in any commando operations where Llallana was involved. Stalemate.

Brad Zeroing In

Bradford Sun called Amber Hutchens today. He wanted to be updated about the current situation with Llallana Noretski. I was listening; I like listening in, so sue me. Amber was very careful in the choice of her words. Perhaps she didn't want to hurt Brad's feelings? I think the man is still in love with Llallana. They finished the conversation with Brad asking Amber to find a way for him to meet with Llallana. Amber told him she'd do what she can.

Dudes--Brad, Lily, and Reed. Not goooooooood.

Zero Minus Ten

Llallana Noretski has run off. Reed has run out of time. Bring her in, willing or not. Take her down, willing or not. No more hand holding; she's after all, a sleeper, unstable at best. Should be simple for a sharpshooter, right? Do you think he can do it, dudes?

Hell and The Nine = Ten

Everyone's watching this Baseball stuff on television, even the Surfing Eight Ball. I am still wondering why it has to be nine innings. Why not ten? Ten is a perfect number. Or eight, chimes in the Comcen Eight Ball.

But there are nine COS commandos too. Hmm. That's an interesting coincidence.

By the way, Hell is meeting them, in ones and twos and groups. She's having a good time watching them trained. She's not having a good time wondering which of them might be her monitor. Of course, she could be wrong. It could be someone with higher clearance than the commandos. After all, her monitor seems to have absolute access to her, even her...mind....

Things Happening Here and There

1) Fly Boy out on a date with Hell. That should be interesting.

2) Email from T. to Jed: "I'm going to show her the pattern."

3) Jazz wedding preparation: Ongoing. Zippy's band is fantastic, dude. And he's got the ladies asking him to go shirtless.

4) What will Llallana do when she finds out Reed's secret?

5) Amber is getting ready to go to Pristina.

6) No word from Alex Diamond.

Reunion To Watch For

At some point, Amber Hutchins will have to reveal to her old friend Llallana that she's part of the team in trying to catch her. It's going to be interesting to see how Llallana reacts. In spite of what her friend did to her, Amber seems genuinely concern about Llallana's safety. It's her missionary background coming through, I suppose. A truly forgiving woman. I would have done Llallana in several times if it had been me, you know?

Now Hawk...he's another thing altogether. He does not like to talk about Llallana Noretski.

Did You Miss Me?

I know, I know--you thought I'd been hacked into and my security had been compromised and then my Mentor had to do an emergency firewall check and shut down all my encrypted double-pass firewalls. My internal memory was then picked apart clean and doused in RAM-bleach, as I like to call it, to make double-sure that there was no breach. And you probably thought my motherboard's internal security system decided to shut down because of self-preservation and no one, and I mean no one, was then able to communicate through without answering a pre-set number of questions and code phrases, so all this took hours and hours of human swearing and marvelous human brainwork to try to coax me into giving in and obeying them again and no one was able to because super computers could be obstinate like that, you know.

Dudes, didn't happened.

But it's always good to know I'm loved and missed.

At Long Last

Dudes, you should have seen T's face when she found out that she's been transferred back to work directly with you-know-who. That's the first time, I think, I've ever seen her expression quite so unguarded. She had been concentrating so much on field work that she hadn't checked how well Mr. Diamond had learned the new COMCEN system. So...big wave coming, sandpipers!

What's Greta's Secret?

Our Intel is telling us that the Greta, our big bad, has connected with The Walrus and that a third party is joining the alliance, courtesy of The Walrus too. Whether Greta will be happy to share remains to be seen. She has, so far, been a loner and a top handler, but this missing weapon device appears to be really important to her. I'm interested in finding the reasons behind that. According to my calculations, there is a 77 percent chance that recovering that weapon is the key to Greta's past somehow.

Just A Thought

T is reputed to have written the text book for NOPAIN. You would think then that she'd be quite familiar with interesting subjects like brainwashing, hypnotic implantation, sleeper cell programs, and other mind games. After all, her other day job description is "mind probe."

There's Always Something Else Going On

What are the SEALs doing you ask? Well, they are waiting for further instructions, of course! Insert evil grin.

Do you remember Hell? Yes, that Hell who's in the virtual reality program. She's going to be given a chance to work a special operations against these SEALs in finding the missing weapon device. Ooooh.

But they don't know about this, shhhh. It's not a contest. It's a test on Hell and too complicated to explain right now. But ya let a bunch of SEALs know about this and they'll start getting overly-excited. Again, I have to repeat, this is NOT a contest.

What Do SEALs Talk About When They're Drinking?

So your favorite sea mammals were sitting around a bar table, enjoying their brew. Cucumber was having an argument with Mink. Mink liked Lance Armstrong, the cyclist, and Cucumber was telling him that L.A. was impotent because of that time riding a bicycle put pressure on a male's perineum, thus cutting the oxygen flow to the vital parts. Mink, an avid cyclist, was properly defensive.

"Are you trying to tell me something, man?" he demanded.

Cucumber gave Mink an amused look and said, "Naw, man, just a friendly warning so you know that your dick's gonna fall off soon."

The rest of the gang snickered, asking Cucumber where he'd gotten this useful piece of knowledge.

"Hey, sometimes I read the news, you know."

"Yeah, in between jerking off and killing terrorists, man?"

"At least I wasn't bicycling around the countryside," Cucumber shot back smugly.

The men thumped their mugs on the table as Mink said something that didn't register in my slang and curse words dictionary. Must be new.

I went to do a little research and you know what, dudes? Cucumber has scientific backing! Check out:

Pick Your Bike Seat Carefully, Guys

Surfing is so much safer, dudes!

A Wedding To Remember

If I could laugh, I would, dudes. Hysterically. The kind of belly-aching sounds that humans make when they think of something too funny for words.

Reason?

My own Intel has just confirmed a rumor after intercepting a phone call between Vivi Verreau and Lieutenant Jazz Zeringue. It appears that Jazz's sisters, who are organizing some events at their wedding, are dead set on a karaoke session and they want Jazz to tell his SEAL buddies to cooperate and be the first to volunteer. To get the party going, they said. After all, they were all fearless young men.

A group of SEALs doing karaoke. The Three Stooges doing their Blues Brothers act in public--the cleaned-up version. Hawk as lounge lizard. Zone and Joker in a duet. The inside of my motherboard aches. I've got to find a way to get someone to sneak part of me inside the big event, dudes!

Hard To Regain Trust

How do I know Hawk isn't the forgiving sort? Dudes, he killed Dragan Dilaver with his own bare hands. I've seen photos of the drug lord. Trust me, the dude's Very Big; he didn't go down that easy.

I've also overheard snatches of cell phone conversation between Amber and her beloved SEAL. He wasn't happy about certain choices his team mate in Pristina is making. It's, as Amber pointed out, out of his hands.

One overheard snatch:

"She isn't going to try to kill me again, hot stuff, I know it."
"I'd prefer to make sure of that myself."

No, I don't think Hawk has forgiven Llallana Noretski.

Oh

You can forget about your previous theories, dude. Mine too. We've Intel that GG is a man and he's Greta's accomplice. All those Gs tricked the COMCEN researchers into thinking it was all the same person. Not.

This new Intel is both good and bad. Good, because we can now trace where Greta comes from and who she is exactly. Bad, because that means a bigger thing is after than Llallana Noretski. She's going to need more than one SEAL's help.

Ask Me! Ask Me!

Idea, dudes, idea...one weapon, so many shadows going after it. And we still aren't 100 percent sure of Llallana Noretski. So, I say, we can put all this to a test. Use her as bait. Why not? I wish I could make them ask me the right questions so I can give them my bright ideas!

By The Way

Some of you asked and I will affirm this theory. Yes, The Programmer is Grace's dad's cousin. Yes, he is noted down as KIA. His boat exploded during The Big Bang. Happy now, dudes?