It was the least he could do, and he wanted to help his old company in trying to fill the large gap left by Rob. It wasn’t long before Rob’s exis...ence as a top executive became history. As evening fell on the anniversary of Rob’s transformation from man to animal, Thomas arrived home and locked his door behind him. Outside, the wind lashed against his window, but he soon closed out the outside world. With a flick, he switched on the light of his aquarium, and looked inside at the pale blue. ”“Marcus Aurelius said, ‘Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.’”Danny said, “Galileo Galilei said, ‘All truths are easy to understand, once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.’ That would suggest that Marcus Aurelius was wrong.”“In this case, I think Marcus is more correct than Galileo.”“I don’t see it,” Danny said.Mrs. Holmsteader picked up a piece of paper and drew on it. She placed the paper down on her desk and. Gabrain seemed to have decided to attach himself to me and he sat by my side as the meat cooked."My Lord, tell me again how your archers halted the Saxons?" He asked me.I retold the story of the battle at Hazelrigg and Gabrain showed his quick-witted intelligence by asking a number of insightful questions. He asked about distance and angles, about numbers and about how the Saxons might have defended themselves against the hail of arrows. I found myself enjoying our conversation. He was the. ) Alex One: House Sitting for a Friend. By Alex Shouse. My friend Karen had worked her way through a somewhat bitterseparation and had decided to cash in some vacation time from workto take a little trip to 'get it all out of my head' as she said.so she had asked me to House Sit while she was away for 2 weeks.obviously not having anything else to do, and not particularlyhappy with my present living situation, I jumped at the chance formy own personal vacation... Chapter One - only.