He’s also ‘Howie’, to my family. I don’t have room to be cocky. My grandfather was one of Howie’s flight instructors. He retired in an F-4. ...ixty F-105 missions, forty-five F-4 missions, and four kills. No, sir, I have no right to be cocky. Oh, and my mother earned a Distinguished Flying Cross flying into fire to save some downed airmen in Iraq. She later lost her life giving me mine. No, sir, I definitely don’t get to be cocky.”“Wow. What a legacy. Just to let you know, you’ll be receiving an. I’ve noticed. But she has been trying hard the last two days.”“She’s probably pregnant,” Tatyana said. “I know I am.”“How?” I asked.Tatyana pointed at the ceiling. “I felt funny this morning. When I was taking my morning shower I asked why and the voice up there told me that I was pregnant.”“Really?” I asked looking up at the ceiling. “How could it know, and why would it tell you?”“It is a relatively simple procedure to track hormone levels in concubines,” the AI said. “Pregnancy in humans is. It did turn out to be lots of fun, at least at first. We painted all kinds of fun shapes on the shed and even got silly and started to paint each other. Before long I knew we were going to be good friends. Unfortunately, my Mom was not very happy about the paint all over my clothes, and that was not the worst of my problems. It seems Mr. Evans had not expected to come home and find his tool shed painted with funky black designs and he sort of hit the roof. I was grounded for weeks.But that was. His eyes were closed and he was shaking his head back and forth, still kneeling behind the protective cover of the lounge chair.“It's Okay Nick,” Alexa said, “get a grip on yourself.”He opened his eyes and then and a smirk crossed his face.“That’s pretty much what caused the whole problem in the first place,” he said.Alexa burst out laughing and after a few seconds, so did Nick.“Come over to my house Nick, I have something to show you!” Alexa called out. “Just jump over the hedge!”“I can't, I.