Tony summarized the story, “According to the news, we’ve got us another big nor’easter coming our way sometime tomorrow, as bad as last week’s...”“Can you switch it to the Weather Channel?” asked Malcolm.Tony nodded and picked up the remote. A few seconds later the 24-hour weather news channel was on, and the topic of the hour was the impending winter storm about to hit the Northeast. Several map forecasts were charted, along with state by state and city by city snowfall predictions.“Shit,”. ”Mark then spoke to Cricket, “Here’s an additional plan, let’s create a special seeding ship with a different mission, we know there’s a rift nebula near here. Drop a beacon at the nebula, go in and find the rift, then exit the nebula on the other end and drop another beacon, then go back in and do it all again. We’re either going to map this entire network eventually or the other seeding ships will eventually locate these rift nebulae.“Everyone went up to the bridge to oversee the approach to. I know it's impolite to eavesdrop, but that is exactly what I did."Do your parents fight all the time?" I heard Lou ask."Nah; it just seems like they do," said Jennifer. "They're both second generation Italian, so it makes them very passionate about everything. Or, that's what my mother says all the time. It's like that ice cream commercial with the couple fighting almost through the whole commercial. The only time they stop is when they eat the ice cream. Then they're all lovey-dovey, until. All that goes with being a country girl, I suppose, although the ONE time that I was surprised by a snake, despite my immediate desire to exercise all ballistic options, Jay reached down and picked the snake up, then held it and showed me a corn snake.“Ninety-nine percent of snakes you’ll find WON’T be poisonous,” he said. “And NONE of them will chase you. This ‘un’s keeping rodents down. If we don’t mess with ‘im too much, he’ll hang around.”Darned Jay. Now I’m friends with a snake.But now ....