Father says they are just practising for retirement when the Crypt are in nursing homes.Uncle Polack is retired from naval service and was joined by G...s-gus at Adama where they play all day long inside the bowels of power packs of all sizes. Father frequently cosmics down in "Offspring" to 'keep his hand in'; Gus-gus tells me that the real reason is to rub his father's nose in the fact that "Offspring" belongs to GmBH and it is The McCock's runabout; Gus says his father sulks for about an hour. After all, that wasn't how we played the blame game.While she was gone, I watched some Christmas movies I'd rented for the evening. I was very lonely. I went to bed and tried to wait up for her. I'd doze off and on and would check the clock. Finally, at 4 a.m., I heard loud laughter in our driveway. I looked out and saw a black Cadillac that had been lowered; it had dark glass windows and chrome wheels with very wide whitewall tires. I saw my wife get out of the back seat and, giggling, walked. ”Three weeks after that conversation I called my sister, “Hey, can you get out? Meet me for lunch?”Misha replied with a growl, “Goddamn it Pat, I can get out anytime I want, for anything I want. Where?”She was sitting across from me squeezing the life out of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I took a bite of my lunch and asked, “Why did you growl on the phone, who pissed you off?”My sister pushed the mutilated sandwich to the side, laced her fingers together, “It’s Bert.” She took a breath. He'd spent more than six years in The Show, and he'd been successful. And now, he wanted to help me get up off the basement floor and start back up the stairs.If Bill Bowman thought I could do it, well then by God, I thought I could do it, too!It was still barely past noon so we made a fresh pot of coffee in Bill's kitchen and had peach pie in lieu of lunch.He showed me, repeatedly, how to grip a baseball properly to throw a slider. He contrasted how a slider was employed by a left-handed.