“How are things at home?”“OK,” he said. “I just called to give you your daily ration of shit.”“I’m already taking it so you missed you... shot,” I told him.“Too bad,” he said. “Can you hook up to a computer?”“Give me a second,” I said. “OK, what am I looking for?”“Go to TravisRocks.com,” he told me.“Oh fuck,” I muttered.“Pretty cool, huh?” Rick said. Liz must have seen me put my head in my hands because she materialized at my shoulder.“Oh, hey!” she said, reading the screen. I heard her voice. ”“Well, I’d say you passed your check-up. It’s probably a good idea to do this every six-to-twelve months, or when something important happens in your life. Do be mindful about your dalliances, as you call them.”I smiled, “Birgit calls them ‘dall-yances’.”“I’m not sure I’m comfortable with the idea of your kids knowing about your extracurricular activities, but I suppose at this point it’s too late to change that.”“I’d say! But honestly, only Birgit really has any idea. Yes, the others know. Brandon told me that I was to give you open access to the shop. So please, no need to ask in the future, sir. And my name is Genevieve, it is a pleasure to meet you, sir.”“Why, thank you, Genevieve, and do not worry, your job is not in jeopardy if you were wondering. Besides, your response just now showed me that you are the perfect person for the job.”She blushed at that, and I made my way into the back shop. Everything was as I had remembered, though the people working it in had changed. Kafe. This fascinated him. Another oddthing that he found was that when he sent over a test animal that hadalready be sent once and changed, the test animal came back without anyreverse changes occurring. Louis at first thought that some intelligenceon the other side was playing tricks with his test animals.To make sure that he was getting back the same animals, Louis carefullytracked the DNA coding of his next series of test subjects. The resultsshowed conclusively that except for XX chromosome.