They ate dinner leisurely, the autumn air fresh and cool enough for sweaters, houses lit up all around them, pools glowing with their pool lights on, ...nd music drifting to them from a nearby tavern along with bursts of laughter.Weather watched Mom and Aidan. She recognised the expression in Mom's face. Something was going to happen.With no change in expression or hint of what she was doing, Mom took a sip of red wine, crossed one knee over the other, and spoke, looking at Aidan. "I understand. "Then after years of serious debate and a lot of contentious theorizing a couple of 'schools' of thought came to be the most accepted. They did this so that they could try and answer some serious questions that might impact us today. Did man kill of the the mega fauna, or was it something else? Did diet contribute to our advancement from nomads to farmers? That kind of thing. Then someone came up with an interesting question, if ancient man evolved on a certain diet then wouldn't modern man. By the way Mom, the Doc and Irene are going to run the institution for the first few years." What!" I heard twice."Doc, you and Irene have the future of the human race in your hands. The academy has to be set up and running smoothly before you jump ship and into a ship. Your exploring will be delayed the same as ours is." I'm not a school administrator. Irene could do the job much easier than me."A staged verbal fight started. All this was designed to get Mom's mind off the bizarre and onto the. In my hands. My desires for sowing my oats and my sweet talking talents were a perfect blend for the 7-8 year tour that still amazes me to this day.I was freshly out of college back in 1992 and landed a pretty cool job traveling to school boards and education conferences. I had the task of selling books and education materials to teachers. The gender mix at these events was probably 70% women and 30% men. Of the female group, the marriage rate was probably around the same. I was very successful.