You need to look to their futures.”“I understand your logic, and while women have children every day, they don’t have mine. I’d like to savor ...very step, if you don’t mind.”She smiled. “You don’t think I’m looking forward to another grandchild? I get a bonus with this one because it’s a girl and I’ll be there for every step of her childhood. Gregory (her husband) is obsessing already, looking into childproofing the house. We have her bedroom picked out and are decorating it. It will be done. You can add Sarah to the list – because she is going to really be massive by the fall." Are you saying I'm big, you bastard?" Sarah said, pretending to glare at Sean."Only your tits," Sean countered with a laugh."Oh, OK then," Sarah replied. "It's good of you to notice. Carry on."The group chuckled at the byplay and by the time the laughter subsided, Mary was set up."Rebecca, I don't mean to be a downer, but I have some things you need to see," Mary said.The group heard the gravity in Mary's. Intrusive and patriarchic government reaching into the lives of the everyman, you might ask? Yes, and damned glad of it. By the time winter was on its way, they were damned near everywhere. It worked for me....As summer closed in towards fall, it was time for me to get serious again about the grinding wheels for the mill. I'd given up on making decent wheels a while back, but this year I had access to better tools and I'd learned a lot. One of the things I'd learned was that there was a stone. It has opened up a whole new code of etiquette.We oldsters think it is impolite to speak to one's computer while talking to a human being, regardless of species. But these kids today, they can hold a non-verbal communication with another New Man, hold a verbal conversation with a Homo sapien, while at the same time issuing computer commands and receiving input from multiple sources. I just think it's rude.Oh, well, no one has ever paid any attention to me anyway. I've always just been a.