.. Hot date and I'm not breaking it for anything less than an 'Extinction Level Event'. I should be back to the Realm of Men by tomorrow. I did mentio... that the date was 'HOT', right? Now wait for the beep."Just before the 'leave message here' beep sounded, Mike could have sworn he'd heard the first bars of 'Fools Rush In' being hummed. Still chuckling, Mike thought, 'Well, looks like a quick refresher in Voice Mail Message Editing couldn't hurt a thing.'As this thought ended, Mike 'heard' Ella. Pretending to ignore the hand, Martin bent over and gave Scott a kiss, meant to be a peck, but ending up much more passionate. "Wow" Martin gasped as the pulled apart, a grin on his lips. He couldn't believe how exciting something like a kiss could be. "That was horrible" Scott said in mock disgust. When Martin looked at him in confusion, Scott grinned and said "I guess we'll just have to practice some more." Then with that, he embraced Martin tightly, kissing him passionately at the same. While my parents now owned Shadow.We worked all weekend converting the garage for them. It wasn't near doneby Monday but we quickly ran out of time and they had to be moved.It didn't matter, in the end they always slept with me anyway. Chapter NineWell Jenna's marriage lasted about a month after that and then it failed.It seemed that she'd never been pregnant at all. And Sundae's fathersuddenly wanted his family back.His money had been protected by a prepupal. You put together a portfolio of those that beat the S&P? By how much?" A little over fifty percent," said Thule, "but, these numbers really don't mean anything. The software doesn't replace the need for an expert to sort out useful information from garbage. It just gives the expert a useful framework to quantify and model the information they do have and make predictions based on hard numbers and historical modeling rather than gut instinct, I Ching, or technical analysis." Fair enough," said.