Yes, that's right, daddy was a blessed, blasted rocket-scientist!! While I was tanking math he was think-tanking. This led to him being given the assi...nment to write (leading a team of three others) a series of several books for executives on reviewing higher calculus and other kinds of advanced arithmetic computations. To do this he used the time-sharing computers GE had developed.In our Twenty-First-Century world, you bring a laptop home to work after hours on important projects. No PCs. " Chet smiled back, teeth gleaming in a face nearly as dark as Chad's as he hoisted himself up into the lookout station. "You'll work up a big enough appetite then, not that you seem to be doing too bad in that direction already."Picking his way through the cluttered compound, Chad walked over to the door of the cook shack and filled a plate with food. One thing about this job, it sure enough fed good. So what if the pay was sort of uncertain... "Well, Black boy? Did you have a long enough nap. Sonya shook herself back to reality."Is that really something you want to do?" I asked."I don't know. But it sure is hot to think about." Yeah."Sonya and I both said our nightly "I love yous," and went to sleep....I spent the entirety of the next day preparing the apartment for Sonya's arrival. Scrubbed everything top-to-bottom, stocked the fridge with all manner of yummy foods, and finally got around to putting away the absurd treasure trove of Xbox games I'd offhandedly left scattered all. He didn’t want to be eclipsed by his virtual persona. And yet if he valued his privacy—valued protecting his real-world identity—Ariel might well eclipse him.That wasn’t right. What he was doing was hard too. Or perhaps, his perspective added additional dimensions to why the work he was doing as Ariel was hard work. He wanted recognition for that work. But he saw no way to get that recognition while protecting himself in the real world.Speaking of protecting himself, he wasn’t sure what to.