I put down my folder and headed around back, stepping out into the heat of the late morning. I walked toward the back, wondering what I could say, wha... my excuse would be, what I would do if she freaked out. As I saw Jill I spoke out, ‘hey, Jill, I’m home!’ She turned, putting her book down splayed open. I couldn’t see her eyes behind her sunglasses, but her face spread into a big smile as she looked over her shoulder and let out a friendly, ‘Hey!’ ‘This is a surprise! I hope you don’t mind we. " Condolences? I beat the thoughtless cunt when we got back from med-bay for not taking better care of my seed," Josh replied.A shocked and outraged Naveen mentally shouted "Disconnect!" to the AI and sat dumbfounded. When he regained some control of his emotions he went to the ship's medical facility and inquired of the technician, "There was a young lady brought in last night after a miscarriage. May I know what caused it?"The tech checked the log, "Looks like there was a blow to the abdomen. It made sense that he might have been the one sending me the message since he hadn’t shown up for the beer bash last night. I knew everyone else in the room was with me up until I headed home. I was reluctant to have Arnie as an ally.“What’s IPv6 got to do with IPSec?” Ford asked.“Ford, you know the answer to that question better than I do. I know you’ve read the spec. Is this another interview question?” I asked.Ford grinned at me.“For the benefit of the Neanderthals,” he said.“Well,. Over the weekend, I tried to get things back on track with Jessica. There being “only” 36 shopping days left before Christmas, this involved a seemingly endless trek through shop after shop. Jessica believed in getting started early.The tedium involved, not to mention the extravagant waste of money on items strictly for the “it’s the thought that counts” category, made me tetchy. We didn’t argue, but by the end of the weekend our relationship was strained to the point where I think we both knew.