The Photonics Guild at Baalbek has been after me to visit and give a guest lecture. My paper is also dependent on some large scale quantum computation.... It provides a good cover for the computer's real job.Ah, home at last! I walked in through the front door. My four wives came running and knelt in supplication before me, beseeching me to accept their bondage. It's the traditional way wives of royalty are supposed to act, and I've heard many commanders and even managers and some laborers have. In any case, the barriers that enclosed the financial districts would keep all foreign transport from entering West London. The entrances to underground stations would be sealed to keep water from flooding into the tunnels below.Mark and Molly had resigned themselves to having to settle down to a day besieged by the sluggish waters in the company of a wind-up computer, when there came a sharp rapping on the apartment door."Who is it, Mummy?" asked Monica."I don't know, dear," said Molly."Should. After a couple hours of that I decided to go to the bath house and take a shower before making lunch. On the way I ran into a guy ( Paul)that was staying a few campsites over from ours. We had said hello a few times so we chatted a bit on the way to the bath house. Paul was about 70, in good shape, and was camping alone. Upon getting there, he went in one shower, and I into one a few doors away. After a minute or 2 there was a knock on my door. It was Paul, he forgot his shampoo and asked to. "No Baby. How about letting me take you out and show ya a good time?"Sheryl's mouth opened and closed three times before anything came out. He never took her out before--anywhere. This was a new side to him, and she was curious.'Maybe this is the change I've been waiting for, ' she thought."Okay. Just give me a few to get ready." Sure, take as much time as ya need." How about giving me an hour?" See ya then."She was so excited about this new turn with Cricket, she forgot all about calling Shawn.