But as always before, he would find a way. The boy was unusually gifted and would grow quickly.A warm afternoon breeze blew through the screened windo...s of the parlor, fluttering Vi's lace curtains. Mike lay on his bed, his injured leg comfortable in the open air, wrapped loosely in a gauze and linen covering. It had been a week and although he could not yet move the leg, he could sense that the shattered bone splinters had become aligned and were knitting together. The torn and crushed flesh. He congratulated, and I was embarrassed when he asked,"Where did you come from?"I answered, "Heaven."The prize was a 1000-dollar gift certificate for our mall.I figured it might come in handy, considering. When I wentto my apartment, I found it changed too - there was quite abit more feminine, and on my message machine, I had twomessages.=-="Megumi? It's Maiko... we've been ignoring each other toolong, come on over to the Coffee Kat and we'll have ablast... a girl's night out sounds like a real. We had two test beds that were functioning far better than expected. One young woman reported on how they had tried to overload the system and get it to degrade or even fail, but to no avail. There was so much bandwidth and the PCM under-pinings for the use of the technology just adapted comfortably to whatever they threw at the electronics.As each person or sub-team reported, Tom looked prouder and prouder of his staff. He was lavish in his praise, and made sure to give each person credit by. He had his homework turned in on time, so that was not a strike against him.The Friday morning pep rally was not of the intensity of the previous one. For one thing, Central was supposed to win over Mason. Coach Holsmer had insisted that his team get a relatively easy opponent following the Geneva game because he wanted to let his team down easy just in case of a loss to Geneva. Of course, that was not a problem, now, and Coach Holsmer was now worried that his team would take Mason too lightly.