When the hour was over, I dressed and headed back to the office. It was a busy afternoon, including a follow-up phone call from Computerworld. The rep...rter wasn’t sure when the article would run, but he expected it to be sometime in April.“How were the kids?” I asked Nancy when our trio arrived home that evening.“Angels!” she said.I chuckled, “Of course they were! Jesse is in school and Matthew is in Atlanta! That leaves the field clear for Birgit to get her way!”Nancy laughed, “True! Also,. I noticed that Tina was being particularly attentive to him, trying to cheer him up I suppose."What are we going to do with four cars in this household?" Fiona asked one day."I don't know. I haven't even thought about it. Why four?" Well, there's you and me and Phil and Tina. Unless our children decided to share, there's going to be four cars on the property." Well I guess we'd better convince them to share then, hadn't we," I grinned.Phil had his eyes on a Mustang until I went over the. Besides it was the Admirals idea to make our conscripts more legitime and better integrated, even Sodoby and Xon participate in my classes.”I sighed, “SHIP did you know that we are also an Academy ship?”“Certainly, Captain. I am very proud of that and besides, I read all the line items.”“My XO obnoxious and now my SHIP being a smartass. I think I should have stayed in bed today.”I smiled at the new cadets.”Never mind that banter, I officially welcome you to the bridge of the USS Tigershark,. . those guys were the exact opposite of mellow.Ben picked a table he wanted and led the charge towards it. Most of the occupants of the table figured out the score and cleared off in a hurry. I say most because two people at the table didn't get clued in fast enough. Stephen Jenkins and May Stennforth, two 9th graders, didn't notice what was going on. Partly because they had their backs to the door and partly because they were so wrapped up in each other they were oblivious to the rest of the.