. keep your people safe."She raised the sword and slid it into the boulder of the North ... there was no slot, yet the sword cut as a warm knife cuts ...old butter.The fire in the blade cut blazed. Pyewacket leaped over the flame.From the flat stone at the foot of the pierced boulder, DD picked up the unlit Greek Censer. As soon as she touched the braided chain, the frankincense poured forth smoke. She passed the chain to Mina.Mina made a second pass. This time with the Censer ... at each corner. All grown up now, at almost 45, she came to him, and felt now was the time to ask that question. “Daddy, I have a problem.” “What is it honey?” he said. She was hesitant. She said she wished mommy was still around. He could see the sadness in her face and told her with that same sadness he wished she was too. It had been a year and a half since she had passed away. They hugged and stared at one another but then she decided to say it. “Daddy, it’s about men. I mean guys” she said. “Ohhhhhh” he. The room proved to be little more than a broom cupboard. It had no windows and Donnie suspected that the absence of any kind of artificial ventilation probably meant it would be illegal to assign it for people to work in. He decided to keep that to himself. Inside the room was a meeting table surrounded by eight chairs. There was a lockable cabinet that stood about three feet high and sitting on top of that was an electric kettle."All the comforts of home!" Donnie laughed.The other students. Proper prior preparation (sometimes) prevents piss-poor performance, as my dad would often tell me. He certainly wasn’t wrong!On today’s emergency weekend service call list, I had three customers to visit and optimistically I hoped that I could be completely done by noon. The girls had a city-league soccer playoff match at 1pm and missing it wasn’t an option. Their father could somewhat get away with never, ever, being there when his daughters needed him, but I was her uncle ... and the.