Creeping Down The Road...
This weekend I got to do something I haven't been able to do much of over the last few years... Spend time with some old friends. Going back thirty-plus years ago, I was a much younger man (half my age, in fact), and a soon to be young father. I was told by one of my sisters that there was going to be a meeting at my parent's house of a newly forming Star Trek Fan Group. Yeah. So in part because I was still feeling the Protector and concerned about what was going on, I told my wife we'd be visiting my folks. Mind you, this was about 75 minutes north of where we lived, which was Burnsville. We didn't have kids yet so we were pretty free and loose with our schedule, but it was still a commitment of limited resources, being both gas and time. We got to my folks house and met this young couple. She was pregnant, much more so than my wife, but they didn't strike me as any sort of shady folks. He was a bit different than ...