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<\/a> We arrived, and I called in “sick” to the lab. \u00a0But before I could get off the phone …<\/p>\nJust before going to bed, I took out This Thing. I found it while digging for minerals, and while I could just sell it off for a couple of bucks, I wondered what I could turn it into.<\/p>\n Woo! \u00a0What do we…<\/p>\n I’m going to bed.<\/p>\n chapter 13 …<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" She Skipped Skipping Up bright and early on a Thursday morning, I showered, messed about on the computer for a while, and was about to make breakfast when I got a call from Caitlyn. “Hey! It’s a beautiful day out there, it would be a shame to waste it. \u00a0You want to blow it off … Continue reading “Jeanette, Chapter 12”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ross","category-jeanette","tag-island-cafe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>… Caitlyn left. \u00a0She just … left. \u00a0No words, no “goodbye’, or “psych!” or maniacal laughter or nuthin’. \u00a0Just … gone. \u00a0Fine. \u00a0I’m still having breakfast.<\/p>\n It’s a nice little cafe, in the forest on the island. \u00a0They still do a brisk business out here.<\/p>\n<\/a> A couple cups of coffee, a croissant, and some good conversation. \u00a0That’s always a great morning.<\/p>\n<\/a>Our barista Don, looked fabulous in his uniform. \u00a0Nice shoes. \u00a0You do you, Don. \u00a0You do you.<\/p>\n To add some more buggering-about to the day, I returned to the scene of my first bed, the spa. \u00a0This time, as a paying customer!<\/p>\n Ahhh… I relaxed. \u00a0There was some exercising involved, as well as a lot of swimming around enjoying the afternoon.<\/p>\n<\/a>I ended my time at the spa sitting on the roof, meditating. It was a marvelous, relaxing day.<\/p>\n As the afternoon drew to a close, I wandered over to the library to see who’s hanging around. \u00a0The place was fairly empty, but it looks like all those rogue books have finally been cleaned up.<\/p>\n I returned home for some dinner, and some experimentation. I was feeling somewhat guilty about skipping work, but still cheesed at Caitlyn for asking me to skip work, and then abandoning me. \u00a0If she’s at work tomorrow, I’ll have to ask her what the hell she was doing.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/a>Dammit. \u00a0It turned into some sort of interdimensional scarf, which proceeded to fall *through* the counter, and then set fire to it. \u00a0I’m just not having luck with this damn thing lately.<\/p>\n