"So you're going to do it, huh?" "Well, I'm going to take the first two steps, yes."So you're going to do it, huh?" "Well, I'm going to take the first two steps, yes." "You break everything down into steps, don't you?" "Basically," I said with a smile. "Good luck, Ken." "Thanks, Jean." I reached the SDisk room and returned home. I walked back to the commons and found Ember sitting with her four-year- old, M'Jahrl, who was fidgeting impatiently. "Hi." "Hello, Father," she said quietly. The child growled a similar greeting in Felinz. I smiled and growled back at him. He seemed pleased with that. "Can I ask you a question, Ember?" "Sure," she said with conviction. "What's it like to have a kid in the house?" "What do you mean?" "I mean, starting from the beginning, is it really worth the effort it seems to be to actually have a child in the house? To deal with the feedings and the changings, and then the curiosity and the rivalries and the fights and the growing up?" "You should know better than I do about that," she said. "But I don't. Every one of you came out if the tank with a basic set of programming and a mature body. |