Theprocedures were then done in several steps over the course of a month.The healing process took about another month, by which time Mel waschafing at... the bit to be released from the clinic out of fear that he'dbe tracked down at the clinic by his abductors and Shanghaied onceagain.Meanwhile, I was busy seeking out the perpetrators behind Mel's secondabduction. I had heard through the grapevine about a group of foreignexploiters operating in the area, seeking young, fear-driven youths ofboth. No one would have been able to prevail against the wizards unless he had his own wizards. But all is not lost, my friend!"No, not by a long way! We need to use different tactics, that's all. If we strike Malcolm where he least expects it then he won't be able to use his damn wizards. We will weaken him with a thousand small cuts! Hit him and run! Wear him down! Make him rue the day he ever set foot in Axon. Destroy his communications! Pillage his supply trains! Kill them wherever we find them!. The splitter had been delivered yesterday, but my wife Donna somehow hadn't told me about it until this morning. I'd looked over the instructions while I ate breakfast and figured that I could do it in under an hour, and it made an already spectacular car, even better.So that got me here later than expected. Truthfully the splitter was probably overkill. Most of the people who would wander through here today had never seen the new body style. I knew that I was in for a lot of opinions today.. The kid pointed to the roof overhang."The shingles stop at the drip edge ... that vertical board under the edge of the roof is called the fascia ... it covers the ends of the rafters ... the board that runs parallel to the ground, this one ... is the soffit. See the bubbles?"How old is this house?" We had it built before the wedding ... seven years." Seven years? The builder didn't do your husband any favors. Paint should last longer than that. You wouldn't happen to have a ladder?"I did happen.