[i am afraid to break the flow but David has given me permission to insert some background. There are many ways to ride the horse, each is painful and... terrible in its own way. Once you are set on the horse, your arms and legs need to be dealt with. Sometimes, the knees are bent and the ankles tied behind the back, often the wrists are tied to the ankles. This gives the rider the option of rising up a bit, trading the pain between her legs for pain through her ankles and knees. This can go on. Taking the seat between Katrina and Donald, Jeff said a cordial,”Good evening ladies, Donald.” Jeff was anything but calm inside but outwardly, he presented himself as coolly as a James Bond character entering a casino. Jeff was engaged in small talk when Donald interrupted him and said, “Jeff, it feels weird to be in the middle of this but your wife wants to know what is the deal here for tonight?” “Donald, you are in the middle because you have been in the middle for some time now.. Shall we get to work on your assignments?”They pulled out the latest assignment and we began discussing how to solve the problem, and how to write the code in FORTRAN. I absolutely detested FORTRAN, but I had never been able to convince Doctor Bauer that BASIC was a better option. I thought, perhaps, with PCs really taking off, he might change his mind. But for now, it was FORTRAN in CS100 and PASCAL in CS200.When we finished, I was confident that they had a solid grasp of the latest concepts,. I got up and stood close to her. Mom smiled but didn't make a move to take my hand like she had before, or to offer her breasts for inspection. I glanced up the stairs."Your father's in bed," Mom said."Oh," I responded. Tentatively, I stretched out my hand and tried to pull the lapels of Mom's robe apart without success."You have to undo the belt, silly." Oh."I pulled one end of the belt, expecting it to come completely undone but was left in a knot as often happened when I rushed to get my.