hello? yes well the thing is obviously i'd like to be there. i love my job, and i love my kids. i come to work every day so i can put food in their mouths. not that i do that myself. theyre 25. yeah identical twins. no i cant tell them apart either. when they were born the doctor said as a joke "you know we can write their names with a special kind of marker that only we doctors have access to so that you never forget which is which". i only realized, much later, that he wasn't joking. doctors, lawyers, politicians, these men live in a world much different from the one you and i take for granted. the other day i happened to stumble upon a game of poker. the man i'd been following, for reasons i'll explain later, appeared to be on the outs. but as the final hand was about to be dealt, he removed a small device from his pocket and placed it on the table. it took me a moment to understand that it was a bomb. nobody said anything, but after the cards were all shuffled back into the deck, he took all the money on the table and left. that's what power is. i lost his trail somewhere near the train station where they're building that new arcade, you've seen the ad, "100 percent realer than life!". i believe the games are meant to have sex with you, or something to that effect. anyway the reason im late is because i pissed myself and i