A night out while his wife’s away becomes a dream come true

“Bye honey, I’ll see you next week,” my wife said, kissing me on the cheek as she ran out the door to get her taxi. “don’t forget the bins, and I’ll call you when I get a chance.” I smiled at her as she left. A whole week living the bachelor lifestyle stretched out before me, no responsibilities, no work and no evenings of reality TV. Loathing ahead except, of course, the pile of chores that we’d both been neglecting. I sighed and trudged to the kitchen. “Better get these out of the way before I do anything else,” I … Read more

My wife is sleeping with who?

My wife is sleeping with who? December 26 I’d just settled down to my morning coffee and an extreme Sudoku when my phone rang. I always do one of the puzzles before work to limber up my mind, and I’d gotten so accustomed to the exercise that I did it even on the days when I wasn’t working. I guess you could say that solving puzzles is my profession. The group I’m in gets suspicious computer code from various sources and we have to figure out what it does, where it came from and how to counteract it. That kind … Read more