Home in a Breeze, part 1

Since most of my requests were for rather old fics of mine, I wanted to see how I'd handle a newer one. Here, per request, is the first half or so of "Home In A Breeze", the first part of the Breeze series.

( Home in a Breeze part 1 )

Ugh redux.

On top of the rest of my not-so-lovely day, I get to meet two copies of MiMail.C@MM from two infected machines.

And people wonder why my Windows 'chine doesn't get connected to the internet....