Single dad for the week

My wife left this evening on a school trip, so I'm playing single dad this week. Logistically, it's not going to be much fun: the Institute has a conference this week, and 24 hours after my wife returns I head off for a research trip to Malaysia and Singapore, which of course is going to absorb the rest of my mental energy this week. Plus I've got a project that's supposed to be finished this Friday.

However, the one thing I don't particularly worry about are the children. They're now pretty accustomed to having one or the other parent gone for a few days, and though they have to deal with me being gone more often, Heather's school trip is an annual thing, so they know about it months in advance. No, if I was going to worry about anyone, it would be myself. Fortunately, I'll be too busy to really think about such things.

[To the tune of Genesis, "Duke's Travels," from the album "Duke".]

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