Finally, some reward

I'm working at my computer a few minutes ago, when the Spawn toddles over holding my slipper. I stick my foot out and she places it carefully (if not thoroughly) on my foot. "But Spawn," say I, "my other foot is cold! Can you get my other slipper too?" And off she goes across the room, down the hall. She is briefly distracted by something on the floor but I remind her of her business by calling to her and holding up my foot. She goes the rest of the way down the hall, picks up the slipper, and returns to me to place it on my waiting foot.

Oh yes, it's so worth 14 months of sleeplessness, food and medical bills, day care payments as high as our rent, and constant demands for attention, to have a semi-autonomous slipper fetcher.

I see that there is good reason that the NextMUNI monitors recently installed in the Market Street subway stations are still in beta:

I only hope they've been keeping up with their patches.