#friends reference

There's already too many of them in this family, they don't need to fill up every damn room in the Manor. And as the oldest Dominant Alpha in the family, Jason feels a strong obligation to keep his pack safe—particularly the omegas in their pack.

Jason has a 99% success rate at meddling with his family's love life. Here's how I imagine that missing 1%:

Alpha!Dick: "Heyyyy Jayyy...."

D-Alpha!Jason: "Uh, hey?"

R-Omega!Tim: "Hello dearest big brother of mine ^^"

D-Alpha!Jason: "Okay, you guys are creeping me out. What happened?"

Alpha!Dick: (Nudging Tim) "Well, uhh... Lil' Timmy here has something he wants to tell you."

D-Alpha!Jason: "Okay you're worrying me. Is everything alright? Is ma okay? Is Alfred's heart finally giving out?"

D-Alpha!Jason: "Is that a burger?"

R-Omega!Tim: "Mom and Alfred are fine-"

D-Alpha!Jason: "Is that a burger??"

R-Omega!Tim: "I'm pregnant!"

D-Alpha!Jason: "...."

D-Alpha!Jason: "What?"

Alpha!Dick, whispering to Tim: "Now! Give him the burger now!"

R-Omega!Tim, pushing the burger across the kitchen counter towards Jason: "Jay please-"

D-Alpha!Jason: "Nope! Who did this to you?!"

R-Omega!Tim: "Kon-El. But I promise, he's a really nice guy; I like him a lot. Real funny too!"

D-Alpha!Jason: "Funny?!"

D-Alpha!Jason: "You got pregnant for funny??"

R-Omega!Tim: "Well-"

Wednesday: *sighs*

Enid: *jaw to the floor*

Tyler: oopx- didn't see you there Sinclair...

- - -

Tyler: gotta admit, after last night, I'm a little weak in the knees...

Wednesday: ...

I can totally see Lucifer going like "Hey, Char! Look I can see your friend down there from here! Hello-!"

Then proceeds on screaming "MY EYES, MY EYES!" when finding Angel and Husk from the other side of the hotel by a window going wild on Angel's bedroom (boi, buy curtains!). And they're hiding it from Alastor...

Charlie and Vaggi would start to jump and go giddy with Lucifer to prevent Alastor from seeing his 'pet' going wild feral mating season with Angel floors away...as Cherri is just surprised that her best boi has a boyfriend that treats him like a Q U E E N 👑 🕷️.

Husker a total Chandler funny and romantic guy. 🥖 French 💋 Kiss.

You never know the last time you pick up and hold your child - That line, possibly from a poem about being a parent, has stayed with me over the years. I helped raise two fine young men and have thought about those words even when I was still lifting the boys out of car seats and high chairs. I did not know at the time when it was the final one.

But with a planned retirement, I get to notice the last time I do all sorts of scheduled things.

I just submitted the job to generate the WENUS report for last week. Now that task belongs to someone younger, who won't leave yet.

When I wrote a project's installation document earlier this month, I knew the whole time it would be my last one ever. No, I won't be putting a copy on the refrigerator.

There are myriad little tasks that, as I complete each one, I know that was it! An odd mixture of relief and nostalgia washes over me. I've been in this role for nearly three decades and have done some of those things countless times. (FYI - I was not stagnating in a boring job; a million things changed about it over the years. Learning new skills never stopped.)

I said "countless times." An interesting thing about working on a mainframe computer: you actually can count certain things, going way back.