Mike was waiting at the baggage claim and feeling absolutely giddy. His wife was flying out from Las Vegas to visit him for the first time since he moved out of the resort and into a real house. He'd taken the rest of the week off in order to spend some quality time with Piper since they hadn't seen each other in months ( Read more... )

As much as Mike enjoyed his job, sometimes he got stuck troubleshooting the computer problems his staff couldn't handle. Currently, he was fixing an issue that resulted in a 24 hour W-LAN network outage for the entire result. The cause of the problem ( Read more... )

Mike had procrastinated long enough about finding a place to live. Having one of the resort's private villas at his disposal was a nice perk of the general manager's job, but business was picking up. The resort was booked solid for the next four months, meaning that Mike had to give up his suite once again for paying customers ( Read more... )

After the exhaustion of evacuating a resort for the big tsunami that was anything but big, Mike had sleepwalked through the following week. He'd talked to Cooper before, during, and after the crisis, and he knew that Cooper would let everyone in Las Vegas know that he'd survived. But he wasn't entirely sure if someone had passed the word onto Mary ( Read more... )

Mike had the television on in the background while watching sports on his laptop ("Really, just because it's 3 in the afternoon here doesn't mean I should have to watch the Olympics on a tape delay," he had been grumbling since Friday). There really wasn't anything worth watching on the television itself, but Mike managed to glance up at just the ( Read more... )

Sure, the thought of spending a weekend in Fandom for the winter carnival was tempting. After all, winter in Hawaii didn't have the usual stuff like snowball fights and ice skating. But that was before Mike got invited to go surfing with a couple VIPs coming in from the mainland ( Read more... )

Of course Mike would get sick in time for Halloween ( Read more... )

It felt weird to be staying in his boss's home after living as a hotel VIP for months. Mike really felt it when he realized he had to go to the kitchen to get a cup of coffee instead of just calling room service. He felt even more awkward when he checked his watch and realized how late he'd slept. Hopefully Cooper would understand that it was only ( Read more... )

• Mike arrives at LAX and is immediately tackle-hugged by his daughter, Mandalay Palms

• Mandalay talks to Lynn

• Mike and Mandalay join Veronica and her kids at the Haunted Mansion. There's some confusion over which Piper is Mandalay's mother.

Early in the morning, Mike was half-asleep in bed when he heard the door front door slam shut. It took a few seconds for it to register that someone was in his villa, and he'd gone to bed alone last night. Once he rolled out of bed, it took a few more seconds to look down and realize that he had a few more bits than what he'd had yesterday. "What ( Read more... )