Earlier in my forty-one days of diary, I asked a question that appears to have been largely rhetorical as I had three readers (regular) at the time.

Today with over 70 of you folks on a daily average� I�d like to ask it again as it is suddenly becoming probable.

Further, as no one ever wants to leap in with advice that isn�t first hand, please note that I�ll take it second or third. You might have had a friend who had a dentist, who had a cousin WHO DID have to get a Nanny/AuPair/Whatever or played one on TeeVee. You might have known someone who was one, back ten years ago. You might have read a diary of a human who was one or had one.

This single dad may have to take a gig that means more travel, and he loves his son enormously. Anything you have heard or hear might be helpful.

Thanks, Dearest-DAIRYlanders.(sic)

---DatSauceGuy Turning Over To Reprint:

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Beyond that, it is looking like I MIGHT have to get a Live-In-Human to cover for me when I travel (across to dat England place) every six or so weeks (if I take a new gig in the coming month� we shall see.)

Any of you founts O� email commentary, kindness, and sometime-abuse ever had to deal with such?

What are the pluses (other than deportation and an interest in being nice for a year�) of importing an Au-Pair-type-person (gawd, I hate that yuppie-fuck term. I am a yuppie fuck parent now. A YFP who still listens to hardcore, has earrings, and drives an old beater�but �tis I, naytheless�) versus just finding someone who would like free room and board and some spending monies? Further, how does one actually go about checking out a person to make sure they aren�t (with apologies to any readers who have these various maladies�but it would make sense to work on those first before having to take on a kid)

1. Dangerous and predatory.

2. A dick.

3. Quad or Tri-Polar.

4. Hugely depressive.

5. A shithead.

6. A known felon (but the file got closed at 18�)

7. Heavy into booze or misc. substances that alter one�s ability to say�notice the house burning the fuck down or drive a kid to the hospital while doing CPR and talking to emergency workers with the fourth hand and second face.

8. And so forth.

I am not paranoid. But I DO truly like/love/relish my kid and I�d like the see the little bastich grow�d up.

Thoughts?

Thanks.

--DatHatesToLeaveHisKidWithSomeoneElseSauce

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