Council Officer Gerald Wright is dedicated to the minimization of risk, even where no actual risk exists. If only he could control his own life with the same benevolent despotism with which he regulates other people's lives. Sadly, he can't. He's a recent divorcé and new single dad, and his personal life is one long struggle against the petty irritations and inconveniences which bedevil all our lives--those 21st-century slings and arrows of outrageous fortune against which Gerald's lengthy rule book is no defense.