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FAIRE LA PERRUQUE, WHATEVS
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y character?
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Black t\-shirt, faded blue.  Unfiltered Pall\-Malls.  Scar on my hand
that I don't recognize.
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Easy.

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Back at the apartment.
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"Hello.  Some
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acme
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user here?"
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Nubile, untrained.  But: Miranda Rights Gold Account.  Have to
let it slide.
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Clean out the rest of the living room.  Downtown is packed.  So,
processing them through the apartment.  One at a time.
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The whole thing takes quite a while.
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New job feels just like the old job.
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On the other hand, never heard of
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acme,
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either.

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"Stagflation."
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"In operating systems?"
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"Can you think of a single new idea that's hit the desktop since
1918?"
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"Transparent terminal windows?"
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That's quite enough.  Halt the interview, bypassing internal debate.
Then: depress a switch.
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"Maude, please send in the next candidate."

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Closet floor on the mend.  String up a wire for my clothes.  No
boxes on the carpet.
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Old woman remains uncommunicative.
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Hired a few school kids to help migrate stray bits from one folder
to another.  Pay them with free access to the Basement underware.
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Find a way back in.
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Or, the kids will find one for me.
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.IP
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	If anyone is wanting the New
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	Release of Beauty and the Beast
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	(Blu\-Ray/DVD combo pack), I have
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	an extra one
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.EP
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I type.

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5
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Errors.  Upgrade to the latest underware.
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Snug.

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6
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Start messing around with
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acme.
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Windows blocking.  Switch to
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sam.
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The shit works.  Hey, this could be useful.
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Laid up for two days.  Sick.  Reconnected to the wrong... whatever?
Delaying judgment.

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8
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Some of the kids that were hired are not working out.  Appear to be using
the underware to access protected resources of the Basement.
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No.
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Tell them to stop, see if they decide to listen.  Maude keeps track.
Skills developing rapidly.
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Old woman will not be happy.
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Even so, running out of folders to keep them busy.

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9
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Kids have found a way to break back into the Basement.  Naturally, free DVDs
for everyone.
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Whatevs,
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one of them says.
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Pulled up the carpeting in the closet for good.  Rolled it up and
stuffed it behind the couch.
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Meow.
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Don't want it to heal.
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Installed new locks on the closet door.  We'll see how it all pans out.
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Kids take the first watch.

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Wait one.
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Personal projects got in the way (again).  Always busy.
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Some kind of subliterate device.  Primitive, but tasteful.
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My review: "What is this."
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Looks like a wig.  They laugh it off.
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"Wig for the
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Vizier."
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Oh.
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Fan art.