Sometimes when I talk to my mother on the phone, I feel like I’ve inadvertently crossed into a temporal distortion field where time passes slower for me than the actual time would indicate. Today, the effect was triggered by a seemingly innocuous question: “How much did it cost?”. This a reference to the renovation work recently completed on her kitchen. By way of a response, Mom proceeded to break down ALL of the work done to date, from the doors to the floor, cubbies to crawlspace, all the moving and the repairing and the cleaning and the painting, sparing absolutely no detail in the retelling. And, the more she talked, the further away the answer seemed to recede, tantalizingly close yet growing more elusive by the minute until, eventually, I couldn’t even remember what I’d asked in the first place.
Anyway, five grand.
I kid. I kid.
Closer to six.
Another stage completed on Project F today! This time the First World section. Keywords and phrases included: neural interfaces, future, post-apocalyptic, explore, unknown, their true identities a mystery. Tomorrow, I move on to the Second World section.
Amazing people with whom I’ve worked….
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