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| The musings of a conservatarian frustrated writer. ... |
Saturday, April 12, 2008 --- 84 days ago http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioactiveCommunistZombies/~3/263717251/thursday
| Thursday night and nothing is happening, at least nothing worth blogging about. So I'll leave you with a part of a short story:
I was amazed at the size of the motel room I could obtain for less than one hundred dollars a night. There were two queen-sized beds, a desk with an interface, a separate room for the bathroom, and a dresser with a TV. On the far side of the room was a window overlooking the freeway. I was, of course, in the still relatively empty American West just off the I-5 corridor between the Seattle-Portland and Bay Area megatropolises. In Japan a hundred dollars, about forty yen, got you a coffin for six hours.
I locked the door's dead bolt and pulled my recently acquired gun out of my gym bag. I find guns inelegant but effective and, therefore, useful tools. I checked that the bathroom was empty and the window locked, then closed the curtains. Only then did I relax -- a little.
I moved my bag to one of the beds from near the door where I'd dropped it. I sat at the desk and shoved one of my credit cards in the computer. I still held the .40 caliber semi-auto in my hand as the computer came to life.
"Good afternoon, Mr. Gibbs."
Yeah, as if I'd let a computer know my real name.
"Get me some news." Most of my associates shunned computers out of a basic prejudice against technology. To me, they were just like guns: efficient tools.
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