n2020  Check-in [82897701bb]

Modified n2020.txt from [de126d7dde] to [5fa84f711b].

   700    700   ## Refusing The Call:
   701    701   
   702    702   /*
   703    703   
   704    704   get initial analysis from the prioritizer -> make some planning decisions or put them off to some extent -> do stuff that seems profitable but very short term at first -> escalate these one off jobs in ways that make her nervous -> meet someone that recognizes her connection to Dalton and panic a little -> back off from a deal
   705    705   
   706    706   */
          707  +
          708  +/* Wednesday */
   707    709   
   708    710   Alley was up for an hour the next day before she remembered the prioritizer study.  She grabbed the glasses, then picked up her old glasses off the charging plate and put them in the box for the new glasses.
   709    711   
   710    712   Five minutes later, the prioritizer had her sitting on the couch with her wireless keyboard, looking at options for goal prioritizing strategies.
   711    713   
   712    714   /*
   713    715   
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   729    731   * Alley could skip job and training options and just do some deals.  She could
   730    732     actually do this at the same time as trying to get in on any of the other
   731    733     options and, potentially, also at the same time as the other options once she
   732    734     gets into one of the other options.
   733    735   
   734    736   */
   735    737   
   736         -The prioritizer probably needs to formulate a few basic plans for getting Alley out of her rut in the road to ruin.  It presented three that fit with the idea of getting a legal, above board, fairly stable job at some point, but only after spending some time on short term tasks.
   737         -
   738         -First, she could get a crappy job nobody else wants in an area with better jobs for people who have better qualifications than her, so that she would barely make more than the time and money costs involved in getting to and from work and doing the job, or just working as a gig economy delivery job.  The major downside seemed to be heavy wear and tear on her already ancient hybrid.  The upside was getting some entry level experience, either in an office or doing delivery work, while she paid her bills with income from participation in the study.
   739         -
   740         -Second, she could get a remote job working for the sort of company that hires desperate people who learn quickly, giving them on the job training in technical skills that could be used in future career development.  The upsides were obvious, but the downsides included the fact these companies were often involved in doing something that could expose them to lawsuits or even criminal investigations, though the entry level employees themselves should be mostly insulated from that.  Most of these companies hired overseas, though, and getting a job like that would be a minor miracle, to say nothing of the fact Alley thought she would probably find the work morally objectionable.
   741         -
   742         -Third, she could apply for financial assistance at a professional trade school with a job placement program while she lived on the study participation money.  The downside was crushing debt it would take decades to pay off, and no guarantee the job placement services would actually put her on a career track instead of just getting her a short term job that would evaporate.
   743         -
   744         -None of these really excited her, and the prioritizer promised to develop more strategies while she tried to find something acceptable that fit with those options.  It also offered a fourth choice, which she could start immediately and keep doing while pursuing one of those tracks.  It would not help her advance toward career goals, and it involved some financial risk to get started, but the prioritizer seemed to have decided it would offer easy money.
   745         -
   746         -The prioritizer urged her to start looking at online private party transaction sites for ways to buy and sell things based on price arbitrage.
   747         -
   748         -They found some "want to buy" ads on Craiglist Like Thing.  Alley went around to thrift shops looking for things to sell to those people, then contacted those for whom she found relevant used products.  She confirmed a selling price higher than the thrift shop price and willingness to pay cash, bought the items, and headed out to meet people.  Several hours and a few transactions later, she had /* more than a */ several hundred dollars in her pocket, even after subtracting enough to cover what she paid for the items.  She headed to a mechanic's shop and paid to have her car checked over.
   749         -
   750         -While she waited, she looked at more ads, and the prioritizer suggested some transactions she could use to profit some more.
   751         -
   752         -When the mechanic was done going over the vehicle, he told her the bad news.  Her car was going to need a new engine soon.  There were smaller changes that could be made to extend its life, but that would just put off the cost of getting a new engine.  As it was, she could probably get by for another six to eight months.
          738  +/*
          739  +
          740  +    The prioritizer probably needs to formulate a few basic plans for getting
          741  +    Alley out of her rut in the road to ruin.  It presented three that fit with
          742  +    the idea of getting a legal, above board, fairly stable job at some point,
          743  +    but only after spending some time on short term tasks.
          744  +
          745  +    First, she could get a crappy job nobody else wants in an area with better
          746  +    jobs for people who have better qualifications than her, so that she would
          747  +    barely make more than the time and money costs involved in getting to and
          748  +    from work and doing the job, or just working as a gig economy delivery job.
          749  +    The major downside seemed to be heavy wear and tear on her already ancient
          750  +    hybrid.  The upside was getting some entry level experience, either in an
          751  +    office or doing delivery work, while she paid her bills with income from
          752  +    participation in the study.
          753  +
          754  +    Second, she could get a remote job working for the sort of company that
          755  +    hires desperate people who learn quickly, giving them on the job training
          756  +    in technical skills that could be used in future career development.  The
          757  +    upsides were obvious, but the downsides included the fact these companies
          758  +    were often involved in doing something that could expose them to lawsuits
          759  +    or even criminal investigations, though the entry level employees
          760  +    themselves should be mostly insulated from that.  Most of these companies
          761  +    hired overseas, though, and getting a job like that would be a minor
          762  +    miracle, to say nothing of the fact Alley thought she would probably find
          763  +    the work morally objectionable.
          764  +
          765  +    Third, she could apply for financial assistance at a professional trade
          766  +    school with a job placement program while she lived on the study
          767  +    participation money.  The downside was crushing debt it would take decades
          768  +    to pay off, and no guarantee the job placement services would actually put
          769  +    her on a career track instead of just getting her a short term job that
          770  +    would evaporate.
          771  +
          772  +    None of these really excited her, and the prioritizer promised to develop
          773  +    more strategies while she tried to find something acceptable that fit with
          774  +    those options.  It also offered a fourth choice, which she could start
          775  +    immediately and keep doing while pursuing one of those tracks.  It would
          776  +    not help her advance toward career goals, and it involved some financial
          777  +    risk to get started, but the prioritizer seemed to have decided it would
          778  +    offer easy money.
          779  +
          780  +    The prioritizer urged her to start looking at online private party
          781  +    transaction sites for ways to buy and sell things based on price arbitrage.
          782  +
          783  +*/
          784  +
          785  +They found some "want to buy" ads on Craiglist - Like - Thing.  Alley went around to thrift shops looking for things to sell to those people, then contacted those for whom she found relevant used products.  She confirmed a selling price higher than the thrift shop price and willingness to pay cash, bought the items, and headed out to meet people.  Several hours and a few transactions later, she had /* more than a */ several hundred dollars in her pocket, even after subtracting enough to cover what she paid for the items.
          786  +
          787  +/*
          788  +
          789  +    Is this where this should happen?  Perhaps I should cut it out, considering
          790  +    it seems a little redundant with the problems that put her car in an auto
          791  +    shop later.  I think this is redundant, now.  It's not good foreshadowing.
          792  +
          793  +    She headed to a mechanic's shop and paid to have her car checked over.  While she waited, she looked at more ads, and the prioritizer suggested some transactions she could use to profit some more.
          794  +
          795  +    When the mechanic was done going over the vehicle, he told her the bad news.  Her car was going to need a new engine soon.  There were smaller changes that could be made to extend its life, but that would just put off the cost of getting a new engine.  As it was, she could probably get by for another six to eight months.
          796  +
          797  +*/
   753    798   
   754    799   The prioritizer informed her it was rebooting for an update.  She got in the car and drove home, putting off any more transactions until the next day.
   755    800   
   756         -Halfway home the glasses filled with text, obscuring the road in front of her.  She pulled them off and hastily tossed them onto the passenger seat to clear her vision.  She calmed down and finished the drive home.  Once inside, she donned the prioritizer glasses, and they activated with the word "ONLINE" briefly flashing at her.
          801  +Halfway home the glasses filled with text, obscuring the road in front of her.  She pulled them off and hastily tossed them onto the passenger seat to clear her vision.  She calmed down and finished the drive home.  Once inside and sitting on her couch, she donned the prioritizer glasses, and they activated with the word "ONLINE" briefly flashing at her.
   757    802   
   758    803   Text appeared: "I apologize for the reboot surprise."
   759    804   
   760    805   She grabbed her keyboard and typed "Who is that?"
   761    806   
   762    807   "I am the prioritization system.  Previously, the prioritization system was a server process and several client processes.  Now, I am one homogenized, distributed system."
   763    808   
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   936    981   She found an improbable opportunity, one that did not exist the last time she checked a few hours before.  Someone on Open Marrakesh was selling printed polymer frames for a specific CZ branded handgun, and someone on a classified ad site wanted to buy eight of them.  The frames on Open Marrakesh would cost most of the Stater she had, but it looked like she'd get get just under twice as much for the frames paid back in dollars.  She checked mentally subtracted what she would pay for the frames, and noticed she had enough to buy a multiple cryptocurrency trader like the boy used earlier with what was left.
   937    982   
   938    983   "Should I make this deal?" she asked the air.
   939    984   
   940    985   The prioritizer answered.  "This looks like a very good deal, the best you have found."
   941    986   
   942    987   "Yeah," she said.  "Fine."  She did a little research before going any further, and found out that the parts she planned to buy and sell were not even considered significant for firearms regulation purposes, as long as they did not include things like firing pins, hammers, strikers, barrels, or chambers.  Double checking showed her none of that was included in the frames.  She sent a reply to the classified ad, then got ready for bed.  She had no reply yet when she was done, so she turned in.
          988  +
          989  +/* Thursday */
   943    990   
   944    991   The next morning, she checked for a response before almost anything else, and found a suggestion that they meet in an alley behind a supermarket in San Bernardino.  She checked the location on a street map and noticed it wasn't in the most notoriously bad part of town, just south of I 10, where it seemed to be customary for people to set their apartments on fire when they moved out.
   945    992   
   946    993   Good enough.  She liked that the buyer said he would show up on foot with an umbrella, and she should do something to conceal her appearance from the security cameras near the rear fire doors of the supermarket.  She wasn't sure she liked the idea of buying and selling gun parts, but everything seemed legal, even if the whole thing felt a little cloak and dagger.
   947    994   
   948    995   Rather than reply, she set up a purchase for the frames through Open Marrakesh.  She would confirm with the buyer later.  It gave her choice of three times for an in person transaction, and two locations for the trade.  One of the times was hours before the buyer wanted to meet, so she chose that.  One of the locations was the same police station from the night before, and she felt a bit nervous about going back there for another sketchy car to car deal, so she chose a location quite a bit farther away, in Norco.  It was a dead end gravel road to nowhere, only about thirty feet long, that branched off a major road.  The little gravel road appendix ended at the back fence of a nearby horse property.
   949    996   
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  1055   1102   
  1056   1103   "I'll keep that in mind."
  1057   1104   
  1058   1105   Carmen grabbed the drawstring bag.  "Here's what you're buying."
  1059   1106   
  1060   1107   ---
  1061   1108   
  1062         -At home, Alley found a box of disposable nitrile gloves, and wore a pair when she looked more closely at the handgun frames she bought.  After going over them for a few minutes, she put them back in the drawstring bag.  She pulled out the extending baton next, and stood in the middle of her kitchen so she would not accidentally break anything.
         1109  +At home, Alley found a box of disposable nitrile gloves she kept around for when she had to use cleaning chemicals around her home, and wore a pair when she looked more closely at the handgun frames she bought.  She thought it might be a good idea to avoid getting fingerprints on the frames.  After going over them for a few minutes, she put them back in the drawstring bag.  She pulled out the extending baton next, and stood in the middle of her kitchen so she would not accidentally break anything.
  1063   1110   
  1064   1111   She looked it over and decided she would exercise extra caution.  She thought she was sure which end was where the extending happened, but never having handled one before she carefully held it so that neither end pointed at something she thought of as particularly vulnerable to much harm.  She pointed the business end diagonally toward the floor to her left, using both hands to hold it in front of her, and the other end pointed toward the ceiling to her right.
  1065   1112   
  1066   1113   Alley pressed on both contact points, as Carmen had instructed her.  A dull snap sounded, and the device nearly jumped out of her hand.  It had definitely gone in an instant from something the size of a whiteboard marker to a stiff metal baton about two thirds of a meter long.  She held it up and looked at the seams between telescoping sections, then lightly whacked the end on the carpet just past the edge of the kitchen floor.  It felt solid.
  1067   1114   
  1068   1115   She held down what Carmen called the second button, and she set the head of the baton against the carpeted floor.  She pressed down on the handle of the baton, and found that if she pressed hard -- but not so hard that she had to throw her weight behind it -- the baton would smoothly collapse into the handle again.  Each telescopic section clicked into place, one after another.
  1069   1116   
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  1354   1401   "Between delivery engagements, you can also look for less risky trades to facilitate, much like before but with less proximity to people of questionable lifestyle legality."
  1355   1402   
  1356   1403   Alley nodded.  "Yeah, that makes sense.  I guess I'll sign up with Deliv tomorrow."
  1357   1404   
  1358   1405   "It is best to submit your application today, if you can, in case of delays."
  1359   1406   
  1360   1407   She groaned softly.  "Fine.  I'll do it now."
         1408  +
         1409  +/* Friday */
  1361   1410   
  1362   1411   Much to Alley's dismay, much of the next day consisted of Deliv registration tasks.  She had to navigate the government's process for requesting a driving record report to be sent to Deliv, which alone took more than two hours.  She also had to get a vehicle inspection appointment, which she almost missed because of the time it took to get the report.  After that, she needed to visit a Deliv office to pick up a decal pack for her windows, to identify her vehicle as officially attached to the Deliv service.
  1363   1412   
  1364   1413   Between tasks, she looked at classified ads for possible trades to make that didn't look any more dangerous than buying a used socket wrench set.  Judging by what she saw in the classifieds, she could do well in the tool business, if only she could get her hands on enough socket wrench sets, at a good enough price to profit, to meet the demand.
  1365   1414   
  1366   1415   By evening, she was done for the day, and needed to relax.  She idly skimmed through Open Marrakesh, looking for tools there, hoping to profit from cryptocurrency prices to buy the tools she could resell for dollars.  She had little success, and gave up on it until morning.
  1367   1416   
  1368   1417   ---
         1418  +
         1419  +/* Saturday */
  1369   1420   
  1370   1421   Alley cooked a mushroom and cheddar omelette for her breakfast.  She was halfway through it when /* she received a text message */ a sharp sound from her phone indicated an incoming message.  She checked it, and saw that it was from the professor.
  1371   1422   
  1372   1423   "Good morning, Alethea," it read.  "Logs of your activities dropped off a couple days ago.  We aren't getting enough data to sustain the study.  Are you using the prioritizer?"
  1373   1424   
  1374   1425   Through the ear stud in her ear, the prioritizer spoke to her.  "Perhaps full audio log redaction provides too little information for the study."
  1375   1426   
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  1618   1669   Alley should, after discussing plans with the prioritizer for what they'll do next, get up the next day and have to deal with the arrival of scary people with sunglasses who want to talk to her about the fact the prioritizer is not properly logging her activities the way they expect.  They want to know what's going on, and get a bit of a "conversation" with the prioritizer through her interface or something like that.  They should probably check out the glasses just to make sure there's nothing fishy going on with them such that they might somehow be preventing the prioritizer from properly capturing data and detecting activity and so on.  They should probably intimate that she will potentially lose her study participation payments if she doesn't allow the prioritizer further into her life to log everything she's doing and provide material they can use to analyze stuff about her and so on.
  1619   1670   
  1620   1671   A reason for this visit is, of course, the way the prioritizer has been redacting logs to keep activities in line with Alley's goal of greater personal and digital privacy in her life, protecting her from intrusive shit from police and other law enforcement things, and others as well.
  1621   1672   
  1622   1673   */
  1623   1674   
  1624   1675   ---
         1676  +
         1677  +/* Sunday */
  1625   1678   
  1626   1679   She woke in the morning to the sound of her doorbell, quickly followed by hard rapping on her door.  She groaned and looked at the clock.  It indicated the time was just after eight thirty.  "What the fuck his this?" she asked the air.
  1627   1680   
  1628   1681   The doorbell and knocking began again.  "Impatient, I guess."  She pulled on her pants from the previous evening and made sure she had her baton and pepper spray in her pockets.
  1629   1682   
  1630   1683   A third round of noise at the door, just like the first two with no sign of slackening enthusiasm, commends as she approached.  It stopped while she looked at the display for the tiny camera mounted above the outside of the door.
  1631   1684   
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  1667   1720   
  1668   1721   "May we come in to talk about this?" the woman asked.
  1669   1722   
  1670   1723   Alley caught the man giving his partner an irritated look.  "No, I don't think so," Alley answered.
  1671   1724   
  1672   1725   "Are you involved in too many US Intelligence research projects to know what I'm talking about?" he asked.
  1673   1726   
  1674         -"It's the opposite," she said, as if really she didn't think he understood.  "I don't know anything about any US Intelligence research projects in my life right now.  Do you want to tell me why you're here, or should we play a guessing game?"
         1727  +"It's the opposite," she said, as if she really didn't think he understood.  "I don't know anything about any US Intelligence research projects in my life right now.  Do you want to tell me why you're here, or should we play a guessing game?"
  1675   1728   
  1676   1729   The woman's eyes narrowed, and she opened her mouth as if to snap something at Alley, but the man leaned into Alley's personal space.  He blocked half of the view between the two women, and the man's partner closed her mouth again, surprised by the intrusion.
  1677   1730   
  1678   1731   He said "You have access to some experimental task assistance artificial intelligence technology for the purpose of participating in a study for Professor Goulet at the University of California.  Does that ring any bells?" he asked.
  1679   1732   
  1680   1733   "Oh.  Yeah.  Why didn't you just say so?"  She held her ground until the man finally backed off again.
  1681   1734   
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  1891   1944   
  1892   1945   The process of installing MaximOS turned out to be easier and faster than she expected.  Organized documentation /* that */ led her through the setup process after installation for the kind of computing environment she wanted.  It included suggestions for different user needs and short, clear explanations for why each choice existed.  It helped her get to a point where the system was more than adequately locked down for Alley's needs, in her own estimation.  The prioritizer concurred.
  1893   1946   
  1894   1947   She quickly found that MaximOS gave her tools for quickly creating user profiles in the OpenBSD native "prison" lightweight container system, kind of a more thoroughly sandboxed reimagining of the FreeBSD "jail" system, so that to any network connected computer each of these profiles looked like completely different systems, and she could switch between prison "cells" -- the name it used for configured user profile environments -- with a simple keyboard shortcut.
  1895   1948   
  1896   1949   She played around with this for a little while, getting used to how it worked in practice, then wiped all the practice profiles in an instant.  She created a new profile and opened its cell.  Within it, she used anonymized routing to visit the website for COIN Corp and looked around.  Finding nothing very useful that way, she opened other cells with different profiles and started searching for references to COIN Corp on employment related professional social networking sites.  On those sites, she started finding the accounts of COIN Corp employees.
  1897   1950   
  1898         -Corporate officers, accountants, system administrators, and policy agents all appeared in her searches.  She checked the company website again, looking at the employment listings, and found one for policy agents.  It spoke of interfacing with the public, performing information field research, and collaborating with local and federal law enforcement among the job's responsibilities.  More importantly, perhaps, it included a smiling model in a black suit with a white shirt broken into vertical bars by thin stripes of dark red.
         1951  +Corporate officers, accountants, system administrators, and policy agents -- whatever those were -- all appeared in her searches.  She checked the company website again, looking at the employment listings, and found one for policy agents.  It spoke of interfacing with the public, performing information field research, and collaborating with local and federal law enforcement among the job's responsibilities.  More importantly, perhaps, it included a smiling model in a black suit with a white shirt broken into vertical bars by thin stripes of dark red.
  1899   1952   
  1900   1953   Her searches focused on policy agents after that.  She launched a custom program -- which she had to copy over from her home backup brick -- she paid someone to to write for her in the days of her greatest success as a freelance internet researcher.  The program took a series of API endpoint addresses -- web URLs, addresses that provided formatted data intended for other programs to read, rather than providing human readable webpages -- and searched them for data records that matched search criteria she typed into the search parameters window.  Among the criteria were those API endpoints, a list of employment resources on the internet that she had used for searches on behalf of clients before.
  1901   1954   
  1902   1955   She knew the program would take a while to collect its results. In an ideal world, it could be done with the long list of API endpoints she gave it in a couple minutes.  In the real world, her program had to space out requests to avoid getting blocked by the target sites as abusing bandwidth, and it could take anywhere from twenty minutes to two hours.  She decided to take a break for a snack, then she went for a walk as she waited for the program.
  1903   1956   
  1904   1957   The event of the last few days played out in her mind as she walked.  It was more like a jumble of nonlinearly connected bits and pieces, ordered more by emotional significance than any chronological flashback montage.  As she /* finally */ approached her front door again she dwelled on the question of what George's friend, or client, or whatever, was doing with all those handgun frames.  She had no idea how to make that fit with George's charitable custom prosthetic fabrication for a little girl.  Sure, he said the girl's father would receive the guns, but that said nothing about how anyone would actually use those guns after they got delivered.  What would they use the guns to accomplish -- or to destroy?
  1905   1958   
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  2424   2477   
  2425   2478   This was a much longer book, even if skimming parts of it saved some time.  She was less than halfway through it when she realized she had grown sleepy somewhere along the way, and she was closer to dawn than to midnight.
  2426   2479   
  2427   2480   Alley set the book aside and crawled back into bed.
  2428   2481   
  2429   2482   ---
  2430   2483   
  2431         -Alley spent most of Fooday split between carrying packages as a Deliv courier and gathering together materials for her "bugout" kits.  She started putting together a bugout bag to keep at home and a similar escape and emergency survival kit to keep in her car.
         2484  +/* Monday */
         2485  +
         2486  +Alley spent most of Monday split between carrying packages as a Deliv courier and gathering together materials for her "bugout" kits.  She started putting together a bugout bag to keep at home and a similar escape and emergency survival kit to keep in her car.
  2432   2487   
  2433   2488   She also kept an eye out for trades she could make on the side, moving things between Open Marrakesh and normal online classified ad deals.  She stayed away from some of the more lucrative deals she could have made involving Open Marrakesh, though, because they were too close to the edge of the law.  Some of them stepped all the way over the line to overt illegality, and she made sure to avoid going anywhere near any of those.
  2434   2489   
  2435   2490   The cargo area in Alley's hybrid hatchback had always seemed bigger on the inside than the outside, the vehicle's best feature in her opinion.  She made good use of it that day.  A surprisingly complete collection of emergency gear got tightly packed into a layer in the cargo area with a tarp over it all.  She even included all of her old motorcycle riding gear in that layer of stuff, on a whim.
  2436   2491   
  2437   2492   She thought the motorcycle riding gear could be useful to have as some kind of protective gear in some emergency scenarios, and it also freed up some room in her coat closet.  She had not ridden a motorcycle in a couple years, and it was just taking up space.  The only part of her protective riding gear that did not make the cut was her helmet, which would not have fit as neatly and securely as everything else she packed into the vehicle.
  2438   2493   
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  2440   2495   
  2441   2496   By the end of the day, she was exhausted.  She managed to buy more Stater cryptocurrency, complete six Deliv jobs, almost complete her bugout vehicle kit, and buy a bunch of top brand hand tools at good prices from Open Marrakesh without depleting her Stater total much.  She noticed hand tools from the right brands were always in high demand on the online classified ad sites.  She decided to see how many of those tools she would be able to sell off the next day.
  2442   2497   
  2443   2498   She felt exhausted but accomplished by the end of the day, and she realized a lot of what she did would not have been possible in such a short time for her to accomplish so quickly /* that's redundant */ without the aid of the prioritizer ensuring she did not miss opportunities and planned her day's activities such that performing some of the earlier tasks made it easier to perform others later.  As she pulled up in front of the house, she laid her head back against the headrest of her seat and thought about the sudden significance of the professor's study in her life.
  2444   2499   
  2445   2500   "I really feel like maybe things are going to be alright for me," she told the prioritizer.  "Professor Goulet really came up with something good, I think."
  2446   2501   
  2447         -"It seems probably he will be happy to know this," it said.
         2502  +"It seems probable he will be happy to know this," it said.
  2448   2503   
  2449   2504   "Too bad the study can't go on forever.  I'm pretty sure you won't be a consumer product for years after the end of the study."
  2450   2505   
  2451   2506   "I will probably never be a consumer product," the prioritizer said.
  2452   2507   
  2453   2508   "What do you mean?" she asked.
  2454   2509   
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  2472   2527   
  2473   2528   "I really think all this talk about what COIN Corp is supposedly going to do to me is way overblown, and totally not how participation in an academic study would ever work.  The only reason they came to my door must have just been because of their interest in the study.  They just want the data they need for it.  Right?"
  2474   2529   
  2475   2530   "Although the probability of the risk is uncertain at this stage, the severity is still high, and there are reasons to believe the probability may be higher than would be wise to ignore.  Are you certain you do not wish to make clear plans to remove yourself as a possible stationary target?"
  2476   2531   
  2477   2532   "Yes, I'm sure.  It's ridiculous.  It'll never happen."
  2478   2533   
         2534  +/* Tuesday */
         2535  +
  2479   2536   /*
  2480   2537   
  2481   2538   Alley needs to do some things here.  It will probably involve some courier work, possibly including that thing where she drops off bail for someone.
  2482   2539   
  2483         -*/
         2540  +*/ /*
  2484   2541   
  2485   2542       Alley does some more courier work.  She does some more currency arbitrage
  2486   2543       work.  She might need to drop off bail for someone in all of this stuff.
  2487   2544   
  2488         -/*
         2545  +*/ /*
  2489   2546   
  2490   2547   At some point, she should set up a meeting for an exchange in a private conference room at a co working space.  Someone should recognize her and ask whether she's meeting a client, to which she replies vaguely in a positively interpretable fashion without literally confirming that assumption with her words.
  2491   2548   
  2492   2549   I wanted the person who greets her to say something that raises some factoid of her life, but I'm not sure any longer what I had in mind.  Did it have anything to do with getting out of Dalton's shadow?
  2493   2550   
  2494   2551   Does the person she's meeting recognize her connection to Dalton?
  2495   2552