Sunday, July 8, 2007

Plugging In Part 2


Work passed unsurprisingly slow for Dithers for the rest of the day. Chang-Su kept shooting him knowing glances and the Dwight Brothers zipped him another e-mail offering him a free sign-up for ‘GalileeWay’ And by the time Dithers was shutting off his monitor for the day Dale had made yet another suggestion about the pivotal role he could play against General Sherman that night. A grey train, grey buildings all the way, and a grey apartment that Dithers was suddenly considering decorating. Dithers rubbed his eyes and realized that for the first time in months he’d actually truly been staring at his monitor all day. He had a bit of a headache. Dithers found an interesting Italian place that the programmer claimed had ‘the hottest, biggest tittied Italian girl you ever saw and incredible pasta’. He downloaded the program, pulled out another fiber bar, and jacked himself in. I’d been thinking a lot lately about something that had been bugging me. Kaylee and I were supposed to meet up for a date outside of the game. But what are we going to do together? Eat out at one of these programs? Talk about the game I can’t play for another 41 days? As I mulled over all this, a woman came up and took my order. The programmer had gotten a little carried away with the breasts, their artificial design being readily apparent even within the simulation. The meal was passable as well. Probably some 16 years old first attempt at a simulated environment. That was the problem with all these freebies I was using, if you wanted the top notch stuff you had to pay real cash for it. Dithers unplugged and looked down at the empty fiber bar wrapper in his hands. Forty-one more days of this? Two more days before he even had his date with Kaylee? He shook his head and tapped the button that extended his monitor. Search Term: StarFight. Would you like to start a new account? Yes.

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