Stephen's Secure Blog #344
These stories about Stephen began was when he was 10 years old, and
moving to a new part of the country to attend a special school for
gifted students, in the 1950's. This was from a time before computers
would fit on a desk, and when people communicated with friends in other
countries by actual letters sent through the postal service. He wrote
225 of them to a friend. He stopped writing to his penpal, but found he
still wanted to record his life, in case he lost his memory again, and
wrote 30 entries in his first logbook. Then he wrote to an artificial
intelligence called Geenee, in the master computer in his school for
gifted students, which he started attending in 2016. Now it's after
2018, and he's continuing to save his memories in a secure blog.
All characters are fictitious, even if some of them might have names
that belong to some actual people, or act like people we know.
The stories may not be posted in chronological order.
Stephen is 17 in this story, in the Winter of year 8 of his special
school.
Stephen's Secure Blog #344 "Offworld Museums"
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Sharon called, and said, "Stephen! I don't know whether to kiss you
or spank you!" I said "You make room in your overcrowded office, and
I'll take both a second later." She laughed. We talked about Yale and
the Met, and what I was giving, and what we had talked about. She said
"Please go ahead and modify the Early Man exhibit to your observations.
If Peabody is going public with it, so will we." I said "I think I
should wait until they do it first. Less controversy for you." She said
"As you see fit." I said "I'm going to make the rounds of the offplanet
museums for some new things. When the Met and Yale people want to talk
again, I would like you to be involved, if you don't mind." She said
"Wild horses, and all that." We laughed.
I ported to the museum on Misnok, unobserved. I walked to the
curator's office. I knew he was in. His door was open. I said in the
doorway, "I've got something for you." He yelled, "Stephen!" I said "I
already knew that." He laughed. I said "Remember the tourmaline crystal
I didn't carve?" He said "Yes, very well." I said "Got one. Want it?"
He said "Absolutely!" I ported it in. It had the spiral carving, and
the miners, but not the rooms inside. The crystal was too dark for
that, but it showed the gold and platinum miners very well. He said
"Wow!" I said "Yes. You might want to display it on a slowly rotating
platform." He said, "Yes, a good idea." I said "There is another one,
but a little different. Want to see?" He said "You know I do!" I ported
in a clear quartz tower with individually lit rooms, with psychoactive
people. I said "Want it?" He had to take time to recover, and said,
"Yes! But I don't know where we could display it." I said "That's not
MY problem." He laughed. He said "What are the costs for these two?" I
said "I have enough credit in this system. So, no cost. A gift." He
said "I don't know how to thank you." I said "Well, I'm not going to
give you lessons." He laughed. I said "I need to be going. There are
other museums to confound." He stood, and we bowed to each other.
I ported to the museum on Posintan, and went to the director's
office. His secretary announced me, and he came out to greet me. We
went inside, and sat. He said "We've been collecting information on
you. Don't be concerned. It's not going public. What you did in the
Empire is fantastic!" I said "Not much fun, though." He said
"Absolutely, for that hanging man!" I said "Right. I have some new
things you might be interested in." I described the tourmaline. He said
"We DO want it!" I ported it to the middle of the most open space in
his office. After looking at it for a while, he said, "You knew we
knew. That's why you didn't bring any assistants to carry it in." I
grinned, and said, "Oh, I'm SO exposed!" He laughed. I said "Actually,
I didn't know, but I assumed, knowing you and your people. There is
another one you might want. A little different. Want to see?" He said
"Please." I ported in the quartz tower. It was like the other one on
Misnok, but featured Posintans doing sports. He said "Wow!" I nodded.
He said "What are the prices?" I said "Gift. I don't need any more
money from Posintan. But I might have to restrain my business manager,
so he won't cause himself an injury." He laughed really hard.
I did the same on Tsuriss, but used a cart to bring them to the
office. I did the same with the cart on Zichesshich, but things didn't
go there as smoothly. I walked in to Crintaj's office, and she went
crazy. She jumped up and screamed my name. Some other people came
running to see what was wrong, and started screaming my name, too. Not
very musically. I had to shield my ears with 4th baffles. While all
that was going on, Rose walked in to join me. I said to her, "This
doesn't appear to be usual Ssintris behavior." She said "Some kind of
disease?" I said "Some kind of strange environmental effect?" She said
"Maybe psychological." I said "We could ask them. Well, when they
become a little less active." She said "It could be that they just like
you a lot." I said "Oh. I guess we will just have to wait and see."
Many of them had been listening to us, and laughed. I said "It sure
wasn't like this on Posintan." She said "Bigger people, though. On
Tsuriss, did you notice some extra fluffiness?" They laughed some more.
I said "Maybe. Difficult to tell, when their fur is being pressed to my
skin." She said "I think you enjoyed that a little too much." There was
much louder laughter at that.
I said loudly to the room, "I brought something you might want to
have. If you don't want to look, I can take it away. I can go back to
where there is nice fur." Rose said "Oh no, you don't." More laughter.
Crintaj said, "Please show us." I said "Make room, please." They did. I
picked up the tourmaline tower and set it upright on the floor, and
unwrapped it. They almost popped their eyes out. I said to Rose, "If
they look any harder, their eyeballs might be bouncing on the floor."
There was some strangled laughter. She said "Maybe you shouldn't show
them the other one, or we'll have to be careful where we walk." More
laughter. Crintaj said "The way you lifted it makes it seem much less
heavy than it should be." I said "It IS very heavy. I'm just a good er,
lifter." She said "And you look different." I said "It happened, and
wasn't my choice. So, do you want it?" She said "Absolutely! May we see
the other one?"
I picked that one up and unwrapped it, and they all gasped. I said to
Rose, "We REALLY know they can breathe now." She said, "Yes. No
evidence of any lung problems." Some choking sounds. The Ssintris in
the crystal rooms weren't psychoactive, but the rooms were individually
lit. After a while, Crintaj said "We want that one, too. What do they
cost?" I said "We don't need any more credits. So, they are gifts. Er,
tall gifts." She almost couldn't speak. I said to Rose, "All that noise
when I came in, and now they can't make a sound. We really should
investigate this strange condition." Rose said "Then you need to make
more things for them." I said "Seems so. I should get back to work,
then." Crintaj said "I don't know how to thank you enough." Rose said
"You don't have to. That you like them so much, is all the thanks
anybody could ever want." I said "Yes, what she said." Rose poked me,
and I acted like it hurt. They laughed.
I said "I really should be going back. I have a schedule to keep,
giving my love to my world. Before we go, I give my love to YOU." I did
that to all in the room, very strongly. While they were still in a
daze, Rose and I walked out, and when unobserved, we ported to Zander's
school. In a meeting with Zander, I told him about the visits to the
museums. He was amused at the last museum's situation, after Rose
showed it to him. Then we toured the school. Everybody was very happy
to see us, and gave us a lot of love.
Back in his office, I said, "I would like some of the Nagindra
students, when they are ready, to help teach in Tibet. Because they
look enough like Earth people to not cause too much alarm, and because
they need operational experience before they go back to their own world
and change it." He said "Yes, Good reasoning. We have one adult male
who is ready, but is not a Senior yet, and my never be. Minster is the
most advanced of the Nagindra children, and is very near to being a
Senior, but should finish more of his academics before spending time
away from school." I said "I would prefer a Senior, to support in
transportation, and possibly, escape. We'll see. Any adult Hopchers at
the Senior level yet?" He grinned, and said, "Pizlocher is about to be
tested, and I think he will pass." I said "That's great! You can tell
him I said that, and that I love him." I said "He knows, but I will
tell him all the same. For advanced training, I'll send him to Ichi. I
expect him to be visiting you there." Rose said "That will be
interesting." We laughed. He said "Minton and Ginging are available,
both Seniors." I said "It will be difficult to place them, because they
look a little too different to be seen by anybody but their students.
We'll have to think about it. And there is the cold. Splidnt is
handling it well, with the shield, but has to be in a warm room for
teaching love. Nobody complained at ALL about that." He laughed.
Zander said "Ginging is a little jealous of Splidnt, for that part of
teaching. When he's imagining that happening all the time, we ALL know
it." We laughed. I said "If you want, we could have them work
together." He said "I'm sure there would be no complaints!" I said
"Absolutely. And after that works well, Splidnt can be with Harditch in
setting up their school." He said "We've discussed that a lot. We think
it would be better to not do that, and just have them here, to avoid
the clan rivalries. We also think multiculturalism is something we
need." I said "It's your school, so I didn't want to interfere, but I
agree. I can send Ginging to another Monastery. Labrang is VERY large,
and the teacher there is commuting." He said "I'll send him to you when
he's ready, in about 16 more days."
Zander said, "Can you take Minton to where Splidnt is?" He said
"Trying to dispense with him?" He said "The improvement in Splidnt is
significant, and is something Minton needs." I said "Fine. When will he
be available?" He said "Any time you want him. We should have him back
here once every 20 days for testing and academics. I said "In a few
days, after my scheduled love broadcast, I'll ask for him." We talked
about some more things, and then Rose and I went home.
I asked Eli and Srinoy to see me at my house in Tibet. I told them
about the new teachers. They both liked having them, specially for
their teacher "conferences". I said "All of Tibet is going to feel
that!" They laughed. I said "Better to use a house on Allguard." They
agreed. I said "Srinoy, you are still in charge, being the most
advanced. Eli, you are the administrative coordinator. We have to keep
track of where all our teachers are, and what they are teaching, and
how far along their students are. Soon, we will have actual
universities there, and they will each need one of us to supervise the
use of crystals, and just BE there, to show what some can become." They
nodded. I said "Unfortunately, that will be a little boring, so you
might want to think up some things to fix that. I mean, besides sex."
They laughed. Then we did some not boring things, and squirted very
well.
It was time for my new years day love broadcast. I stood outside my
pavilion outside Sera, on the road. Only Rhamcha and Eli were with me.
I gathered all the free power in Tibet, which was a LOT, and hooked to
the forth for more, and really pushed out my love. I felt the others
join me, with a great ocean of power, and a lot of healing was done,
but much of it was not noticeable right away. Only I knew that social
aggression and anger problems were reduced, and so were addictions, and
people were better able to share love. And, some peoples' psionics were
unblocked. I asked Chad to announce I would do it again on April first.
He said "No fooling?" I said "April second?" He said "Really?" I said
"No, just fooling. I'll do it on the first." He growled. I told him
about what had happened, and he said, "What we hoped for. We may
actually have world peace before you expire." I said "Good I'll be gone
then. The world would be too boring." I got poked, but with love.
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