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<h2 id="codrin-balanpollux-the-balan-clade">Codrin Bălan#Pollux — The Bălan clade</h2>
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<p>systime 227 (2351)<br />
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(transmission delay)</p>
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<p>All,</p>
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<p>Last night, I mentioned off-hand that I felt like things were “settling into a new normal”, at which Dear and Serene both threw cookies at me. It took a while to get them to stop laughing to explain that “new normal” had become something of a forbidden phrase back phys-side prior to the creation of the System. Something about it just didn’t sit right with people, I guess, so everyone would just wrinkle their noses whenever it came up like someone had said something particularly disgusting.</p>
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<p>Before my time, though. Why it needed to trigger a food fight is beyond me, but I never claimed to understand foxes.</p>
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<p>All the same, it really does feel like we’re settling into a new sort of normal, here. We wake up make coffee, have some breakfast, then each head off to do our own work (I could expand on the arguments surrounding how to catalog the Artemis data dump, but it’s boring even for me). We’ve mostly been just getting lunch on our own since I’m spending much of the day out of the house, these days. We’ll meet back up for dinner, then just relax together until bed.</p>
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<p>Food has honestly been the biggest adjustment for me. For a while, Dear and I just stopped eating. █████ cooked just about everything, and while each of us know how to cook some of our own favorites, even just engaging with food left a sort of longing for how things had been. Wasn’t required, was painful, why bother?</p>
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<p>It was Serene, of course, who knocked us out of that particular slump. Dear was starting to get particularly jittery, lots of restless forking, and I pulled her aside to mention that I thought it might be on the way to overflowing, to which she agreed readily. We wound up heading out for sushi at a place that floats plates of sushi down to you along a little canal that winds its way between the tables — J2? Do they have that on Lagrange? Well, turns out you can special order there, too, and they’ll float a whole boat down to your table. It’s built like a full three-masted ship (a barque, perhaps?), complete with little cloth sails, and on each of the decks, rolls are piled up or splayed out in neat rows. We ate way, <em>way</em> too much sushi, and the two foxes got in a small contest of adding larger and larger amounts of wasabi to their bites until both had tears streaming down their faces.</p>
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<p>Again, I’ve never claimed to understand them.</p>
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<p>After that, we tried to make sure we ate at least once a week, then at least a day. It took us a while to sort out just how, though, as none of us are spectacular cooks. I make a pretty good tocană and a few other stews besides, but those are mostly cold-weather food. The Odists have their own stock set of recipes, but we’ve had to make up a few on the fly. There have been a lot of salads, a lot of sandwiches. Still, it gives us all a chance to sit down together and just stop whatever it is we’re working on, a little marker for when the day ends and the evening begins.</p>
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<p>Evenings have largely been slow and calm, relaxing on the couch or out on the patio. We’ve gone exploring a few times, though. As mentioned previously, Serene redid much of the sim to add some variety to the otherwise unending plain. To the east, it continues uninterrupted, while to the west, after a scant mile of hillocks, craggy, aged mountains jut up at a steep angle. These take the form of flat planes of red rock broken at acute angles pushing up from the earth directly west of the house. To the north, this continues along a ridge that slowly transforms into line of boulders and sandstone ‘walls’. To the south and further west, the hills are covered in a dense pine forest. Directly to the south of the house, a river runs out of the hills to travel south and east. It’s lined with willows, oaks, and cottonwoods. There was much good-natured ribbing of Serene for the latter. <em>“Cheap plastic trees! Sneeze-factories that shed branches at the slightest breeze!”</em> Dear had opinions.</p>
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<p>Our explorations have largely been to the south and west, where we’ve been hunting down my cairns. Serene somehow built the terrain up beneath them so that they remain dotting the slopes of the hills, between trees, or atop mountains (we skipped the climbing part of that to go check). We’ve camped out there a few times, but it’s been a lot of day hikes.</p>
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<p>I’m told that we’ll soon get inter-System A/V transmissions, though it’ll be restricted to still images for bandwidth’s sake. I’ll make sure you get some pictures of us as well as of the landscape.</p>
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<p>There have been a few bumps as we sort things out. Obviously, we still occasionally wind up feeling low from █████’s absence. There’s been a few days where one or the other of us winds up in a sulk, though we’re increasingly getting used to this new life.</p>
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<p>Dear and Serene have also wound up in feedback loops a few times. Remember when I wrote ”
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(Dear and Serene feedback loop)</p>
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<p>(seeing █████ once or twice)</p>
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<p>Page generated on 2022-08-06</p>
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