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"Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too."
- H. L. Mencken
-050709-
Heh, late in updating again. How unusual... NOT! RL is still keeping me rather busy, so what little spare time I have, I'd rather not waste by spending time in front of my computer, which is why I'm hardly online anymore and why it takes ages between updates. But, now I'm on a glorious four-week vaccation of which I haven't even finished the first week yet. The weather is bloody marvelous, so I'm happier then a pig in mud with a well-stocked food supply. But I figured that since I haven't updated anything in like half a year, I probably should. If for nothing else, to stop the constant flow of "You're a lazy-assed mother-buggering shithead for not updating my favorite story for xx months, you selfish moronic bastard!" mails I seem to get from time to time. Or that's what I'm guessing they're about anyways, judging from the topic lines, which is just about all I've had time to read in the last six or seven months. I log into my yahoo account from time to time, to ensure that it's not closed down, but as for reading the mails I get... Well, no. Perhaps next week or so I'll get around to that. As for my other accounts, well, I download the stuff to my computer, but reading them? Well, not unless it's from very close personal RL friends of mine, no.Or unless it's work-related, which is the reason why I'm so annoyingly busy all the time. I took a chance to jump onto an education project, where I got to learn a new billing and customer relationship management system we're going to start using in my company this fall. I figured that it might be interesting and hoped that it would also lead to a lessened workload, which would give me more spare time.
Yeah, misscalculation of the century, that.
Instead of more spare time, I actually think I wound up with less. Not by a large margin, certainly, as I had a pretty big fucking workload earlier as well. But I still think it's less spare time then before. Not that the work itself isn't fun and rewarding, because it is, but I could certainly stand to have a little bit less of it! However, that just doesn't seem to be in my future for quite a while. We'll start using the system in october and until then, I'll be quite busy going all over the country educating our employees in the new system. And after we start using it, I'll probably spend the next couple of months on the run, answering questions from all the new users who hasn't quite gotten the hang of the new system just yet.
After that, well... I just hope that I'm still alive and haven't worked myself to death before this year is over.
Anyhew, once we started educating people instead of learning the system ourselves and preparing the various courses, I got back to writing a little bit, even if my day job saps just about every single ounce of creativity in my system. But I have gotten a bit of writing done. And today, I finally got off my lazy bum and reinstalled Word on my computer. I've been through two hard-drive crashes in this year alone and I just couldn't be bothered to install it after either one until now. I do all my writing and html:izing in Wordpad anyway, so I have zero use for Word until it's time to spellcheck my little creations.
The reason why I don't use it for anything else, you ask? Because almost everything Micro$oft puts out is Bloatware, crap that's a gazillion times larger then it needs to be. If those buggers could just find themselves a decent coder who codes in Assembler instead of Visual Basic or whatever it is they use that produces software that fills out hundreds of megabytes on the harddrive, when it shouldn't have to be larger then 30-40mb and that's INCLUDING clipart, templates, help-files and whatnot. Perhaps then we'd also have software that actually runs at decent speeds, instead of hogging computing power like there's no tomorrow, for no real discernable purpose.
Anyway, that's my PoW. So, I use their Blogware as little as possible and instead focus on something that does what I want it too, without sucking up hd-space and processing time. When it comes to writing, Wordpad does the trick. I can write, I can erase and I can save the result as pure .txt-files. That's all I want out of my program, until it's time to spellcheck. Then I want a decent dictionary as well and that's when Word comes into play.
Anyways, first out of the crap I've spellchecked, is "Partner Konoka", a Mahou Sensei Negima story. Later on, some updates on some old stories seems to be in order. But this one will have to tide you over until I've done some additional spell-checking.
"Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others."
- Oscar Wilde
"Well, Doctor Summers. Can you tell me what's happening with my Shin-chan?" Misato asked, worry clearly evident in her voice as she confronted the American geneticist and the beautiful nurse who accompanied him.
SEELE had brought him in, as this particular turn of events hadn't been anything but a very faint possibility in their schemes. As it hadn't featured at all in Gendo's scenario, he had allowed the foreigner to come and given him access to everything NERV had on the angels, including some data from SEELE and his personal archive that wasn't otherwise accessible even to Doctor Akagi.
"I believe I can explain some of it." Doctor Summers wheezed, then coughed. His caretaker, Nurse Lee, bent forward and offered up a clean hankerchief to Doctor Summers who coughed into it, before relinquishing it to Nurse Lee who put the blood-stained piece of cloth into a trashcan attached to the back of Doctor Summers wheelchair. "Sorry. Anyway, the geist of it is this. Humans are mortal, if we as a spicies need to adapt to any radical changes in our enviroment, we do it through our children. We remain obsolete in face of change, but our children adapt to it some, their children continue to adapt and so forth. There are the occational exceptions where mutation occurs, a short-cut so to speak, where we adapt near instantly." he explained, then coughed lightly.
"Angels don't have the luxury of adapting over generations, as they seem to completely lack reproducive organs. Angels adapt naturally through mutation, for them it's the rule more then an exception." he continued to explain. "Ikari Shinji... Changed when he entered what Doctor Akagi called the Sea of Dirac. Angels and Humans are genetically very much alike, there is a very small difference, genetically speaking, between and angel and a human. Shinji has changed to something in between the two of them. No longer entirely human, but not fully angelic either. I believe that what Shinji is experiencing now, is spontanious mutation. His body is adapting to its surroundings near-instantly." Doctor Summers theorised, then glanced down at a folder on his lap.
"From what I can see, every change he has gone through has been to make him better suited to handle the situation he had been placed in. He grew taller, stronger and the density of his skin increased while being abused by Pilot Souryu. As he was placed in LCL for a synch test, he temporarily developed gills to adapt to his current liquid enviroment. When pushed mentally, again by Pilot Souryu I see, his body increased the production of various hormones, pheromones and other natural stimuli in order to..." Doctor Summers started to explain, then appeared to flounder as he searched for the appropriate laymans term.
"Dewuzzify him." Nurse Lee volenteered with a faint smirk.
"Perhaps not the precise term I would have used, but accurate enough for our purposes, I suppose. In short, his body adapted to a perceived obstacle by shortening Pilot Ikari's temper, increasing his anger levels and reducing inhibitions, until Shinji retaliated against Pilot Souryu's aburse in the manner he did." Doctor Summers finished.
"Will this affect his ability to pilot Evangelion?" Gendo inquired.
"Not aversely, I would not think. Quite the opposite, in fact. His mind and body should adapt themselves to the Evangelion, raising his synch levels. His perception would most likely be heightened if placed in a combat situation. His reaction times would be lessened." Doctor Summers speculated. "You might not have much luck getting him to follow orders, however." he added.
"What? Why?" Gendo demanded.
"Shinji's body is adapting, adjusting itself to overcome obstacles. All living organisms strive for the top, as that raises the chances of survival and procuring suitable mates. I believe his seemingly increase in age is a preparation for this. Shortly, Shinji may very well see himself as the resident alpha male and his body may very well adapt itself until that indeed is the case. Depending on how rapid this process is, getting him to follow orders may well become neigh impossible." Doctor Summers explained.
