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[protective_logic]

If you're hearing this message that means I'm not available at the moment.
So if you'd please leave your contact info and your message I'll get back to you at the first possible moment.
If there is a family related emergency, just keep trying until you get through.

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[depthlesslock]

In the meantime, I believe you called for a friendly ear? Well, here I am, and unlike my eye, I have two.

[protective_logic]

That's insensitive. But yes. I'm trying to figure out what is going on with my life. My siblings gave me so much grief over talking to you. Which isn't here or there. What is here is the fact that I wondered how you get through the bad days.

[depthlesslock]

Sorry. Didn't mean it like that. I guess it's because it sounds like this is out of your usual behavior lines. If I suddenyl clammed up and stopped socialising, I'd probably get bugged too.

As for how I get through bad days... Usually by making myself useful, if I can.

[protective_logic]

The only thing I do is make myself useful. You should see me laughing. I cook. Clean. Manage finances.

[depthlesslock]

After... After I lost my eye, I was terrified I wouldn't be able to keep working. So working on my bad days helps me remember that I can and do still work. That I got through it. What would help you like that?

[protective_logic]

I don't even know. Usually I clean the bathroom or something.

[depthlesslock]

Try doing something you enjoy doing if it happens again.

[protective_logic]

I don't have many books I haven't read a hundred times.

[depthlesslock]

Get new books. There's sites where you can download them for almost nothing. Or actually nothing.

[protective_logic]

I'm not a thief.

[depthlesslock]

Then use the ones where you download them cheaply.

[protective_logic]

You... underestimate the financial difficulties of my family.

[depthlesslock]

Help me understand then.

[protective_logic]

Eight people, four of them yet to hit adult size. One full time job with some over time. One piecework job. Two part time jobs that are low paying and most of the funds of which go to the needs of my college aged siblings.

Do the math.

[depthlesslock]

Right. Okay, well this is worse than I thought. I take it you don't have any extra funds coming in from anywhere?

[protective_logic]

So... That's also complicated.

[depthlesslock]

Sounds like there's a lot of complications in your life.

[protective_logic]

I'd offer that even those complications are complicated, but I think you get the point. Yes. A lot of complication. To the point that sometimes even I do not know what is going on.

[depthlesslock]

Jeez, real tough hand. There any way I can help?

[protective_logic]

Not really? You don't have a few million dollars you can loan to a family of geniuses, do you? Of course not. No, what you've already done is... amazing. We will try not to abuse the almost blank check you presented to Smithson.

[depthlesslock]

Few million is pushing it. Are you all geniuses? Geni-i? Geni? I don't even know what the plural for that is. The check should cover you for a bit.

[protective_logic]

Well, maybe not geniuses. Talented at the very least. I'm a whiz with numbers. My brother Sigma, for instance, is talented with Chemistry.

And we will not abuse the check.

[depthlesslock]

Sigma? Tall, dark haired, strangely red irises? He's your brother?

[protective_logic]

Yes. All of my siblings have... strange iris colors. I take it you've met Sig.

[depthlesslock]

I thought your eyes were a rather vivid green. Yes, I have met him.