Sunnyvale » Dr. A

SUNNYVALE » DR. A.

“Yes, you can go to Sunnyvale.” Mark’s explanation is not particularly clear, but he says the commute is bad from Menlo Park to San Jose if he gets a position at the new Google campus, and would like to try the commute from down there. He only wants a couple weeks, and we can shuffle both vampires and patients around during that time, given the locations are only about thirty minutes apart. I guess an hour extra commute every other day is quite a bit of lost time. Probably much worse during rush hour.

Mark has been acting a bit distant lately, so I am hoping making him happy with this will help bring him back. It is almost like he is flipping personalities. One is his historically affable and sometimes loquacious demeanor, and the other is terse to the edge of being rude. The timing of the change seems near to the senate bill project, but it doesn’t match that exactly. And that went so well: the committee was very pleased.

“Is there anything else you would like to talk about? Working for Google would be exciting wouldn’t it?”

“I have other projects I would rather be working on: you know about my ending-homeless endeavors. If I could work on them full time, that would be great. Any chance Amasa is willing to buy or give away some land to let homeless people live in freedom? It would be nicely located if it was anywhere near the campus.”

“I don’t think Amasa’s charter includes that goal, sorry. And Amasa has to protect its assets for future needs.”

“Amasa has a project that needs thirty billion dollars? Is it about to provide a college education and degree to everyone in the United States for free?”

“Above my pay grade, sorry.”

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