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.”
SUNNYVALE » MS. RAMIREZ We have run out of chairs for dialysis in the Bay Area. There is a huge increase in patients needing dialysis in the Sunnyvale area, and I hear the nurses and technicians discussing it almost every day. New technicians are being trained out of Menlo Park because there is no capacity to train them in Sunnyvale. The hiring and training activities are intense, but somehow they don’t seem to be sufficient to keep up with demand. We are literally out of chairs. Remigius makes the dialysis machines we use, and we have not had a machine in ages. We tend to get them in bulk of eight or more at a
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