#danieluni

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Back in Detroit:

The fruit and veggies vendor is uncertain whether to close his stall or go on for another hour, when he hears the sound of hooves on the concrete. Alright, hearing things that cannot be real means it is definitely time to close shop!

However…

Vendor: “Officer Reed - on horseback patrol?! I’m pretty sure that’s not what “Defund the police” means.”

Daniel: “Not a cop anymore.”

Vendor: “Then are you practising for a historical re-enactment? That’s an android horse, yes?”

Plum: Mhm, apples. And salad? Never cared much for salad, but these look really tasty!

*munch munch*

Vendor: “Not an android horse, I see.”

Daniel: “It’s just a little impulse purchase from our weekend trip, Gavin’s and mine.”

Vendor: “Seeing that your impulse purchase impulse-raids my stall, I don’t complain. That’s eleven dollars, please.”

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I love having toddlers of different ages in the same household.

Let no neighborhood child forget that Peggy Reed is Rick’s fully skilled BIG sister (and she’s as protective of him as Jin was/is of her).

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Trying to focus… all that computing power in your head doesn’t help you grasp the material, when you really only want to play with your family right now.

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Gavin: “Congrats on the magazine publishing your article! This is maybe as good as any a time to ask what the damage will be, buying all your textbooks for four years on just a single reliable income…”

Daniel: “Hold that thought - my online class starts in a sec!”

Daniel: “Logging in… Math 101… Reed_Daniel… password…”

Daniel: “Uh…”

Gavin: “That looked painful, but your LED was blue all the time, so I didn’t interrupt you.”

Daniel: “You were by my side the whole semester?”

Gavin: “No… only these ninety minutes. But I will be at your side all semester!”

Daniel: “The ninety minutes were the semester. You ever had a class that bored you to death at college? I got half a year’s worth of that just now.”

Gavin: “You took in the workload of a whole term in a single session?”

Daniel: “Yes! I had to take it slow on account of being a deviant.”

Gavin: “That was… slow. Ah.”

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Gavin and Lena tried in vain to calm my self sim down. Incidentally that sums up how I felt about the game today. There were bugs, but also stupid design choices. Not going to lie, Sims 2 is said to be nice this time of year...

Gavin: “B... but, Enki, what about Danny and me?”

Enki: “Wanna investigate a murder in Pit Stop Valley, perhaps?”

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Daniel: “I bet I can write something better! Here goes... “Granny Dori and the Dust Bunnies”! Blurb: Grandma Dori’s back aches, but her children are on vacation, so the floor remains unswept. The dust bunnies keep her company. But, oh no, when Dori’s children return, they want to vacuum the house! The friendly little dust bunnies are in danger!”

Computer: bluescreens

Daniel: “That bad, huh? Dang, I thought I had GOLD there...”

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Splashy fun at the river bank!

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Waiting for papa to return from class in the university’s lounge.

Neither Reed has ever been much of a reader, but during those hours Gavin dips into a variety of genres, from the sixamese light novel he’s holding here to...

Gavin: “Hamlet! Now that shit hit home, I can tell you! Hamlet knows exactly who killed his old man, but he cannot act on that knowledge before he hasn’t gotten a confession out of the suspect. At times he comes unglued from the stress, and at one point it hits him that his informant has an allegiance to hell, so he can NOT be sure anymore if Claudius was the killer...do I bore you? I’m boring you, right?”

Daniel: “No, this is great! Go on!”

Daniel (typing): Getting children interested in classic world literature by phrasing the plot as something familiar and relatable to them.