The vending machines are mostly done. Well. Yes, that word does a lot of heavy lifting.
Dean Leon is an excellent coder. Top of the line. Turns out, the vending machines run on a weird number system. Not hexidecimal, not binary, but unary.
No 0, just 1, 11, 111...
And where "0" would mean "false", instead there's "1" for "true", "11" for "definitely", "111" for positively, "1111" for "Sunday", "11111" for January, 1970... there's no logical consistency. Dean managed to get signed integers, but the negative numbers got worse. They just start listing colors, animals, news articles from the 1820s... no Booleans. No way around it.
Called both the commissioners to get some help. Urrlok won't pick up, shocker. The Old Commish keeps blabbering about the Corruption.
Dean Leon is just going to rewrite the coding language. From scratch.
Video game development is important, kids. Teaches you valuable lessons.
Darren Nikolaeva is big into astrology. Of course, I should have known since she keeps talking about being from another world. She's always looking off into the clouds instead of focusing on defense.
He used to read everyone's horoscopes all the time, but now he's been a bit quiet on that front. Dean Leon still asks, but he gets blunt answers like, "it'll rain today" and "your video games will be a big success". I always knew astrology was phony. But if I don't check in on him, everyone's going to think I don't care.
So I ask her, where's all the usual horoscopes? And she says, she got a horrible vision of the future where a calamity would befall the world of baseball. And I said, there's always calamities all the time any way, what makes this any different? And she said she just couldn't tell me; the details were just too obdcure.
Of course not.
Darren and Midnight probably know more about this than I would. They might be sending mental messages to each other all the time, being ROBOs and all.
Ye-Jin Kara believes Darren at face value, not even bothering to question him. They ARE just a kid. But they should be critical at such a young age. Doesn't matter how stoic they are...
At least Hazel has skepticism. Hazel's never been one to listen to tall tales because she always swims her own way. Then again, it could be because she's a duck from a duck pond who can't talk, but this is irrelevant.
Speaking of talking... there are some Pilates rings I must interrogate soon.
Dean Leon signed up to this team believing he would be competing in a reality game show. Maybe he still believes this is the case, because he keeps regaling us with poetry and opera. Xavier enjoys every moment of it.
Lindsey Bodden has been the champion of the outdoor ping pong table for five weeks in a row. She would have held a longer streak, had one of Katherine Fabre's ravens decided not to steal the ball. The ravens have yet again been banned from another part of the Cardiovascular Castle.
When playing at our home ballpark, we use resillient isopod-like monsters instead of regular balls. They resist fire, ice, electricity, water, ultraviolet rays, ionizing radiation, and being boiled in a pot of broth. This is how Polycarp Friedman makes their signature stew-smoothie, or stewthie, for each game's afterparty. The isopods are boiled to add flavor, then launched and whacked with a bat.
It's okay, they like it.
Selena Singleton has been recently deepsea caving in the castle's resevoirs. You can hear her bang around in the pipes at 3 in the morning. Every morning. Somehow, she keeps finding new selfie locations.
Morris Fletcher is selling cheap trinkets supposedly made of gold, and Katherine keeps falling for it, hook, line, and sinker. I know he just climbs trees and steals plastic trinkets from the squirrels however.
While on the away team, Doc Martinez has deviously been packing baseballs with a mixture of soil and seeds of endemic plants. Now, their outfields will be dotted with small patches of colorful wildflowers.
Claude Wilkerson has been using Martinez's rusty old inventions to water his greenhouse. They may have been jerry-rigged together, but they still work like new. Martinez's ingenuity continues to amaze Wilkerson.
Tim Dekker is inspecting the remains of a destroyed DRIFT construct in the meadows. It's a very tacky dragon statue to him. Sitting on it provides the perfect vantage point for flying his RC plane.
