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[mathemagier]

[Screened calls go straight to voicemail, where an impatient recording answers]

You've reached Dr. Hermann Gottlieb. Leave your name, number, and business if you expect a return call. Thank you.

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[driftsintobuffetline]

You do that.

Yeah, I'd like to know what's the limit on headache-inducing distance since, last I checked, we can't follow each other to everywhere ever. Wouldn't you? Or we could follow each other everywhere, but it would be hella inconvenient. I'm willing to coordinate excursions, like: I go to the store and you go get your hair cut or something, just to keep us in safe distance of each other, but it would just be nice to know what our actual needed orbit is.

And additionally, to determine if there's an unsafe orbit, some point where it stops being nagging headache and becomes debilitating--anxiety, frustration, exhaustion, rage, complete mental collapse... I don't even know.

[mathemagier]

It's still going to be inconvenient, no matter how much we may attempt to compensate for distance. But I suppose we may as well try.

Perhaps once I've managed to teleport, we can test to see if the latter is a potential danger. Better to know than leave it to chance, after all.

[driftsintobuffetline]

Try, or live with a profound sense of loss. I just don't know what to do with myself, Herms. It's terrible. I miss you so. I will write you horrible Austen-esque letters of my grief at the distance between us. Woe woe woe.

No, but joking aside, this is pretty awful. I had plans today and this is making staying still extremely frustrating.

I wonder where you go when you teleport, for that fraction of a second that it takes for you to disappear from A and reappear at B. Are you even in this dimension or in another one entirely...

[mathemagier]

It was not my intention to disrupt your plans, but I hadn't anticipated this preoccupation, either.

And I'll be happy to explain it to you in detail once I've done so.

[driftsintobuffetline]

We didn't sign up for this.

Yeah, I know you will. I'm just thinking out loud.

a bit later

[mathemagier]

It appears Mr. Qubit is also here.

[driftsintobuffetline]

SAY HI TO Q-TIP FOR ME

[mathemagier]

I am not calling him that.

[driftsintobuffetline]

Tell him it's a direct quote. There, you're not calling him anything. I am.

[mathemagier]

No.

[driftsintobuffetline]

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D:<

[mathemagier]

I'll tell him you said hello. That should be sufficient.

[driftsintobuffetline]

It's not, but it's what I expected.

Need anything from the store? Grocery, specifically, but anything along the way.

I need a bike, or a car.

[mathemagier]

A vehicle would certainly be a vast improvement over the transit system.

Some Earl Grey tea would suffice.

[driftsintobuffetline]

Tell me about it. I don't know who is in charge of planning, but the system is crappy and the kid in front of me has been screaming since I got on. Once we settle in, you want to go halvsies on a car or do you want to just wait and get one of your own? I'll split gas with you. If they use gas. Maybe these are electric or garbage powered.

Nothing else? At all? I'm going to the store, there is FOOD and it's not rationed. PUT IN AN ORDER, MAN.

[mathemagier]

[On the one hand, sharing a car with Newton sounds like a new set of problems just waiting to happen. On the other hand, they really need a vehicle]

I suppose that sounds reasonable, so long as we establish something of a working schedule that complements our shifts.

Salmon fillets, trappings for a salad, and some sort of vinaigrette.

[driftsintobuffetline]

Sure, of course. I mean, ideally we'll work at the same place and come home to relatively the same place, so that'll make it fairly easy.

Gasp! He does eat!

[mathemagier]

Yes, now that we actually have time for proper meals again, and the ocean isn't saturated with Blue.

[driftsintobuffetline]

We can actually learn how to COOK.

[mathemagier]

A startling concept, to be sure.