I come home to my campus apartment after an especially windy day. I notice there are sticks on the floor, indicating that the door or windows were left open during the day. I become suspicious that someone was in the apartment. Perhaps he's still there? I should do a search.
It's later, and I've just gone to bed. It's too bright in the room, so i get back up and go to the window to adjust the shade, which hasn't been pulled down far enough. I adjust it carefully so that the bottom lines up with the window sill. As I do I look outside and see an amazing full moon setting in the West. (This does not strike me as odd even though I'm aware that a full moon at that hour should be rising in the East.)
My mind wanders about how much I appreciate it when someone cooks supper for me. I then think about some of the easy suppers I can cook, such as a reheated can of beans. I start to think that I should walk across the campus to get something, but then I decide against it.
Then I remember that I never searched the apartment to see if someone else was in it. So I get up again and go into the main area. I see the sticks again -- still there. I go through some closet doors that don't open / close properly. These are small and are sub-divided with drawers in them. "Why am I checking small drawers like this?" I ask myself. There's a tan shoulder bag on the floor with many zipper compartments. I open a few and see some small items. They are not mine -- neither is the bag. But I don't find any papers or an ID. I conclude that the bag belongs to someone else who uses this apartment occasionally. It's amazing that I've never met him. Then I see a larger bag that's also tan. I check that one, too. As I open the main zipper compartment, I hear a mechanical sound, like a printer or fax machine. After i get it open all the way, I see that it's a printer. The last thing that's printed is "PDO OPEN" like a status. It's monitoring itself and keeping a status log! Perhaps it's also reporting back to whomever it belongs to! I close the zipper carefully (so as not to generate any unnecessary status messages) and leave it alone.
I am baffled.
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
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