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Sylvia
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 		I agree that Meaghan is going to play an important role in this CTW.
Not sure, but I believe Sarah may have more of a personal relationship with Meaghan than anyone else.
Remember, Meaghan is a child (age ?) and you need to be careful how you go about contacting her.
I also believe that, when the time is right, Meaghan will contact us. Perhaps through Dale's or Sarah's email list.

Just speculating.

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Sylvia wrote:
I agree that Meaghan is going to play an important role in this CTW.
Not sure, but I believe Sarah may have more of a personal relationship with Meaghan than anyone else.
Remember, Meaghan is a child (age ?) and you need to be careful how you go about contacting her.
I also believe that, when the time is right, Meaghan will contact us. Perhaps through Dale's or Sarah's email list.

Just speculating.


Your absolutely right... I contacted Sarah first and presented it as an online friendship so hopefully it won't backfire...... We will see.. *fingers cross*

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Sylvia
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 		Just some thoughts wondering through my head.

I don't know why but when we talk about Meaghan, it brings to mind a book I read called "Bless The Child."
Not the movie cause the movie took a wonderful story and distorted it but didn't destroy it.

Maybe, Meaghan has powers she doesn't yet know she has.

Just specs.

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 		*If* the people have the same powers they had last time - like Sarah being a bridge between the worlds, then that means Meaghan is also powerful. She was to become the successor to Sarah and take over he powers. It's not certain, of course, that this will be the same situation, but it is something to consider.

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Sylvia
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 		[update] August 7
Update August 7

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8/7/06

The Weird Gets Weirder

Greetings from my study, er, bedroom, er study.

Yep, I've finally been relinquished from my supposed future marital bed. One doesn't truly appreciate the value of a tempur-pedic mattress until one suffers the flim-flam padding of an Ikea pullout. Those people are masterful with meatballs and massages, but I question their ability to design furniture worth a damn.

Why am I in the study? If you read my last post, you could sense the wrath of Diana, I'm sure. Her rage has reached mythological proportions. Serpents replaced her locks and her eyes have turned blood red—I swear there's a statue in our yard that used to be the paperboy.

Shhh…I think I hear her slithering down the hall now.

She hasn't just been angry lately, she's been outright duplicitous. She's done something that's truly compromised my ability to trust her. I've noticed that papers, including some of my notes on Marzent, have been trifled with…some are even missing. Meaghan's behavior isn't any better, though she isn't so awful to be around. Her quasi-catatonia's even become a little charming compared to her mother's conniptions and generalized harpy hysteria. Can I coin that as a new medical term? GHH…I sorta like it.

A lot of men make it through shitty relationships by spending all their time at the office. I guess you can say I've been doing that, but not in a way that's going to further my career. I still can't track down Don Marzano. I mean, is he sharing a drink somewhere with Jimmy Hoffa, Amelia Earhart and Osama bin Laden? Maybe that's not even accurate—the way I'm thinking, he's watching Three's Company re-runs with the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy.

Enough about my home life. I know you want Marzent meat.

I've struck up casual, if sometimes awkward, conversations with almost everyone at Marzent. As anticipated, they all waffle when it's time to describe their meetings with The Don. Some people are sure they've spent time with him at company functions, but when I press them for details they get hazy and disinterested. Most of the men turn the conversation to the Mets (who I don't even like) and the women uniformly show me pictures of their kids. The entire company turns into Stepford Inc. when I mention his name. The HR people are no help at all either, speaking only in, well, HR speak.

Has anyone else ever considered the term "Human Resources" a little odd? It can be used to describe employees, but fits equally well when describing how the machines utilized people in The Matrix. There's something wrong with that, no?

I did have a breakthrough a couple nights ago—maybe. I took the floor plans and went all through the building, dodging janitors as best I could. In an unpopulated corner of the top floor, opposite a copy machine with an "Out of Order" sign, was a thin door. So thin, I had to walk sideways through it—I'm not in marathon shape, but I can still squeeze into 31 size jeans. Once inside, I saw an empty foyer desk, like a secretary's, and a series of tiny offices without windows. It smelled strange, both new and old at the same time. Fresh paint and mildew. The sensation was so strange, I sneezed four times. Terrified someone would hear me, I ducked behind the secretary's desk and covered my nose. 3 more sneezes. I needed a tissue. Badly.

I used my "good hand" to open a desk drawer. The first three I tried were locked, but a fourth, the bottom one, opened. Inside were a couple pieces of paper. One of them included a poor quality photocopy of what seems to be a report, though it's not related to anything I recognize from my time at the company. It didn't help that the page was blurred and the copy, cut off. Another paper wedged in the back of the drawer looked like an order for some cpu equipment I'm not familiar with. What kind of computer equip weighs that much?

Sadly, neither meant much to me. I made copies (that photocopy machine wasn't actually broken, it turned out) and headed out, glad I hadn't been caught. I scanned the photocopies when I got home and uploaded them here and here.

After my findings at Marzent, I took a train into New York. It was already after midnight. I felt twitchy and anxious from all the snooping, but also exhilarated. That soon gave way to confusion, distress and weakness. You all know the famous addicts acronym? H.A.L.T? Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired. I was all that and a bucket full of other adjectives I'm too exhausted to whip at you. From Penn Station north and west, by Siberia, one of my old watering holes in Hell's Kitchen. I almost went in. I saw a couple of my old drinking buddies standing on the curb smoking cigarettes, fat bellies, gaunt faces, pasty complexions. Ghosts of the city. None of them recognized me. I gave one of them a light, turned away and continued past the porn shops, through Times Square and north to Central Park where I plopped on a bench and slept. It wasn't the first time I've done that, as many of you know, but I always did it because I was drunk, not because I didn't really have anywhere comfortable to sleep.

I dreamt happy dreams for once, dreams of Dale and I in better times, before the world was cracked. We shared a laugh and a pat on the back. We exchanged comics and made threats about what would we do to one another next time we played Goldeneye. It seemed like everything was going to be alright.

I got back to Aglaura before Diana was awake. I went into the study to lie down, but wasn't tired any longer. 3 hours on a bench in Central Park refreshed me, somehow. I checked my email. Then, for no reason aside from nostalgia provoked by my dream, I visited Dale's blog. My jaw went slack. The images from his fractal post—that weird 307 thing that looks like Cthulhu bling and matches up with his Aglaura map— it's a lot like the diagram on the report I found.

I think it's time to suck it up and call my old friend.


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enaxor
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 		One document is a bill for computer equipment and the other talks about "Radiation Chemistry of ??". The legend at the bottom of doc 2 says "2 documented anomaly/? force", and it's location is near the cave just at the edge of Diana's park. It's beginning to look like Marzent put the equipment in the cave.

The sited material at the bottom of doc2, I can't make out the book title, says Chapters. The 3rd chapter is "Free Radical Theory". Free radicals are mostly associated with aging. Did Don Marzano find the fountain of youth?
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Citizen Kane
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 		I've also noticed the word "experimental" thrown in there once or twice.
Also, just in case it disappears, I've saved copies of the pics.

Looks like on the pic with all the radiation talk or schematics for...something. I thought at first they might be blueprints, perhaps for the industrial complex, but on closer study it looks more like some type of machine or device (a gizmo, maybe? Razz)

The title reference looks to be something like: The Radiological Chemistry of /////// and Aqueous Substances P Van Newfound Company Inc. Prineville, NJ, 1961

Not sure about the company though, it's really blurred.
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Shelina
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enaxor wrote:
The legend at the bottom of doc 2 says "2 documented anomaly/? force


It's not force but source. And the '1' in the legend is 'Proposed complex'

CitizenCane wrote:
The title reference looks to be something like: The Radiological Chemistry of /////// and Aqueous Substances


WATER and Aqueous substantces Wink

What i havent understood is what picture in the doc is like what picture in Dale's journal?
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enaxor
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 		I found the book title they are referencing: AO Allen, Radiation Chemistry of Water and Aqueous Solutions, (Van Nostrand, Princeton 1961. If you put it in Google search you get hits of other authors who reference it.

Shelina the top picture on doc2 looks similar to the 307 map overlay.
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 		SPEC - heavy equipment could be a super computer (ala TAP)

SPEC - the new building plans on the left side of town? The "map" like picture reminds me of the mystes picture that we were trying to make into a map of Germany or Greece.
"documented anomaly source" just south of town/south of Diana's grove park?

Condenser and Evaporator? on the floor plans?

Here is the best I can read of the article. I can fill it in as we figure it out (for our reference/archival purposes).
Quote:
There exists a little known branch of chemi....called"Radiation Chemistry" of "Radioly-.... This subject seems to have developed when the nuclear business became radioactive......cooled and protected by water. The...is sometimes affected by the radiation .....rain gases are produced which could be ...perous to the mechanisms employed. It is ..ising to study this branch of chemistry as ..., in fact, the dissociation of water caused ..the actions of various vibratory rates ...... water. Some of the discu...covered ...nearly (or neatly) identical to some of the Keely .....on the dissociation of water in the .. 1880s.
Radiation Chemistry (radiolysis) is the .....the chemical effects of the .......of high-energy radiation in mar... ... speci..... water and aqueous substances. High energy radiation includes the evaporation associated with radioactive decay and fission (that is, alpha-particles, electrons, gamma-rays, and neutrons), together with their related atom and fiss... recoils; and the artificial analogs of such ......produced by accelerating electrons, protons, d..terons, and helium nuclei, as well as charged nuclei of higher atomic number and x-rays.

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Shelina
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 		I've tried to transcript the doc:
Quote:
..exists a .. branch of chemistry called "Radiation Chemistry" of "Radiolysis". This subject seems to have developed .. the nuclear bussiness because radioactive .. are cooled and protected by water. The .. is sometimes affected by the radiation .. certain gases are produced which could be .. to the mechanism employed. It is .. to estudy this branch of chemistry as .. , in fact, the dissociation of water caused .. the actions of various vibratory rates .. water. Some of the discussiones covered .. nearly identical to some of the Keely .. on the dissociation of water in the 1880s.

Radiation Chemistry (Radyolisis) is the .. the chemical effects of the absorbetion? of high-energy radiation in xxx more specifically water and aqueous substances. High-energy radiation includes the emanation assocaited with radioactive decay and fission (that is, alpha-particles, electrons, gamma rays and neutrons), together with their related atoms and fissive? recoils; and the artificial analogs of such emanations produced by accelerating electrons, protons, deuterons, and helium nuclei, as well as charged nuclei of higher atomic number and x-rays.

Chapters:
1. Radiations: How their Energy is dissipated
2. Experimenat methods and Dusinerry??
3. The Free Radical Theory
4. Reactions induced by Gamma-Rays in some simple solutions; Manginuted of the Molecular and Radicald Yields
5. Variations of the Molecular and Radical


What kind of anomality could they be talking about? radiation?
And, if the rectangle in the doc is the Proposed Aglaura Industrial Park, I think the anomality source fits better with the dot marked as 'the hole? 'by Dale
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Shelina
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 		I've just seen (finally!!) Keith's videos. Definetly I think the anomality source is The Hole, and the computer equiopment referred in the bill is the one that appears in the video Rolling Eyes
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 		Can anyone read the barcode on the shipping slip?

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 		I can't clean it up enough to get a good read. MS PhotoEdit doesn't just cut it. If someone could sharpen/despeckle, gamma correct or whatever and post the cleaned-up image as a gif, bmp or png, I can check it.
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 		[UPDATE] Diana and Meaghan not home
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8/13/06

Mixed Blessings

I don't know which is worse - coming home after spending most of the day at Marzent even though I promised Diana I wouldn't and fighting about it, or coming home to find the place entirely empty. There's absolutely no sign of either her or Meaghan, and I've got a feeling that I may have to come up with a new word to describe just how pissed at me she must be. I swore to her I would be here by mid-afternoon, but it was after 6:00 when I rolled in. It wasn't really intentional and I actually feel bad I was so late, but I just lost track of the time, digging for stuff at the big M. I'm growing obsessed with that whole situation in a frighteningly familiar way.

I wish I could say it was worth it too, but sadly I'm beginning to run into more and more deadends there. It's like there's this coherent story there I can only trace back so far before it all either disappears or falls apart.

Like my relationship, it seems. I even braved Diana's cell phone but she didn't answer. I'm sure she knew it was me.

So here I sit, alone, wondering when that hammer is going to fall on me. Left alone with nothing to do but go over my notes, again, looking for what I might have missed. All the time in the world for that now.

That's what I wanted, right?


Diana and Meaghan not at home...is Diana leaving him?
Heh, Bruce wondering what he missed, makes me wonder what I missed.
And, geeze, apparently Bruce doesn't care what he puts on his blog anymore. Isn't he worried who might read it? (Not that I'm complaining. Smile )

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