Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 08:05:12 -0700
Title: Widow Ginger

TheWidow Ginger Yates and I are in her office at the Center.
It's coffee and catch-up time for us.  She's quizzing me to see
how much I know and where we stand with each other.
"You know, don't you, that Leonard paid to have you laid-up
or killed?  You knew about and hid his secret research
projects here at the Center?"

I wish I could remember some of the stuff I'm supposed
to know!  Like, Leonard is Yates' real first name.
"Uh yes, but only vague and peripheral memory sorts of
things..."

"Vague -- peripheral?  What DO you know about the SRP
program?  Did you locate it?  Did you hide it?"

BLAM!  Car explosion!  BOOM.  My knees grow weak, feel
faint and yet I know, I mean I remember, KNOW!  Memory
shell suddenly gives me a pip at memory losses.  Not only
did I locate SRP, I hid it and sealed it in, with Sis' assistance,
of course...

pip vb pipped ; pip.ping [imit.] vi (1598) 1: peep 1 2: to
  break through the shell of the egg  ~ vt: to
  break open (the shell of an egg) in hatching .

Something has brought back those tidbits of my memory!

"No, that's not what I meant.  What's SRP? Probably something
like Secret Resources Policy?  Look, really Ginger, I don't know
what this business about Yates wanting me dead, or injured.  We

were friends.  High School, and all that."

Yates wanted me out of the way so he would have free reign
to search the system(s) for what I had concealed from him,

in.ter.ca.la.ry adj [L intercalarius, fr. intercalare] (1614) 1 a:
inserted in a calendar  b of a year: containing an
intercalary period (as a day or month) 2: inserted between other
things or parts: interpolated.

and engulfed in a tight network of ... security.

"You and he were behind the whole fucking thing!  I was there
when you both thought I was out ... shopping.  I heard him yell
at you about the system(s) protection of its'/their selves.
You quietly told him that SRP contained files and government
restricted software which should not be released to a
commercial, profit-oriented organization.  You Mendacious
Asshole!"

men.da'.cious adj [L mendac-, mendax--more at amend]
 (1616): given to or characterized by deception or falsehood
or divergence from absolute truth <~ tales of his adventures>
syn see dishonest-- men.da.cious.ly  adv--men.da.cious.ness n.


sorry, hadda double up.  words, words, words!!!
luv ya,
d.



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Dick Ellis, Librarian
San Diego Supercomputer Center
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