The Computer Who Went to Junior High

The Computer Who Went to Junior High-part 3


fiction
edward w pritchard

Part 3

Ben had been telling Gabby about his new project for about ten minutes and she was having trouble hearing for he was in a noisy bar and was talking very fast; but earlier, he had nonchalantly, as an after though, told her how to solve her pressing problem of how to salvage the laptop's memory for this week and insure that the expensive main frame wasn't harmed.

Gabby was re-creating a diary of her and Craybo's week and was going to enter the information into the laptop's consciousness by verbal mode which was her fellow programmer's Ben's simple but brilliant suggestion. The programmer told Gabby to use an alternate communications method to reach Craybo, which might work since Craybo at school was trying to learn to communicate and understand humans, as Gabby had just told Ben, by using his audio, visual as well as normal computer tools and skills. Hopefully, once Craybo reheard his week at the school, he could match the experiences with the any possible missing information for the last few days since the last back-up and any lost information would be salvaged.

Monday
September 13, 2010

Craybo and I entered the Fall term with high hopes. I am Craybo's legs at the school. We move together from class and each have a different assigned place in each class. As much as possible Craybo is to be just a normal new student. The other students have quickly accepted the premise and have already on the first day began to accept Craybo although he was today the target of various jokes and pranks by the students, who seem mean and cruel at times, although underneath nice kids.

Tuesday
Craybo is angry at Gabby today. To facilitate the illusion that Craybo is mentally at the junior high level, Gabby slowed down his reasoning skills and has switched the functioning level to the B level [ and old style of computer functioning to facilitate inter-government communications]. Craybo has learned quickly and has been in trouble all day with his various teachers for a variety of infractions. Gabby went to bed tonight at 7PM out of exhaustion. Gabby observes each class Craybo is in and Craybo seems to be purposely trying her patience.

Wednesday
Craybo got two detentions today, one for making cell phone calls for other students and one for helping one of the computer networking students call a 900 number without paying. Craybo did not turn in his homework in any subject although Gabby and him woke up at 5AM today to prepare a paper on the Oregon trial.

Thursday
Craybo helped four male students post provocative pictures of one of their female classmates on the internet. Additionally he called Mr. Saylors one of the counsel several four letter words, and is totally remorseless.

Friday
Gabby unplugged Craybo tonight at 4PM. After being incorrigible at school, committing too many infractions to list. Craybo sent Gabby an unsolicited e-mail with several cruel references to her relationship to Beverly including a joke about Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas that was of a sophisticated but mean spirited lascivious nature. Again when approached with the matter Craybo is without remorse, although Craybo did pretend an apology, making some effort to manipulate Gabby to get something he wanted later this weekend. Following a heated argument Gabby unplugged Craybo's laptop, something she is sorry for doing.
end part 3