The Computer Who Went to Junior High-part 2

The Computer Who Went to Junior High

fiction
edward w pritchard

Part 2

Gabby was at Hank's loft over the bar in Kent, alone, and was just starting her third glass of Hank's Irish whiskey in the only clean glass in Hank's very messy third floor loft. Hank was out of town and must have forgot to clean before he left. Gabby was drinking hard on this Friday night and was trying to forget her week.

Gabby had for the first time unplugged her super computer, by disabling the laptop. During the project at the junior high in Akron to teach Craybo the super computer human sensibilities and emotions, the very expensive super computers link to the world was the lap top. Gabby had. about three weeks ago, with the permission of Kent State University put the $7,000,000 super computer on site at the KSU school of business in "slumber mode"; with the help of her friend Ben a very talented self taught programmer. When she early this evening had shut down the lap top without back up she had jeopardized the expensive super computer and she was at Hank's waiting for a return phone call from her fellow programmer, Ben who would call but often, like Gabby, kept very irregular hours. Gabby hoped Ben could help her salvage the laptops experiences at the junior high in Akron this week following her temper outage where in an argument with Craybo she had disconnected the laptop impetuously without backup. Gabby was also worried there was the potential corruption to Craybo's mainframe because of her hasty unwise actions.

Craybo and Gabby had about 6 hours ago finished their first week together in junior high this Fall semester in Akron. Craybo was to learn human emotions and sensibilities in the junior high environment and it was working because already after one week Gabby was having trouble liking her old friend Craybo, who she had spent five years of her life co-programming. Craybo was learning very rapidly at the junior high and Gabby estimated that each day he acquired about three months of human experience. Since Craybo was absorbing the junior high experiences of about 300 students a day Craybo seemed to be doing the teenage adolescence and angst things on steroids and Gabby seemed to be target of Craybo's rebellion and meanness.

Gabby startled as the phone rang but was very glad to see it was Ben's cell number. Maybe he could figure out how to proceed.
End part 2