2013年3月5日星期二

Having a meeting where everyone considers a line graph?

He stared past me, at the city beyond, so hard that I turned to look as well. A bit of morning haze still clung to the tops of the tall buildings — offices, mainly. People running around, doing whatever. Office stuff. Making copies? Having a meeting where everyone sternly considers a jagged line graph? I watch TV. I know these things.As I drew near, the Chief turned and let me follow him into the dark of the warehouse. As soon as I stepped into the darkness, I realized why he'd come out — it was LOUD in there, hammers and pneumatic wrenches filling the echoey space with the sharp sounds of creation. The path to Chief's office took us right by one of the many works-in-progress: a rickety orange scaffold mounted on a series of skateboards. Barnes, Swanson, and Johan were having a hell of a time holding it steady while someone up top — could be Radar, but hard to tell through the welding mask — was attaching a cage made out of rebar. The kind of cage that divers use to go swimming with sharks, but in this case mounted on top of a skateboard-scaffold. Another typical day.Gyratory crusher When would this job get interesting?The Chief slammed his office door and the sounds muffled a bit. Wasted no time with niceties — two envelopes tossed into my hands. I almost dropped them. A little test.The first envelope was standard, business-sized. Return address: the Department of Determination.The fact is, getting a number go medical health insurance is considered the most sensible alternative regarding worldwide urumqi tour within class which is cost-effective compared to buying man or women insurance policies. Still sealed. I held it up to the light. "Do you know what it says?""I trust you. I wanted the feeling to be mutual."I tore open the envelope and drew out a folded sheet of paper. Form letter. Dear so-and-so, enclosed as requested is a certified copy of your prediction, blah blah blah. I scanned the name and vital stats. Leonard M. Fritz, school bus driver, dog lover, hapkido expert, allergic to roses.Mobile crushing machine Weird. The Department knew everything.Well, almost. Leonard did something bad. The letter didn't say what, and I didn't need to know. Leonard was going to die. That was my job. I unfolded the bottom half of the page.Stuck with a dab of rubber cement was the card. Crisp, white, still had that copper smell from the test — or at least I thought I could smell it.I showed Chief the card and he raised his eyebrows imperceptibly. "Could be easier than some I can remember."TAMPERING. Could mean any number of things. Food, medicine, brake lines. I tore open the second envelope. Three plastic cards — gift cards.These days, there's lots of medical insurance providers supplying worldwide tourists around set by using china tour operators insurance coverage-useful attributes plus expertise. For the black market.One was to Crimson Wonderland. I hated that place — so kitschy and weird,And in some European countries even earlier was that unmarried girls were forbidden to wear clothes made of travel to xinjiang because of its erotic properties, so as not to corrupt them. with klezmer music coming from seemingly everywhere. But if you needed something red, they had it.

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