yes . . .
. . . indeed i am back. we returned home around two hours ago. things in rhode island didnt work out quite as well as i had planned, but thats alright.

what is with morons trying to drive manually, alan? some imbecile nearly ran us off the highway on our way home. hopefully the authorities caught him, and though i usually dont support federal laws, in this case i couldnt agree more. manually operating a vehicle is like suicide . . . its so old-fashioned and pointless. i mean, heck, who wouldnt want the traffic grid? traffic jams stopped once humans surrendered control to computers.

when will humans realize that they can not do everything well?

soon i hope . . .

-rex

but im confused, alan . . .
. . . did you 'feel' asleep, or did you FALL asleep?

just wondering . . . ;)

aha
so alan finally awakens from his slumber. ;) im cant tell whether youre overworked or overrested half the time.

as for me, angelica and i are headed to rhode island for the day. got to meet up with a colleague of mine.

hopefully i can keep my good mood going this weekend . . .

~rex

ive got the solution! . . .
. . . although it may not be what youre looking for. you say smoking and being a roboticist are not a good match?

heres a novel idea, maybe you never thought of it before ;)

STOP SMOKING!!!!!

the end of the week
well the end of the week is here for me, and nothing too spectacular is on the agenda. i managed to put angelica to sleep a bit early and i made my way over to a small bar, but i became disgusted with the atmosphere as soon as i had talked my way past the bouncers. really now, how could anyone find a mate in such a place? or rather, a quality mate? and i wonder if thats the first time an 8 year old has been allowed into a bar? its a first for me, thats for sure, but perhaps i was right in turning my back on such a night of 'fun'.

speaking of which, i assume thats where our friend alan is tonight, if im not mistaken. he enjoys the whole drinking/smoking scene, perhaps more than he should, and i havent seen him post anything today, so reason would lead me to believe that hes engaged in some sort of merrymaking.

anyhow, ive decided to give myself a small rest to reread an old classic. ive just reached the halfway point of atlas shrugged, and i cannot get over how close-minded yet brilliant ayn rand was. im sure that old witch would turn in her grave if she heard my take on society and politics. her ideas were never enough to cause a change, because her ideology only serves selfish instincts.

mine, on the other hand . . .

-rex

lighten up!
sheesh! and you were the one telling me to lighten up earlier ;)

anyhow, i had found out about the soul transfer contraption before you told me to stop looking in those files, so technically i didnt ignore you. i just didnt mention it until now, but i see how you could misunderstand that.

if i wasnt so tired, i might be agitated by your 'shouldnt you be in bed' comment haha but you hit the nail right on the head . . .

its off to the Big Reflection for me . . .

-rex

oops!
i didnt mean to spill the beans, alan, but its just such an impressive-whilst-unconventional type of device that i thought youd be eager to talk about it!

incidentally, i didnt find that in the company research files, it was in your personal research files for some reason. ;) you must have accidentally misplaced that company research into your personal files.

-rex

aha!
oh come on you old man ;) dont be so sensitive. im not angry at you. i didnt mean to 'toot my horn' either, i was just stating facts.

and yes, temporal information transfer is something im currently experimenting with. i think its going quite well actually. i know you think im just an over-imaginative child though(not true), but at least im not the one researching a 'soul transfer machine'. ;)

anyway, whats the deal with phil reynolds?

-rex

oh yes
oh, and i would appreciate if you didnt refer to me as 'little' or 'young boy'. i may still be confined in a childs body, but as you know my mind is far superior to any child alive, and in fact is much better than most adult minds as well.

anyhow, ill only have this 8 year old body for another few months. within a year, youll barely recognize me, and in five years time i will have the body of a young adult. my mind is advancing all the time as well.

~rex

our era
Topic: explanations
the reason i refer to 'our era', dr. cross, is because you and i are not living in the same era as the people reading these messages we write. i thought i told you about how i was experimenting with temporal information transfer . . . its quite exciting, i must say, to transmit these messages back to the start of the century.

if they only knew what was going on right now, alan, maybe theyd pay more attention, dont you think?

-rex