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Who: new persons
When: Day 30, so early it's still dark outside
Where: Shrine Apt
What:

[great time for new kids to show up and cause a ruckus right]

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A few years more than that for me. Time begins to meld together with him, you know. Long periods of exasperated inactivity marked by brief explosions of excitment.

We had rather more excitement than inactivity towards the end. My blog ended up getting quite the following.

What is a blog?

It's ... er ...

[how does I explain this]

You don't have the slightest concept of what a computer is, do you.

I'm guessing it's not a metal.

It has metal in it. But it's ... hang on.

[gets his phone out of his pocket and holds it out]

This is a mobile phone, but it works under similar principles. A screen for displaying images and text and the like, and a keyboard for entering it in.

[mind is being boggled in curious and good ways as he takes it and turns it around]

This is a phone? But there's no wires...amazing. And these little buttons are keys like in a typewriter?

That's it exactly. Now imagine millions of these and similar devices all hooked up to a large interconnected network. You can put whatever you type into a form that anyone else on the network can access. That's what I did with accounts of Sherlock's adventures.

Like...The classified section? And you would use this thing to read it?

Essentially. There are variations in the devices used, but - same basic principle.

[reaches over and brings up a text message on the screen]

[leans in to see the screen] It's so tiny...

Well that's because it's made to be portable. Many people have both a computer and a phone.

Why do you need more than one if it performs the same function?

The phone you can take with you to receive messages while you're out. Talking and text, some video depending on the model.

The future sounds very fast paced. Don't you worry about overstating? [hands the phone back]

[takes it]

It all becomes normal after a while.

(...sharing. Oversharing. Damn you autocorrect.)

And you share your adventures with your Sherlock on there?

I do. With certain specifics and names left out, of course. But my name and Sherlock's are both on it.

[thoughtful look as he moves his tea cup]

Funny thing...I record many the same type of exploits in the form of books and journals that I've been publishing on the side, a leisurely habit when I'm not working.

[blinks]

Really? That - would be the closest analogue to a blog, wouldn't it?

You would be the best judge of that but yes. Similar.

I wonder how many other similarities we would find between us...

[thinks for a moment. hesitates, wording it carefully:]

War in Afghanistan?

I did my tour there, right after India. University of London?

Graduated and went into the service afterwards. ... No India, though. They became independent quite some time ago.

Is that so? But that was the crown jewel of the empire.