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[x_maker]

Well, after two weeks in a car with three rather attractive women (side note: there were bikinis involved. God bless the surreptitious digital camera.) and a few days' brainventing in the lab - I believe I'm back to what constitutes "normal" for the time being.

Quick - someone fill me in on what I'm supposed to *DO* with a summer without classes. I haven't had one since I was twelve.

EDIT: And if someone can find me the title and artist of that song Jubilee's been humming off-key for the past week? I will be indebted forever, seeing as it'll likely play a major part in my justifiable homicide defense since she's managed to get it stuck in my head.

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[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Summer job for spending cash?

Invent a time travel machine to send yourself forward to September?

Cure cancer?

Good to have you back safe and sound.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

1) I will say that one of the advantages to having two lawyers for parents is that I do not ever really have to worry about petty cash. Although I just got the paperwork in the mail this morning - and I was honestly going to make a big announcement, but somehow the Humility Fairy hit me first - yours truly now has his first official patent.

2) It'd take more time and budget than you know, believe me. Even if we HAD photon-splitting apparatus here (which I assume we don't, not living on top of a thirty-mile-long particle accelerator), the current research done on active temporal manipulation is woefully inadequate for any kind of prototype.

3) I'm an inventor, not a biologist.

[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

Congratulations. What's the patent on?

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

A single-circuit clutch for coaxial transmission linkages. It's what I designed for the Jeep - reactive graduated gear linkages, mostly. Instead of the standard 1st-2nd-3rd-4th gear system, it works more on a sliding scale, adjusting torque and distributing power on the fly.

TECHNICALLY the patent's held in trust for another thirteen and a half months. Which just means I can't license any rights to it until I'm eighteen.

[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

Ah, very cool. If it's held in trust, can the trust license it? I know patents only last twenty years, which is actually quite a while, but it seems a lot less long at the end of it, I'm sure, and especially if you can't exercise it for more than a year after you get it.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Actually, it's held in my dad's name until I turn 18, meaning that I'm on as owner of the patent, but I can't make any legal decisions about it until the age of majority. It's a way to get around the whole mutant restriction, and it's all legal. A bit of a workaround, but until the system gets changed, it'll do for now.

[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

I don't know from the leagalistics. What's the mutant restriction?

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Basically, it falls under the Equal Opportunity laws. Say you've got someone like Jamie, who can literally do the work of ten men for the pay of one. Or if Mr. Marko were to go out and completely replace a construction crew all by himself. Because my mutant ability gives me an "unfair advantage" over regular humans, as the law currently stands, I can't apply for a patent on my inventions by myself. But if my father applies in trust for me, then it can go through.

[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

... That's nuts.

I don't mean the law, which is stupid in it's own special way, but the fact that people can just work their way around stupid laws is crazy. Either it should be a law and people should follow it (or accept the consequences if they get caught breaking them) or it shouldn't be a law. Having there be legal ways around laws is nuts.

And this is why I'm going to do science for the rest of my life and never, ever get involved with politics or law or any of that.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

You'll be surprised as you progress in science that to get anything new or groundbreaking done, you'll eventually have to work in business, law, and politics. That's what they keep hammering into my head (and trust me, if anyone knows, it'd be Drs. McCoy and MacTaggart) and why I'm taking business classes at the college next year.

[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

Bah, I say. Bah.

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Isn't that my job? :)

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

1. Yeah, my parents manage to keep me in petty cash pretty well as well. Though with college tuition coming up...well, I've got a few projects this summer. And hey, congrats on the patent, man.

2. I was mostly kidding with that one. Though if anyone could do it, my money's on you.

3. Nothing wrong with branching out. ;-)

[x-cable.livejournal.com]

No time travel. Seriously.

And welcome back, Forge.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

I have the hate for you.

I dunno, do what I do and sleep and run around and get a tan? Er. Tan-er.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

I blame my mother's genetics for the fact that I burn faster than Jubilee's attempts at breakfast. Brings new meaning to the term "red Indian".

That being said - once I get the final okay from the docs on my arm, I believe re-learning to swim is on the summer agenda.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was wondering about that. I thought the 'red' was supposed to be like, a metaphore.

Swimming is cool. I got board shorts!

Also, dude? I still have the hate. bikinis? HATE YOU.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Tell you what - nab me some of that banana bread I saw in the kitchen and a soda? And I'll be kind enough to share.

[x-mirage.livejournal.com]

how can you burn when you're red!?!

[x-jubilee.livejournal.com]

Hey! I cook breakfast perfectly well...except when it's on a camp stove. Those things are tricky, especially when there's bacon involved.

[xp_daytripper]

Sounds like your mum's got my sort of skin tone. Colour range is white, then red, then sort of pink before going back to white again. Maybe get one of the harem to be the sunscreen slave? ;)

And welcome back.

[x-cable.livejournal.com]

Do an independent study project with me. Get credit for next year.

I like independent study projects. They're not as dependent on me staying out of the medlab.

And yes, people, I am knocking on wood.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

What are we talking about for independent study? I admit to being intrigued...

[x-cable.livejournal.com]

Anything you like, really. That I can legitimately supervise, I mean... might let you pick up an extra credit, depending on what we can devise.

[xp_daytripper]

Nate's projects are pretty cool. He's got the perfect one for me, and I can do some of it at the same time as Meggan time. _And_ I get to do what I'm best at.

[x-mirage.livejournal.com]

it's about time you got back!

I want to see your new arm!

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Jubilee already told everyone, eh?

The sling's off, and while it's still kind of weak (and a little sore, which I heartily welcome) - I am once again possessing dual manipulatory appendages.

[x-mirage.livejournal.com]

gossip spreads faster than the common cold.

you stop at the rez on your trip?

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

We drove by just south of the Montana rez, where my dad grew up. Unfortunately, it was Carlie's turn at driving and she wouldn't let Jubilee and I stop at a casino. You'd think we'd developed some kind of reputation or something.

[x-mirage.livejournal.com]

ah...casino's. the blight and salvation of the indian reservations.

can you tell I got that from a book? although it is true.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

I'm just thanking my stars that Catseye was asleep in the back seat for that part, otherwise she'd have been bouncing up and down at all the roadside jewelry stands.

[x-mirage.livejournal.com]

you didn't STOP!?!?

bad Hahkota! that's how they make their living! My grandmother spent HOURS making jewelry to be sold by my mother! ain't gonna hurt you to buy something! hell, they would ahve given you a discount if you said you were cheyenne too. more if they knew your family.

you talk about helping mutants but you don't even help your own people!

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Can we not get into the semantics again? Mutants ARE "my people".

And you know me, I'm not really the jewelry type.

[x-mirage.livejournal.com]

...so that silver pendant you wear around your neck ain't cause you like it?

and you can have more than one people.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

That's a USB hard drive for transferring files between my PDA and my laptop.

Hey - you just gave me an idea. Catch me later tonight, I want to run a business proposition by you.

[x-jubilee.livejournal.com]

We stopped on the way back. I managed to convince Carlie that I was only going to look at the jewelry. *mwha!* I managed to pick up something really nice for Alison of the non-jewelry nature as well.

[x-catseye.livejournal.com]

MEEP!

Catseye wanted to see those!

Welcome back.

[x-jetstream.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear that you've rejoined the land of the dual dexterous appendages.

When you get a chance, stop by my office, OK? Nothing official, but I've got a thorny problem in flow dynamics under pressure that I could use another opinion on.

If you're interested.

Salaam,
Haroun

[x-jubilee.livejournal.com]

I have sooo been looking for that song as well. Was playing on the radio in the car while you were asleep but they were saying it was annoymous. Had been thinking of getting people's help to take a look for it.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Hm. Got an MP3 of it or anything? Or the title? I could start checking into it, if you guys are really interested.

[x-jubilee.livejournal.com]

I managed to find an MP3 of it. Come take a listen?