Rainy Days
By R. Richard
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I tell the guy, “My assignment is communication test support. I’ll be here when you need me, including the whole weekend, if necessary.”
The guy asks me, “No Billy?”
I laugh “He called in with a case of the intentional flu, I think.”
The guy tells me, “Yeah, that sounds like Billy alright.”
I tell the guy I have some clean up tasks, to keep me busy. “Until your people are ready to go. I will submit my own program code fixes, but I’m not sure if we have computer people in here, what with the rain.”
We wrap up. I dump out the few code fixes that I have and walk out toward the front.
I give the code fixes to Minny, at the Software Library.
Minny tells me, “I’ll submit the compiles and link requests, but Henry is the only computer operator in today and the work is backed up. I wouldn’t be here myself, what with the rain, but I really need the pay.”
I ask, “Your ex-husband still not making the child support payments?”
Minny laughs and tells me, “The worthless ass hole can’t make the child support payments, but he bought himself a new car. The divorce Judge has arranged things so that he can’t drive his new car from a jail cell. Me and the kid are doing alright, with just my pay.”
I say, “Worse than that, your ex husband can’t join Billy and Monica, out at the lake.”
Minny again laughs and tells me, “The roads to and from the lake are flooded and the frolickers are stranded.”
I say, “The frolickers went out to the lake for water, now they have lots of water.”
Minny sneers, “There’s water and then again there’s water.”
I laugh and walk out to the front.
Benjy the Beard is gathering orders for a lunch run. He wants to know if I want to place an order.
I intone, “I have a taste for chicken, I have no voice for song, however, during the flood, don’t you look for programmer guy he’s been there and gone.”
Benjy the Beard sighs and says, “You programmer guys always plan ahead.”
I say, “It comes with the territory.” I then see the guard, sitting where the Department Secretary usually sits, wave to me.
I walk over and take the phone. I hear Monica’s voice.
Monica asks me, “Who is this?”
I say, “This is Jason, one of the few in today, what with the rain.”
Monica says, “Corrine was going to come and pick me up.”
I laugh, “Corrine and her low slung sports car are snug at home, maybe taking a look at the deluge outside. If I recall correctly, Corrine has a cat. Corrine and her cat have the same general reaction to getting wet in the rain. Corrine is not going to come and pick you up. Sorry.”
I then make my way, back into my computer test room. (As I walk, I think. If Monica needs a ride, it almost certainly means that Billy doesn’t have a car. Billy had a car and the repo guys probably came and took Billy’s car. Since Billy is out ‘sick,’ he can’t call for help, from the lake. Monica will almost certainly call several of the girls who work here and the story of Billy’s ‘sick’ fib will get to management. Ol’ Jason just might find himself promoted to Project Manager, in Billy’s place. It should be interesting.)
I then get back into my computer test room. There is no message on the outside customer test console, so I start to configure test fourteen on the new machine. I start the test on the new machine. The new machine runs but, again, not the way that it’s supposed to. I halt the new machine, reload the test program, for that machine and start to configure test fifteen.
I get test fifteen configured and I start the test on the new machine. The new machine runs again, this time the way that it’s supposed to! I very carefully document the test fifteen configuration, in detail. I realize that I’m the only programmer, in at least the city, who knows how to really run the new computer. My salary is going to increase by a large amount, if probably in another company.
R. Richard
I'm the co-author, with Sunset Thomas, of Anatomy of An Adult Film.I have 48 novels and over 299 short stories currently published.I spent my early years in the part of Los Angeles known as the South Central. I was known as Whi' Boy, which was sufficient to indentify me in that place. I'm a skilled kung-fu player, using a system that I learned from a Korean I knew only as 'Pak.' It would be easier to tell you the places that Pak wasn't wanted by the police, rather than the places where he was wanted by the police. Pak's kung-fu system, augmented by some bits and pieces from some Chinese practicioners is quick and effective, or I wouldn't be alive today.My early education was mostly obtained by stealing books from the public library (I always returned them and the Librarian even began to provide me with reading lists.) I did go to high schools, but I never really learned anything there. I eventually graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles, UCLA, with a degree in mathematics.I work as a Systems Analyst and also make a part of my living as a professional gambler (legal in Nevada.) I write science fiction and erotica. My published novels are:Anatomy of An Adult Film (With Sunset Thomas)1. Second Chance: God Killer2. Second Chance: Sky Pirate3. Second Chance: Scroll Seeker4. Second Chance: King of The Islands5. Second Chance: King of Zaya6. Second Chance: Duke of Averon7. Second Chance: King of Golomon8. Second Chance: King Of The Sky9. Second Chance: Warlord of Ifrequeh10. Second Chance: King of Ariby11. Second Chance: King of Mesodania12. Second Chance: King of Avuls13. Second Chance: King of Kemet14. Second Chance: King of Zorran15. Second Chance: King of Two Worlds16. Second Chance: King of Averon17. Second Chance: King's Duties18. Second Chance: King of The New WorldAdventurer: Simulation ProblemAdventurer: Pannar ProblemA Programmer's GambitAmateur StripperBeach MurdersBondage HouseCorporate Sex SlavesFriday NightGo Naked In The SoftwareGrasshopper WinterInvoluntary NudeLayoffNot A HeroPirates of The KeysSummer of SexThe LakeThe Last Moon DanceThe Nude Adventures of Plain JaneThe Secret Life of Wanda WilsonTails of the Pussycat LoungeTo Keep A JobTopless RestaurantToy WhoresVix: The MarineWayward BoyShort Stories:A Christmas Visit
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Rainy Days
By R. Richard © 2023
I can predict the future. Well, not all the time. However, there is to be a big gathering out at the lake. Billy has just stolen Monica from me and he is not about to get stuck with a weekend test session, when he can develop a case of the intentional flu, take Monica to the lake, and leave me stuck with the duty.
My phone goes off at 6AM Friday morning. My Department Manager tells me, Jason, Billy just called in sick. Jason, you need to come in and support a critical customer test session. (I have planned for what I knew would happen. I got to bed early and I have enough sleep.) I tell my Department Manager,
I’m up and on my way in, when I have questions, I’ll have the Receptionist call Billy and get the key information that I need to support the test session."
(My Department Manager knows that Billy is faking.) He says, Yeah, well try to hold that to a minimum, what with Billy sick and all.
I’m up, shaved and cleaned. The wind has shifted to out of the South and the early weather forecast is for heavy rain, through the day. The wind is increasing and I suspect that the storm from up North will be a really major event. I make a quick call to the auto repo people and let them know where they can find where Billy is using the car that he has been hiding out.
I put on the rainy day gear that I had laid out and off I go, driving my faithful truck.
I make a stop at the chicken place, on my way into work. The gutters are already running with water and it looks like the start of a really major storm. I use my umbrella and I get into the store a bit damp, but not soaked. I buy a big bucket of chicken and enough sides to see me through the weekend. As I go back to my truck, with the goods, the rain has already begun to pick up.
I drive through soaking wet streets, splashing through some big puddles. I get to work and park my truck back in the highest corner of the parking lot. I use my umbrella and I get into the main lobby wet, but not soaked through.
The Receptionist is not in, instead the night guard is manning the front desk.
I mention the fact.
The night guard laughs, "Corrine called in. She said that, if she hadda come