Another excert, same story

in trevonjb •  8 years ago  (edited)

Everything seemed fine, everything seemed normal but a normal day I wake, eat, report, chat, connect, receive assignments, send assignments and work. The work is long, boring mostly research but has scripting, trying, connecting & automation. Looking at most days, at 10:45[UTC] I wake from the endless beeps from the human above me. I don't know if anyone lives there but at 10:45 for an hour there's beep after beep after beep so I start with substance. Cheerios with water while I watch my pi load. Numbers, letters, lines of script run, flicker and rain on my screen. This is my TV, the turning on of a python machine, an Orange Pi board in a makeshift case. I get lucky I was forced to learn electronic building and repair so my dad could have free labor. I converted old PS2 port keyboard and mouse to USB, old PC shielding for the case. Oh it's on, I get lost the dance of Bash but let's get to the internet. A burn phone is any disposable phone, I don't have one but I do have a set of lines that gives me a private gate into a generous number of cell towers around me locally. I have to restart it after disconnection but it needs to be restarted from a Wi-Fi or land line. I'm staying in an abandoned building today so I go to the roof to look for a connection. Using a 3-D Wi-Fi scanner/sniffer I can find a close connection. I look around and realize there's only a couple, a corner store has a great connection, I can almost connect so I walk towards the roof edge, the connection gets stronger, I sit on the roof edge I can get a connection. Public Wi-Fi is not always the best for what I do but let's check it out.
I use a bandwidth scanner to see who's on the line with me. There's very few nodes, about 20 in all including me. I want to point out less don't mean safe but I look through the nodes and most are cell phones and the POS. Now I feel safer, not safe but I'm not worried of being noticed within my connection which is a common cause of newb pickup. I hit up my gate through MMS and wait for a response. I have to sit wait. About an hour later I get a response, "Hello Stranger" I'm in. I drop the Wi-Fi and make a call to my gate. It rings, I get up and start walking back. It rings, I speed up toward the stairs door. It rings, I check the clock -0:00:36- okay next should be lapped. It rings -:00:41- "Crap where's my lap?" I look down the stair well, 4 flights left. I roll off the side over the rail and land on me feet-- the second I hit the ground a pain shoots up my legs into my ass and I end up flopping on my ass. It rings again -:00:46- I only have one ring left before I have to do this again, I get to my pi and sling up my phone. It rings -:00:51- the pi sees the phone, click the "use as internet" insert my string on my terminal and--there's a second to pick up and on this second I take a breath, so when I'm releasing it'll say, "connected." EerZskitszRreEeraerr the binary zero-loop noise blares out my phone, I disable the phone speaker so I don't have to hear it but now my pi is online, I can drop in today's server.

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