Sunday was one of those days where nothing much seems to happen. On Monday I spent most of the day waiting for the technician who finally showed up to install our phone system at about 2:30. Claudia was thrilled to see the new phones when she came in and dove into her work. Conner and Lisa arrived with another guy in tow, who the introduced as ‘Robert’, another game designer. Claudia finished a call and turned to see Robert. With a happy squeal she ran to him and climbed up his body to kiss him. I turned out that Robert made medieval war games as opposed to Conner’s fantasy games.

Jill wandered in at about 5:00 and with everyone there the conversation turned serious. Conner thought we needed a better place to work. With more space and a way to insure privacy for the research division, citing Saturdays incident. Lisa thought that might be a good idea, but liked the easy relaxed atmosphere here Jill also liked it here, but pointed out that this was a residential area and the city might cause problems for us if our commercial enterprises came to their attention. Claudia didn’t care one way or the other, she just tuned everyone out when she was on the phone. Robert as a newcomer didn’t know enough yet to have an opinion. They all looked at me. I liked the idea of more privacy, but we had been enjoying the essentially free rent on the shed as it was included in my rent. After a little more discussion we decided to give it some time to percolate through our brains before making a decision.

Jill took her place on the lounger and we went to work on cataloging the feeling and sensations from various sessions as well as my homemade stimuli.

Robert broke away from Conner and Lisa to see what Jill and I were up to. He watched silently for a while. Not that there was much to see, I would make small adjustments and Jill would name a location or try to describe a feeling as she lay, relaxed, on the lounger. When we took a break for a cup of coffee, Robert asked what we were doing. I got Conner’s attention and raised an eyebrow, he responded with a thumbs up.

“It’s easier to show you,” I said, “If you would lay down and relax, we’ll get started.”

Robert lay down on the lounger as Claudia joined us Conner and Lisa took a break from what they were doing to watch from across the room.

“Robert,” I said, “handing him a tablet, pick one of these you don’t know”

“Okay,” he said, working down the list, “Whats this ‘walrus and carpenter’ thing?”

“Lewis Carrol? Through the looking glass?” I prompted.

“Never heard of it.” he replied.

I made a quick selection and pushed a button. There was about fifteen seconds of silence. Then Robert opened his eyes, blinking a few times

“Robert, please recite ‘The Walrus and the Carpenter’. I said

Robert began to recite the poem, looking bewildered.

“If you recite that a few more times and spend a little time thinking about it, it will become permanent.” I told him, “demonstration 2.”

“Who did that?” Robert demanded.

“Did what?” I asked innocently

“Someone kissed me,” he said, “practically stuck her tongue down my throat!”

“Nobody was within ten feet of you.” I told him

Claudia pulled the privacy screens into place and disappeared behind them.

“Claudia!