Communications Log

UPDATE: OMG! I posted the wrong time and date. Can you believe it? I'm so excited about the training mission, I spaced. The communications logs will be available at the 27 cache locations below starting at 18:00 Pacific Time on November 4th! Don't forget the relay code to pick up your log on DVD: "The Operator left something for me." Good luck!

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I found a last message from Melissa.

I realize that some of my truest allies won't be able to come to any of the four training events scheduled for November 4th, where I will also be giving out a communications log of my time here in DVD format. I'm sorry I can't do more training events, but I will be able to cache copies of the comm. log at an additional 27 locations on November 4.

UNIVERSAL STUDIO CINEMAS
100 Universal City Plaza Universal City CA
GEORGETOWN
3111 K Street, NW Washington D.C.
MERIDIAN
1501 - 7th Avenue Seattle WA
MJ GREENBRIAR
2841 Greenbriar Pkwy SW Atlanta GA
CITYPLACE
2600 North Haskell Dallas TX
MJ NORTHLINE
100 Northline Mall Houston TX
CATALINA
2320 North Campbell Ave Tucson AZ
UNIVERSAL CINEPLEX 20
6000 Universal Blvd Orlando FL
BOSTON COMMON
175 Tremont St Boston MA
WEBSTER TWELVEPLEX
2190 Empire Blvd. Webster NY
RICHMOND TOWN SQUARE
631 Richmond Road Richmond Hghts OH
WATERFRONT
300 West Waterfront Dr. West Homestead PA
CITY VIEW EIGHTPLEX
4728 Bryant Irvin Road Fort Worth TX
LAYTON HILLS 9
728 West 1425 North Layton Hills UT
COLLEGE PARK
3535 West 86th Street Indianapolis IN
PARAMUS ROUTE 4
260 East Route 4 Paramus NJ
CHERRY HILL
2121 Route 38 Cherry Hill NJ
STROUD MALL SEVEN
Rte 611-160 Stroud Mall Stroudberg PA
GRAND RAPIDS
3000 Alpine Avenue Grand Rapids MI
GREAT LAKES
4300 Baldwin Rd Auburn Hills MI
SHORE
37 Wall Street Huntington NY
PLAINVILLE
220 New Britain Avenue Plainville CT
WHITE MARSH
8141 Honeygo Blvd. Baltimore MD
LOEWS TOWNE SQUARE
2425 Vestal Parkway Vestal NY
PALISADES CENTER
4403 Palisades Ctr. Drive West Nyack NY
ROTTERDAM SQUARE MALL SIX
93 W. Campbell Road Schenectady NY
FAIRFAX SQUARE 8
8065 Leesburg Pike Vienna VA

Beginning at 18:00 Pacific Time on November 4, friends and allies can approach an official at one of these rendezvous sites and deliver the relay code: “The Operator left a message for me.” (We'll use that Operator name. When they hear it, people go :-0 )

The first 50 allies at each of the 27 locations will receive the transmission log. I can release only one log per crew member.

If you are absolutely unable to rendezvous at one of these locations, and you are on my list of trusted allies, please contact Dana [AFTER Thursday's training mission, please!] with your mailing address. She may be able to help.

fortunes

Here's something I learned on my trip to Asia: They don't have fortune cookies in China. That’s an American thing.

Even so, all summer long, I kept wishing for a fortune cookie. I wanted to crack one open and pull out exactly the right cliché, the one small piece of wisdom that would put everything into perspective. I wanted to finish a meal and find the little slip of paper that would tell me, "Everything is going to work out for the best." "You are safe." "You will do the right thing."

Kinda silly to expect so much from a cookie, huh?

Last night, Aunt Margaret took me out to dinner. She wanted to see my trip pictures and hear all my stories. (I don't think she even realizes how much danger she was in these past few weeks, and by the way: she has completely given up on her hotmail account.) We went to Yank Sing so she could eat Dau Miu Gow and Chicken Fun Gwor while looking at photos of me stumbling along the Great Wall. Well, when we finished dinner, I finally got the fortune cookie I'd been wanting for months.

"A problem you solve for someone else is the very problem you must solve for yourself."

Can a fortune cookie be, like… retroactively right?

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Today we helped Melissa go home again, but I don't think we quite know yet what that means for us. Even though Melissa is gone, I don't seem to have control over Aunt Margaret's site. There's still something living there, and it thinks it's going to broadcast something on Thursday 11/4.

For my part, I'm going to do what I can by helping Melissa execute the training mission she arranged for her crew. I'll be handling all the remaining RSVPs for the events, so if you can make it to Austin, Chicago, New York City, or San Francisco this Thursday evening, be sure you email me with the city and your crew name.

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I don't know what happens next, but I think we did the right thing. I think we sent a lost girl back home. I think we solved the right problem. And I think our fortunes will change as a result.