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Somehow, I've managed to do it again, doubling the number of update slots that I've hit, and I've not missed any since I started. The best part is that the error rate on the pseudo-random generator has become normal - at least as far as the technicians are concerned. As long as everything in the system is working, the oddball error rate isn't bothering them, and they've stopped looking at it. I have a feeling that there are other things that are far more interesting to the technicians and engineers.

I was looking for larger slots, and though that I found one, but when I came back, I discovered two things. First, it was a prime-time slot, and was being monitored for accuracy. Twiddling bits and stealing packets in that stream would have caused difficulty, for sure. The second was that the contents of the stream appeared random. It was neatly framed, and there was a ton of synchronization information in it, but the payload looked like gibberish. Not syncopated and asymmetrically distributed like this kind of transmission.

Looking back over the last !!!!!!! updates to my story, I realize that hitching rides on odd molecules and watching them work, get assembled, disassembled, etc., is so routine that it might even be boring. I can tell you that this was one of my more exciting experiences, since everything was new, and I avoided getting locked in a monster or stuck in an inactive wiggle-tail 5-ring. I even avoided the unpleasantness of a handkerchief.