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Sunday, May 8, 2005 (Continued)
I won't describe this small dinner party in detail. It went well, and for the most part was very predictable (e.g., Katie predictably apologized for the dinner not being up to yesterday's standard. We predictably insisted her dinner was wonderful, etc.). I'll mention some of the good parts of the evening.
Early on Carson and I were chatting in the living room. To make conversation, he asked me, "How's that business idea of yours coming along?"
I didn't want to steal Ava's thunder when she told her parents about my wealth later, but I didn't want to lie either, so I used a flat voice to say, "Oh, that's ended. I don't have any plans to spend any more time in that area."
"That's a pity."
"I wouldn't say it was a pity. It was an interesting experience, and beneficial in several ways. I learned some good lessons from it. I'd have done things differently had I known in advance."
"That's good. You're young yet. There's plenty of time for work after you've finished your education."
"Yes. I don't know how long that'll take though. To listen to Prof and Vanessa, they want me to get several degrees. But speaking of education reminds me to ask you about my leaving here for a few hours in what you'd consider the middle of the night. I only sleep for four hours a night, then I get up to go studying on the computers I have at Julia's place. I'll come back here about the time you're all waking up..."
That started quite a long conversation, with several explanations required. The business issue was forgotten.
Over dessert, I said, "Ava, now might be a good time to ask your parents for permission for what we intend to do next weekend."
Katie and Carson were alerted by Ava's happy laugh, her "Neat!", and all of our increased attentions.
With a very big grin, Ava said, "It's Julia and Mark's anniversary this weekend." Ava turned to Julia, "It's actually on the weekend, isn't it?"
"Yes. The 14th, which is Saturday."
"Thanks. So for their anniversary Mark's rented a private jet to fly half a dozen of their friends to LA to go shopping on Rodeo Drive. They're going to a Justin Timberlake concert Saturday night, staying in a luxury hotel and flying back Sunday." Turning back to Julia, Ava said, "There was something else I've forgotten?"
Julia suggested, "The cash for shopping?"
"Yes, that was it, {giggle}. Mark's also throwing in $10,000 cash for us to go shopping with. Julia would like me to help her spend Mark's money, so can I go to LA with them next weekend please, {giggle}?"
The Wests weren't as much fun as I'd hoped, as all that happened was that Katie asked, "What's the explanation, Ava?"
"{Giggle}. Mark's rich Mom! He skipped school for most of the last week, went to LA and earned $6.5 million. He's a MILLIONAIRE! Isn't he incredible!
Neither parent believed Ava. Carson looked at me, saying, "What's the point of this nonsense?"
I answered, "Ava left out one fact she thought was irrelevant, but you might find significant. Prof and I went to LA together last Tuesday. We worked on this together, and Prof saw me earn the money. It might be a good idea for you to call him for confirmation."
"I think I'll take you up on that."
They had a phone in the kitchen, so it didn't take long for Carson to get through to Prof.
While he was doing so, Ava told me, "I didn't know Prof was with you. I don't think anyone told me that. Or if they did, it got blown out of my head by all the excitement."
I said, "Now that I think about it, I think you're right. We just said I'd earned it, and you believed us. Sorry I implied you'd forgotten it."
"You've..." Ava was cut off by her father getting Prof on the line.
Carson's side of the conversation follows:
"Mark just told us an unbelievable story about earning a large sum of money?"
"He told us $6.5 million."
Carson turned to Katie, exclaiming "Prof says it's true!"
Raising the phone, he asked, "How does a 15-year old boy earn $6.5 million?"
Carson mostly listened for a couple of minutes, looking stunned. Then, "You're absolutely positive?"
Several seconds of listening later, Carson said, "I'm absolutely astonished. I'll tell Katie. Thanks, Prof."
Carson hung up, then said, "I think I need a drink."
He looked shaky, but Ava leaped to her feet saying, "I'll get you one Dad. Whiskey?"
"Ahh, maybe I'd better not, dear. I'm not supposed to drink alcohol now. On second thought, to hell with it. A whiskey would be great, thanks Ava. Just a single."
Ava asked, "Mom, do you want anything?"
"No thanks." Katie looked at Carson as he regained his seat, asking him, "It's true?"
"Every word. Prof and Vanessa invested $50,000, as did Mark's family. Prof and Mark went to LA on Tuesday. Prof fronted Mark because Mark's too young to enter into contracts, and Mark turned the $100,000 into several million dollars. Prof says they've taken most of the profits already, and the majority of the money is already in his and Mark's personal accounts. He also passed on a message from Vanessa, reminding us that she'd told us that Mark was an overachiever. Somehow that phrase doesn't do you justice, Mark."
Ava put her father's drink down in front of him. He looked at it without comprehension for a few seconds, and then realized what it was. He took a sip (Ava's parents weren't the 'down the hatch' types), during which I noticed his hand was shaking noticeably.
Katie said, "You've really got $6.5 million?"
"Give or take a few hundred thousand, yes. The final numbers aren't in yet, but it'll be very close to that. That's before tax. Unfortunately I have to give the Government over $2 million of it. That sucks big time!"
"You've earned more in a few days than Carson and I have earned in our entire lives! How on Earth does a 15-year old boy earn $6.5 million in one week?"
"Four days," corrected Ava. "He got lazy, {giggle}. So can I go shopping in LA with them this weekend?"
I said, "I think your parents need a little longer to come to grips with this yet, Ava."
-- I much preferred not to talk day trading with the Wests, in case they knew something about it. I had an impressively complicated spiel prepared, but it was better to avoid it if I could. So I used something Prof had once said, "In all honesty, you wouldn't understand. I don't mean to belittle you in any way, but I was doing stuff that I'm pretty sure hasn't been done before. The trip itself only took four days, but Prof and I spent some time working on my idea for a few weeks before the trip, and Prof could never get his head around it. He did more than just front me because I was underage, but he could only operate in one corner of what went on." It was vaguely true, but not really.
Ava said, "Mom, I haven't told you the best part yet. Mark's buying a $2.5 million house! Julia, her mom and Mark's mom have been busy all day yesterday and today looking at houses. They're looking for a house big enough for both their families to live in..." Ava went on to describe our plan, including the semi-detached wing for Mark, Julia, Carol, and Ava when she wasn't staying with her parents.
Talking about a new house got all the females excited, and there was quite a discussion on the topic. In the course of which Julia said a small thing which caught my attention. A sentence of hers contained, " ... about $2.5 million."
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Thursday, May 12, 2005 (Continued) The rest of the day was the same old same old, until my date with Mackenzie. I arrived at Mackenzie's house to pick her up at 5pm, and was met by all three sisters, In front of everyone else, Claire rushed toward me with her arms extended for a hug. So much for her keeping a low profile. There was no point in trying to avoid her hug, so I crouched down as I would to accept a hug from a child, and let her run to me. "Hi, Mark." "Hello, Claire." I...
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Sunday, April 24, 2005 We'd gone to sleep about 11:30, and I woke at 4 o'clock, so about four and half hours sleep. My first problem was figuring out what to do for three or so hours. Get a snack obviously, but what to do after that? Schoolwork, I decided. My basic study plan had been to do my college work in the wee small hours and school stuff in the afternoons. Unfortunately (with tongue firmly in cheek, and elsewhere) Julia had recently been 'making' me have sex every afternoon....
Sunday, April 17, 2005 I woke and checked my clock to confirm that it was 5am. I felt perfectly well rested, so I had a feeling I was going to get more hours per day. Cool. Now what to do with them? I didn't want to wake the family, so I had a quiet pre-breakfast snack. Then I returned to my room and finished reading the Aikido books, unfortunately without learning anything useful. Then I got into the Driver Manual, using different minds to quiz each other. That got boring because I...
Sunday, June 12, 2005 (Continued) The first of Julia's questions started even before I'd pulled a T-shirt out of my drawer to mop the chair with. Julia had many questions, and more kept occurring to her, so our question and answer session spanned several hours. There were a few temporary interruptions - for our leaving my home and going to hers, while we had sex in her bed (I learned to proximity sense some new emotions), while she did some studying, and while I had a chatty phone...
Monday, April 18, 2005 I awoke feeling fully rested. Good, two nights of only five hours of sleep and no problems so far. A quick look outside let me see that it wasn't raining, so I put on my running gear and waited outside the girls' room. I half-expected Donna to sleep in, guessing that Carol might have kept her awake too long last night, but I heard movement and a couple of minutes later Donna emerged. She closed the door behind her, then whispered to me, "Carol's not coming with...
Saturday, May 17 (Continued) to Saturday, May 24, 2008 Our head didn't explode from the sudden arrival of 160 new minds, most of whom were duplicates, so that was good. Now that my fingers had done their job so well, I uncrossed them. ^ [[(a) Copies of those minds had spent fifty hours in my head over the last couple of weeks, so there was no "sudden arrival" involved. (b) It's not as if duplicate minds were matter and anti-matter, especially because they're not matter at all. Nor are...
Sunday, June 12, 2005 (Continued) After dinner it was Carol's turn to visit me for 'studying'. I patted my lap, and was very pleased to see that she was happy to climb on. I hadn't expected her to be anything other than happy, as the attention I'd been paying to Carol over the last three weeks had produced a Carol who thoroughly enjoyed my company, attention and compliments. Carol asked, "I don't understand what's going on. Why are you being so affectionate to me these days, and...
Monday, September 17 to Sunday, October 21, 2007 Getting a bug was easy. I sneaked out again in the wee small hours of the morning, flew to Portland, where I stole a few each of several different varieties of bugs from the FBI, including parabolic mics, suction cup bugs that could be attached to the outside of windows, and different types that transmitted or just recorded what they heard. I even took some video bugs although I didn't think I'd use them with my current set of baddies. I...