Home Fires and calendar reform SPOILERS

Darth Ed · 02 Feb 2011, 16:24 · from 2011-February.txt.gz

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From: darthed77 at gmail.com (Darth Ed)
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 11:24:18 -0500
Subject: (urth) Home Fires and calendar reform **SPOILERS**
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Dave Tallman replied:
> The only "gift" is the announcement that Chelle is coming home.

It's the perfect gift for a man who has everything (except his contract
partner).

> If it's Christmas, it's also a work-day and nobody says "Merry Christmas"
> or anything.

Of course not. This future society is fully secularized. Instead of getting
married, people get contracted, etc., so we shouldn't expect anyone to be
saying "Merry Christmas" or getting the day off from work. It's just another
day to them.

> Skip tells Sally he wants a suite reservation near the port for "the day
> after tomorrow" which must be for what he expects will be a reunion night
> with Chelle. He gets it for one night only, and that must be for day 180.
> His 34-hour bullet train trip, leaving no later than 20:00, is compatible
> with this. It would get him to the port   no later than 06:00 on 180. So
> even if "this coming Saturday" is a little odd for the waitress to say,
it > has to be only two days away.

You're right. I assumed they had arrived in Canam the day before (day 179).
I meant to reexamine their travel schedule, but I didn't have the book
handy at the time. :-/

Later,
Darth Ed
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