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augmented

( My common sense is tingling... )

Today is Mother's Day. I'm heading out in about an hour, in my best suit and Portal 2 still dancing around my head, to bring my Mom flowers and guilt my siblings into doing the same. I'm sure Noah is doing the same with his Mom, and a lot of my friend's with theirs. I don't know, makes me feel kinda good to know that in these pretty much suck times that there are still kids burning their mom's pankcakes while they make breakfast in bed, and there are sons and daughters out there running to the nearest drug store to buy THE VERY LAST Mother's Day card.

There are of course, the people who are hating on their Moms right now, and a lot of them, I can't blame, but that in itself is normal. I think we forget that, in the every day drama that is our lives after Augmentation. But there are still holidays, still birthdays, still mental health days. There are days where nothing happens besides you having an awesome coffee, or laughing over a stupid joke ALL day with a good friend. These times are good, and myself, I cherish them.

Life moves pretty fast, as a wise man named Ferris Bueller once said. If you don't stop, and look around once and awhile, you just might miss it.

You know, sometimes I think people forget we still live in the (basically) normal world. I do computer security, but occasionally if I see the IT in the office I'm helping out in for the day get behind, I'll stay around and help out. It just makes sense - these are our customers and if we can go the extra mile - then, hey, it's just good for business. So I'm on the 30th floor of this office building, helping out this delightful young woman who happens to now have the eyes and claws of a cat (but only when she's mad, mind you), with her computer. It really was the standard - 'shut the computer off, reboot it all the way back up again' issue - and I got to talk to a pretty girl so hey, win-win for me.

I head out of her office, feeling pretty cheery, when this older woman pulls me aside and asks what the problem was. I tell her it's a basic reboot error - she nods but looks puzzled. Then she says, NO JOKE, "But I thought her kind of people didn't have problems with that."

So naturally, I give her the Eye, and say, "Ma'am, being Augmented doesn't mean that modern technology suddenly recognizes their own. The Augmented are not Skynet." Of course then I had to explain Skynet, but that's not the point.

I mean, okay, I've heard a lot of dumb-assery since the start of this whole Augmented change three years ago, but seriously? I am sure the Augmented get flat tires, have to stand in line at the bank, and a whole slew of other annoying, everyday shit. Yeah, so what if they have powers? Having the ability to see through walls is not going to make you suddenly how to put together your kid's bike without instructions.

Think, people! Just ... think.