Chapters 3 & 4 of Time Traveler Trucker by Rowan Kelly (c)2009 All Rights Reserved
Chapter 3: Five days later, Heather and Brandy were backing the truck and trailer into a tight parking spot at the truck terminal where she left her truck during her hometime. She then proceeded to load up all her blankets, sheets, bedding, dirty clothes, computer, printer, and any thing else she wanted to take home, and placed it all in the bed of her Black 2007 Nissan Frontier pickup truck with a camper shell top on the back. Brandy jumped into her passenger seat, Heather in the driver's seat and off they went to fight Los Angeles traffic for an hour to get home. About 5pm she pulled onto Esplanade Ave and into the driveway of her little bungalow cottage on the beach. She loved this little cottage, given to her by her late Aunt Elizabeth. The little cottage sat on half an acre and was dwarfed by the huge condo complexes which dominated the street. Heather jumped out of the truck and Brandy bounced out the driver's side and quickly went to the grass yard and used the bathroom. Heather's home had a nice patch of green grass, with a white picked fence around the yard, and a small garage in the back, next to the small patch of grass in the back yard. There was a small patio area with a jacuzzi, bbq, and 2 picnic tables. It took several trips back and forth, but Heather eventually got all the items from her truck into the house. On the way home, Heather always stopped off at the grocery store and loaded up on enough food, beer, supplies to last four days. Once she got everything in the house, she began to put the food, beer, drinks away, and filled Brandy's bowls with food and water. She then sorted out the laundry and spent the next several hours doing several loads of laundry until it was all finished, folded and ready for the big truck. By the time she was done with all her chores, including a shower, it was getting late. But not late enough for her to watch her pre-recorded tv shows. At about 11pm, Heather and Brandy lay down in the same big bed and went to sleep.
Chapter 4: The next morning, after breakfast and taking Brandy out for a walk, Heather decided to take a bike ride on the strand bike path before the delivery driver brought her package to her house. As she was closing the garage after having put her bicycle away, the delivery driver pulled up in her driveway. She went to the back of her van and pulled out 3 big boxes. Heather signed for them and the driver drove away. She then carried one box at a time into her living room and placed them on the floor. She started with the larger of the three boxes, knowing that is the box with the IBM 5100 computer in it. As Heather pulled away all the packing bubble wrap, she pulled the old computer out of the box, and placed it on the table. She then plugged it in, and it took the old machine a few minutes to warm up. Numbers and odd symbols flashed across the screen and then the curser blinked. Ready for typing. Heather didn't know what to type at first. Then she typed John Titus and hit enter. Nothing happened. What did she expect? There is no internet connection to this old thing. Then she thought she would get her laptop and place it next to the old IBM and connect to the internet with the laptop, connect to John. She sent John a email letting him know that she found the old computer. She had not heard from him until the next day. She had been worried that she would never hear from him again.
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