It doesn’t matter if the sun has gone down, we’re rolling. When I first wake I’m glad we will have a schedule. Always followed by hoping it’s interrupted. I didn’t become the owner of a human recovery business without needing it. Looking at their pictures made me feel sad; It makes me feel cold inside; it makes me feel alone. I know I could help with my vast infatuation to free and allow them to see the world once again. I needed to find them.
Instead of thinking of the worse, I imagine in that one tick of the clock, the life we dream and day dream about. But, I usually keep real busy with the schedule. It’s the best in the world, if asking me. We would switch whenever our eyes are ready to either focus on the road or on the heat monitors at each corner in the back of our mobile unit. We don’t put one up front of course. Right now, I’m on a Bravo Company, which is recover the non bugged. My partner and I are the entire company, but with one at a time, alternating a new one every shift. We’re coming up right now on a single cell that’s been in one position for a while now and we have a medical clearance of negative, so we’re going to look one last time to get a count of warm bodies before an Alpha Company crew goes in to see what is the hold up with the person in the same spot at that structure. Mostly documenting is what you do when you’re in the back. Logging individual units per structure. This is my first year and I have found three disturbances. A runaway, a new medical clearance and a kidnapping of an elderly gentleman. All day you know you’re trying to find all of them one structure at a time. Our schedule has around thirty percent for a medical clearance, but are logged just as all the structures are. Charlie Company is three days behind us. The notes taken from an Alpha Crew indicates a person lying presumably in a bed for twelve days that we know of. There is a swat crew on standby.
‘I’m calling this one!’ I told my partner.
‘Receive.’ You could hear his relief in his voice.
‘Bravo one, Bravo one to base. Coordinates 140 over 471, I would like to confirm notes taken by Alpha One.'
‘Received Bravo One, 140 over 471, thank you.'
I entered a few codes along with my heat photos. In twenty minutes we’ll know who this person is and why he or she is there. I never get to see what the invasion looks like unless I go to the viewing held at a theater like building for lectures. I have to report within three minutes on the next entry. I’ve been to all the viewing since I started. I can’t wait for this one either. I don’t text or call my fiancé while on duty but I can read her IM’s on a screen. She says hi accusingly. We have a normal relationship, I think. We both work the same hours. We both get home about the same time. We both clean and cook together.
'These five volunteers will draw a card. On each card is a set of words that they will say out loud at any level of volume while in separate rooms. So, go ahead and pick a card and close the door behind you. This software recognizes every language. Let's see what is on the cards, while they're in their rooms. Card number one is full of words associated with fruit, card number two is words associated with automobile parts, card number three is words associated with fish, card number four is words associated with exercise routines and card number five is words associated with the weather. Please invite our volunteers back in. This software has received every word they spoke and stored them in each individuals account. It received information and assembled it in two forms: one, the complete sentence and two, a column of words that I chose to pick out.
On my end, I didn't have to spend time listening to them to see if anyone was talking about anything. But, if I tell my software what words to alert me, it will do so. So, I have set up my end to alert me if any of the five volunteers mentions anything related to fruit. I have a bunch of words that are on my list that relate to fruit. It has alerted me that the volunteer with the first card mentioned words associated with fruit. Now, I will bring up a live audio and video of volunteer with the first card. There she is, sitting in this room. She is identified on my screen with a red border around her body. Each volunteer had their retina scanned, which identifies each account. My software has more available space for volunteers than there are actual people on this planet. Now, say I didn't have my volunteers read from a card. I just placed them separately in a room and just had them talk freely. I can have my software alert me when anyone of them mentions any topic or words that I wish to be alerted for. For example, I want to find the volunteer that even once mentions the words associated with swimming. When the volunteer says water, shorts, flip flops, floaty, towel, sunbathing, shades, sunblock, I will be alerted that this volunteer is planing a swimming trip. I will bring that volunteer up on audio and video so I can observe this swimming event.
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