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There were several incidents at camp that are worth telling. One involves the movie night during week one.

The movie was called - Tamara is not a superhero she is a computer scientist. It stared one of the hottest action heros in Hollywood Userla mind as Tamara socks. The film follows Tamara socks on her quest to make a video game staring herself. She knows she wants to be a superhero in her game but, she does not know what kind of superhero. So Tamara plays hours and hours of video games on her hyperdrive video game console to try to come up with an idea of a superhero.

She does not talk to anyone about her big dream she want it to be surprise. Though she is not a recluse she does spend most of her day when she is not at work working on her video game at home, in deli's, bars, in parks. She likes to work on her video game in different places so her routine does not get old and then she would unfortunatly tire of programming.

But first things first she needed a superhero to build her game around. So she created ToxicWaste Woman. She could have called her garbage woman but, she liked the sound of Toxic Waste Woman better. Now with her hero determined she had to decide on the programming language.

She decided to use a compiled language called Dico, which was made by star computer. It was named after disco music. Cynthia file adored disco music so she decided to name a programming language disco. It was a compiled, general purpose, strongly typed, high level progrogramming language. It could dance.

Next she had to figure out how she wanted to make the graphics. She decided to make all the graphics her self with a program called graphics designer also made by star computer. Its 3d creation program that allows the user to create meshes, materials for the meashes, textures, lighting, ect. It was the perfect program for what tamara wanted to do.

It took her 10 years of work 5 housr a day and countless coffees but, Tamara did it she fulfilled her dream of making a super hero video games staring a superher that looked like Tamara socks. Even though the superhero was not named Tamara socks.

That was a quick summaryof the movie plot. It was much more exciting than it sounds on the written page. It opened to so so reviews by critics. Some calling it mediocre, some critics called it brilliant and said it was long overdo. After the move came out Urserla mind became a big star. She was the biggest action hero in hollywood. She was also the top action hero in a video game. Since a video game was released to coincide with the release of the movie. The game was #1 for 2 months after its release which was out of the ordianry since games based on movies were almost always terrible. Things were going great for ursela since the movie studio had ordered a sequel to Tamara is not a superhero she is a computer scientist which was slated to go into production in the fall after Ursela had gone on summer vacation to Micro chipisland. Great name for an island don't you think? Thats what I think anyway back to the story.

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After compute lab there was crafting. Which was a misleading name. It would lead one to believe that the campers were to build picture frames with popscicle sticks or something of that nature. That was not what the class was about at all. The students were to build a desktop computer a month. The internet revolution was just begining and everyone wanted to own a dektop computer so why not have the kids learn how to build their own. AS witcomputer lap the campers were given a number whcih corrosponded to a number on a box. Thebox contained all the parts need to construct a state of the art desktop computer. The box had a motherbaord, sound card, video card, ISa cad, parallel port card, and computer case. The monitors were to be handed out after the computer were completed. So that they could be tested an the operatting systems and software could be installed.

The box was was a kit sold by star computer called student 1996 it made it easy for tommy to teach a class on crafts. So once all the campers were at their seats tommy said "Open the kit" and the campers were presented with electronics. Bud was astonished at what the insides of a computer contained. He knew building a compuer will be fun. So after all the campers had there kits open tommy teletype explained what all the parts were called and a little about what they did. And then he let the campers examine the contents of the box for the ramainder of crafting

Too some came the bell for lunch. Bud wanted to look at the computer parts some more but, theire would be other days. Lunch consisted of turkey sandwiches, baked potatoes, orange juice and a salad for desert. The next activity rock climbing was the most challenging camp activity. For this class Tommy teletype brought in a rockclimbing expet and she was familar to all the campers. Cynthia file in addition to being a computer expert was an expert rock climber. She show the campers the equipment that wasgoing to be used and show how to strap it on. Next she watched as everyone straped on their rock climbing equipment and helped anyone who needed it.

Thier was a indoor rockk climbing building on the camp grounds wherer the would spend time learning how to climbrock in complete safty. Which was where everone was now. Cynthia file demostated how to properly climb rock and then the sudents were asked if they had any questions. Snack time was here before anyone knew it.

For sncks there were carrot stciks and cheese, luchmeeet and halvs of watermellon. Then everone layed down for a short nap. The final class of the day was another computer lab. Which everyone was looking forward too. This time the studends were asked to write anouther hello program without asking for help. And they were also taught about variables and conditional statements, Logical operators, relationaloperators. Things were comming at bud fast and furius now. But it was no challenge she hewas familiar with programming. "I am proud of you campers" Tommy said at the way the absorbed the inforamtion so quickly. Soon the would be readin Ready source code and making their own programs. Dinner was a welcome reprieve from the learning of computer lab. It wasa long day and everyone was tired.

Dinner was served at 5:30 exactly. It was, chicken, potatoes, bread, butter, salad, for desert canned peaches. Free time was up next and everone ran and jumped. Some sat and read on their computer or wrote programs. Then bed time arrived and the lights went out. Most of the campers slept well. The camp had begun. The was a lot of fun to be had yet to come at camp software

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"Rise and shine" said Tommy Teletype. You have a half an hour to get ready for breakfas so get to it. So Bud got up and went to the shower area to take his moring show. Then he hurried back to his quansit hut to meet up with his roommates and head off to the picnic tables for breakfast.

The morinings meal consised to oatmean with orange juce or grape juice, ham, eggs, bacon and sausages, or vegan sausage. There was also soy milk available to drink.

Next came the exciting walk around the camp grounds. It was a beautiful sunny day with the birds chirping and some mist in amoung the trees. It was a day from a painting it was so gorgeous. Bud was in good shape. He always exercised at home anychance he got. So this was not a challenge for him. He walked the trail looking at all the wild flowers that were native to computer city. The big tall redwood try particulary fascinated him whith their huge branches and green leaves. Oh, the bark was beautiful. He wished his parents had a back yard big enough to plant redwood trees so he could sit underthen in the head and dream of far off galaxys. The was one incident on of the other campers slipped an scraped his knee. After tommy determined that the scape was not serious thehike continued. They stayed sitting at the lake for about 10 minutes watching the buirds bath themselves flapping their wings in the water. Bud had never seen anything like it. The arrived back at the camp area at 8:55am with plenty of time to get read for computer lab.

Computer lab is what every camper looked forward too. Afer all the camp was name camp software. Each camper was given a number which corrisponded to a number on a laptop that the were to use for the duration of the summer camp. The compuers were loaded withall the software and course material that were needed for computer lab. Bud was exstatic when he found his laptop and took his seat at the table.

The campers were not to turn on their computer until Mr. teletype gave the ok. So Bud waited patiently for the other campers to get their computers and get situated. Finally Tommy gave the ok and every one turned on their computers. The were greeted with what one normally sees when a computeris turned on. The found folders full of PDFs on their desktops; the course material. The computer programming langauge that they were using was called Sundial; an easy to learn programming language that let you focus on the design or your program without worring about about syntax. Ready was another star computer innovation. Cynthia file mission wast to get evey kid who wanted to program a chance at their dream. So compute stated and PDFs open the class was ready to begin.

"Ok campers lets write our first program" Mr. teletype said. "Type show "Hello world" just like I have here on the board" said tommy. "Nextopen your command prompt and change the directory to where you saved the code file". "Then type ready "name of file".rd into the command prompt and you sould see the greeting "Hello world", good job campers" Tommy said". "You made your first program. The read of thatfirst computer lab was taken up by tommy explaining what he was going to teach over the ffour week compute lab course.

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Sid and bud exited the car and headed to the administration office. And after the paper work was finised they were directed to the quansit huts, they were not far from the administration office; a five minute walk. After arriving at the main camp area they were greeted by Tommy teletype the camp cansoler and founderof software summer camp.

Tommy teletype was less interesting than his name would suggest. He was 35 years old, divorced three times, had a highschool education thoughhe had made numerous attemps at college. The camp was he last ditch effort to makesome impact on the world. For careers he had tried farming, programming, welding, truck driving. He had failed at every think he had ever tried except the computer programming. And that is what inspired him to open the camp because that was the only thing he was good at.

He borrowed money from his parents so that he could buy the land the camp was on. And had a friend who worked construction build thecamp sleeping area and the picnic benches; which were the eading area. The year was 1990 when he opened and now it was 1996 and he had payed off his parents and owned the camp outright. The camp was a modest success and Tommy was happy for the first time in his life because he owned something he was proud of. He had helped hundreds of campers become software programmers. Though he stil had not found someoneto spend the rest of his life with he was content. If he found a wife good if not he had the camp.

After sid and Bud had met tommy, sid took his leave and sidwas happy to be on his own. A four year old all grown up at summer camp. The firstthing tommy did was have the campers sit at the picnic benches and take roll call.As he called roll and as he called each name and he would as the camper to tell the other children all little about him/herself.

After roll call Tommy would lay out how each day of the month long camp would go. 7:00am wakeup, 7:30 breakfastat the picnic tables, 8:15am walk around the cammp grounds, 9:00am computer lab atat the picnic tables, 11:00am crafting, 12:15pm lunch, 1:00pm rock climbing course, 215 light snack and nap time, 3:00pm computer lab, 5:45 dinner, 6:30 free time until bed time, 9:00pm bed time. Once a week there was a creative writing class. Also once a week there was movie night. It was going to be a busy month for the campers full of learning and fun.

But that first day the campers would get to know each other and the next day the work stated. Bud was happy as ever. A new placeto explore and new friends to make, new computer programming techniques to learn. He was so excited he wore himself out and slept great that night. He was up brightand early read for the new day the next morning as the bugle made its sound signaling that the campers needed to rise and shine their day had begun and in a sense so much more had begun.

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Buds first year of school passed without incident. On the last day of kindergarten he was up early because he could not wait to get dressed and get to school. The last day of the shool year was always graudation day for the kids at computer city kindergarten. After a quick breakfast of a grapefruit and orange juice Harriet and bud rushed off to school. Harriet was filled with as much excitement as bud was. wow, I keept writing sid when I ment bud. An author should know the name of his main character don't you think. Oh, well. The rushed to shool and were whisked inside.

Sophia care had brought cupcakes and gifts for her students. The cupcakes were chocolate with chocolate chip frosting and sprinkes on top and the gifts were diplomas and cand bars. The graduation was a simple affair. The children where in there best clothes and sat in front of the classroom in a half circle and the parents sat facing them. Mrs care would call a student and he or shewould walk to the podium to receive the gifts and then go back to their chair. Itlasted about fourty-five minutes and there was not a dry eye in the shool when itwas over. The kids cried because they would have to be away from their friends for a summer the parents because their little ones were getting older and older andsoon in a mere twelve years the would be all grown up. After the graduation endedthe parents and sudends mingled and said their goodbyes "see you next fall" they said to each other. Mrs. care sood at the podium and said how proud she was of each of her students and how much they had grown over the nine months of the shcoolyear and how sure she was that they all would enjoy the first gade. They all got in their cars and drove off but, not before mrs care greeted them at the door to say a personal goodbye. And it was back to the routine that they had before goingoff to their first year of school, summer camps, sleep overs, birthday parties, family get togethers.

As soone as Harriet and bud arrived home with sid and harriet 3 following right beind them in sids car harriet told bud to start packing for summer camp. The camp he was scheduled to attend was called SoftWare summercamp. It is a camp for kids that want to be computer programmers. At the camp thetaught web design, software design, coding, It was a full ciriculum. Sure to keepbored kids buys for hours a day. Bud could not wait to go. He did not a long waitfor summer camp because it stated the next day after school ended. Camp software as it was affectionatly know by the kids was on the outskirst of computer city ner book city. It was located in a wooded area with lots of wildflowers for the kids to watch out their windows wile the were inside learn how to program a computer. Sid and bud set off early the next morning for the half and hour car ride to camp software. They admired all the cars on the rould and could not get over the sigth off cows and sheep just a few minutes from their home in computer city. In not time the were dringing into the parking lot of the camp. Out the stepped from the car and off to the camp office they went on a beutiful summer day on the outskitrs of computer city. What majestic tress their were blowing in the breese, the animals making there chirping noised and the children walking around.

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The day started with gardeing in the greenhouse where Mrs care taught the children how to grow their own vegtables. She taught them how to grow: lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, minature fruit tress, rice, grains, corn, beans, and their own pumpkins to carve for halloween. Sid was delighted to learn about plants. He tookto the soil like a fish out of water.

Next came computer lab which was no big deal to sid since he had been using computers for years already before he goto kindergarten. The computer lab was a wonderful with state of the art computer and printers. The first day the kids made their applicays for t-shirts that Mrs care supplied. Oh, the shirts looked great.

Then came Math a subject that sid was so excited about he loved it even more than gardening. Addition, subtraction, multuplication, division, real numbers, fractions, whole numbers. Math was an a whole world of discovery for sid an he could not wait to master math.

Reading was the next subject. Sid was a great fan of reading because that allowed him to learn about his favorite subject math. He read science, history, art history, mathbooks, textbooks, anything that interested him really.

Writing was the nextsubject on deck. Sid adored writing because it allowed him to put anthing he wanted on paper. His thoughts with no holding back or judgement from anyone else. He was allowed to be himself with the paper and the words. He was able to express himself more fully on paper than he ever could have expressed in words. He bacame relaxed and confident when writing.

And for the final subject of the day ok,it was really not a subject but, it was fun, swimming. Sid struggled with swimming because he preffered land to water. Though he enjoyed the cool water after a long hot day doing school work he just was not comfortable in it.

So with theschool day done Mrs care led the kids to the door and out of the school to wait for the parents to pick up their kids. Harriet was surprised when she saw that sidwas joyful and energetic when she came to pick him up at kindergarten. She asked Mrs, care how her son had been today. "Oh, he was a good young man" said Mrs care. "Thats good to hear" said harriet and the two women said their goodbyes. Sid and harriet hoped into the family van. They chatted about their days as harriet drove them home. "Your sister missed you" said harriet. "she kept asking where you were and when you would be comming home" harriet said. "I am glad to hear that shemissed me "sid said. And so the conversation went until they finally arived home just in time for sid's favorite T.V. show, computerman.

Computer Man is a T.V. show where a guy goes into viewers houses looking for vintage computer equipment and always makes surprising finds. He talks about the history of the computerequipment that he finds. The is fascinating to sid as he adores computers. Sid once watched a marathon of Computer Man show on the fourth of July weekend and he had a ball. He did not always like his computer but, he found the subject of the history of computer hardware fascinating.

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Bud was four years old so he went to kindergarten unlike most of the childrenhis age who were starting preschool. Bud was not a gread student but, his parents decided that he needed to be challenged so they decdied to skip preschool.

The computer chity kindergarten as it was called is a enormous red brick building on computer city drive. Complete with computer lab, indoor swimming pool, greeh house dinning room, and state of the art classroom. There was only one kindergarten teacher and her name was Sophia Care. She was the shool because she taught every class from swimming to gardening to computer lab. School lasted from 7:30am until 2:30pm there were no half days of school even for kindergardeners. The courses were: writing, reading, computer lab, math, and a particular favoriteof the students finger painting. This was all to get the kids of computer city off to a fast start in life getting them ready for the world outside of the school walls. The courses were challenging but, not overwelming. It was a top of the line kindergarten to say the least which is really saying a lot.

Before his first day of bud cried all night long because he could not bear the thought ofbeing away from his mother for hours at a time, but harriet resurred him that everything would be ok and he would make friends and have many adventrues at school. Which bud reluctently accepted. So the next moring at breakfast he ate oatmeal, scrambled eggs, cheese, toast and orange juice. He brushed his teeth and at 7:10am Harriet called him to the door to take him for his first day of kindergarten. Harriet had a camera because she wanted to capture every moment of buds first day of school. She snapped photos furiously. Bud had on his favorite blue shirt with brown cordory pants and red shoes. Harriet thought he looked adorable. Harriet said "Come on bud its time to go to school so get in the car and buckle up."

And they were off on the 10 minuite ride that would take them to computer city kindergarten. Harriet drove fast yet under the speed limit. The pulled up in font of the kindergarten at 7:22am just in time for school. Since this was buds first day she accompanyied him into the shool to meet his teacher and some of the parents. Sophia greated the both warmly and introducted bud to several ofthe children and she she chatted with Harriet for several minutes. Telling her that most of the children cry and are anxious the night before their fist day of shool but quickly come to enjoy school. Whith tears in his eyes bud said goodbyeto his mother and hello to an new chapter in his life. "Goodbye morther" bud said one last time before her car pulled out of the parking lot and on to the freeway.

So bud was all set for his day to begin and the class sat in their chairs in the scool room Mrs. care said "Alright class take your seats and be quietits time for the day to begin". And with that buds school career had begun.

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On his 4th birtday he had no party because his parents thought they were spoiling him with all the attention and presents. Instead his parents gave the moneythey would have spent on presents to computer city hospital and they asked otherpeople to instead of sending gifts to send donations to computer city hospital

Bud took it all in stride, he did not mind not having a birthday. So on hisspcial day he decided he wanted to shoot hoops and play video games. The old hyperdrive video game console was in great shape and ready for a marathon playing seson of spaceship pilot.

But had beaten spaceship piolet many times and now he was on the extrasuper hard mode which was extrasuper hard. The rescuing of stranded crews of ships and the dodging of enemies never got old to bud. It was as exciting for him to play now as the day he got the games as a birthday gitf

After the basketball and video game playing bud decided to watch a new movie that he thought he might like. Snail mailman 3. Snail mailman was the lastestsuper hero. A man dedicated to protectecting the public from the dangers of electronic email man and his evil minions.

Email man was a relatively new evilvillian. He threatened to overwhelm the citizens of computer city with unwantedand unneeded mail so the he could take over the city. He wore a blue shirt with orange pants and green shoes. So not only was he a bad man he was was an even badder dresser and I mean that in a bad way not good way. He had sever people who helped him in his evail plan.

It was snail mail mans job to keep the snail mail moving so that the people of computer city would not resort to using email and thus become swamped in work and primed for email man to take over computer city. It was a tough task for snail mailman he had to clear the road of roadblocks set up buy emailman and his minions, repair roads that were damaged, fix mailboxes, replace missing mailboxes, pumpgas for the mail trucks that he also had torepair. So it was a good thing that he could hop like a rabbit and wore a powderblue jump suit. He had to do all the work of 100 men because computer city did not wish to support snailmail anymore becuase some of email mans minions were on the city council and got the funding for snail mail revoked. But email main could not take over the city because of snail mailmans effort.

Snail mail man was a huge success at computer city cinema. It was the number one grossing fiim for six weeks from june to mid-july. And bud could tell why it was an action packed film from beginning to end. Bud favorite scene was when email man laster beamed a pot hole in the pavement and sail mailman arrived just in time to fill thepot hole just before the unsuspecting mail truck driver drove in it. And the daywas saved for a minute or two anyway.

It was not buds most memorable birthdays but, it was ok. Its was a special day and he had had fun. He could not waituntill next year and the resumption of his grand birthday parties and being the center of computer citys attention. Bud was at his best when he was the center of attention.

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For buds 3rd birthday party bud went to the moon. One on his new hyperdrive vidogame console not in the real world. The game I am refering to is called spaceship piolet and the object of the game is to deliver mining equipment to a colony on the moon which if deliver will save earth from the metal shortages of the 22nd century. But before the piolet delivers the equipment to the moon he must dodge enemy space craft, asteroids, and rescue injured spaceship crews that are other ships that earth has sent out to send equipment to other mining colonies on mars and jupiter.

Bud enjoyed the game so much that he begged his parents to get him a program that would allow him to make games so they got him the barkinterpreter. The bark programming langauge was easy to learn but, hard to use. It took him 2 years of continuous effort to finally make the computer games he solonged to make. But, he was rewarded for his patience in the end with mediocre vvideo games. Which he did not feel ashamed of makeing since he was only 5 years old at the time. He was proud of himself for his hard work and dedication of theyears to get to the point where he could make a medicre game.

The birtday cake was a made to look like a giant videogame console. A star video game console which was a big hint of what his big gift was going to be for this years birthday party. it had yellow frosting with blue icing for all the buttons and disk drive and fins for the cooling fan and tasted great. Bud ate 4pieces of cake befre retiring to his mini lunger to player space piolet on his new hypedrive videogame console. Which he palyed for hours and hours without saying goodby to his party guests but, he did not care he was having to much fun to say anthing to anyone.

As sid and harriet were memebers of the upper crust in computer city invitations to buds birthday parties were as coveted as tickets to the computer city opera; one of the world best operas and always soldout years in advance. People waited anxiously as buds bithday came near to see if the would be one of the select people allowed to attend one of the most amazing social ocasions of the compter city social calendar. Those who did not makethe cut could always hope for next year if they suck up to the longIntegers enough. People who were lucky enough to attend talked about the birthday parites for weeks on end after the coveted occasion. Bud was oblivious to all of this because he was 3 years old but, also because to him his parents were mon and dad and not the leaders of the computer city elite.

So anouther wonderful birthday party was finished and everyone one could not wait for the next on so that they could she what the longIntegers had in store for there son.

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For buds second birthday pary he went in a hot air baloon. He was only 2 years old so his parents did not want the baloon to leave the ground so the just let bud sit in the basket and crawl around telling him that he was flying, bud was believeing no of it but, he did his best to act like he thought he was in the air flying. And his parents had a birthday cake made that looked like a hot air baloon. Bud did not particularly show an interest in flying so who know why his parents went to all the trouble with the hot air balooned themed birthday party. Bud adored cake so he had a lot of that hot air baloon cake. And wow, it looked as good as it tasted. It had a red and yellow hot air baloon sponge cake suspended over a chocolate chip frosted pound cake for the basket.

His favorite present was a mimi basketball hoop, you know one of the ones that can be hooked to the back of a chair, or door. It had a spongy orange basket ball thatglowed in the dark. He was still to young to shoot but by his third birthday he would shoot forminutes at a time he was so mesmorized by that little orange ball swishing through the hoop when it was perfectly shot. By the age of three he was reguraly able to slam dunk when the basketball hoop was hooked to the back of a chair. He had vertical leep. Later in life he was a huge basket ball fan but, for now he did not like watching the game he just liked playing it.

Sids parents were worried that bud might get spoiled so that decide to buck the tradition of celebrating half birthdays when bud was 2 and a half years old. There had been a long tradition ofthe longIntergers celebrating their childrens half birthday from the age of 2 to 18 and a half.When the were believed to be to old for the traditon.

Buds second year was uneventful except for the arrival of Harriet 3, his sister. Harriet had a difficult pragnancy so she decided that Harriet 3 would ber her last child. Two was enough as she saw it but, sid wanted more to which she said find you can have more childer but, you will have to carry them for nine months and then give birth. To which sid said "you know, you are right harried 2 is the perfect amount of childer". He never mentioned about more children again. Harriet 3 was the opposite of bud. She was lould; crying all the time. She broke buds toys. She refused to sit still and by 7 months of age was outside playing in the grass watching the birds while bud and his mother watched hockey but, later she did join the for an hour of hockey watching before she went to bed at 9:00pm just like bud because she wanted to be like her older borther so bad.

The relation ship between siblings was great except for some jelousy on buds part when harriet 3 first came home from the hospital. She was taking away his mother attention and he mildly disliked her for tibut, those feeling ended quickly as he adored his new sister. Though they did have their disagreements. but those ocassion were rare. For instance over buds 220 star computer. She like bud liked computer but, she was a great computer user she knew the computers like the back of her own hand. So anyway the ofen would fight for time on the computer whith bud always pulling the itts my computer so I can use it and you can, which was true it was his computer but, harriet 3 rresented him for not letting him use it as much as she like but, she did get to use it. She wasa fenom she as I just said she was an above average computer user. Which made bud jelous. So ends year 2

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Bud's other big interst besides hockey was like every kid's in computer city is computers. Sid and Harriet started bud road to the adoration of all things computer early by buing him a Star computer for his first birthday.

Star computer was then as it is now one of the biggest cmputer manufacturer in computer cith. Its line of computer span from the 220 model to the 1032 model. The 220 isa toy computer made for childer. While the 1032 is a model with all the bells and whisles for an expert computer user. All star computer run the galaxy operating system. Star computer refers to the galaxy as an operating sytem that opens up a whole new world for the novice to expert computer user. The name of the operating system says it all.

Star was founded in the early 1970's by Cynthia Files. A woman who knew assembly langauge like it was her first language. She had a strange habit of never remembering what day of the week it was, she always though it was Friday. She would code for hours at a time not paying attention to whatwas going on around her she enjoyed writing computer programs so much.

Like bud's cyntia's love of all things computer started early and by the time she was out of high shool she had witten millions of lines of assembly code and and started Star computer company. She decided to go to the best college in computer city, Computer university. Where she majored in computer science and welding. She graduated with only average grades because she worked to hard on coding, Star and restoring her collection of cars. She was more concerned with a love of learning than a love for good grades. After college she concentrated on star computers almost full time.

Cynthia lived alone prefering the company of hercomper and her bloved assembly language to a husband and family life. She also lived with sparkles her adorable andmiled mannered cat. Cyntia might have lived alone and spent long hours coding on her computer and then welding outback in autoshop but, she enjoyed the time alone cynthia did not dislake the company of people far from it she had manyfriends including the longIntegers. She enjoyed her work. And it showed.

With star being a top company and releasing its the 200 and 1032 compers. Its first attempt at the consumer market. Start had sold strictly to business with large supeer computers for 20 years before deciding with the growing market for personal computer to take the leapand start making mini computers.

Bud's 220 model was a birthday present from Cynthia File. And buy squeak withglee when he saw the shiny new to computer. He banged aways at the keyboard and marveled at the things moving on thescreen. He could not walk yet, write yet and lets be honest he could not use 220 yet. It would be 2 more years beroehe started showing signs of being and average compuer user with a love computer even though he in later life also hated his computer for all the time and attention it soaked upand gave him precious little in return. So cold and unfelling and uncaring his computer was. He showed frome an early age cynthia files love of computing but he did not have cyntias total and complete joy at being in front of his computer all day.

But at his birthday party he had experenced no of this just the joy of having his family around and his shiny now thing that he got in a big box warped inthe paper with the computer on it.

And so his love of the computer began

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Chapter 1

Bud "byte" longInteger was born June 14, 1992 at conpter city hospital to sid and harriet longInteger. He was the first bor of two children. The other child being Harriet longInteger the 3. Who was born at the same hospital exactly 3 years later on June 14, 1995. The daughter Harriet her mother had always wanted

Sid was born on an island named wafer island. His parents were sid and helga longInteger. He was an only child and had a good yet uneventfull childhood.

Harriet parents are Rodger and Kim Wafer. Her father Rodger is a direct descendent of the founder of wafer island Quincy wafer. Harriets childhood was filledwith toys and love but, she saw her parents little growning up. As Rodger and kim were focused on there careers and their duties as members of Wafer islands most prominent familes. Still she adored her parents

Yes bud came from a long line of interesting people.

The home of sid and harriet was a mansion affectionatly know as stroage. It contained mamy, many room including bud nursery. The nursery was painted ligh green with white trim and grey capeting with red velvet window coverings. The room contained a white crib with a changing table. Bud was always a good seeper and slept through the night and wouldnot be awoken by even the loudest noise.

Bud's routine as an infant consisted of getting up at 6:00am when his mother would bottel feed him. sleep for another 3 hours until 9:00am when his mother would bottel feed him again. Then sit in his bassinet watching the maid fold laundry and make lunch for the house hold. After a lunch, which consisted of creamed carrots and milk, he would fall fast asleep until 3:00pm when he would be fed again.

From 3:00pm he would stay awake until bedtime whih was 9:00. During those house between 3:00pm and 9:00pm he would sit and watch the the rabits in the yard from the font window, watch the maid prepare dinner wich consisted of creamed bannana and coconut milk. After dinner he watched hockey with his mother harriet until he was to tired and was put in his crib at approximetly 9:00pm. when he would sleep all night and be ready for the next day.

Sometime when bud was still wide awake at his bed time Harriet would allow him to stay up untill 10:00pm watching hockey with her but, those were rare occasions. Later in life hockey would become an obsession for bud. He adored everyting about the game he and his mother loved.

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Introduction to my fiction novel

This is my novel about a fictional character name bud "byte" longInteger. He lives alone with his poodle address bus in computer city. He is 25 years old and had decided to live the rest of his life as a batchler. 

I want to write a page a day for over a year for a total of 365 pages for my novel. I don't know if I wll make that goal but, its worth a try. I hope to describe everything about buds life. Things he likes, where he lives, his past, his present, his future. Any thing I can think of about bud to write about that I find interesting. I can think of enough to write about. I want to get to the first chaper so that why the introduction is short. 

                                               Acknowledgement 

I want to think one person in particular who is solely responsible for the publication of this book on his blog. Myself. I want to thank myself for the time and patience that I have had with myself that have allowed me to attempt to write this book. Thank you for everything you did, myself. Myself you rock. Thank you again. 

      

             The book is called Bud "bytes" longIntegers best years

I am glad no one reads my blog

Because if my blog got a lot of hits I would feel bad for wasting peoples time. I don't write anything that would help anyone. I just like to write and writing a blog is scary because people might read what I write and that's why I wan't to write the blog so I am not scared to write when someone might read it and to have a chance to write more so I can get better at writing. I don't know how long it will take me to become a better writer but ever word I write will get me closer to becoming a better one.

Write for me was like programming. I wanted to write but, I never wrote and never became a better writer. And now I write everyday. I suppose I thought that someday I would become a better write magically without ever having to write a word. And that will never happen.

I suppose it was when I saw a segment on a show I don't recall the name of now about Nora Roberts and I believe she said she writes 6 to 8 hours a day and that inspired me. I thought I want to put that much effort into something and see what happens.

I have the most fun writing fiction. I like that I can dream up what ever I want. Humankind traveling on spaceships. Its so fun and it makes me more relaxed. So I think I will write fiction on this blog as well as other posts about programming and what ever else I want to write about. After all I don't have any readers to who care what I write about. Which is good because I have the freedom to write about what ever I want to.