Explanations

GAH!!! I thought I would die.

Why?

No internet.

Stupid hackers.

Winter (crazy, awesome person that she is) took me to camp with her. Camp Cyber, to be exact. It's her boarding house/commune where she lives with others of her ilk. Hackers mostly, with a few robot-building geeks in there along for the ride.

Anyways, we get there, and then the whole place is blacked out by a stupid electrical storm. Like, a real Florida storm with winds and rains and weather alerts. I thought we were all going to die.

But we didn't, obviously. Though being caught in Camp Cyber with thirty Internet- deprived computer geeks is almost as bad.

So what happened? Simple: one of the hackers decided to test a new worm. Winter, actually. Apparently her specialty is "nanites", named for the robots on Star Trek The Next Generation. She invented them- they're worms that do things. Like look for data or fix system bugs. And then they vanish from the system by "dying out", or erasing themselves. But Winter decides to hack into the power grid and transfer power from another sector to our residence, and somehow by doing this she wrecks the Wi-Fi. And hey presto! No Internet.

Needless to say, everyone was very unhappy with Winter.

I haven't done anything Gerard-related, mostly because I got an email from Sylvia about how my parents found out I ran off. She suggested I lay low, and I followed her advice.

Oh, yeah- I met this really great guy! His name's Ice (another alias, of course) and he builds cambots (camera-equipped robots). And he likes Mystery Science Theater 3000. So when Winter's working (she's one of the few with an actual job- she works with Geek Squad), I'll hang out with him.

Hopefully I can return to the chase soon, but until then, it's farewell from Camp Cyber!!

~Stacie