“Howdy partner. What? can’t sleep?”

Keith said with a smile on his face. Sort of like someone talking to a dog. He was excited to see someone else, it almost didn’t matter what he said. 

“I uh.”

“Oh let me get you a cup. It’s uh decaf well sort of so you...

Pete didn't drink coffee anymore. Mostly diet soda, it was the cheapest to get in the house. With all the screens the energy usage was high. Just then his mind jumped to an old friend, then back to what he was watching. A video montage his wife made, although were...

Up there he was just Pete. Sometimes Petey, sometimes cappuccino Pete. Although just to the barista. He was an older guy had left his job before working in  Spacecity and just wanted to do something different. He was always friendly. Pete liked that, you didn't always get that. he'd just...

There was time before all of this. When Pete was more involved. He’d tell or told his partner once, but she didn’t listen. Most of the time when they were together she watched her own videos. Not that they were about her but it was the ones curated for her....

There was a protocol for that though, or people wrote about these things. So it wasn't like he was the first gooner to feel this way. They called it part of the journey, and if he was ever going to make it the goon state. He'd have to be more...

Other people didn’t believe that Pete spent all of his time like this. Jack and Sean Don didn’t at least. They’d heard about it, that some people would spend their time watching others. They knew the cameras were up, they didn’t know that their area was one of the most...

People online sometimes called this a goon out. It was sort of like a crash out of the olden days, a panic attack or something. The goon out was more like you've become aware of the real world, while losing sight of what you were watching. It happens to everyone...

Sean Don went down the street again. This time he stopped at the dinner parking lot again. He thought maybe he miscalculated. He thought about going left instead. 

His gas gauge read full still. Which was nice he thought. He had recently that you should try to notice these things....

Sean had also a selfish streak about him. It wasn't always, but at a perceived slight. The problem with this is that in the right frame of mind, there could always be this. 

In the case of Jack walking back home from the airport there wasn't this in the same...

Sean Don got it sometimes. It was a combination of a burst of energy combined with the fact he didn't have much going on the next day. But he loved things like this. He really was having fun, trying to think like Jack going on and around the city. 

If...