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PJ's got this plan to track ogre movements in the hills behind the complex. I'm not going to pretend and write it down very well because it's pretty high tech stuff and that his thing. Basically it's old cell phones wrapped in plastic sandwich bags and tied to tent stakes. We're going to put these in the dirt at various places over the hill. And he's got the phones prepared somehow so that if something big gets near to one of them, like an ogre, then it's going to somehow signal us about that. So that's kind of neat. But the phones have to be close enough to each other to make it work, so we have to pick our spots carefully. PJ calls it a mush network. Or mesh, I forget. As a side benefit, he thinks we can use all this to somehow boost cell tower signal which is barely gettable from the top of the hill, down into our complex. Which is also kind of neat, if it works.
And I drop by his place and he shoves at me this big tub of about 15 of these baggie-phone-stakes, and tells me to go dig them in. He's kind of in a hurry because apparently he just got invited to go do "magic" with some elfs. And on his way out the door he's yelling over his shoulder back to me, something like, "oh, and redefine the window power word on those down to 60 from 80, they'll last longer, just put in colon pow 60 semicolon enter and flash the block. It's easy." And then he's gone. Uh, okay whatever. 80 is going to have to do.