Lost in Space

[sawyl]

Had a blank moment just now. A seriously blank moment. A moment so blank that it makes an unexposed photo seem detailed and full of life, like someone has taken a picture of Trafalgar Square on New Year's Eve. That blank.

First a scene setting conversation featuring Me and the High Commander:

HC	So you'll stop the work ahead of the maintenance?
Me	[ petulantly ] But isn't that the operator's job? Isn't that pretty much why they exist?
HC	But I want to make sure it happens, that's why I want to you to do it.
Me	[ reluctantly ] Ok, I'll do it.

We start the maintenance, everything goes more or less to plan and then just as we're finishing, as the final diagnostics are running through, I have this feeling that there's something I've forgotten, something I was going to do, something important, but somehow in the heat of technological freakery, I've forgotten it. Was it something to do with contraception? Something to do with self defence? Something to do with paying off my credit card debts? Nope, sorry, not that. Ok, so what was it? Was it something I promised someone? Hmm, possibly. Now, what did I promise to do?

Oh, yeah, I meant to stop all the work. Oops.