It was called the Ulam Spiral, sometimes the Prime Spiral, but the people who thought about it as just about "prime numbers" were missing the point. But of course, none of them had actually been out here, in the endless grey sea where the numbers went on forever. A dark, sometimes choppy, sometimes smooth sea where numbers weren't quantities, but just patterns, and where everything was so still, and so silent. But where there were still patterns. I like to come out here, and travel around the numbers. I don't see the numbers, though, just their patterns.

It was called the prime spiral, because Stanislaw Ulam showed it to Martin Gardner, and if you take 1 as the origin, and you see the numbers spinning off in a spiral like this:

                        543
                        612
                        789

"Pacific Coast High Speed Rail" is the general term for proposed High Speed Rail lines through the Pacific Coast states of Washington, Oregon and California. Depending on the plan, it can even extend to Vancouver, British Columbia and Tijuana, Mexico. One of the main ideas of connecting California and the Pacific Northwest by High Speed Rail is that both areas are population dense, "high tech" areas and that it makes sense for people to zip between San Francisco and Portland at 200+ mph so we

Went onto base to get our military IDs renewed. I didn't know we were doing this today; I left my wallet, and my ID.

We had a set appointment time, so Dad told me I'll just have to say it's lost. That means a fine. gulp.

We drive to the block house, unload, and walk in. Uh-oh; DEERS and the other system is down. They can't replace our ID anyways.

On the drive back home, mom gets a call from a number of all 1s and labelled, "Spam Risk". Unlike most scammers,