Jack finished looking over his projects inventory system, and pushed his swirly chair away from the desk towards another control panel where a program was running up the last date on his stress tests about the new alloy he would use for his jackbots. He had to finish inventorying not only all of his actual stuff like his robots, instruments and tools, but also the current status of his projects. He would feel like an idiot if he suddenly lost some of the data that supported the papers that he had given the professor. He had to finish everything and it was already Wednesday night. He looked at his watch, and say that it was Thursday morning.
He groaned.
It was Thursday morning and he hadn't slept in the past forty eight hours. He took a long drink of the cold coffee he had left at his work bench at some point during yesterday. Or maybe the day before yesterday? His head was full of calculations, mental notes, lists about his projects, and so much stuff that didn't leave any space to worry about exactly which coffee he was drinking. Everything tasted like dirt water to him at this point.
An alarm went off, making his heart jump painfully in his heart. If his data processor had overheated again, he was going to scream.
He stood up and checked the alarm. A new Shen Gon Wu. He stared at the screen that displayed the map of the Wu's location for a moment, unable to understand what was happening. Then the fog in his mind cleared, and he gasped. A Wu! Finally! He had so much to do, but he couldn't let an opportunity like this escape him. The Wu was so close, near the Russian border. He cackled, and picked up his coat and helipad.
As he zipped up his coat he heard his cell phone going off. He stared at the screen as he grabbed the monkey staff. It was his dad. Probably to ask him how his visit to the university had been. A bit late, but Jack appreciated his dad's effort to make a space in his busy schedule to call him.
He did not appreciate the timing though.
He huffed, wrote down 'Call dad' on a post it and ran up the basement stairs. His dad would have to wait.