001. [@m.murdock : video]

[trustinthedevil]

[The camera is pretty evenly focused. The man sitting on the screen is less so - even behind his glasses it's obvious that, while he's looking at the tablet, he's not really looking at it. In fact, it's almost as if he accidentally pressed 'video' and meant instead to go for 'audio' - which is a likely scenario, honestly.

Matt will learn what to press and when over time.]

I think I've got my floor mapped out, and a little bit of the surrounding area. I'm not really sure if the 'welcome to Riverview' video shows the layout of the place. A lot of you are probably a lot more familiar with things than I am already.

[A pause as he smiles, ducking his head to laugh and shrug. He doesn't really realize that everyone can see that.]

I don't mind exploring but I'd hate to get lost a few days out of the gate. If anyone's free to show me around, it would be appreciated. I'm a quick learner once I get a feel for things. I promise I'm very independent.

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[mrterrific]

I know it's not what you were asking for, but I figure since you've already got a lot of tour guides, I might offer something else. Is that rude? Hopefully that's not rude. But, uh, anyway... if you want me to look at your phone sometime and see if I can get you set up with some kinda automatic text-to-speech program, so you don't have to mess with it anytime there's a text post or group email or whatever, it might save you a little bit of time down the road.

[trustinthedevil]

You would do that for a complete stranger?

[Matt does seem a bit surprised by it. Maybe he's just gotten used to people around him being stand-offish, and, well, he's never really bothered asking anyone for anything like it. Siri did it well enough but that was never very perfect, either.]

Thank you. That would be amazing.

[mrterrific]

Making technology to help people is what I do. Or, I mean, it's what I did back home. Here I'm just working in the gym.

I'm Curtis, by the way. And now we're not complete strangers, so that settles that.

Just stop by Floor 5 sometime and I'll see what I can do.

[trustinthedevil]

I'm Matt. Thanks for the offer, Curtis. I'm sure I'll take you up on it.

[mrterrific]

Awesome!