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Police Station: Wednesday

Dale was up to his ears in paperwork and convention planning activities. Add to that the power outage and you had a very busy day indeed.

However thanks to Dale's earlier disaster planning sessions with Renee, the office was currently with power and heat due to the timely purchase of a power generator.

And more importantly was the new coffee machine. The one that was being installed right now by the finest coffee machine installers available. It was big. It was shiny. It had a coffee grinder built onto the side for the freshest and most precise grind possible. It also allowed you to brew three coffee pots at the same time.

He even had one brewer set up to brew only "bad" coffee and was labeled as such.

And on the other side of the coffee machine was an M&M dispenser.

Dale had stopped all his paperwork and convention planning just to enjoy the sight of such a beautiful and wonderful machine.

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"Bless, there's heat!" was all Daisy could remark when she got into work that morning (quite early, thank you, to make up for the delay that had her late yesterday). Her sigh was a sigh of great relief, accompanied with a surge of thinking how much she loved her job.

Dale looked like a boy on Christmas morning.

"Yes! And look!" he said pointing at the coffee machine. "It's here! It's here!"

"What's he--" Daisy blinked, and then the fact that Coop looked about ready to explode with something that she might actually describe as pure and unabashed joy caught up with her, so she didn't even need to follow his pointing to guess what he was talking about. "Oh! The new machine?"

"Yes! Just look at it!" he said in pure geeky joy. "I even set it up so it so one brewer makes bad coffee for you."

Daisy arched an eyebrow, trying to keep her amusement down to a very professional level and thinking that no one could poke fun at her for getting excited over silly things after this. "Really?" she asked, shucking off her coat before heading over to check it out, and, when she did, there was no holding back her laugh. "And M&Ms for Kowalski! Boy, Coop, we must have been doing real good lately."

Either that, or he'd just gone crazy in the elation of the new machine and, come tomorrow, will realize the horror of what he was allowing.

Dale would never poke fun about people being silly over little things.

He's silly over too many little things.

"Well we have the finest small town police force," Dale said, So I thought it was important to reward us as such."

He looked at Daisy and grinned. "Daisy? I'm going to tell you a little secret about life. It's important for you to find a way to reward yourself every day. It can be a new shirt. Maybe a small catnap in the office. A cup of black coffee. And every once and a while you should splurge."

He caressed the coffee machine. "And you can get yourself a beauty like this."

Really, Daisy couldn't agree more with a philosophy like that, but when it came to caressing the coffee machine, it got a little weird, and she couldn't help wondering if Coop's girl knew that he felt this strongly about a machine.

To each their own, though. Daisy nodded amicably, choking down her any very unprofessional reactions, most of which just included a lot of laughing.

"Absolutely, sir. I couldn't agree more. I'm sure she'll help us get through any problems with the blizzard and the power outages quite nicely."

And that was just what Dale needed to snap out of it.

"Right. Power outages,' Dale said getting back to business. "We're going to need to have the troops do extra patrols until the power comes back on and make sure that everyone who needs it gets shelter and/or heat. I don't expect any crimes to happen with the cold so we're just making sure everyone stays safe."

Daisy nodded a little. She rubbed her hands together just a bit to work out some of the cold from the walk over and went to getting herself a cup of coffee. "At least," she noted, "we haven't got to worry about any traffic related incidents."

"Yes, I doubt the rickshaws will be out today," Dale said. "Also I haven't been able to get a timeline on when the power should be back on so we should probably prepare for the worst."

"The worst?" Daisy asked, dumping quite a lot of sugar into her coffee. She, of course, had her own ideas of what the worst would entail, but she felt it would be good to know Coop's version of the worst.

"Extended period of power being down for five to seven days," Dale replied. "Luckily refrigeration shouldn't be a huge problem so food should be okay. We may want to contact the Red Cross about portable generators, firewood, blankets and additional medicine."

Daisy couldn't help smiling as she stirred in her cream. Straight out of the books, that one. Her version included a lot more people going panic-y, but she liked Coop's answer an awful lot. "Want me to get right on that when I get to my desk? The Red Cross bit?" Soon as she settled in and had a sip, she knew she'd be all about getting focused and helping.

"That would take a huge load off my plate," Dale said looking grateful. "Especially as I need to check with the Arms hotel regarding the convention this weekend."

"I'm on it," Daisy assured him with a nod. "And, that's right. If all this keeps up, you think it'll be postpones, or will it be a matter of persevering through thick and thin..."

She paused, glancing toward the window. "And lots and lots of snow."

"We'll keep an eye on the weather," Dale said also glancing at the window. "So far the weather seems to be only related to this island. If flights are not affected on the mainland it may go on. Anything you are working on that should be on my mental radar?"

"What, you mean for the conference, or just in general?"

"Any, all or none of the above," Dale said cheerfully.

"Nothing in particular," Daisy admitted, a little ruefully. "I spent Monday entering in some data about all the funny phone calls; tried a hand at encrypting them so that maybe we could trace what caused it, but the whole thing was unlike anything I've ever seen before. Did you...want...something for the conference?"

"Well I did call you to suggest hosting a topic with Ray about senseless violence however according to the agenda it looks like that topic has already been taken," Dale said with a touch of regret. "I'm afraid that phone call was probably lost."

"I'd offer to try and trace where it went to," said Daisy, "but, well...at least whatever that interference was didn't stick around too long."

"I probably should have warned you about that as well," Dale said with a sigh. "Same incident occurred on the island twice before. Should have realized the issue might crop up once again."

Daisy grinned a little. "No harm, no foul. I think everyone sort of realized what had happened, and no great domestic blowouts occurred, although I hear quite a few people were a little perturbed at the time of. Besides, it was really something, trying to encrypt all that. It was like a foreign language! It was fascinating. I haven't got to deal with anything like that in my area for a while, so, even though it was hopeless, it was kind of a treat."

"You know Daisy," Dale said thoughtfully. "One thing you might consider doing if you miss some of your old area expertise is to take on a Summer Workshop that they do at the school. I did one the other summer and it was quite a pleasurable experience."

"What, you mean, teach something on it?"

"Exactly," Dale said. "I spent one summer term giving students an Accelerated Scouting program. I dare say it was fun for all of us involved."

Except for Mr. Sheppard and his unfortunate dislike of scouting uniforms.

"I'm....not sure that's a very good idea, sir," Daisy said, frowning slightly. "You know that a significant percentage of fraud cases, especially with computer technology, are done by adolescents, right? I'm all for encouraging people toward proper training and into the police force, sir, but teaching a course on how to do some of these things is just opening the door for trouble."

"Perhaps," Dale said. "But then again would you rather have the kids learn these skills and be improperly trained on the responsibilities that come with those skills?

"Being improperly trained," Daisy pointed out, "makes them easier to catch."

Dale chuckled. "Well, Daisy I'll have to bow to your judgement. My experience with computers are no where near yours. Especially when it comes to fraud and piracy."

"I'd probably be rubbish at teaching, anyway," Daisy offered.

"Somehow Daisy, I think you'd be wrong about that," Dale said cheerfully. "But that's just my opinion."

"Yeah, well," Daisy eyed Coop with a grin, "we'll just have to leave that one to unsolved mysteries, because we'll never find out."

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