“But what about the cloud”

“Its gone, you blew it up, the relative humidity sensors noticed a .0001% increase in moisture and are making the adjustment.”

Kyle shook his head in a futile attempt to gain clarity. “So I’ve been running around here like a madman for the last twenty minutes, and all I really needed to do was come up her and press a button?”

“It wasn’t that simple, what do you think I was doing with that wrench, peeling bananas?” Kyle first met Bjorn this morning but was pretty sure Bjorn was merely feigning emotional injury. So he laughed and was heartened to see that was the right decision.

“Well, what about damage control? What if someone saw the cloud?” Kyle tried to keep his tone as nonchalant and conversational as he could. His blood pressure had come back down to normal, but he was still not completely at ease.

“Nah, not very likely, the cloud was still out over the ocean, it wouldn’t have cast a shadow until the afternoon.”

“But couldn’t someone, you know, just looked up and seen it?”

“How often did you look up at the sky before you came here?”

“What does that have to do with anything?”

“It has everything to do with everything.” If Bjorn were getting fed up with Kyle’s neurosis, he was doing a good job of hiding it. He was sounding downright chummy actually. “You see, people just don’t think about the weather, they don’t worry about it, they take it for granted and they just don’t look up at the sky. A hundred thousand years of programming erased with three generations of perfect weather.”

Kyle had his doubts about that theory, but he was more interested in the last thing Bjorn said. “Who are we to say what perfect weather is?”

“That’s not my department. I’d have thought you’d know more about that than I do.” Bjorn replied matter-of-factly.

“Well, they do teach us a little bit about the history of it all. Did you know that originally the April showers were originally programmed as a 66.6% chance of rain in April, but they had to change it to a set two days on one day off after they had ten straight days of rain and suicides went up by a factor of 100.”

“No shit? Wonder what the odds of that happening were”

“Once in every 21.2 years” He got a weird look from Bjorn and got defensive. “What, I’m good at numbers, there had to be some reason for me to be here right?”