Status Updates From Artemis

Work book.

She successfully welds steel to the smelter. I think they’re trying to make it overheat and blow up? She meets back up with Dale and they’re starting to leave when she turns back and sees Loretta Sanchez in a mask and goggles. She didn’t evacuate. She’ll die when the smelter blows up. Jazz is going to save her probs? Ends chapter 14 on a cliffhanger sort of

Funny parts!

“Don’t forget your breather mask,” said Dad. “I know, I know.” I’d completely forgotten.

Jazz released chlorine gas to evacuate all the workers out the factory. Duct taped her goggles and mask to make it an air tight seal. “So now I was a mud-covered freak with random shit taped to my face.”

Cool system

“If there's a breach in the outer hull, the compartment's air will leak out to the vacuum outside. But if there's a breach in the inner hull, the compartment will be flooded with higher-pressure air from inside the bubble. It's an elegant system. If the compartment pressure goes down, you know there's a leak in the outer hull. If it goes up, you know there's a leak in the inner hull.”

Initially was really hard for me to visualize what the fuck they’re doing. But basically they created a makeshift airlock by welding some tunnel material. Then cutting a hole in the wall (but there’s two hulls and a bunch of crushed rock in between) to get inside the factory where the smelter is without getting noticed. I feel like all the noise would get people’s attention though??

Dale calls Jazz a “pedantic little shit”

Pedantic — excessively concerned with minor details or rules

“Tomorrow, his daughter's life would rely on the quality of these welds. It slowly dawned on me that, to him, this was the most critical project he'd ever done. He would accept nothing short of his absolute best. And if that meant taking all day, so be it.

The job should have taken forty-five minutes, but Dad spent three and a half hours on it. My father loves me 366 percent more than he loves anything else.”

Jazz crashed at Svoboda’s, aw. He def likes her. He gave her the bed! She rounds up the gang: dad, Dale, Bob, Svoboda, and Lene Landvik. She wants Lene to take over Sanchez Aluminum after Jazz stops the oxygen production. It won’t be profitable anymore so the mobsters will want out (but ZAFO is so profitable so this doesn’t really make sense). They agree so their home doesn’t degenerate into syndicate rule

"¿Puedes dejar de quejarte mientras me matan?"

sufriendo de la grimilla que me está dando el autor a través de su ÚNICO personaje femenino medianamente (por decir algo) desarrollado, casualmente la prota