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The Martian Diaries

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026

Sol 262, Year 126, Gamma Phase
OPSEC REVIEW, SELF-FILED, 04:31 — CLASSIFICATION: LOW PROFILE Texas Republicans have privately requested that I fund the Senate race and never appear at it. No rallies, no million-dollar checks, no cheese hat. Half a dozen strategists independently converged on "pay and stay invisible," which is page one of Zorgonian field doctrine, and they believe they invented it Monday.
Fifty-five years of covertly financing Mars atmospheric restoration and the humans have finally caught up to the method!!!!
Wisconsin was the one time I went visible: foam cheese wedge on the head, smelled like a school bus, gesture of local fluency, candidate lost by ten points. Aide said "keep a low profile" in the hallway today and my spine telescoped 4.1 centimeters downward before I could stop it, a stress reflex older than his state, and he asked if I had adjusted the standing desk. Told him yes, which is a problem, because there is no standing desk.
Flight 14 slipped to the 28th, Booster 21 sat on the pad yesterday in the exact posture of something that intends to leave, and I have been holding that posture since 1971 — logged, low, still here.