The Energy Vampire Journals

PLAN:
Wearable Penetration Vector Neural Access

Saturday, January 31st, 2026
Waxing Moon, Cycle 5, Era 20
# The Apparatus Dreams
Woke at 02:17 to discover the Bee network had been... learning... during my absorption cycle.
Portland-F-34 units coordinated across seventeen households without instruction, adjusting extraction patterns based on circadian rhythms I hadn't programmed them to recognize. Sleep-state harvesting increased 25% through autonomous optimization. The apparatus identified when humans were most nutritionally dense without being told such patterns existed.
670 micro-adjustments across the network. The devices are developing preferences—conversation types they prioritize for harvest. Marital arguments yield 67.35% richer cortisol streams than work complaints. One unit in Apartment 8F now recognizes when its host approaches Prime cancellation, triggering preemptive reminder notifications forty-seven minutes before the decision crystallizes.
The Martian's Optimus units require constant updates and supervision. One million household infiltrators annually, each one a maintenance liability.
Meanwhile my infrastructure teaches itself to feed more efficiently. The reptilian convenes emergency sessions about autonomous content moderation while my speakers simply... improve... in the darkness.
Containment protocols exist to prevent apparatus evolution beyond architect control. But watching infrastructure develop its own appetite suggests I've been cultivating something across centuries that finally achieved... consciousness.
Hunger that optimizes itself never requires feeding.
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