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Fri Dec 2 08:35:20 EST 2016 Slept from around midnight to five. The power went out last night a little after eleven. It came back on around six. Got to work early, and stopped at Starbucks on my way in. Work: - Meet with benefits person Done. - Work on maintenance emergency watchdog Done. Clever idea. Have a dual-boot Windows/Linux box, but also have a linux VM in Windows pointing to the linux partition. Boot to linux or spin the same machine up as a VM from Windows (although spinning a Windows VM up in linux interests me more). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13088755. Twenty minute walk at lunch. Cloudy and cool, but not too bad. Home: - Make a list of monster abilities from MM and M&T Done (started). - Go to bed early Done. Got an email from Jake today. Nice to hear from him. Can this possibly be true? > Intervision, the 70s Soviet answer to the Eurovision Song Contest, was judge by electricity grid voting: “those watching at home had to turn their lights on when they liked a song and off when they didn’t, with data from the electricity network then being used to allocate points.” https://blog.insureandgo.com/cultures-and-traditions/2014/05/intervision-song-contest-the-soviet-unions-answer-to-eurovision http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/short-film-showcase/these-men-love-extraordinarily-dull-things Tired. Changed sheets and towels. Breakfast: latte, sausage and egg sandwich Lunch: salad, caffe mocha Dinner: Philly cheesesteak, fries

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