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Sat Aug 6 08:03:43 EDT 2016 Slept from around 12:30 until 7:30 without waking. Sunny. High of eighty-four. Goals: - Grocery Done. - Clean a bit Done. Cleaned the kitchen, vacuumed, watered plants, tidied up one or two minor things. - Laundry? Or maybe tomorrow. - Read a book https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights_by_Bosch_High_Resolution.jpg Fixed crontab with new weather URL: - 30 * * * * curl -s http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/KVLL.TXT > ~/.weathercurl + 30 * * * * curl -s http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/decoded/KVLL.TXT > ~/.weathercurl Nice post about how much during a convention time slot (roughly four hours): http://deltasdnd.blogspot.com/2016/07/tournament-coverage.html Delta points out that the tournament maps from the A-series for 1980 Gen Con cover around 9--15 rooms. He also cites a write-up of play through the G-series at Origins 1978, where the winning teams covered 6--12 rooms. Those accounts and others support a typical range of 6--12 rooms in a session, with a mode of maybe seven or eight rooms. Watched Event Horizon on Netflix. Good. Nice ghost ship trope, with strong Lovecraftian elements. The final act could have been stronger. Stopped at Home Depot to buy stuff to fix dad's patio door, but they were out of the kind of handle I was looking for. Breakfast: coffee with half-and-half Lunch: lasagna and spinach Dinner:

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