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Mon Aug 22 08:23:11 EDT 2016 Slept from eleven-something to after seven. Woke briefly around 3:30 AM. Sunny. High of seventy-eight. Goals: Work: - Test emergency call system Done. It's pretty much working. - Increase rent of remodels Done. Twenty minute walk at lunch. Saw a dragonfly, a butterfly, and one of those blackish flying grasshoppers that were so numerous last year. Heard cicadas. It's nice out --- mostly sunny, and not excessively hot. Home: - Work on D&D mini rules No. I forgot to mention yesterday: Kate announced she's expecting. http://kottke.org/16/08/visual-references-to-70s80s-movies-in-stranger-things Man, Stranger Things is such a potent brew of the pop culture of my childhood. While watching it, I didn't pick up on how directly Eleven maps to ET. Hit dice by size: 2 Camel 2 Crocodile 2 Horse, riding 3 Horse, draft 5 Lion 5 Grizzly bear 6 Polar bear 6 Tiger 6 Killer whale 6 Rhinoceros, normal 7 Cave bear (short-faced bear?) 8 Smilodon 8 Rhinoceros, woolly 9 Elephant 15 Mastodon 20 Tyrannosaurus rex 36 Sperm whale (In fact, a mastodon was smaller than a modern African elephant. Some species of mammoths were larger, but only by perhaps 25%.) http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/m/mammut.html Spent a few minutes before bed resuming my C refresher studies with Kalicharan's Data Structures in C, which is thus far frustratingly rife with typos. Breakfast: spinach, yogurt, coffee Lunch: raw nuts Dinner: Tubby's sub and fries

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