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Mon Jul 9 09:17:21 EDT 2018 Slept from eleven to seven. Woke briefly around five. High of ninety-one today and sunny. Work: - Review invoices Done. Twenty-minute walk at lunch. Hot, but with a breeze providing some relief. Home: - D&D stuff Done. - Go to bed early Done. Ten-minute walk after work. Still hot. Finished a few minor chores. Ha. Something today reminded me of the web comic Wigu (Jeffrey J. Rowland). I went back and re-read a bunch of them. https://iverly.com/scary/ https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/puzzle-jugs > Multiple holes or spouts opened up onto hollow chambers with liquid inside them, and drinkers would have to plug some of them to prevent spills. But how did it work? Antiques expert Robert Aronson noted that “the hollow handle … forms a siphon from the lower body,” but the suction from the hollow handle was “broken by a small hole beneath the top of the handle.” That secret hole was the most important of all; hidden away from public view, that was the one the drinker had to cover “in order to create the vacuum that allows him to suck the liquid from the jug up through the handle, around the rim and out through the one functioning nozzle.” Lunch: coffee, gyro wrap Dinner:

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