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Sat Aug 11 14:31:26 EDT 2018 Slept form two to eight. Meant to go back to sleep, but spent several hours playing games on the iPad (mostly Card Crawl). High of eighty-five and partly sunny today. Goals: - Download Toyota manuals Done. - Touch-up Zerapis doc, add metal/swords-and-sorcery "Cerberus" god section (maybe called "The Hound of the Dead" or just "The Hound") Took a short walk around sunset. It had rained earlier, and felt cooler. Pink-orange and purple-gray sunset. Me paraphrasing Patrick Stuart paraphrasing Melan [Gabor Lux] and Bryce Lynch: do very traditional things, but carve the sheen of irony and familiarity off them, and present them with intensity and vividness, as if new. That was a way of thinking about them, creating a sense of newness — activation in the brain, where you wake up and think, "something's really happening now, I need to be awake and pay attention." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus#Principal_sources > Euphorion of Chalcis (3rd century BC) describes Cerberus as having multiple snake tails, and eyes that flashed, like sparks from a blacksmith's forge, or the volcaninc Mount Etna.[101] From Euphorion, also comes the first mention of a story which told that at Heraclea Pontica, where Cerberus was brought out of the underworld, by Heracles, Cerberus "vomited bile" from which the poisonous aconite plant grew up. Lunch: carrots, coffee, pierogies Dinner: chips, ice cream

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