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Sun Jan 6 10:04:43 EST 2019
Slept from one to nine.
High of thirty-six and partly cloudy today.
Goals:
- Meet Ed at Griffin Claw at 1 PM
Done.
Had a nice lunch with Ed.
Twenty-minute walk in the afternoon.
So strange to have blue skies, unexpectedly warm temperatures, and no snow on the ground so far into January.
And not just that there's no snow now — I can't remember when we've had more than a thin, fleeting half-inch of snow.
Worked a bit more on my Victorian poets introduction.
Chatted with Jay and Ed on Signal for a while in the evening.
Watched a little anime.
Chatted with Angus King and (briefly) Bardaree (who I played with in an IRL con game at U-Con) in the club (MBC) on Discord.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryAnecdotes/comments/ad6if4/napoleon_was_a_terrible_shot_and_his_wife_kept/
> Featuring an aviary, a botanical hothouse for exotic plants, a summer pavilion, a tower, a ‘temple of love’, vineyard and fields adjoining the Seine, the Malmaison estate grew to three hundred acres of gardens, woods and fields, and a magnificent collection of statuary.
> Josephine also kept there a menagerie of kangaroos, emus, flying squirrels, gazelles, ostriches, llamas and a cockatoo that had only one word (‘Bonaparte’) which it repeated incessantly. She would occasionally invite a female orang-utan dressed in a white chemise to eat turnips among her guests at table. Napoleon brought back gazelles from Egypt, to which he would occasionally give snuff. ‘They were very fond of tobacco,’ recalled his private secretary, ‘and would empty the snuffbox in a minute, without appearing any the worse for it.’
Servings: grains 0/6, fruit 3/4, vegetables 3/4, dairy 0/2, meat 2/3, nuts 0/0.5
Breakfast: cucumber, tomato, carrots, orange, banana, two eggs, coffee
Lunch: two beers, onion rings, apple
Dinner: more beer, pizza
138/87
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