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Passing Thoughts for the Week
Author: Measi
• Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

I have to be amused at the irony regarding my holiday card exchanges– I get involved with organized holiday card exchanges and am psyched to use up the cards that have been stored since last year. But somehow, I’m always short cards and wind up having to buy more… and have the same amount that end up sitting and being stored until the next year. And the cycle continues…

NaNoWriMo has crashed and burned for the year. I just got to 30,000 last Saturday. I simply don’t want to write any more. I’m done. *sigh* Too busy, too tired, too much stuff that I either want or need to get done, and I can’t justify sitting and slaving at the computer every night.

My undergrad sorority chapter put on a kickass informational tea on Sunday. Complete with a turkey dinner– made in an on-campus apartment. For over 20 people. They absolutely rock.

I colored my hair Sunday morning, using a new brand of haircolor, and I really like it. It came out in what I can only describe as a cinnamon-tinged blonde. A little darker than I normally do, but it’s really, REALLY shiny.

We’ll probably have snow for Thanksgiving. Whee…

Of all the nights to be waiting outside, the X-Box 360 buyers were complete geeks last night– it was raining. It was cold. It was miserable. But there were people camped outside the CompUSA in Warwick at 8 p.m. last night so they could be the first ones in the door at 9-something this morning. Erich, thankfully, is waiting until Halo 3 comes out to buy one.

I’m cooking Thanksgiving dinner in my own house for the first time on Thursday. That’s just such a weird thing to type, or to read.

Oh, I’m officially an owner of my house, as of last Wednesday. Erich went to the lawyer and signed the papers to add me to the deed.

I need to find an appropriate vessel to brine my turkey tomorrow night. The only thing I have that’s large enough is a keg tub. But that can’t fit into the fridge. Erich has suggested putting it out on the mudporch (which isn’t heated). But for some reason, that’s not sitting right with me.

As of Saturday, Noby weighs 4 pounds, 7 oz. Elly weighs 3 pounds, 15 oz. They’re getting big. :)

Out of sheer boredom last week, I put the cats up on Catster last week- Colley, Fizzy, Gus, Noby, Elly.

I totally need this weekend’s LAN party. Blowing up the world goodness. Or at least, I’ll do a lot of damage to myself and others with a rocket launcher.

Need. Coffee.

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Burning out a bit
Author: Measi
• Thursday, November 17th, 2005

I didn’t write anything for NaNo yesterday due to our World’s Largest Dungeon game (that lasted until nearly 1 a.m.– eep!) Tonight, I’m not finding much inspiration, either. It’s a bit frustrating, but I’d rather not force myself to try to come up with something and constantly stare at my wordcount.

I’m currently at 25,000 words. So I’m about a day off pace now– for the first time in a month. Given that Erich is having a D&D game with a couple of the guys on Saturday — one that I’m not involved in — I’ll have the entire afternoon to putter around up here in my office.

And we don’t have tickets for Harry Potter tomorrow night, which means we’ll probably be unable to see it until sometime next week due to the opening weekend insanity. So I have tomorrow night, too.

Part of the problem is that I have all of these little checklists of shit to get done. Not all of it is big stuff, but there are so many little things that I can’t justify sitting down and writing. My brain won’t shut up. Now that Thanksgiving and the LAN party is coming up, I’m prioritizing. Then Mom’s up on the 30th for a long weekend.

So I need to work the “need to do” vs. the “want to do” stuff carefully.

Holiday madness– gotta love it.

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Geek weekend
Author: Measi
• Monday, November 14th, 2005

But first… a NaNo update…

NaNoWriMo is going quite well this year. I’m happy. As of this morning, I have just over 22,200 words. I didn’t write yesterday due to a fubsy brain, but I’m still on pace to finish on time. I’m going to strive for two days of 2,000 words (my daily minimum wordcount… not the 1,666.6666 whatever that it actually divides out to), and try to get five days of 2,500 words.

Wednesday is a definite 2,000 word day because it’s World’s Largest Dungeon night. The entire evening will essentially be taken over by gaming. I’ll have to do some scribbling throughout the day in little 200 word bursts, I suppose.

But yeah. This thing has absolutely no plot. And the busty lesbian pirate ninjas will make an appearance just for the hell of it sometime this week to shake things up. This year’s “novel?” Heh… plot? We don’t need no stinkin’ plots…

——-

The weekend was busy but generally a good time. We spent almost all of Saturday up at Battleground for their 3rd anniversary celebration. We sampled several games throughout the day, including Warhammer Fantasy and D&D Mini’s. The minis were the huge hit of the day, and almost everyone bought several packs. I was honestly surprised how addictive it was. Plus, we can always use the minis for our D&D games. During battles, we do use charts. Erich invested big money into getting gridded porcelain dry-erase boards for it.

I did tuck myself into a back corner of the gaming store for an hour to do some NaNo’ing. I managed to crank out 2,000 words in just over an hour. I then told Derek the floor of the shop has good writing chi. :)

The other thing that I did for the first time was paint a mini at the shop. I’ve always been intimidated by the detail on the metal minis we generally use for gaming, and didn’t want to invest in the paints. But I can see the appeal. It was quite relaxing. If I weren’t so invested in stitching, I could see myself getting paints and setting up shop in our basement, where we have a huge rec room table that the previous owner left us for random project work. My mini is a bit awkward, of course, but there’s that sentimental “first time” thing about it, so I’ll use it with pride.

Erich bought a new computer on Saturday after his desktop’s processor decided to kill itself on Friday night. It had been at least three years since he’d upgraded the thing, and by the time he started pulling some upgrade numbers in his head, he realized he’d probably be better off just getting a new one– and one that’s under a store warranty. So far, he really likes his new one.

My desktop is now sitting quietly on a shelf at CompUSA in Warwick, waiting for the correct motherboard so it can be replaced… again. I’m hoping to have my computer back for the LAN party after Thanksgiving. I miss my ‘puter.

On Sunday, we took advantage of the beautiful weather and caught up on some yardwork. Erich finished barrelling the undergrowth that we’d cut from all of the bushes a couple months ago (it’s been going out gradually). I raked and bagged leaves, now that they’ve finally started to fall. Part of me really wanted to just rake the entire yard into one huge pile and jump in it. But we were on a bit of a time crunch for the Patriots game, so instead I just raked and bagged. We still have three-fourths of the side yard to rake, so I’ll get that leaf pile together for next weekend.

I’ve never jumped in a leaf pile. My dad’s backyard is full of various evergreen trees (ponderosa pine and blue spruce– not exactly jumping material). The only leafing trees were cottonwoods, which were also not good jumping piles because there was always sticky sap from the cotton pods within the leaves that stuck to everything.

Our yard now is almost all maple trees. And there’s a ton of them. I’m pretty sure I could gather a fat chick sized pile. :)

But now I’m off to work. My boss is out through Thanksgiving, and Bigger Boss will only be here tomorrow and Wednesday, so I’m taking advantage of what I hope will be relative quiet to catch up and clean out.

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NaNo’ing to the weekend…
Author: Measi
• Friday, November 04th, 2005
Zokutou word meterZokutou word meter
8,215 / 50,000
(16.4%)

*stunned*

I’m getting there! :) So far, I’ve had two really, really good writing nights and one that kept on pace with the minimum words per day. According to my handy Excel spreadsheet, at this pace I’ll be done on the 19th.

By the way, if you have never seen said Excel spreadsheet, or just need a new copy, leave a message with your email address and I’ll send you it over the weekend. It’s a FANTASTIC NaNoWriMo tool. I’ve used it religiously for four years now. It really helps with getting my mind into the “okay, I need to push myself to this much today…” and then know where I can chill out and just write for the hell of writing.

I’m hoping to have two very, very good writing days this weekend so I can pad that wordcount even more. Ideally, I’d like to rack up around 7,000 more at least over the weekend so I don’t worry about days like the 16th when I know I won’t be writing due to our World’s Largest Dungeon game, or days like the LAN party on the Cape, where I’ll get some writing done, but can’t guarantee I’ll get a full day’s worth due to all of the fun distractions… like Ghost Recon and Unreal Tournament 2K4.

———-

We’re supposed to have a beautiful weekend weather-wise. It might reach 70 degrees tomorrow. The odd thing is that the leaves in lower Mass. and Rhode Island still haven’t really fallen from the trees. In fact, our trees are just now starting to get significant color. Mostly yellows right now, but we have one bush that’s a brilliant orange so far. Every morning I’m peeking out at our maple trees to see if they’re going to turn red. :)

Since it will be so nice, we’ll be getting a good deal of yardwork done this weekend. The grass needs a final mowing for the season to cut down the weeds, and we have a bunch of broken branches that we need to break up and bundle for trash pickup. We’ll probably get a couple bags of leaves raked up, too– but raking will most likely be a Thanksgiving week activity, judging by the progress of the leaves.

If my mom would bother sending home my camera, I might actually be able to take and post some pictures!

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Amazing!
Author: Measi
• Tuesday, November 01st, 2005

I can write about absolute crap with no end in sight! It’s November 1st. Looky here:

Zokutou word meterZokutou word meter
3,604 / 50,000
(7.2%)

*bounces*

Holy shit, how did this happen?

(and I have tomorrow OFF to stay home for our yearly furnace appointment!)

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Samhain and NaNo
Author: Measi
• Tuesday, November 01st, 2005

Apparently I live in THE neighborhood. You know– that cool neighborhood that all the kids hit for candy on Halloween? Not sure what’s up, but the kids were out in force last night. We went through about 7-8 pounds of candy between 6 p.m. and 8:30. I’d say we had somewhere between 120 and 150 kids.

Hot damn.

Around 6:45, the kittens were getting extremely rowdy and gave me a “shit, I don’t need to be herding cats while trying to give out candy” thought, so I decided to move myself outside. Our front door is kinda shitty for trick-or-treating anyway. We don’t really have a landing, so whenever kids came up, I’d have to ask them to step back down the stairs so I could swing the door open. Not good. It was an absolutely beautiful evening for trick-or-treating. Mid-50′s, no wind. Coats not required. I plunked my bruised witchy ass on the steps with my fake air-powered burning cauldron, the huge bowl of candy, a Biggie Diet from Wendy’s, and an old Time Life “Mysterious Places” hardback (hey… it was an appropriate theme), and just waited for the kids.

Adorable costume award goes to two sets of kids– one, a pair of twins dressed up in complimenting ladybug and bumble-bee costumes, complete with felt and fuzzy ball antennae. They couldn’t have been more than three. The other was a brother and sister pair in dinosaur costumes. But not any dinosaur costumes– these were bright, bright colored and poofy and made them look like living Puffalumps (remember those?). I almost melted. Sooo… cute.

I met our state senator last night, who was out – in costume – with his kids. While the kids did the few houses right around me, we chatted briefly. He seems like a very nice guy, and not overtly politician-ey at all. Lots of other parents welcomed me to the neighborhood last night, too. I don’t remember names, but I was amazed at how friendly everyone was. It really is one of those close-knit neighborhoods where people at least recognize one another and say hi. All ethnicities and religions blended together. Lots of adults waved to one another as they walked their kids around.

It was awesome. :)

By 8:30, it was all over. I took a bit of time to relax and stretch out before going to work on my computer for NaNoWriMo’s Young Writer’s Program. There is a backlog of students who need to get their accounts verified and activated, and despite the servers being obnoxiously slow with the NaNo kickoff, I did get some work done.

At midnight, I opened up a Word document and scribbled about 850 words in a half-hour. I’m playing with my co-worker’s idea to write about myself. I’m setting it up in a daily diary format, and will talk about different aspects of my pagan geek life. Doing it this way means that basically all of my entries that have any length to them (read: non-meme) can also be incorporated if I choose.

Like this one, for example.

So yes… I’m playing with an idea now. It definitely fits under the “No Plot, No Problem!” monkier, since I have no clue what kind of a plot I can pull out of this. But it’s writing, and it’s working for now. I’ll see where it leads.

Busty lesbian pirate ninjas may make an appearance by day 15 out of writing desperation.

If used, does anyone want to have one named in his/her honor? :)

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Novel planning
Author: Measi
• Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

It’s now less than a week to NaNoWriMo, and I’m still not quite sure that I have a solid place to start writing. I fully expect to be staring at the blinking cursor line for a while before anything gets on the page screen.

Monday morning’s timesheet entering doldrums sparked one idea that I’ve played with a bit in my mind– a woman is brought into a psych hospital (for an unknown reason, to be developed over the course of the book), and the story goes through the layers of self-discovery to figure out why she’s there, and how she needs to change.

It works– but can I get 50K out of it? Eh, not sure.

Then Miss Marya (of two other NaNo years) came knocking on my brain, asking if maybe I was up to explore her character a bit more. I told her yes, but not for NaNo. I want to work on developing her stories on a long-term basis and possibly develop them into something publishable. Her stories are moving into a someday, I’m going to publish this… realm, and I don’t want to screw around with it for NaNo.

Yesterday afternoon, one of my coworkers and I were talking about NaNo. I mentioned how I just needed to flesh out a couple characters to get myself going. If I put a somewhat fleshed out character in a room (or a park, or whatever) and just write about how they interact with the environment, it will get me started. I’m an environmental writer– I want to connect to how a character interacts. I’m fascinated by textures and shadows and being so pissed off that a person’s vision is blurry. So give me a good character, and I’ll make up a story about them…

Anyway, my coworker just stares at me and says (along these lines- not verbatim), “Mel… you really need to write yourself. Do you realize how different your life is compared to most of the stuff that’s out there on the market? Everything is about mothers and daughters and someone having some freaky incest trauma in their background. You’re a member of a subsect of a subculture that few people know much about (referring to being a female gamer geek, I suppose) and are involved in so many things that most people wouldn’t think twice about considering for themselves, but would find just fascinating. It’s so different than anything else out there right now. I give you two models for your characters– yourself and Erich. Discuss.”

And I blink.

And then I retort, “but I’m weird and abnormal.” (and thinking and boring)

“Exactly! Well, not really abnormal… different,” she says.

I ponder.

And ponder some more.

And have a small discussion about this weekend’s Forgotten Realms game with Erich.

And forget all about it until tonight.

Would I really want to write about myself? And honestly, would it really be that interesting? (or would it come out like entries in my blog usually do… boring as shit?)

*sigh*

There has to be ONE topic I can write about come next Tuesday…

Divine Intervention, please?

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Life updates
Author: Measi
• Friday, October 14th, 2005

Lots of things have been swirling lately, so I’m doing a rundown on what’s happening right now to clear my thoughts. Hopefully over the course of the weekend, I can actually come up with some writing on a particular topic. This will be a pretty long entry, I think.

WORK: I had a meeting on Wednesday with my boss (Linda) and my cross-site manager to discuss my job. Apparently my cross-site manager was convinced I was missing deadlines and not doing anything. Linda asked me to type up a list of everything I do, both on a regular and special project basis, and bring it with me so our cross-site manager could see how much I’m actually responsible for at the moment.

Two pages, single spaced. Approximately 80-90 things. Nah, I’m not busy. *rolls eyes*

Anyway, that meeting seemed to go well, despite the accusations that had been flying. Apparently I’m FINALLY going to have a backup admin. who will take half of the work– namely for the Art and Photo people, leaving me to really only have to focus on design. 45 people down to 21. My job will quite honestly start feeling like a cakewalk with this.

There’s also going to be a redistribution of duties and some fine-tuning on what systems are outdated now, so I can streamline my job for the rest of the time I’m here. Our cross-site manager agreed, once she saw the list, that there’s no way I can keep up, and that something needs to be done to help me get back on track. It’s partially my fault, but not completely– and she’s realizing that.

Good. Moving forward…

On Thursday afternoon, I met with the departmental head of Editorial Services, which focuses on copyediting and proofreading. I wanted her input on what avenues I should explore to get into editing so I can put this $100K+ Boston University journalism degree to some actual use. She gave me some very good leads– several, in fact, although she strongly recommended taking at least a couple of courses to brush up and get the updates on current grammar and editing rules and tighten up my skills. It was an extremely helpful meeting. And while it’s going to take some time to position myself in an editing job, I now have the direction to investigate. This is good. :)

So all in all, a tiring, emotionally draining, but fruitful week– especially after how last week ended.

CATS: The kittens are doing quite well. They’ve had a relapse of the eye gunk and sneezing. Poor Elly’s cheeks are a bit swollen. It’s been two weeks since they were off the antibiotics now, and it’s probable that they’ll need to return to them. We have them going in for their check-up and second deworming tomorrow afternoon. Med discussions will be done. Thankfully, despite the gunk relapse, they’re both running and playing like healthy kittens. So I’m not too concerned.

Oh, and both kittens sleep all night in bed with us, curled up and purring. We have a serious case of snuggle cats already. :)

HOUSE: The unstoppable rain this week has revealed a couple things to us. We do have some leaks in the garage roof, leaving us with a thin depth of standing water on the garage floor slab. There’s nothing out there to really get damaged at the moment (and we don’t park in the garage), so for the moment, we’re not doing anything. But roof repair, at least for the garage, is moving up a bit on our timetable, I think.

After three days of shivering because of the wet, Erich and I finally figured out our furnace. Engineers we are not. But the furnace is working (now), and we’re using occasional heat just to take the bite off of the chill from the dampness. Once it’s warm, the house holds the heat really well, despite having no insulation.

WRITING: I still don’t have a topic for NaNo this year. *sigh* Hopefully something will come to me in the next few days.

COMPUTER: Mine’s still sick. I’ve taken over Erich’s.

STITCHING: I have some SBQ’s to update this weekend. Still working on the Castle, although after last week, I just haven’t had the attention span to really do too much. I’m hoping to make a good push this weekend during the Pat’s game.

Thus is my life at the moment.

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It’s that time of year again…
Author: Measi
• Wednesday, September 28th, 2005

NaNoWriMo signups open this Saturday. Are you ready?

And no, I have no idea yet what I’m writing about. What else is new? Why on earth would I actually want to prepare for NaNo beforehand? I want to live every moment in sheer agony as the words simply refuse to flow through my fingers. Aaaarrrrgggg! In a sick way, I sort of enjoy the pain, honestly. I do my better writing under pressure when I know that a deadline is looming. Perhaps it’s the journalism major in me.

But honestly it won’t be that bad. I do have a few very small ideas floating around. Come Oct. 1st, I’ll start elaborating on them. But I do try to stick to the concept of NaNo– all of it in the month of November.

There’s a few changes in my participation role, too. Since I’ve moved out of Massachusetts, I can’t really be the Municipal Liason for Massachusetts: Elsewhere anymore. With the craziness so far this year, I wasn’t quite sure I wanted to jump into ML’ing in Rhode Island quite yet, either. By the end of November, I expect to be well on the marriage planning route. I’m so sick of being asked when the date is. So it really wouldn’t be a good idea to be trying to juggle all of that, PLUS work, plus the commute, and (now) plus two feisty kittens.

I still wanted to participate on a larger scale, though, so I contacted Erin to see if there would be another area that I could help out with. Erin has the incredibly insane job that I have termed “Municipal Liason Cat Herder.” I specifically mentioned possibly stepping in as a full-time forum moderator, since there was a mid-month plea last year for people who could help moderate forums. She really liked the idea.

Then on Monday, she contacted me again and mentioned she’d passed my name onto the leader of a new subsection of NaNoWriMo called the Young Authors Program for kids aged 12 and under, in case they possibly needed help. The project leader contacted me today to ask for help with the kid forums, which I excitedly accepted.

I’m looking forward to this year’s NaNoWriMo. A lot. I’ll write. I’ll be able to volunteer in a way that helps them out, but also is practical for me. All will be good.

So who’s joining me in the insanity? :)

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coffee is of no use to me
Author: Measi
• Friday, November 05th, 2004

Ever since the Red Sox beat the Yankees, I’ve been having a lot of trouble sleeping at night. I’ve been unusually “roamy” for lack of a better term. And I’m paying for it during the day. I’m surprised that I don’t have keyboard-shaped bruises on my forehead by now.

I’ve been trying to blow off a lot of it as partially being wrapped up in Red Sox fever, and partially because all of a sudden it’s really farking bright in my bedroom in the morning, thanks to the time change. But whatever it is, my body is just protesting in a huge way. Caffeine seems to no longer have any effect on me in the morning. By around two, I’m just dragging.

*sigh* I’m getting old, aren’t I? It’s that whole stereotype about older folks not sleeping as much. I’m getting that condition about 40 years too early.

Gah.

I’m letting myself go for one more week before I call the doctor about it. I’m also going to be monitoring and lessening (gradually) any caffeine intake in the evening. It’s never been a problem before… but again, maybe age has finally caught up to that habit, and I need to find another evening beverage of choice.

* ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ *

I got absolutely no writing done last night for NaNo. Thankfully, even though I’ve had two of these nights so far in the month (yes, I realize it’s day 5), the days padding them have been very productive 3,000 word days. So aside from yesterday, I’m right on track. I have the weekend to get caught up… and hopefully ahead.

I didn’t plan on not writing last night, but as often happens when I open AIM, I get to talking with someone for hours, and do nothing but chat. It’s odd how I can chat for HOURS on AIM, but try to rush off the phone with everyone. I just hate having that damned thing at my ear, I guess. I had a good chat with Ariestar and Myownwench last night covering a lot of different topics, including a fabulous rendition of an AOL community chat room. (have I mentioned how difficult it is to type improperly… on purpose?)

Anyway, I’m going over to their apartment tonight for some sorority alumni festivities. “Milk and cookies” will be served, to coin the phrase from my undergrad band days. Erich was going to come with me tomorrow, but now I’m not so sure– he’s battling a cold, and really should get some rest so he can celebrate Master Chiefmas properly on November 9th.

(Yes, my boyfriend is a geek and is taking vacation days for Halo 2.)

* ~ * ~ * ~ *

Tomorrow I have my first NaNo coffee chat. Somehow my brain mixed up my times– and what I thought was a noon start is actually a noon ending. It starts at 10 a.m. I’ll have to behave myself a bit this evening so I can get up for it. (and actually write tomorrow, since tonight’s undoubtedly a wash)

For what it’s worth– I’ve already decided that I won’t ML next year. Any move I’m making to put things together have been met with a “why can’t you do something in MY area! Why do I have to go THERE?” (do they realize that I’ll be driving all over the lower half of Massachusetts this month during the weekends to meet with THEM?!?) Dealing with the new site and its horrid layout is bad enough, but I just don’t have patience for the attitudes this year. Sorry… when I asked for contributions on recommended spots, I didn’t HEAR from you. I heard from others, and made recommendations based on those who expressed interest.

These people forget that we’re actually NaNo participants ourselves… and that we’re writing novels, too, and that we’re being ML’s because we love and support the project. And no, I’m not getting paid for being an ML, folks… I do this because I enjoy writing and enjoy the challenge.

So if you’re in NaNo, please be kind to your ML’s.

But yeah– next year, I shall be doing my writing sans meetup obligations. It’s too much of a headache to deal with.

Off to work… gotta get a lot of stupid stuff done, hopefully get an hour of writing in over lunch over at $tarbuck$, and then back to work…

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The counter is back
Author: Measi
• Monday, November 01st, 2004

And I’ve started writing.

This year I’m not going to be updating my NaNo journal– I couldn’t make it work for two years. I might reflect on it later after NaNo is done, but for the time being I just am going to concentrate on actually doing the writing and trying to be a good ML.

Plus, I am hoping this year to write something that I can actually work with and actually try to get published. Which means I can’t post it online anyway.

However, if anyone really wants to read the completely messy, disorganized rough draft at the end of November, just drop a line and I’ll be happy to send it to you– provided that you promise to give some suggestions for improvement (either tightening or expanding on scenes).

And for concept– I have returned to my main character from 2002 NaNo (Raven). Last year she kept thumping my head in November. Apparently she has a story to tell me. So this year I’m just going to let her talk and see how the words flow.

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