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Woke up at 5:55 because cats. Got up, gave them dry food (should probably do wet but I can feed dry in the dark), looked at phone. 2 out of 3 morning emails had come in. #3 doesn't normally come in until 6:05. Went back to bed.

Woke up at 7:11. #3 had not arrived.

Called boss, worked w/boss to isolate problem, called other person after boss & I couldn't fix problem. Other person got fix under way. Took shower, headed for office.

I'm in now & have been for a while but let's just say this is the kind of morning where I feel justified in having both a big damn Starbucks coffee and a bagel with caffeinated peanut butter on it. And putting Music Bee on 'genre: epic' rather than 'genre: ambient' or 'genre: space'.

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yfghr.

Been studying for the Cisco 100-101 CCCNA Routing and Switching exam. 'Protocol' no longer looks like a word.

I'm comin' back to the study book at lunch.

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Apparently the Fallout Bible 5 indicated that penguins were extinct in the Fallout universe, but that the status of hippos and elephants was unknown. Normally I try to use material from the Fallout Bibles (interviews with the developers/programmers/etc., mostly) for background material where I can, but I had not thought to search for the status of either penguins or hippos before this, because really, why would you.

I am now debating whether to go back and edit the OOM that mentioned penguins or not. I am mightily entertained by the image of the Camden Aquarium/Philadelphia Zoo's most incongruous wildlife having survived and wound up on the menu- my original plan for the post-nuke penguins- but I have a few other species I can put in the same space instead. The alternative is, FOB5 came out in 2002, and a lot of other Fallout material from that time frame was invalidated when the license got sold to Bethesda, so either the extinct status of penguins can be invalidated as well or it can be said that the only places any penguin species survived were all in areas no one ever expected and therefore did not think about.

Third alternative is, reassign the meaning of 'penguin'. I haven't mentioned anything about them in a culinary context yet so I can just as easily say 'there's things in the river that aren't penguins' was referring to some kind of funerary practice involving dumping the corpses of nuns and/or Pittsburgh sports fans into the Schuykill. I kind of like that one.


.... look, just- if you ever had the idea that you might want a look inside my brain, you probably ought to reassess that, okay? I'm just sayin'.