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[ritaxis]

2100+ words (so therefore 3 800+ for the chapter 32 000+ for the novel). Didn't accomplish what I thought I would, but I did accomplish something I wasn't sure how to: something important, too. Gave the reason for the Duke's relatives to dislike Yanek, and therefore a reason for the Duke to shelter him from the relatives. Got them to the country, got a few personality things straightened out. Got Sasha to demonstrate his social graces. Got some description of the godawful late winter landscape. Accidentally created a recurring character of a newsboy glimpsed from the car two chapters ago, by glimpsing him again on the way out of the city.

I am not Mr. Earbrass.

I don't have to go to work right now but I do have to clean: the furnace man is coming this morning (which is why I have a substitute for the morning). I have been reluctant to turn the thermostat even on because the furnace has as fr as I can recall never been cleaned. I'm not sure how long we've had it but it's more than ten years, I think. Yesterday one of my co-workers really needed to leave early for personal reasons and stayed later but still we couldn't get them out until more than two hours after they wanted to leave, because of a high number of children staying later.

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[ellarien]

I had three men come to look at my furnace yesterday! One was doing the work; I think the other two were just there to observe, because it's a domestic warm-air system and those aren't common in this part of the world. (I have Fahrenheit on my thermostat, in a country where that hasn't been in common use for thirty years at least; I'm not sure whether that's just because it's old, or because the system itself was originally an American import.)