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Sleep: 12:30am to 6am, 7am to 9am

Weather: clear, 75F, 69% humidity, high 83F

Daily BPAL: SUMMER SUMMONING SPECTACULAR
Description: Scorched baseball fields, black glots of incense, spilled coffee, and pancake residue.
In bottle: Syrup, coffee, and smoke.
On me: Coffee, smoke, and a sweet hint of pancake syrup.

Daily Tarot: 7 of Pentacles, Reversed: Impatience. Little gain after much work. Again, anxiety about a loan.

MyMiniCity: Increase Population
Increase Transportation
Increase Industry
Increase Security

Reading:
Myths of the Norsemen: from the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. Guerber
Letters by Pliny
City Adrift: New Orleans Before and After Katrina by Jenni Bergal, et al
The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman
The Undead Kama Sutra (Felix Gomez #3) by Mario Acevedo
The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread by Don Robertson

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Definitions

proscription: (n) 1. The action of proscribing a person, by declaring him or her to be condemned to death and confiscation of property; an instance of this; the condition or fact of being proscribed or outlawed; banishment, exile, outlawry.
2. Prohibition or interdiction by authority; exclusion or rejection by public order; the state of being so excluded; an instance of this. Also more generally: the action or an act of authoritatively forbidding or discountenancing something; prohibition; official disapprobation.
3. Exclusion from or rejection by society; the state or fact of being so excluded.



empressement: (n) Animated display of cordiality.



judicature: (n) 1. The action of judging; administration of justice by duly constituted courts; judicial process.
2. The office, function, or authority of a judge; a judge's term of office; also, the extent of the jurisdiction of the judge, and of the court in which he sits to render justice.
3. A body of judges or persons having judicial power; a court of justice; a legal tribunal, or such tribunals collectively.
4. Figuratively, mental judgement; formation or authoritative expression of opinion; criticism.
5. The quality of being judicial (as opposed to moral).



centumviral: (adj) Of or pertaining to the centumviri.



centumvir: (n) pl. centumviri: In Roman Antiquity: A body of judges appointed by the prætor to decide common causes among the Roman people. They were elected out of the thirty-five tribes, three from each tribe, which made the number one hundred and five, though for the sake of conciseness called ‘the Hundred Men’, which name they retained even when increased under the emperors to 180.



recidivist: One who relapses; especially one who habitually relapses into crime.



arbalest: (n) 1. A cross-bow, consisting of a steel bow fitted to a wooden shaft, furnished with special mechanism for drawing and letting slip the bowstring, and used for the discharge of arrows, bolts, stones, etc.
2. A soldier armed with an arbalest, a cross-bowman.
3. A mathematical instrument, called also a Jacob's staff, formerly used to take the altitude of stars.



shiksa: (n) In Jewish speech, a gentile girl.



win: (v) Scots and Northern Dialect: To dwell, reside.



lippen: (v) 1. To confide, rely, trust.
2. To entrust; Also, to trust (a person) with (a thing).
3. To expect with confidence.



whitterick: (n) Scots and Northern Dialect: A weasel; also, a stoat.



hogget: (n) 1. A young boar of the second year.
2. A yearling sheep;
3. A year-old colt.



dreich/dreigh: (n) 1. Long duration of space or time; length, distance, extent.
2. in phrase 'a-dreigh': at or to a distance, afar off;
3. Tediousness, annoyance.



tup: (n) 1. A male sheep; a ram.
2. Applied to a person, with condescension.
3. A pavier's mallet; The head of a forge-hammer or steam-hammer; The falling weight of a pile-engine.



pavier/pavior: (n) A person who lays paving. In later use sometimes: specifically (usually in form Pavior) a member of the Worshipful Company of Paviors, a livery company of the City of London.
2. A machine for ramming down paving stones.
3. A slab of stone or other material prepared for use as paving; a paving stone or paving tile. Also as a mass noun.