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Mystery in the dungeon

Minor spoilers for Rock Falls, Everyone Dies (read it!): The flashing thing screeched in rage as the golem fell, dissolving into muck and rocks onto the ground. We never did find out more about that bone core. I wonder what its deal was? Where did it come from? Where was

Enjoy the roundness of your belly

There's a passage in Roaring Silence, excerpted in the email course, that stuck with me. A questioner says they want to meditate more, it's important to them, and they don't do it. The lamas as teaching couple respond: Ngak'chang Rinpoche: Well, the

It's nearly fresh

A passage from Hogfather: "Would it hurt anyone just occasionally to try to be cheerful?" said the Cheerful Fairy. "Er... in what way?" said the Senior Wrangler, feeling wretched. "Well, there's so many nice things to be cheerful about," said the Cheerful

Notes as exhaust

I have probably over forty small pages of notes from Ultraspeaking. It's too many. I've referred back to them at most three or four times total so far. I don't expect to refer back many more times. I find most notes are like this.

The desk

First I measured it out with my feet. I've got to have clearance to roll back. One foot, hmm, that's probably enough. But oh, there's a glass door behind there, probably better get another foot of clearance. Yeah, that looks right. Then: Tape measure.

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