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I'm pretty sure that one of my coworker cart pushers was fired today. The reason I say "pretty sure" is because there was an incident regarding a missing Ipad which he managed to obtain and had in his car when he was encountered about it by the police. He wasn't handcuffed, and the police ultimately did not arrest him or seem to file any charge against him. Immediately afterward, though, he was summoned to the manager's office and returned to say that nothing happened, but then quickly stated that such claim was a joke and that he was fired. After this, he also hung around the premises of the store for a while as opposed to leaving immediately. I had work to do, and he was busy talking with other people in the meantime, so I didn't take the time to ask for definite clarification. Being fired would seem to be a reasonable conclusion, but I didn't hear specific confirmation of it by him or anyone else. Oh well. I'm quite sure I'll find the truth out when I next return to work.

Draft.

18581022 11:36:19

HD-S-1180

"So have you made any plans for the founding anniversary yet?"
"This year? Nah. Well, nothing like last year at least. Last year was twenty. Twenty one's just one more. If anything I'll just be up at a few churches or something and maybe the hall to say a few words, I mean it's been a pretty good year overall so it wouldn't hurt to do it." After saying this, Daron's mind raced back to the farm. A generation ago was a blink. A generation ago, he would have been standing in the ocean where he now sat in his house.
"Fair enough. All these years and you still haven't quite acquired the taste for pageantry.' Frederic said this with a smiles as he came to realize that there were few if any residents yet in the town who would have had a flair for it.
"Oh, Freddy, one thing I wanted to make sure to discuss with you right away - it's about swords. Some folks I know are probably going to start using them pretty regularly. Are there any kind of books that you can think of about sword fighting? Like, real books, not stories."
"Daron, you amuse me. You realize that you're asking a French man if he knows anything about swordsmanship, do you not?"
"Yes, I do." Daron's response was flat and blunt and preceded a sigh. The words of condescension usually came several minutes into the conversation with Frederic, not immediately on the outset. He braced for the lecture. "Why does that mat-"
"Fencing is a deeply rooted sport within our culture, and has been for centuries. I do have to agree that the chivalry and sportsmanship behind fencing perfectly supplants our nature. There is an expansive amount of French literature on the subject, and I believe many books are supplied with illustrations which would facilitate the process of learning without the need for translation. In fact, in speaking of it now, I'm aware of a man who is a fine fencing instructor and hails from a storied lineage in respect of the art. His family and I lived in the same town years ago. Perhaps I can extend an offer to have him come here to instruct your pupils in the future. Hm. Would you be able to facilitate his living necessities for the duration as well as supply quarters for his living and training? It would be good to make the offer enticing."
"Uh yeah. That should be easy to do. How soon? Within a month?"
"Yes, at least. I'll be sending this home and demand a reply, and I would anticipate at least one more exchange before any kind of arrangement is settled. Come, let's go to your desk so that I may start writing this immediately."
The two men left from the front hosting room and proceeded to sit at the writing desk in a small room at the back of the house. Daron scratched a match to light a small candle at the top of the desk and set it alight to illuminate the area below. Frederic took up the feathered quill and spent fifteen minutes to carefully write the following:

Monsieur Charles Heathcote Angelo -

I entreat this letter to you as a fellow brother of our countrymen and as a former neighbor to you. Perhaps you may recall my parents as acquaintances. An opportunity has arisen from where I currently reside where there is a need to have a fencing instructor physically present, and I could not think of a person better suited to the task than yourself. This city is situated on the North American coast, but is independent of the surrounding country's domain. It is a newly developing city which has just recently added several square miles of open land which has yet to be tamed with structures of any kind. This means that it would be possible for you to freely state your demands for living and training quarters and have them fulfilled. The men you would be training, though not quite as lithe and diminutive in physical quality as persons like ourselves, would none the less be fully unadulterated to the sport of fencing and would be free to succumb to your direction. If it may aid to persuade and appeal to you, I can assure you that your status as fellow Frenchman in this city would be well respected and honored. Please do not hesitate to respond with any inquiry which you may immediately have in mind. I can assure you that these men are in need of rigorous training and I would like to see it happen by the time the frost departs for the year.

Your obedient servant,
Frederic Allange.

(note; 7 Charles Heathcote ANGELO b. 27.10.1834 d. 22.7.1918)

Today's song session was rather good overall. I had a clear of Act, which I thought hadn't happened before, but it turns out that it has. I also had a new increase for Flag of Peace, and I thought that I hadn't cleared that before, but I had, so I needed to hunt down the original pass score to paste that back into the log. Virtual Insanity has a high play count because that was a song that I had used to test the timing settings for the game a few times. I find it odd that Lax5 has 2300 notes in its chart but it feels much less painful and condensed than the quantity would suggest. Otherwise I'm appreciative of the variety of songs that came up today, between those mentioned and others like Elisha, On the Tube, and 大桟橋.

Lunar Beat. Extra Mode. Double play. "@" denotes Random chart modifier. All songs are of highest difficulty type unless specified.
First line, by column; song title, EX score percentage and letter grade rank, EX score value and pass/fail, judgment readout (just great, great, good, bad poor), highest combo reached, note count of chart under Extra Mode, original note count of chart, percentage increase of Extra Mode notes over original note count, timestamp.
Second line, by column; pass count / play count, EX score percentage difference from record, EX score value difference from record, judgment readout difference from record (if current play is new record), highest combo reached difference from record (if current play is new record), timestamp of old record (if currentl play is new record).

Code:

			EX% & Rank	EX.p/f	pg.gr.gd.bd.pr		combo	nc	onc	%+nc 	date
murmur twins @		44.30 D		1438.F	516.406.421.122.451	0072	1623			2013-09-16T23:54:00:000Z
0/5			09.55-		0310-

大桟橋 @			68.77 A		1264.P	495.274.113.18.58	0189	0919			2013-09-16T23:57:25:168Z
2/4			04.46-		0082-

CaptivAte2～覚醒～ B @	36.55 D		1327.F	467.393.460.235.725	0091	1815			2013-09-17T00:00:18:248Z
0/6			00.49-		0018-

radical faith A @	52.70 C		1463.F	538.387.283.53.291	0127	1388			2013-09-17T00:03:57:881Z
0/6			01.29-		0036-

君のハートにロックオン@	46.25 C		1702.F	583.536.452.84.504	0073	1840			2013-09-17T00:07:34:207Z
0/5			02.30-		0085-

diavolo @		39.83 D		1693.F	591.511.513.244.840	0088	2125			2013-09-17T00:12:34:496Z
0/8			01.50-		0064-

rugged ash A14 @	44.07 D		1087.F	396.295.288.110.417	0088	1233	0624	097.59	2013-09-17T00:15:29:144Z
0/7			02.87+		0071+	28+15+6+12-15-		0006+				2013-04-26T02:53:31:510Z

秩序の秋桜 @		24.27 E		2105.F	670.765.1105.585.2409	0017	4336			2013-09-17T00:20:37:487Z
0/6			00.36-		0032-

destiny sword @		53.17 C		1643.F	592.459.284.68.326	0096	1545			2013-09-17T00:23:11:792Z
0/11			01.65-		0051-

virtual insanity @	78.44 AA	0830.P	340.150.32.3.7		0217	0529			2013-09-17T00:28:34:439Z
14/14			00.94-		0010-

quickening @		69.78 A		1460.P	553.354.115.4.43	0135	1046	1044	0	2013-09-17T00:33:04:136Z
4/5			01.43+		0030+	5+20+24-2-4+		0074-				2013-01-17T04:15:18:816Z

on the tube @		64.10 B		1727.F	650.427.194.26.132	0541	1347	1149	017.23	2013-09-17T00:36:25:848Z
0/8			02.82+		0076+	41+6-6-10-27-		0039-				2013-04-04T04:29:53:796Z

道しるべ 1747 @		50.28 C		1757.F	609.539.321.136.411	0058	1747	0695	151.36	2013-09-17T00:42:24:840Z
0/5			01.60+		0056+	1+54+48-21+38+		0040-				2012-07-24T00:26:34:412Z

act @			69.51 A		1514.P	581.352.117.13.66	0316	1089			2013-09-17T00:45:47:719Z
2/5			03.21-		0070-

yakumo joint struggle @	31.94 E		2047.F	697.653.898.321.1461	0057	3204			2013-09-17T00:50:32:169Z
0/6			02.55-		0164-

thunder house nation @	46.12 C		1847.F	651.545.476.102.434	0086	2002	1296	054.47	2013-09-17T00:54:37:008Z
0/6			03.64+		0146+	61+24+62-28-43-		0029-				2012-10-22T02:08:48:858Z

flag of peace @		64.45 B		1721.F	633.455.183.28.110	0241	1335			2013-09-17T00:59:12:231Z
1/2			03.89+		0104+	

glorious days @		77.22 A		0712.P	285.142.30.1.7		0144	0461	0461	0	2013-09-17T01:03:17:313Z
4/4			02.60+		0024+	10+4+5-3-8-		0017+				2013-08-13T00:04:03:116Z

elisha 			34.10 D		1640.F	580.480.566.268.977	0042	2404	1390	072.94	2013-09-17T01:08:22:360Z
0/2			00.87+		0042+	23+4-16+10+24+		0008+				2012-04-19T03:49:23:279Z

lax5 @			44.80 C		2085.F	762.561.513.211.803	0094	2327	1544	050.71	2013-09-17T01:12:07:032Z
0/7			00.52+		0022+	22+22-49+3-38-		0033+				2013-08-28T00:09:17:278Z

chere princesse @	81.16 AA	1284.P	538.208.29.4.15		0221	0791	0791	0	2013-09-17T01:16:34:680Z
5/5			02.53+		0040+	35+30-2-0·4-		0028+				2012-07-28T23:38:05:007Z

festa do sol @		69.94 A		1202.P	457.288.104.5.26	0175	0863			2013-09-17T01:19:46:656Z
8/8			03.76-		0065-