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Latest reading of North America by Trollope has led me to the portion of discussing the United States Constitution. The suspension of habeas corpus at the start of the Civil War was, understandably, a situation of extreme importance and subject to a high amount of debate, and one interesting thing which Trollope states about it, in reference as it being a breach of the Constitution, is this:

And the effect of this breach of the constitution at the present day has been very disastrous. It has taught those who have not been close observers of the American struggle to believe that, after all, the Americans are indifferent as to their liberties.

While he goes on to explain how this is not totally true, the words strike me as being rather pertinent today as much as any time from then until now. It behooves a man to be smart, sir.
The reading also inspired me to look up Seymour, IN, as well as a town referred to as Crossline, OH; I can find the former on a map (and it turns out that Seymour is the hometown of John Cougar Mellencamp and a Miss America winner), but I cannot find any kind of reference to the city of Crossline at all. It doesn't exist presently, and no search helped me find where it used to be. All I know is that it lies in Ohio and is somewhere beyond Cincinnati, and would be on the same railway which runs from Indiana through Pennsylvania. I might write a mail to a runner of one of these old websites about it, but I wouldn't hold my breath for any kind of prompt or concrete response.

Draft

18480917 15:31:36

Despite the strength of the sunlight upon his back, Jesse felt refreshingly cool within the confines of the cafeteria as the early autumn breeze rushed through the windows. The winds carried the odor of the freshly cut fish everywhere in the kitchen, and that odor came from the growing pile of filets which Jesse was forming. His routine was refined to a rhythmic precision as he systematically separated the edible fish from the bones; one pinched chop down to remove the head at the neck, another pinch down to remove the tail, one middle slice from the wider portion of the body at left to the right to slice it in half. The bucket at his feet collected the scraps, and afterwards, his left hand pulled the two filets to the pile at his left while his right hand, with the knife still being held in it, reached for the next fish out of the basket. He nodded to himself while humming random notes to himself in the process of the preparation. His actions all quickly came to a stop as he stood up at attention when Daron struck at the pair of doors to the kitchen and stormed into the room.
"Jesse! The hell the matter with you?" His name hissed out through his teeth and his tone was hushed, yet stern.
"What's this about?"
"Don't give me that shit, you know exactly what I'm talkin about!"
"If that's the case, you better say it." Jesse kept a cool composure in his delayed response, but he did internally start to feel a bit nervous and threatened. He wasn't used to seeing Daron act this way, at least towards him.
"Oh fine, fine! The Runners! Why you put your name in for that? You? You! Why you! That's not the kind of thing you were meant to do!" Daron's words were still in a raspy whisper, despite standing directly in front of Jesse.
"Now listen, just bec-"
"No! No I won't listen, no! This isn't right for you, Jesse, this isn't-"
"Daron, let me speak."
"No!"
"Daron!" Jesse pounded the handle of the knife on the table top when he said this, causing some of the filets in the pile to slide from the top to the side.
Silence hung in the air with the smell of the fish.
"Daron. Listen. We - and I mean both you and I specifically, as well as this town - we have endured too much in trying to find someone to take that role. We have been burned again and again in putting our trust in people to perform that task within the letter of the law, and it hasn't happened. I am someone who you can trust. I am someone who can command and have the respect of other people. I will not flinch away from performing the job's ultimate tasks, as I have seen and done so much already. As you have done already. As you have done for your own life and for my life. I believe I can do this. I think you know that I can do it too."
"You might be right, yes. You might be. But. You basically like my son, like my only son. I'd just hate to see you get hurt doin that, after all we've been through."
"Right, and I just as much would hate to let you down, just like I hate seeing you be hurt by what those other men have done to you, by breaking your trust and faith that you had in them. I thought about it, and I thought about how angry it makes me feel now, and how useless I used to feel sometimes before, and I want to have an answer to that. I want to try to change that."

Today wasn't a good day for songs with multi-thousand note counts, as all the increases came with easy songs and I generally had my worst plays with the highest notecount charts. In playing through Red Zone I knew that I had played it better before, but I wasn't ready to see my score being 10% off of record at the end. Yikes.

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 current play is new record).

Code:

			EX% & Rank	EX.p/f	pg.gr.gd.bd.pr		combo	nc	onc	%+nc 	date
scar in the earth @	56.88 B		1421.F	525.371.234.36.168	0190	1249			2013-09-26T22:47:31:310Z
0/7			07.12-		0178-

red zone @		50.00 C		1495.F	520.455.352.46.265	0062	1495			2013-09-26T22:50:07:479Z
0/8			10.23-		0306-

arcadia @		45.00 C		1623.F	567.489.472.87.392	0054	1803			2013-09-26T22:54:31:358Z
0/6			03.63-		0131-

air revolution @	33.84 D		1760.F	593.574.723.298.1063	0077	2600			2013-09-26T22:57:51:750Z
0/4			01.73-		0090-

roots of my way @	74.19 A		1521.P	592.337.86.1.16		0556	1025			2013-09-26T23:00:56:143Z
7/7			02.73-		0056-

garden of love @	81.62 AA	0591.P	236.119.7.0.0		0362	0362	0362	0	2013-09-26T23:05:33:614Z
2/2			03.25+		0022+	11+0·11-0·4-		0107+				2012-03-20T04:14:35:783Z

code elixia @		29.06 E		1791.F	587.617.863.380.1520	0033	3081			2013-09-26T23:10:14:502Z
0/6			04.20-		0259-

winter gals @		36.44 D		1696.F	578.540.535.224.875	0082	2327			2013-09-26T23:14:12:089Z
0/8			00.42-		0020-

first day @		82.49 AA	1447.P	610.227.27.2.15		0294	0877	0453	093.59	2013-09-26T23:17:47:614Z
5/5			02.45+		0043+	29+15-9-2-4-		0148+				2013-07-01T02:45:17:067Z

恋する☆宇宙戦争っ!! @	29.01 E		1652.F	533.586.842.379.1353	0038	2847			2013-09-26T23:22:54:998Z
0/6			03.23-		0184-

shift @			72.60 A		1516.P	593.330.101.4.24	0239	1044	1044	0	2013-09-26T23:26:33:191Z
6/6			00.48+		0010+	26+42-8+1+1+		0079-				2012-04-15T02:11:18:425Z

im in love again @	76.17 A		0681.P	267.147.29.0.5		0301	0447			2013-09-26T23:30:55:542Z
4/4			00.22-		0002-

madrugada @		68.60 A		1287.P	473.341.112.4.16	0257	0938			2013-09-26T23:35:02:190Z
4/7			02.77-		0052-

gamegame @		34.19 D		1908.F	625.658.779.280.1031	0045	2790			2013-09-26T23:41:52:709Z
0/6			06.12-		0342-

op31 @			60.39 B		1017.F	379.259.154.10.65	0157	0842			2013-09-26T23:45:41:134Z
0/6			01.00-		0017-