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I hope it is.

Haircut today. You wouldn’t know because it is/was so short. It’s just a little tidier around the edges now.

Nap-time.

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par·a·ble ˈperəb(ə)l | noun, a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by Jesus in the Gospels: the parable of the blind men and the elephant | a modern-day parable. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French parabole, from an ecclesiastical Latin sense ‘discourse, allegory’ of Latin parabola ‘comparison’, from Greek parabolē (see parabola)pa·rab·o·la| pəˈrabələ | noun (plural parabolas or parabolae | -lē | ) a symmetrical open plane curve formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to its side. The path of a projectile under the influence of gravity ideally follows a curve of this shape. ORIGIN late 16th century: modern Latin, from Greek parabolē ‘placing side by side, application’, from para- ‘beside’ + bolē ‘a throw’ (from the verb ballein).

a·nal·o·gy| əˈnaləjē | noun (plural analogies) a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification: an analogy between the workings of nature and those of human societies | he interprets logical functions by analogy with machines. • a correspondence or partial similarity: the syndrome is called deep dysgraphia because of its analogy to deep dyslexia. • a thing which is comparable to something else in significant respects: works of art were seen as an analogy for works of nature. • Logic a process of arguing from similarity in known respects to similarity in other respects: argument from analogy. • Linguistics a process by which new words and inflections are created on the basis of regularities in the form of existing ones. • Biology the resemblance of function between organs that have a different evolutionary origin. DERIVATIVES analogic adjective analogical | ˌanəˈläjək(ə)l | adjective analogically adverb ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘appropriateness, correspondence’): from French analogie, Latin analogia ‘proportion’, from Greek, from analogos ‘proportionate’.

an·al·ge·sic|ˌanlˈjēzik, ˌanlˈjēsik | Medicine adjective (of a drug) acting to relieve pain. noun an analgesic drug.

analgesic   adjective an analgesic drug: painkilling, anodyne, pain-relieving; rare palliative.noun aspirin is an analgesic: painkiller, painkilling drug, anodyne, pain reliever; rare palliative.

I’ve been saving this to explain to you what kind of a thinker/writer I am:

parabolic

analgesic

That’s all for today.