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Ultimately, I think either Professor Stroud or, more likely, Dean Stroud. It all comes back to WA. Dean Stroud will be Woodward Academy's longest serving Dean. He'll spend his years helping to sculpt the type of wizards worthy of Callamandia.

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Ultimately, I think either Professor Stroud or, more likely, Dean Stroud. It all comes back to WA. Dean Stroud will be Woodward Academy's longest serving Dean. He'll spend his years helping to sculpt the type of wizards worthy of Callamandia.

Yes I can see a ultimate Dean--in charge of--Woodward academy David Stroud

I hope you're feeling ok Eric.  Been a long time since we ended up waiting this long for a finished chapter.

You still mad at me or something?

True, but past history that I've seen tends to have Eric giving a short message indicating why he wasn't going to post it around one or two a.m. eastern time.  I'm just concerned because it seems to be out of Eric's norm.  I hope everything is ok and he's either tired or dealing with some minor real world shit.

PS:  I was ASLEEP at 1:00am Eastern Time, thus making it difficult to post anything.

Eric Storm

Update #2 for September 1, 2020:

The Woodward Academy, Year 8, Chapter 5: October has been made public.
The Woodward Academy, Year 8, Chapter 11: April has been posted to PRM.

Four donors had their special access expire today.  I have given all of them one extra day, due to my failure to post this chapter on time.

Chapter 12 will be posted on October 1.

Eric Storm

Get better Eric.

hope you feel better soon

Note to self:  Create character named "Josh Bond".  Kill character off by having hot poker shoved up his ass while his dick is being slowly sliced off with a dull razor blade and his balls are being eaten by fire ants.

Just a joke... 

Eric Storm

I just got a bidet yesterday after dealing with multiple burning shits a day for years and boy that cold water is heavenly.

Unless you're in the north country and then it doesn't matter WHEN you get hit by cold water --- that sh;t is COLD

Minnesota buries their water mains way deep and the water in the stays cold (IIRC, around 40 deg F) year round. That's the temp of the water coming out of the hoses during high summer, as well as the taps inside.
Texas only buries them about 10ft down in most places and the water is nowhere as cold out of the tap as in MN.

I hate to put a damper on all the Texas-bashing going on here, but this has nothing to do with Texas burying their pipes more shallowly.

The "mean earth temperature" in TX is in the 70's.  The MET in Minnesota is around 50.  After you reach a certain depth (and that depth is somewhere around 30'), the ground temperature is more or less constant.  Neither depth nor seasons have an effect.  This is called the "mean earth temperature".  Thus, if both places buried their pipes 40' down, Texas would STILL have water 20º warmer than Minnesota.

DOES Texas actually bury water pipes closer to the surface?  Probably.  Why?  Because the deeper you bury the pipe, the more expensive it is to install and maintain, and, unlike MN and other northern states, Texas doesn't have to worry about their pipes bursting from freezing water temperatures near the surface and frost heave breaking the pipes from movement.

Eric Storm