10:30—It got so hot that I fell asleep on the last page of the story. Reading is too strenuous for me today.
11:00—I loafed, fooled around and monkeyed for half an hour. I spent part of this time in planning how to waste away the afternoon.
12:00—I took a picture a few minutes ago while sitting in my car. I could have gotten it much better if I had moved but it was too much trouble.
1:00—By dint of great effort OttKann and I covered the entire two hundred yards between the cantonment and the canal in a little less than twenty minutes and gazed upon the barges which are being towed along by man and woman power. Work like that would kill us (or do us a whole lot of good).
1:30—Mosquitoes and bugs pestered us too much by the water so we sauntered rapidly back to the quarters and watched the poker game for a while. They are out for an endurance record today, trying to beat the one of fourteen hours and eight minutes made at Ste. Menehould, when they played until Bob, the old waiter, brought in the "Quaker Oats" at breakfast.
3:30—I fell asleep about two o'clock while I was attempting to decide whether I would finish my letter home or start a new story.
4:30—When climbing out of my car I noticed that one of my tires was flat. I think I shall pump