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[soong]

I bought a fever thermometer last week. This was clearly tempting fate to give me something to measure with it. The damn thing appears to have broken on its first use. It's stuck reading 100.4F/38C and there's a little gap in the not-mercury. The bulb of stuff has retracted and left behind a nonsense reading. Grrr.
I'm contemplating trying to carefully raise its temperature to 101F and see if I can achieve stuff-reunification. Maybe it's just doomed.