Weirder Summah

You're right. I do need to blog more. But until I do (and there's plenty to blog about) here's one of Jake's lunch notes that I re-drew and added color. It's titled "Weirder", but it also reminds me of Summer. So we shall call this blog post Weirder Summah.


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