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Time is slip-slidin' away . . .
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One hour from now, at 12:00 AM PDT on October 29, seven days will be left.

Two hours from now, at 1:00 AM PDT on October 29, 168 hours will remain on the countdown clock – including one fake extra hour of "Falling back" at 2:00 AM on November 3 when Daylight Savings time gets canceled for winter – until 12:00 AM PDT on November 5, the [west coast] start of U.S. Liberation Day!

168 has three prime factors (2, 3, 7), and 11 composite factors (4, 6, 8, 12, 14, 21, 24, 28, 42, 56, 84).

Note: 2 is the oddest prime number [since it's even].

Finding a sequence of factors – expressed in our [elemental] arithmetic format – that form a relevant word or phrase, is an exercise in combinatorial permutations.

Here's the best our Lab techs can offer right now:

[Li] * ( [Be] / [Be] ) * ( ( [Ra] - [Te]) + ([Si] + [C]) ) = 168.

Note: ([Si] + [C]) –> (sic), meaning thus.

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Analog clock faces melt & droop in Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory painting.
We visited his home in Port Lligat, Spain in 2012. The view from the beach near the front door is the painting's background. The real informs the surreal.

But time drifts smoothly on our text-only countdown clock.
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One hour from now, at 12:00 AM PDT on October 30, six days will remain on the clock.

Two hours from now, at 1:00 AM PDT on October 30, 144 hours will remain – including one fake extra hour of "Falling back" at 2:00 AM on November 3 when Daylight Savings time gets canceled for winter – until 12:00 AM PDT on November 5, the [west coast] start of U.S. Liberation Day!

Here at the Lab we use calibrated 500-ml borosilicate Ehrlenmeyer flasks to decant wines at family gatherings. We occasionally use similar beakers for pouring grapefruit juice at breakfast.

[Be] * [Kr] = 144.

A short formula for yesterday: [Ba] * [Li] = 168.
We went diving near a shipwreck there [1995].