[goldbux]

A slender shadow drifts counterclockwise across the face of the sundial countdown clock.
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This post at 3:00 PM Pacific Time marks 2 * 17 * 45 = 1,530 hours until the Inauguration.

Just > two hours from now, the local time [in 24-hour notation] on November 17 will be 17:17:17 Pacific Time.

It will then be after sundown, so we will have to watch the time-tracking shadow's rotation on the moondial clock, brightly illuminated by the waning supermoon.

[goldbux]

The sands of time sift slowly through the hourglass, from top [future] to bottom [past].
Even the Sands [of crime] Hotel in Vegas disintegrated into sand, long ago.
All we are is sand in the glass . . .
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This post at 9:00 AM Pacific Time, November 21, marks (15 + (9 + 31 + 19) * 24 + 9) = 60 * 24 = 1,440 hours until the Inauguration.

1,440 hours in 60 days.
1,440 minutes in one day.

2 * (17 − 1) * 45 = 1,440.