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Ok, for anyone who cares, today is Friday and I've just managed to wring another 15 minutes out of this bowl.
First light tasted of hardwood. It's the smell you get when you dig into a bag of hardwood shavings and sprinkle them out on the floor to soak up a puddle of oil. It tasted just like those shavings smell. After a minute, the black pepper bomb returned as expected and hung around for half the smoke. It did fade out again, to be replaced by the hardwood flavor, eventually picking up a floral note that seemed to grow. However, the predominant flavor remained hardwood. I was starting to enjoy this when the pipe went out. It wouldn't relight. It was empty. About a week on one bowl of baccy. Not bad.