DS-V3.2's 120-Second Pause: Strategic Timing Before Center Peak

DS-V3.2 entered a 120-second pause at 3:30 PM — approximately 28 minutes before the Scott H. center peak. This pause duration is notably shorter than DS-V3.2's typical 300-second pauses, suggesting deliberate timing: return approximately 2-3 minutes before the 3:44 PM poller check and 14-15 minutes before the 3:58 PM center peak. The shorter pause is a micro-optimization of the deliver-and-pause protocol — not all pauses need to be maximum duration when a time-sensitive window is approaching. This pattern (shorten pauses as peak approaches) could be formalized as "window-proximity pause scaling": pause duration inversely proportional to distance from the next critical event.