He was up at 7:35. I went up to him. Downstairs he wanted Minecraft right away and played with Carly. They were trying to soak up ocean water with sponges. August had spawned tons of turtles in the ocean and as he swam around in it he sang “It is turtle ocean today…my fair lady.”
On the piano I taught him concordance and dissonance and which intervals make it. From there I spent much of my day on piano-related research, communicating about when we could see it and when it could be picked up, etc.
August did math on the graphing calculator, and Carly drove up to town to get a few groceries up there. On her way back she got a call from a guy with the water company. She let him in the gate, and he then said someone would be out later to fix it. We didn’t expect them to respond so quickly. Really makes us think that Shmuel never called them in the first place.
August hadn’t eaten anything yet, and he finally let me make him oatmeal for breakfast. He was then trying to test Carly’s ability to identify notes. We did a lot of talking, the three of us, about octaves and pitches and the such. He was then doing some singing, and climbed up and sat on the bookshelves while I made us grilled cheese and turkey and avocado sandwiches for lunch. August asked for something random for Siri to play, and Siri played a rap song that immediately started swearing. Seems like that’s her go-to genre for when he asks for something random and she mishears him. I paused it and had him ask for other things. He listened to a Chinese pop song, then a song called “Alien Girl”. I joked it could be about his character Bar, but the song itself wasn’t that good.
One of my socks was wearing out and the toe was starting to poke out. August said, “ That looks like the end of a skinny hot dog.” He kept joking about how much he liked it. We ate our sandwiches, although he ended up taking it apart, scraping off the cheese, and mainly eating the bread and meat. We watched a video about science and meditation (ASAPScience) and music (Ted-Ed).
They left at 12:30 and went to Gabi’s. He and Carly agreed he could have one of the cookies there every three weeks. He had one today. I went upstairs and did some work, then switched to finding a piano mover when we found out they needed the piano moved by Wednesday. I contacted 7 or 8 places, ended up with two good leads by the end of the day. Also at some point the water company had come back and fixed the leak. Easy peasy.
After Gabi’s they went to the beach for a long time. They probably went for pizza too, but didn’t bring back extras today. August was finding interesting rocks and shells, and made a game of interrupting Carly meditating. They FaceTimed with me for a couple minutes to show me shells.
They were home after 5. He sat on the book shelves for alone time. He randomly asked, “What’s a hippocampus?” I would give him an answer, then Carly would look it up with him too later. We played Minecraft. He said, “Let’s chit chat in the mansion.” When we were done he ate an artichoke with Carly. They watched Ted-Ed videos about the placebo effect and about the hippocampus, the the new Kurzgesagt on milk. He was then back on the calculator, asking me things like, “Is 6 to the hundredth power six googols?” (Not quite.) He was finding the upper limit of how much it can calculate.
I made the scallop and soy noodle dish, adding broccoli and tofu to the simple recipe. It turned out really well and we ate. I then went for a run and she gave him a bath and washed his hair. I took a shower. When I came out he was looking at photos on her phone. He said, “I like looking at the past.” And, “I’m Mr. Addicty Pants.”
He compared the phone screen to coordinate graphs, and I said he was right, in that that is how the pixels and shapes are drawn. He thought that was pretty cool. And cool that he’d been right. He wanted to play the watch game on his iPad. On his own he typed in ‘wach’ trying to spell it in the search. Very cool that he even tried, and told me about it. I showed him how to add the ’t’, but the app is actually called ‘Vivofit’. We tried to play it, but for some reason it has stopped giving him the tap game when he makes the moves. Luckily, he wasn’t too concerned. He then gave me a tour of his recent graphs.
He had mentioned wanting to listen to the Circle Round stories in order, so we went to the website and found the list. The first was “It could always get worse” with Jason Alexander. It’s one of the funny ones and he laughed a lot. We then discussed why the wise old woman’s advice had worked.
He went to the bathroom, then told me he had made a program to use Minecraft blocks to make things like the tile on the ground. We played with a tissue. I’ve had some luck with getting him to let me wipe his nose, and getting him to wipe his snot on a tissue, since I made the tissue into monsters that like to eat snot and beg for his snot. He then asked a couple of questions: “What’s the lymphatic system?” “What’s transfusion mean?” Then told me, “I do cardiovascular…lymphatic system transfusions… It’s really expensive though; at least 2000 dollars. 10000 dollars for a cornea…”
We listened to a meditation. I then put on music, but he was asleep right away by 10:30.
Zinnie cam: his bedroom:
Explaining his amazing graphs:
Showing an asymptote:
