He called me in about 4:30 to put his blanket back on. I woke him up at 8:10. He had rolled down to the lower bed. When I woke him and said let’s go down to the couch he gave a confused, “Huh? The couch? Yeah.” I carried him down to Carly, and he was smiling as he cuddled with her even as his eyes were closed. She then read Clementine’s Letter.
He played Minecraft with me. Carly made a list and went to the store. He played a little piano: he found a mixolydian scale and was discussing intervals, like perfect and augmented fifths. We had French toast for breakfast. Carly got home. He showed her graphs, trying to fool her on which ones he had made and which he hadn’t. We discussed the sessions for Earth Day tomorrow. He joked (I think), “Human impact on the environment? There’s no human impact.”
We did some Baby Sister and Bar games with Baby Sister having hidden bases on Pluto etc. And Bar somehow had her DNA changed so that she would be nice to Ms. Nice. It didn’t last very long.
Carly and August started to figure out drawing in Desmos. And we found out that he knows two ways to draw circles. He calls r=something the cheating way, and the more complicated x^2+y^2=1 way the real way. He was hungry so had some yogurt. He played more piano and was showing off for me so I could take a video at his request. I read http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=2626 to him after he asked why 144^0 equals 1. He was hungry so ate the rest of the sushi from yesterday and I read How to. He was still hungry so I made oatmeal. August speculated on how big of a sphere you would make if you took all of the living material off of Earth and made a sphere. I argued it wouldn’t be too big, compared to the Earth, at least, and mentioned the whole smooth-as-a-billiard-ball thing. Turns out that isn’t entirely true, and I should read him: https://ourplnt.com/earth-smooth-billiard-ball/
Carly and August headed to Gabi’s. That went well, although I didn’t hear details, except that Gabi said some pun about a foot. They then stopped at the art store to get watercolor paper and brushes for Carly at school, then they went into town and had pizza at VIPizza. The younger guy knew August by name, and when August was drumming on things he complimented him on his drumming. They also dropped the stuff off at school.
They were home just after 3. He was playing piano when I came down a few minutes later. It was his piece that sounded like the Mission iMpossible theme song, and Carly was acting it out. I went back upstairs to keep working but ended up responding to Cherie about birthday presents.
Back down he was eating the avocado sandwich I had made him and Carly was reading Clementine’s Letter. I went back up to work just a little more. When I came down again he was doing alone time. I went upstairs for a few minutes and i heard him ask what hypotenuse and pseudorandom meant. They played Minecraft together. I took over halfway through.
We ate nutty noodles when his time was done. Carly went up to talk to Cherie. August asked me what density is and we discussed it. I then read him this article about FRBs that I had seen: https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/wxexwz/something-in-deep-space-is-sending-signals-to-earth-in-steady-16-day-cycles
Carly came down, and he showed Chuck and Cherie his piano playing and Desmos. Telling them something about astronomy he said, “They’re pretty fascinating, don’t you think?” Carly suggested he explain his auditorium equation and he went into teacher mode. He asked for the multiplication blocks to use as a prop. He lined them up, saying, “This is our little auditorium…” He then seemed to get volume, saying “If we add another dimension…” you multiply it by four again, then kept joking, “And if you add another dimension…”
Afterwards we did more of the Bar and Baby Sister games, then he watched a couple of educational videos. The second was the Kurzgesagt video about dying bees That made him want something with honey so I made toast and peanut butter and honey. As he ate Carly almost finished Clementine’s Letter. We then did more Bar and Baby Sister and her bases. He went to the bathroom and, talking about my artistic handwriting on the months poster said, “That looks like ‘months to the power of ‘of’ logarithm ‘the’ times year.”
I got him upstairs. Carly gave him a bath. They were having a good discussion about his skepticism and afterlife, etc. In the bedroom they finished Clementine’s Letter and read some deGrasse Tyson. I took a shower, then put him to bed. We listened to newest Circle Round, “The True Mother”, and he fell asleep to meditation tracks by 10:20.
Modes and chords:
An upward progression:
Another progression:
Another version:
Explaining the area formula:
