Carly suggested turning the heater off in his room as it might make him less stuffy. So had it on some circulate mode. He did wake up once needing the covers back on, but otherwise was fine, and still nice and cuddled in his blanket in the morning.
He was up at 8:55. I went in and he asked “Is it time to get up?” I told him it was, if his body wanted to. He pulled the blanket over his head. After a few minutes we talked about how it seemed dark (one of the windows was also closed more than usual) and then we went downstairs. He said good morning to Carly outside. I told him I had an idea for a project today. At first he told me not to tell him as he wanted it to be a surprise. Eventually I told him. It was to send a video message to Eve. He said “N O” and went inside and started his morning playing piano. Cool improvs, as usual. I asked why he didn’t want to do it and he said, “It feels weird.” He kept playing. At one point he asked me how he moves his hand down. I realized he knows how to walk his right hand up and down one octave, and up as many as he wants, but not down more than one. So we figured that out (the thumb is always on 4 and 1) and he was excited about that.
When he was done he ran around and turns on all the lights, then we played Minecraft. First though he went to the bathroom, then we watched the “Morning Notes” video with the Seattle Symphony timpanist playing vibraphone (https://youtu.be/iI3FbBI0mPI). He then did some Desmos graphing and asked “What’s a therapist?” A word of the day.
We watched Iskall. He then talked about making a zombie farm in sister’s world. He played more piano, and at one point played a tune I recognized. Took me several minutes and I figured it out: The shovel cave it out 2https://youtu.be/Y5wfQkzZwIo
and The Shovel Caved It Outhttps://youtu.be/1ZjpZUrg4yY
He looked at the galaxy app and showed it to Carly. He found the “Low Metallicity” and “High Metallicity” groups and we looked up what that meant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallicity?wprov=sfti1 So metallicity was the first word of the day.
I went out to enjoy the yard, and they started playing Minecraft. First the puzzle thing, then switching to D.C. Carly was talking about students, and mentioned that one had a lot of personality on Zoom. August asked, “What’s personality?”
He did redstone world and I let him go long as he was learning stuff. I started adjusting the tuning of the piano. Got the first half of it done. He had some apple and peanut butter with Carly outside and his second bowl of oatmeal, which I had gotten him earlier and she now re-heated for him. For his alone time he listened to “Rabbit’s Wish” on Circle Round. For Minecraft he built redstone stuff in our flat world and I almost, almost finished the big lake.
We went upstairs for a Ms. Safe game. He wanted the whole recital thing, but only longer and longer, so I had her think up of an infinite recital after finding out that the universe and then multiverse were infinite. It involved robots spreading across the universes to learn all the music of every planet, past and future. When Bar wouldn’t help with that plan it was back to using students. August had Millie move to Ms. Danger’s class. Bullies broke her hands (August’s idea). And then Dr. Badder and Dr. Gooder only made things worse until Bar gave her super hands with all sorts of upgrades, like the abilities to heat and cool things with her hands.
Eventually I was hungry and got him to head downstairs so I could make tuna sandwiches. A smoky one for him and I had the last of the lemony kind. We sat outside and ate, and Carly joined us. August talked about how “Whatever doesn’t kill you just makes you stronger.” A fly kept bothering him though and eventually he talked us into going back inside.
He did alone time listening to “Cow Bells and Cow Wells” on Circle Round. He then played Minecraft by himself as he was playing in random worlds that Carly and I didn’t want to play in. He was really excited about playing with Vivian and Colin soon and even though he kept saying he was bored he wouldn’t agree to do anything with me. I had been adjusting the tuning in the piano and got up most of the way while he was doing alone time, and he played it now and it sounded really good. We did a video of one of his latest songs.
He then called Vivian and Colin on FaceTime and talked to Vivian. They did fractions and division. I went up to work. Carly made nutty noodles as they did Minecraft. I came down as they had been reading Junie B. Jones. Carly went up to take a shower and August spent the whole time talking about wither farms in Minecraft. We had Brother comically mining for diamonds and then failing to AFK correctly. When Carly came down they read more of Junie B. Jones with Vivian. August sprayed his hair with his water bottle.
He ate more dinner and I adjusted more of the piano. Not quite done, but it sounds very good now. Although then when he was playing he found one note that I’d already done that could use some more work. Carly had headed upstairs as she was tired.
I took him up and gave him a bath. In the bedroom after he got dressed we watched “The Earth in Minecraft”:https://youtu.be/8_bW3ab8YAk
Took some time, but got him to brush his teeth. We said good night to Carly at 10. We read some of How To, then listened to “The Incredible Singing Tortoise” on Stories Podcast. He randomly explained that “I understand why it is ‘came to town’ and not ‘come-ed’…” using Yankee Doodle, as it is awkward to say ‘come-ed’. We listened to Peace Out’s “Tried and True”. We listened to the Piano 4 Hands album, but he said a few times he couldn’t get to sleep. I sang to him, the first time in quite awhile, “Imaginary Bars”, “Idaho”, and “Animal Life” and then he fell asleep about 11:30.
Morning improv time:
Playing an old tune – the shovel caved it out:
His new song on the adjusted piano:
Story time with Vivian:

