I was getting up already when he got up at 7:50. Only 9 hours of sleep. He and Carly then exercised upstairs. I started playing John Prine as I had learned, when I had looked at the news earlier when August had woken up around 5, that he had passed away from the coronavirus. August came down and we read The Last Kids on Earth. We had some toast then started playing Minecraft in the jungle world he and Carly have been playing in. He was hungry so I stopped and started making french toast. Carly came down and played with him.
He ate a little, then got to composing in Notion. He was transcribing “Hacked” from the paper copy. He worked really hard at it, and learned a bunch more stuff. He set the proper key for the time signature on his own. I don’t know how he figured that one out.
I went for a run. When I got back he was listening to an audiobook called Kid Normal. I came down and he was listening to “Sit Luck and Mr. Riches” on Circle Round. August watched Carly do the video editing for her movie, then I read more of The Last Kids on Earth. August started playing piano with just 7 pages left.
Carly was then working on editing the video and August went over to watch her. He spent a lot of time on that. They then played Minecraft. I got us lunch and we sat together and ate and watched educational videos. I introduced him to the “Tragedy of the Commons” through a Ted-Ed video, then “How much of what you see is a hallucination?” from Ted-Ed. We then watched Iskall’s latest video.
He and Carly then went upstairs. He was talking about wanting to fall asleep, or pretend to. They listened to a good audiobook, Zero or Zero G, about a family going into space. Carly fell asleep. It gave me time to finish my Pandemic Blues playlist and send it to Jeff and practice some piano. August came down about 3:20 and started looking at Supersonic Piano. He asked, “What’s a stasis pod anyway?” I explained, and stasis was a word of the day. Carly pointed out how quiet it was. No highway noise in the background. The lockdown order had gone into effect. Like Yom Kippur, but of course we can’t go to the highway to enjoy it.
August was then playing piano. He looked at music and read “Pixie Dust” on a title. We all ended up outside. He was sitting and listening to the audiobook. Carly and I were sitting in the sun and reading. He then made up a code language where he made everything plural. He was walking around and talking to us in his code language, adding in more and more Ss.
Back inside they called Vivian and Colin and they played Minecraft. August told me, “I’m so obsessed with lime green carpet. I keep putting it on trees.” He showed me what he’d been working on in Vivian’s world. I went up to work. They did story time as well and he had dinner. He was being watched by Cherie when I came down, playing piano for her. We said goodbye around 9. Carly gave him a bath, and we brushed our teeth. He then told us he could think of words with S and Z sounds: “spit, singularity” And C: “cosmological constant…” We discussed angles of seeing each other again, and flossed. As he did it he said, “Oh my goodness. I can’t believe I’m doing this.”
In on the bed we finished The Last Kids on Earth (book 4). We then listened to Circle Round’s “The Birds and the Trees” and “The Search for Rain”. Temper was a word of the day. We listened to Peace Out’s “Return to the Moon” and we discussed what co- meant like in coefficient. He thought of “cohost.” We were falling asleep, and I must have made some noise, as he poked me and asked, “Dada, why are you grunting?” For music we listened to the Lullatones and he was asleep around 10:50.
Transcribing “Hacked” to Notion:
Song of the day:
Interesting music:
His code language:
