I woke him up at 8:30. He sat up and asked “What’s limbo?” We discussed the different meanings and and watched videos about it (https://youtu.be/vyHSJj_DluI and the songhttps://youtu.be/gq7pxUgjLz0).
He asked about bullfighting and we watched the Rick Steves video again:https://youtu.be/Qmp4DjtWcuw August asked what decapitated for his faith means.
He went to the bathroom and I brushed my teeth and he used mouthwash and we went downstairs to the piano where he immediately played a song of the day. On the couch I read a chapter of Have a Hot Time, Hades! We then played Minecraft, having fun in a lucky block world getting floated up by shuckers. He ate oatmeal and was then Myna, walking around the house and talking about her OTT builds in Minecraft.
At 11 he had his meeting with Gabi. Gabi asked about the emotions on the chart, and August chose to ask him about embarrassed. August said he understood the feeling, but wouldn’t verify whether he had felt that way. They then moved on to tanks. Gabi noticed that he was playing to win today.
We went downstairs and August played some piano. Shmuel came by with a guy named Uri, who is starting to rent the basement, as of today. It’s been nice not having someone down there, but Shmuel later said that Uri would be cleaning up the yard down there, which is a mess, so hopefully that will be an improvement. August snuck over to the bathroom door to see Shmuel and Uri and gave a shy hi—he was also just making sure to do his social distancing.
We went for an ant walk, feeding them little bites of the oatmeal left over from his breakfast. We lured out a few colonies with it. August said, “They come and go and spray the pheromones.” We went back and played chess, and Shmuel came and tied up the tree for us, to the fence. He also talked to me about how he and Ada are supposedly solving the issue of the money he owes us for the other unit using water, etc.
I made tuna on crackers for lunch, along with the coconut rice with peas, and also chocolate milk for lunch and we went outside and ate at the table. August, thinking more about embarrassed, said, “Probably somewhere in the world someone has fallen on the ground and is embarrassed.” Shmuel came with a big box of pots. Always reluctant when he brings stuff, so I made it clear we’d return any that we didn’t want.
August was chased in by a fly. We watched GoodTimeswithScar as we finished reading. Had to use my phone hotspot as our internet went out for about an hour. Carly got home and went up to work. We did piano time together. August played in the E mode of C, then other E scales. We discussed pentatonic and rock “What’s rock music?” He kept playing piano and let me go out to cut the piece of wood I needed to try to fix the piano key. He earned his alone time, but first wanted to play a game upstairs. He had the idea for a Sister game where she learns that she’s in a simulation inside a simulation. That got pretty confusing as they all argued about things. As a part of it we ended up learning about chaos theory, watching a couple videos:https://youtu.be/s5mruabpGkU
from the Open University and “Is the butterfly effect real?” From Seeker:https://youtu.be/Hp8wGQW-Y48
We went down and played Minecraft, then Carly came down and they played chess. I went for a run, then finished the piano piece. Unfortunately, the same thing happened, with the piece splitting when I screwed it on, so I’ll have to try again, and improve my design. Carly took recycling up, and August played Minecraft with Vivian and Colin. He had had broccoli and Mac and cheese.
Cherie called, and they played chess, figuring out ChessKid. They first played in slow chess mode, but then figured out the fast chess mode, which worked better for playing simultaneously. At some point he lost interest in playing more, so they said goodbye so Cherie could talk to Colin, who was calling her. He played chess on his own as I finished up some work. Cherie called back for a proper goodbye, as the first one was abrupt. I had the coverage of the SpaceX Dragon launch, and August and I watched them as the astronauts were strapped in and we talked about the interior and the touch screens.
I got him up for a bath. He talked a lot about the Nether update and how Carly will like it, then was quizzing her about Minecraft. In bed he listened to “I’m Bored” yet again and ate his crackers. He asked, “What’s a comedian?” Another word of the day. He told me, “You’re a comedian.” He then listened to the following story/poem, “The Bargain”. We brushed our teeth and said good night and had lights out at by 10:50. We listened to some Howie B, Turn Up the Dark, then Miles Davis’s Sketches of Spain, before going to the Benge FORMS 2 album. He woke me up a few times, and did his usual “I can’t sleep” the moment that lights were out and he had stopped talking. He was finally asleep at 11:35, and I found out that the SpaceX launch had been postponed because of weather.
Morning piano:
Luring out the ants:
Ant with a stick:
Figuring out scales in E:
Drumming and singing:
Chess with Oma:
