I went and got him up at 9:30. Lot of stretching, then he talked about making a tunnel in Minecraft. I read from the Hades book, getting close to the end. The book taught him sinew. Downstairs we played Minecraft, doing some PvP (he’s much better than me) and mining competitions. When he wanted to fight in Minecraft he said he’d change his skin to something more appropriate. And chose “Riot Police 3”. We haven’t discussed those events at all, so totally a coincidence. Carly and I called back and forth a few times as we figured out mail, library, and flight refund stuff.
He ate French toast for breakfast and we did some Sister and Myna Minecraft games and watched Grian. Then the “Nutag-Homeland” film (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tueWBOtqBSA&t=195s) and we talked about how it was done.
He played a cool piano piece, then we went upstairs for wrestling. There were lots of rhinos and titans and magical things. Downstairs for more cool piano. He found a spider on the wall and didn’t want it captured or killed so it would eat the flies. He then had me composing something for him. I asked what he want and he told me “Just compose” so I called it that. Carly got home as I was finishing that up with a messy chord.
He listened to a story for alone time, then played a little Simple Rocket before playing Minecraft with Carly. When she agreed to play, he said, “Yes! Thank you for playing!” Randomly, he said, “Just so you know, when I get to a job I won’t be a miner.”
I made schnitzel for lunch and Carly made rice. We ate outside and he ate the schnitzel and the last of the watermelon and his rice with teriyaki sauce. He went to the bathroom and asked, “What’s a mandatory evacuation?” Clarified mandatory. We read the Hades book on the bench swing, and he had seconds, then third on the rice, finishing it off. At that point Carly came out and asked what had happened to the rice. Oops. The book mentioned the sphinx and we looked up more information about them.
He also asked about the difference between fainting and being knocked out, and how they happen. Talked a little, and said we’d look up more later. He asked, “What’s depressing mean?” So another new word.
He cashed in five stars and we did more challenges for each other in the flat world. I ended with an archery challenge that worked pretty well. I think they played some chess, then a bit before 6 they started playing Minecraft together. Vivian and Colin were at a lake or something today so couldn’t play. August had been upset yesterday upon learning about it, but he handled it well today. I went for a run, then took a shower. August was then playing chess with Cherie. Once they got it set up they played lots and lots of chess. Against each other, and also against the computer.
Carly made him corn and he had that and seconds. Carly had placed a fruit and veggie order, and he also had one of the first mangoes of the season, followed by cantaloupe. August asked if I liked cantaloupe and I explained my whole fruit scale to him, which ends with watermelon and then cantaloupe at the bottom, and right above tomatoes. August said, “In. Accurate.” Carly doesn’t eat it either, and August said, “Let me get this straight: I’m the whole person in this whole family that eats cantaloupe?” Then did a face palm.
He talked about his plans for a tunnel to Carly’s area in our survival world. Through the air: “That will take a lot of material.” And to himself: “Yeah. Rash decision.” While doing dishes Carly had accidentally turned on the water to hot instead of cold, then put her hand in it and actually burned it. She had a bag with ice in it, and August wanted one as well to play with. As we were getting upstairs he was asking me if poop was conscience what would its idea of heaven be. It was a pretty crazy scenario, and he admitted, “There’s a lot of IFs here…it’s iffy.”
Upstairs he wanted to verify that the Pi shirt that Cherie sent him had the correct digits of pi, so he looked at Pi on my phone to verify and had fun looking through millions of digits of it. I got him to take a bath, then Carly agreed to a quick game of chess with him.
He ate his crackers in bed and asked me about how the famine was doing. We ended up reading about the current locusts: https://www.foxnews.com/science/vast-locust-swarms-east-africa-5-million-people-hunger-famine?cmpid=prn_newsstand He also said, “Here’s how technology is affecting poor people…” And had the idea that it would make piracy harder because more people and stuff are flying instead of going on ships.
He listened to “The Dinner Date” and “Sweet and Sour”. He asked me, “How much does a mail carrier make?”
We listened to a new-to-us Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan album, Body and Soul, I think, then when he was saying he couldn’t sleep I switched to the Bruce Brubaker & Max Cooper album Glassforms and he fell asleep by 11:45.
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