It’s a good thing that my go-to-sleep early plan is going to
work out tonight; because I’m really, really tired!
That’s mostly because Michael and I did about five hours of
yard work at his house this morning until we stopped for lunch at about
one-thirty. He came over for Tai Chi; we
split up for breakfast; and then I got our lawn tractor ready to go and took it
over to his house so we could get their lawn cut in about half the time it normally
took with just one riding mower. After
our amusement park adventure last week on their days off and going shopping
yesterday, the to-do list was long and tough; but we managed to get nearly
everything done by putting in that extra time before stopping to eat. We probably would have stayed and helped with
some of the housework after lunch, but Tim came around looking for Michael to
go with him to play football; and Miranda took pity on them and set us free for
the rest of the day.
While the boys went straight to the park, I helped with the
post-lunch clean-up; checked in at home with Mom; and hopped in the river for a
swim with Ethan and Ehlana. Rowen came
over to do that with us, and then we grabbed our bikes and met up with Michael
and Tim at the park. It’d be more
accurate to say that we were at the park too; since they didn’t do more than
wave at us from the field when we reached the bleachers. If you wanted to get in on Kyle’s workouts,
you didn’t get to skip any of the work to go and talk to girls instead. They were at the tail end of the conditioning
drills, so we stayed long enough for the break between that and the scrimmage
game; and then we went for a bike ride on the trails while Michael and Tim
played with the other football fanatics and their friends.
We all went for a shorter ride after the game, and then came
back to my house to go for another swim with Ethan and Ehlana. Michael, Tim, and Rowen all went home after
we played with the twins for nearly an hour; and it’s just been the four of us
at home since then. After a couple of
big dinners in a row, Mom and I threw together an easy-meal that we ate out on
the back porch at the patio table. After
cleaning up, it was Magi lesson night. I
helped with Ethan and Ehlana’s lesson; and then Mom did my lesson with me while
they played on their iPads in the office.
My lesson was about time-phase transmutations; and mostly
included refining my ability to control the ‘border’ of a time-phase – and
adapting for outside influences – like power supply if I’m including and using
electronics while in the time-phase.
There aren’t very many problems with that sort of thing if you’re
slowing time, but you can blow breakers or get power surges if you try and draw
hours worth of power in minutes without taking precautions. Power is only one example. I haven’t mentioned it before, but doing
things like surfing the web in time-phase has to be handled carefully, and
though I don’t have a cell phone; using one in anything other than normal time
is just weird. You get the chipmunk
effect on a call when in slow-motion; and if you think some calls last forever;
try listening to someone speaking in normal time while you’ve sped up to
hyper-speed.
Mom assigned lots of archive homework for me, but I’m not
doing any of that tonight. After getting
Ethan and Ehlana tucked in, I came straight up to bed; and have only been doing
my basic nightly computing. If the
weather holds as forecast tomorrow, Tim’s party is going to include camping
overnight; so we’ll likely be up really late if that’s on – or just
after-midnight kind of late if we end up indoors. One way or the other, I think this will be
one of the best birthday parties of the summer, and need to be ready for the
fun, so...
...until next time, this is Magi Master Cassie Proctor;
logging out!
