Today is the twelfth anniversary of 9/11, and though it
still makes the national news; there wasn’t anything special happening at
school today. We did discuss it in
history class this afternoon; but it wasn’t our primary lesson or area of
study.
After a couple of big days, I don’t really have a lot to
write about for this update. There
wasn’t anything particularly newsworthy going on at school. The guys are getting fired up about the
football game on Friday, and we played at lunchtime again, but we’re all
getting settled into our routines now; and there isn’t really any tween or teen
drama going on in my immediate vicinity right now.
Our after-school study session today was in the conference
room at Landry’s Automotive; and Tim will probably be hosting our little study
group on Wednesdays. It worked out for
all of us – Rowen just needed to walk across the road to go to her part-time
job once we’d finished our homework; Michael was close to the Inn; and after I
walked with him there and stopped in to see Miranda and Jacob, I went on home
to work in the office until dinnertime.
Tim wanted to go on to the park for some more football action, but his
mother vetoed that and gave him some chores to do instead.
He’s blaming the rest of us for being too responsible and
putting bad ideas in his Mom’s head; but helping his parents out around the
office and shop isn’t anything new – he just got to have a bit of a reprieve
that’s over now.
I’ve had a fairly standard school work night since getting
home. My family business jobs were
pretty much all about Christmas today except for one of the handful of major
projects that are ongoing and need some regular oversight from me on an ongoing
basis. Mom allowed me to work through
until dinner was ready, and I had Ehlana and Ethan with me for about half of
that time while they worked on their homework from their Grade Twelve lessons
today and we had a nice little telepathic chat.
Since Mom cooked dinner, Dad and I were the clean-up crew
while she did a Magi lesson with Ethan and Ehlana. It was my turn after that, and Mom had me
working on phase-shift transmutations tonight.
That’s still one of my favorites, and it’s amazing just how much there
is to learn about it. Tonight we worked
with phase-shifting active electronic devices and dealing with the electrical,
magnetic, and signal issues that affect things like cell phones or computers in
a phase shift.
I’ll bet Verizon never tried that for their ‘can you hear me
now’ commercials!
Of course we used an old cell phone for that just in case I
accidentally fried it on my first attempts; but everything went smoothly; and I
haven’t had any major goof-ups with my lessons in a long time anyway. That said; I seriously doubt that Mom will be
ready to have me try that little trick with one of our ‘work’ computers anytime
soon. Teaching me how to fix a messed up
computer would not be quite as easy as fixing melted plastic or cracked glass.
The best thing about doing our lessons early is that I can get
an early start to my ‘real’ studies and bedtime computing. I was in bed with Mandy just a few minutes
after Ethan and Ehlana were tucked in for the night; I put in nearly four hours
of work; and I’ll still be sleeping by one-ish.
That sounds really great right now, and I don’t have anything else to
report anyway; so let’s just wrap this up so I can get the extra sleep tonight
that I’ll likely lose because of game night tomorrow.
Live long and prosper, fellow Magi of the Light!
