Ehlana and Ethan:
We have not had a very newsworthy day for our personal lives, but we have had fun with our academic adventures and the work-play we kept busy with after school and into the evening. I’ll take the blame for the second part of that plan because I’m a bit obsessed right now with my research; and Ethan goes along because he loves me a lot. He likes getting extra work done on his own current projects and getting to play with his dusty books and scrolls; and we’ll all appreciate his efforts as all of that information we have in the archives becomes accessible to everyone that doesn’t have Ethan’s abilities for memory and reading speed. I might even use those resources now and then, but don’t take that the wrong way; since my fastest way to learn about anything in the archives is to ask my twin! ;^)
Moving along, we had a good day at school; did a snack-visit with Mom; and then we headed for the lab with picnic dinners so that we could stay and work into the evening. We used time phasing to do more work once we could do that after most of the staff went home. I should mention that Dillon stayed late to work with me on an experiment that was already in-progress and Uncle Adam came back to the lab after dinner; so we weren’t on our own all of that time. Ethan has written about time phasing and his work too in other archive-related journals, but wants me to mention here that he physically takes his books with him into our time phasing because if he doesn’t; working with them at high speed would seriously-damage the fragile documents. That might sound weird, but we have mentioned other time-phase risks like hitting objects at high speeds; and this is basically exactly the same thing. Since we’re on that topic, that is true for my work in the lab too; and I also flip between ‘normal’ and ‘phased’ time as needed for my experiments. As a simple example, we have lab equipment that doesn’t work in a time phase for various reasons; so I use them in normal time. That isn’t really a big deal, since usually that means starting and stopping them; and I won’t get this update bogged down with the obvious time management issues that actually can bog down my work as I get tasks finished in time phase mode and then need to return to ‘real’ time and wait for other processes to finish. That’s enough for our own news other than to add that we stayed at the lab until ten o’clock; came home as ordered and on-time; and now we’re winding down toward nap time.
Cassie and Michael are more than half-way through their tour through Mali, and it has been uneventful so far compared to the past few weeks. They’ve done a lot of good too; and we’re excited about the potential for the future partnerships we’re starting in Mali. We wouldn’t dream of saying the same for politics as news rolls in for President Trump’s transition progresses. Talk on both sides won’t mean anything; and we are going to wait to see what actually happens in the coming months – both for as the current administration winds down and then the new one takes over in January. There is no doubt that things are being shaken up, but that doesn’t mean there will be meaningful change for the better; and we’ll be happy to be proven wrong if our world leaders actually do manage to change course and start making life better for everyone. As of right now, there aren’t any actual changes yet when it comes to the worst problems in the world – including the current wars. I don’t want to get into a rant about that tonight, though, so we’d better wrap this up and call it a night.
Until next time, live with love, fellow Magi of the Light!
