Ehlana and Ethan:
The damp and cool weather continued today, and while we didn’t mention it yesterday, we should mention at least once that our football team players do not really enjoy rainy workouts while Naomi is glad that her cheer squad captain has their practices indoors and dry when needed. That was true for today with their lunchtime workout; and most kids and teens stayed indoors while at school – except for the kids that normally go home for their lunch breaks.
Ethan and I were indoors for pretty much everything except for the walks between home, school, and the lab. Tai Chi was indoors; our academic adventures and band practice were all inside the school; and our evening play-working with our books or beakers at the lab where we plugged away at our favorite projects. Dinner with Mom and Dad was a highlight of our day for entertainment for the teens in the house; and we don’t need to write about what was more-fun for our parents while they were kid-free for a few hours this evening.
You should not need a hint to guess that they did not spend the entire time working in the office! ;^)
Moving on from that semi-scary thought for the kids writing this update; Ethan and I got home a bit later than we should and I take the blame for that because I needed extra ‘real’ time to finish my experiment. The good news is that I made some significant progress with my cancer research; and I am really, finally getting close to a cure. That will be amazing and I am sure that I’ll get there, but for anyone reading this in our near-term future; keep in mind that finding my cures doesn’t lead to an immediate end to that disease. Our cold cure products are continuing to grow rapidly; yet we’re still a decade or more from being able to produce the quantities needed to make enough to treat billions of people. That is different from my cancer research, since basically everyone in the world has to deal with catching colds every year while a much-smaller percentage of the population gets cancer, but then what I’m working on will also be a more-intensive treatment that will require more resources for each patient. We don’t need to get into the weeds on what that will eventually mean for those people; and my point is simply that this will be another cure that will take decades to have a world-wide impact.
I’ll keep you posted on my research progress, but since I’ve written about that; let’s add in an update for Ethan’s work. His digital organization of our archives is really important for our Magi future – particularly when it comes to easily accessing information for training our fellow Magi, but he also needs to deal with protecting the physical books and documents – saving them where possible; and creating copies where that isn’t possible for various reasons. He is currently spending at least some of his time every visit to his archives working on saving some of our oldest books and scrolls. Yes, we have Grandpa Grant and Grandma Eleanor and others working on those projects too, but that will also be a never-ending job as there will always be a need to maintain our physical archives – even with the tech that has gone into protecting them. Finally, I’ll also mention that our archives have many levels of protection – including being able to survive issues like power outages and natural disasters. No, we don’t have any foreknowledge of anything happening around here anytime soon on a disaster scale, but we do get storms now and then; and the archives were built to survive for centuries or longer!
Okay, that’s enough for this report. Our week is going to get busier from here; we need to rest up while we can; and then get back to living the adventures with our family and friends!
Until next time, live with love, fellow Magi of the Light!
