Ehlana and Ethan:
Happy 27th Birthday, Lucas Norton!
Cassie and Michael have helped with his special day and were at his dinner party; and now they have Luke and Clarissa for the night for reasons we do not need to write about here but that are normal for kid-free night gifts!
Our day hasn’t been that exciting, but while the weather is cooler; it was nice-enough for Tai Chi by the river and for our football and cheer squad practices. Our academic adventures were fun and not newsworthy; those practices went well and we’re all preparing for a wet game night; since the forecast isn’t looking good and we could be in for a very wet Friday night. Ethan and I came home from our practices to a quick dinner and then we headed to the lab or archives for the evening. I had a success with my experiment adapting my cancer cure to a specific type of cancer, and that is awesome, but I’ll add that each success is still just a first step; since there is a lot that needs to happen between first cures to mass production that can and will take years or decades to be widely available – even with all of the resources we have available to us through the family businesses. Ethan didn’t report anything world-changing for his work tonight, but he is doing that too in his own incremental ways, and for the record, what he is building in the archives is levels ahead of the best that any A.I. system could create because those computer systems can only wish that they had his Magi-powered memory and processing capacity! Yes, he has some input limitations, but then we’ve never really tested the full extent of our time phasing capabilities; so that might not be true. Yes, we could do that, but then it might be a bit tough to explain if we aged a year or two within minutes or even seconds; so we can’t really try that out without unwanted consequences – and I’m not just saying that because Naomi would be upset if she wasn’t dating a younger man anymore! ;^)
We wrapped up at the lab by eleven o’clock; came home; and did a short Magi lesson with Mom before saying good night to her – and Dad – and heading up to the third floor for bath or Jacuzzi time. I took longer with getting cleaned up, so Ethan took care of most of the computer checks and passed the news of the day on to me; so now we’re pretty much just dealing with this update and more twin chat as we wind down toward a late start to our nap time.
There is nothing happening in the top wars to justify the price manipulation for oil and other markets ranging from commodities to bonds and money, but that is happening; and that does nothing except obfuscate reality; since oil prices in particular should be going up after a weekend of Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries; Houthi attacks on Saudi energy infrastructure; and Iranian strikes on tankers attempting ‘unauthorized’ transits of the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump apparently canceled new plans to hit Yemen with new air strikes, but that changes every day or two; so we’ll wait to see what actually happens.
The talk about peace rolls on without any actual progress and no reason to trust ‘our’ leaders when they talk peace out of one side of their mouths and threaten more war and sanctions and obliteration out of the other side. While the political thaatre continues and will have some big stories this week thanks to the United Nations summit in New York and President Xi’s visit with President Trump, but none of that will likely change anything in reality when it comes to the world economy and ongoing crises.
We’re going to wrap up this world news report with an odd story that got our attention – about a ‘missing’ F-35 shipment. The headlines are misleading, since what is supposedly missing is a shipment of parts being sent for repairs from Australia; and it seems convenient timing ahead of President Xi’s visit to make claims about the shipment disappearing in Hong Kong with the implications that the Chinese government took them. We won’t suggest that couldn’t happen, but if the parts are in ‘enemy’ hands now; that also suggests that our military security has some major holes in it if that can even happen at all! Considering the track record of the F-35 so far, if China actually wants to study how they’re made and what tech goes into them; that might be so they can learn what not to do when making their own next-gen fighter jets!
That’s enough for tonight. It is past-one now; we’re tired; and our Tuesday is going to be busier now because we’ll be adding in our first marching band practice after dinner to go along with the concert band, football, and cheer squad practices that were already on our schedule. Stay tuned for those stories; and we’ll get the sleep we still can to get ready for all of that fun.
Until next time, live with love, fellow Magi of the Light!
