01 OCT 25

Yali feels like his teeth are attacking him that morning... so after a dose of Tylenol switch on some Harry Potter for the mopey fellow while he stays home with the big boys...

...as Patience and myself spritz over to the old school for another volunteer shift... a little conversation with the soon-departing Head of School... and some light filing...

Home for a few classes where Yali is feeling improved but they're both a little tired and by the time Patience opens Genesis to read... “So Abram went down to Epcot”... we're crashin' a little...

...Yali has already commandeered my laptop to research glass eyeballs on Amazon anyway...

Meanwhile Puck has also emerged to join the fun before another shift in Produce... gets busy chatting about criminal violence and IQ and Libertarianism before Patience and I drop him off at the store on the way to the studio...

Evening is for bowls of hot cheesy rice and steak...

...Puck texting me from work about the power going out for unexplained reasons...

...while I'm pondering the final IKEA Ivar pine chair lying in crumbles on the living room floor... it was about to snap apart anyway... Puck had just “helped it along a little”... wondering how my kids have somehow managed to destroy eight solid wood chairs in the past nine years...

Puck is walking out to the corner as I pull up around eight o'clock... carrying a large box of eleven boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch... **grins** “They were for free in the break room!”

For grins : partial Googling record of September...

  • Origin of White Castle restaurant
  • What's spumoni?
  • Was Tchaikovsky used in “Star Wars”?
  • Definition of paramilitary
  • Tasha Tudor's age at death
  • How far does a bee fly to collect pollen?
  • Name of the chemical added to natural gas
  • What is croque monsieur?
  • Name of principal character in “The Martian”
  • What did the Large Hadron Collider determine regarding the Higgs ocean?
  • Kevin James net worth
  • Why are they called wisdom teeth?
  • Is Arkansas considered part of the Midwest?
  • What exactly is Moo Shu?
  • How long does a caterpillar stay in its chrysalis?
  • Percentage of U.S. population that has served in the military
  • What year was the FDA established?
  • When were quarks discovered?
  • What year did Washington become a state?
  • Are there any pancake houses in Ukraine?

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