December 5th, 2024

Peanut butter toast starts a very cold day while Patience continues her newest obsession with hair clips, including one that Oxbear just printed for her

Yali and Patience find it necessary to add extra dollops of difficult on morning classes… Patience interrupting literature with random statements such as, “Hot milk is disgusting… there’s something wrong about it”

There’s pieces of elvish sword being printed downstairs for Yali’s newest interest as Puck leaves for the gym

Another Christmas film and “threaded spaghetti hot dog bites” which Yali helps me prepare for lunch… while they’re busy with that, I explore the 7.0-7.3 earthquake off the coast of northern California (tsunami warning issued, then canceled)

A nineteen degree windchill sends Patience and myself down to the studio for another ninety minute class… sitting in the car with a fleece blanket on my lap and a Ziploc of peanuts, working on various notebooks, books, and documents, spinning out a variety of Googled questions for research, including…

• When was the word “orange” first used as a color?
• How tall is five cubits?
• What are the Brooks of Gaash?
• Lucy Liu’s height

Back by seven-thirty…

Homemade cheeseburgers

Watch “Elementary” with Oxbear while he paints Yali’s elvish sword

Stuff Yali’s and Patience’s shoes sitting outside their bedroom door with Laffy Taffy (someone told them about Sinterklaas)