11 NOV 25

“Patience... time to get up...” // **rubs eyes** “Again?”... feelin' ya kid...

Sitting through classes at the table teaching how to calculate a perimeter... begin staring off into space as I will do... Yali notices this and begins vocalizing the theme to The X Files... then starts flicking pencils across the room at Patience and booing at her for no very good reason... and feeding pieces of Stranger Things dry cereal with a pair of pliers to the dog...

Later he's walking around in his suit looking very double-O-7... asking about black bowties...

And Patience hustles into the kitchen looking for diversion... “Where's Puck?” // “Just went into his room” // “Aw! I wanted to taunt him!”...

...as the dog also runs in tail wagging crazy looking eagerly for the corndogs Patience has just tossed into the microwave...

By dinnertime Yali's actually vocalizing the James Bond theme song while running around the house booby-trapping it with a fat roll of yarn in Spanish pink... the roll rockets over the long-busted “flying saucer” light fixture above the dinner table... “HAHAHAHAHA!” // “Yali... is there a point to this? Are you trying to boobytrap someone?” // **wicked grin** “It's for Puck!”...

It's after nine o'clock as Patience and I roll back up from the studio in time for a glow of watermelon in the sky... great wash of electric pink under-lighted by a ribbon of green... the best Missouri has been sent in some very long time...