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Saturday
Saturday was another relaxing day. Aaron and I played D&D, I played Minecraft with IL6, dad took us out to eat, and Aaron played Minecraft with IL6.
Sunday
Sunday, IL6 and I went to Olive Garden with my friend Liz. Then I played Minecraft with him and read. Aaron mowed the lawn and played Minecraft with IL6, as well.
Monday
Monday was a bit slow. I was feeling achy, nauseated, and headachy, so I avoided getting up and around. Aaron and I had an appointment by Zoom then I played Minecraft with IL6. I also read. Dad complained of the same symptoms I had. Then D15 and Aaron went to her orientation at the high school to walk her schedule and meet her teachers. She came back feeling the same symptoms as dad and me.
Tuesday
Tuesday felt busy. D15 had an appointment in the morning. Then dad had an at-home appointment. M13 weeded. Afterwards, I took dad to Target to buy a few things for school that I somehow lost. But Target had already taken down their school area! Before school started! So we went to Walmart. Which had a better display than Target does, when it has a display! I got almost everything I needed (composition notebooks didn’t come in red). Then dad and I went to the bank and the pharmacy.
Upon reaching home, I prepared several things for mailing out, ran to the post office and picked up IL6. We are working on listening to the music we got from the library. Then I filled three pillboxes. My friend Liz came over, and we started the new Doctor Who on Disney (with Aaron, dad, M13, and D15), since HBO took down Doctor Who! Before we finished! I’m not sure about the new reboot, it seems aimed at a younger audience.
Wednesday
Wednesday was a busy and sad day. After work in the morning, I rushed to pick up IL6 for his meet-and-greet with his new teacher. They got along pretty well. While there, I heard about the shooting at the school in Minneapolis. That was incredibly scary and sad. It ruined my mood for the rest of the day.
Afterwards, I took dad to get a new recliner, popped by Toyota to get a new battery in my key, and dropped off a form at my pediatrician. I made 3 phone calls and made dad’s bed.
I had an hour off in which I doom scrolled. Dad’s at-home NP came because he’d coughed up blood. She decided it wasn’t a pulmonary embolism.
Then I took IL6 to an appointment, followed by an open house at the school. He really enjoyed the open house.
It was M12 and D15’s first day of school. Neither of them enjoyed it very much.
Thursday
Thursday was more relaxing than Wednesday. Aaron and I had a telehealth appointment which advised us on how to deal with IL6’s difficulties. She suggested completely ignoring a temper tantrum and let him beat me up. She said it would get worse before it got better. It got pretty bad.
Then I spent the rest of the day getting stuff done around the house. I got a little bit of reading done. In the evening, I had D&D. I’m getting pretty far in my cross-stitch!
Friday
Friday was good. I took IL6 to speech and M13 to the orthodontist. (Nobody had work or school.) Then Aaron, M13, IL6 and I went camping. We had a fire and played “monster hunt” with Loki. I got a couple hours of reading done.
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Reading to myself
- Shadow of the Gods, by John Gwynne
- Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew, by Ellen Notbohm
- A Survey of Hinduism, by Klaus K Klostermaier
- The Economist: All-American Silicon
- Gulag Archipelago, by Aleksandr Solzhenitzyn
- The Week: Mission Impossible
- The Age of Henry VIII, by Dale Hoak
Reading to IL5
- Dragonbreath: No Such Thing as Ghosts, by Ursula Vernon
- My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish, by Mo O’Hara
- Inspector Flytrap, by Tom Angleberger
Media Completed
Danny, Wendell, and a skeptic end up in a haunted house.
In this slightly fictional narrative history, Solzhenitzyn describes the history and first steps of getting to a Soviet gulag. He covers laws, arrests, interrogations, pre-gulag jails, and transfer of prisoners. He includes a “me” which is only loosely his own story. I find the history and descriptions interesting, but was lost in some of the history, so there were long boring parts to me. The writing was also dense.
Hibernator's Library 