undersea

I have just come from an underwater paradise having helped to create a kelp forests in Jo's dining room aka the "computer and art room".

I also wish to add that as soon as she left the house for a few moments, one of her darling offspring began asking ominous questions about "those two things you mix together an then they sort of, like, explode, and that makes helium? Can we put it in the balloons? It would be like a scientific experiment." Being who I am, I know that she is thinking of mixing baking soda and vinegar and is feeling hopeful about separating water into O2 and H2... I leave the room to check on other screaming kids (Moomin and Sophie) and send them to their corners... back into kitchen where vinegar has been found and there is something happening with a jar and a balloon... This not a good time to create more chaos and we must return to taping kelp streamers to the ceiling. I go back to the other guys. Sophie has somewhere obtained a sharp, tetanusy object that is sort of like a miniature Sophie sized ripsaw. You could murder someone with it. I remove the object...

Then all was quiet and there was no more nonsense for the next half hour. Go, me!

I was impressed with Eliz.'s analytical and persuasive powers. I had drawn a diagram of my plan for kelp-stringing on a paper, and she drew a completely legible counter-drawing of HER plan and coherently explained the plan to me.

I have a mad yearning to go to radio shack and buy some crap and do the hydrolysis experiment with upside down test tubes. maybe my dad will send me my old voltmeter thingie... if they still have it?