06/23/2012

1.  I woke up to the sound of boys splashing in the pool at 7:00 AM.  Not so awesome because I was up really late last night painting doors (I also figured out how to use our router to cut grooves for the hinges and hardware on our new doors).  They all had a great time, though, lack of sleep notwithstanding.  :-)  For a while in the morning after swimming and eating some pancakes, they all played the "power game" (a game made up by Joseph which I don't fully understand yet), and then messed around up on the room until it got too hot. 

2.  For the rest of the day we worked on more house stuff, interspersed with Ben working and me doing laundry and cleaning up.  Ben and Brigham got the upstairs light fixture in.  This was the one that Ben accidentally partially ran over in his car.  Oops.  One of the glass globes broke and we're going to have to buy a new one.  And the light fixture itself is a little crooked as a result.  Oh well.  We also discovered that the wall behind the light fixture in the boys bathroom is still covered with wall-paper (all the rest has been removed already), and the hole is slightly bigger than the round base of the fixture.  Double oops!  So after brainstorming for a while, Ben pointed out that the lid to a cool whip container is slightly bigger than the base of the fixture, and so could be used to cover the hole behind the new fixture.  Joseph spray-painted it silver to match the light fixture.  And, it kind of works!  I painted more doors. 

3.  We had pizza for dinner while watching a Star Trek episode.  I wanted the boys in bed early!
After they went to bed, I was procrastinating going to the grocery store, and came across this awesomely cool thing-- called holophonic recording (or binaural recording--google it, it's pretty cool to read about).  It's basically "3D" recordings.  You listen to it with headphones, and it is the weirdest phenomenon I've encountered in a long while-- the noises sound like they are literally happening in the room *right there.*  It is so incredibly odd.  I can't explain it-- you have to listen.  It only works with headphones, though.  Here are a couple of recordings.  So, so cool!