The question is, can we sustain it without too much damage to the ship? These past two weeks have been wild, getting back to work, back to fencing, back to meetings, back to school. And school starts 40 minutes earlier. That doesn't seem like too much on paper, but at 7am, it makes a difference. I shouldn't complain because school still doesn't start until 8:30 and my boys don't have to get out the door til 8, but mornings are hard for one of my guys.
It's fairly stunning how quickly we go from the lazy days of summer where the boys and I had very little we HAD to do to this madcap pace of fall. We kept busy this summer and went on a serious number of adventures, but they were on our own terms for the most part. Now it feels like we are roaring down a treadmill set a notch too quickly but we can't take our hands off the railings long enough to turn the damn thing down. We're holding on for dear life. And we don't even really do sports on any type of serious level. The kids go to the fencing club when it works. We try to make it work twice a week so that it seems 'affordable', but we don't have to. I don't know how people function who have more kids doing more things.
Anyway- over the course of these last two weeks I kept seeing Luke and Han Solo bouncing around in their dumb old ricketly airship (i don't know what it's called and my boys will kill me for that) as they are trying to 'make the jump to light speed'. For a while there you don't know if the whole thing is going to crack up, but then they blast through and all is calm. They are cruising at light speed. This morning it finally felt like we have the systems in place to keep this machine running at this speed. I'm sure we will run in to an asteriod belt here soon and have to make some adjustments, but for right now we seem to be through the transition.
The question is, how long can you cruise at light speed before you burn through all of you fuel?
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