In the Future...

Maybe we'll all sleep on cool future beds like this, and during the night, the bed will heal cellular damage, or make us super-intelligent, or coordinate communication between the swarms of nanobots in our bloodstreams.



For now, blue light tables are only useful for jaundiced babies. Nora has too much bilirubin in her bloodstream, and her liver isn't up to the challenge of disposing of all of it. So, she needs help getting it out of her body. Some genius figured out that blue-wavelength light photoisomerizes (couldn't miss what might be my only lifelong opportunity to use that word) bilirubin, allowing her body to get rid of it. She should need the light table for a couple of days, and then be fine.

Things are good, everyone is fine. Nights are long, but hopefully Nora will learn the concepts of night and day sometime soon. I got into a little tussle with a mountain lion in the backyard yesterday. Luckily, I was able to overcome him, and protect my family, as any good father of two would. It was awesome, you totally should have seen it.

(substitute "my weedwacker" for "a mountain lion" in that last sentence for a strictly accurate account)