We were running low on gasoline-making supplies, so we spent yesterday harvesting. Husband found corn farms south of Tulsa. The corn here is different from Eorzea millioncorn; the individual bits of corn ("kernels") are larger, and the taste is not as sweet.

Husband had bought a gallon of corn oil when we started. Even given the failed recipes, we had used almost all of it. We did not have a recipe for corn oil, but Husband thought it would be similar in principle to making olive oil, and that writing a recipe should not be hard. I was happy to write a recipe that did not explode.

We saw Deputy Frank in the diner yesterday evening. Husband invited him to try our pretzels and pies, but all he ordered was coffee. He stayed a long time at the counter, longer than most people who are by themselves usually stay. The regular children did not stay as long while he was there. I think he makes them nervous. We did not sell as much food as usual.

Today we took the bus to Tulsa and went to a store called Best Buy. It appears to mostly sell machines. Husband spent what looked like a lot of our money on two computers, two phones, and two things he called "wifi routers". He said the wifi routers will let the computers talk to the internet without wires, that "wifi" is a form of "radio". He said radio is a type of light that we cannot see but that machines can. I am not sure I understand about light that we cannot see.

Wikipedia has a very long answer about radio. Google gave me something about a very long cat except that there is no cat. I wondered why computers do not talk to each other the way phones do, but then learned that phones use radio too. I had thought that phones worked like linkpearls. I now think I do not know how linkpearls work. Googling linkpearls only gives me results for Final Fantasy Fourteen.

The computers Husband bought, which he calls "laptops", are much smaller than the library computers, which makes them harder to read and type on. But they are small and light, and they fold like a book, and they do not need wires all the time, though Husband showed me the battery charge on the screen and told me I need to plug the computer in when the charge is too small.

He installed one wifi router at home and did things to the computers to make them connect to it. I am now typing on my computer in the bedroom. I still want to go to the library, though. Husband thinks the library may have wifi, so I might be able to take my computer there if I wish. I can type anywhere, but if I want to see email or research things with my computer I need wifi or what Husband calls a "hardwire connection".

Husband called the phones "prepaid". He said it means they will only work for a certain amount of talking before we need to pay someone money. Original Him's phone uses a "monthly account", but getting that sort of phone would require ID. Now that these are bought and activated, we have phone numbers we can give to people. We have given those numbers to Sam and the Hartmans. Husband does not think I should give it to Myra, that "the less she knows about us, the better." Yet he gave a phone number to Leon that was different than the one for his phone.

Tomorrow we will go back to the Walmart and once again look at bicycles. Husband still wants to build one as a project, but his project list is getting long, and we can use the bicycles right away. We will also buy the light fixtures and offer money to Sam's friend Trevor to install them.

All of this amounts to about two thousand of my fifty-five hundred dollars. I told Husband it is our money, and it is. We are each doing things to build our lives here. Yet it seems like the money is being spent almost as quickly and easily as it was made. Perhaps that is how people live in this world, especially if they have nothing to begin with. And we have more than we had before.

We have divided up the remaining twenty-five hundred dollars, with a thousand for Husband and the rest for me. I still do not know what I want to do with money. We can make much of what we need. I can buy clothes I do not have recipes for, and perhaps make recipes for them, but they are not as practical or useful if I do not have glamour crystals.

Husband has bought things from Amazon. Perhaps I should see what Amazon has for sale.