Exciting new discovery!

Rhys, this afternoon, made a very exciting discovery.

It has long been known that Chez Gargoyle, our house, consists of a very large number of rooms, such as the Living Room (for playing and nursing during the daytime), the Kitchen (for eating in, and watching Mommy and Daddy cook and eat), the Nursery (for sleeping in during the first half of the night, and also for getting changed), the Bathroom (for baths), and the Bedroom (for sleeping in during the second half of the night, and playing a bit while Mommy and Daddy get dressed).

But, up to now, these rooms have existed largely in isolation. While we do exist first in one room, then in another, then in a third, it has not hitherto been possible to:

1. Determine the relationship of the various rooms to each other;
2. Predict with any assurance when we might find ourselves in another room;
3. Take any action which reliably will move us from one room to another (though defecation comes close, as a way to fairly quickly move to the Nursery);

Today's discovery answers the first of these concerns, gives some information about the second, and, most amazingly of all, answers the third as well.

Using the newly-discovered technologies of creeping and, in particular, crawling, one may go from one room to another!

This was first observed this afternoon shortly before dinnertime. Rhys and Mommy were in the Living Room, playing. Daddy was in the Kitchen for some mysterious and garlic-scented purpose. Rhys chose to experiment with the new technology and -- mirabilis scriptu -- moved from the Living Room to the Kitchen! In this place he was able to observe Daddy's actions, and to even investigate bits of garlic on the floor.

To be sure, it was not entirely without mishap. On the way to the kitchen, Rhys encountered painful barriers -- it seems that the walls are not the simple, passive, innocuous boundary objects that they seem. Instead they are capable of malevolant action -- reaching out with their sharp corners and swatting the intrepid crawlonaut in the forehead! Precautions must be taken to avoid this in the future. But these precautions will not include either (1) protective headgear, or (2) more careful choice of direction of crawlation.

Rhys, like any careful scientist, suspected that this might be a fluke, a misunderstood event, an abberation. He repeated the experiment with variations -- and -- it worked! He succeeded in crawling from the Living Room to the Nursery, and thence to the Bathroom.

It is impossible to predict how this discovery will change society, but we are sure that it will have impressive consequences indeed. Imagine -- being able to go to the Kitchen any time you are hungry, or to the Living Room any time you wish to play!