So, as you can imagine, I spent most of yesterday brooding and frowningly doing algebra.
Brooding on the candle issue, and frowning because I still cannot understand this thing they call logarithms.
And also (this should not surprise those readers paying close attention), I COULD NOT let the candle thing go.
I couldn't let it go. A thirteen dollar and ninety-eight freaking cent candle! I couldn't let it go.
So I called the post office, and I called the local police and town hall and said that my mail deliveries are being intercepted and I want to go on record as stating this. And then I got online and filed an official, heh, federal complaint.
Blah blah, there is apparently something seriously wrong with me to react this way over the disappearance of a flipping candle.
And later in the afternoon I decided to take some trash out before going to tutoring and so I trudged down the muddy hill... and of course sitting there at the bottom of my driveway was my flipping candle. Just sitting there. Not hurt or anything, just sitting there.
And of course I imagine any one of the local people I complained to getting on the phone to various people, going, "That crazy hippie bitch is having a fit about some candle! She's going to bring in the Feds! Unless she gets that candle back!"
And voila. My candle, it is back.
Maybe I'm paranoid. (MAYBE???)
Maybe I really am crazy. (MAYBE???)
But my candle sure smelled nice, burning on my bookcase last evening
Now if I can just figure some way to get fucking Fran to send me the fucking money he promised....
***
In other news, there is more snow outside than I have ever seen in my life.
And I'm not impressed. I'm not delighted. I don't like it at all.
It's just a whole bunch of cold. And I'm going to have to go out and drive in it. Soon, even though the schools are delayed a couple hours.
What are you supposed to do with all this flipping snow? There must be, damn!, five inches on my porch! Trinity's chihuahua Ghostey sunk over his head when I forced him to go out to pee real' fast!
Five inches of freaking snow! What the hell?
(This is the point where all you people with, like, I don't know, snow yards deep, roll your eyes.)
So I'm watching CNN. I'll wake the kids in a little bit. 60% of Texas voters have voted early. Can you believe it? I find the whole thing fascinating.
But I better go.
(Take back this dumb snow!!! I said, SEND BEER! Not SNOW!!!).
***
P.S. Here's the race stats for my town:
I think it's clear that they have grouped my kids and I in the "Other" category.
Brooding on the candle issue, and frowning because I still cannot understand this thing they call logarithms.
And also (this should not surprise those readers paying close attention), I COULD NOT let the candle thing go.
I couldn't let it go. A thirteen dollar and ninety-eight freaking cent candle! I couldn't let it go.
So I called the post office, and I called the local police and town hall and said that my mail deliveries are being intercepted and I want to go on record as stating this. And then I got online and filed an official, heh, federal complaint.
Blah blah, there is apparently something seriously wrong with me to react this way over the disappearance of a flipping candle.
And later in the afternoon I decided to take some trash out before going to tutoring and so I trudged down the muddy hill... and of course sitting there at the bottom of my driveway was my flipping candle. Just sitting there. Not hurt or anything, just sitting there.
And of course I imagine any one of the local people I complained to getting on the phone to various people, going, "That crazy hippie bitch is having a fit about some candle! She's going to bring in the Feds! Unless she gets that candle back!"
And voila. My candle, it is back.
Maybe I'm paranoid. (MAYBE???)
Maybe I really am crazy. (MAYBE???)
But my candle sure smelled nice, burning on my bookcase last evening
Now if I can just figure some way to get fucking Fran to send me the fucking money he promised....
***
In other news, there is more snow outside than I have ever seen in my life.
And I'm not impressed. I'm not delighted. I don't like it at all.
It's just a whole bunch of cold. And I'm going to have to go out and drive in it. Soon, even though the schools are delayed a couple hours.
What are you supposed to do with all this flipping snow? There must be, damn!, five inches on my porch! Trinity's chihuahua Ghostey sunk over his head when I forced him to go out to pee real' fast!
Five inches of freaking snow! What the hell?
(This is the point where all you people with, like, I don't know, snow yards deep, roll your eyes.)
So I'm watching CNN. I'll wake the kids in a little bit. 60% of Texas voters have voted early. Can you believe it? I find the whole thing fascinating.
But I better go.
(Take back this dumb snow!!! I said, SEND BEER! Not SNOW!!!).
***
P.S. Here's the race stats for my town:
Races in *******:
- White Non-Hispanic (94.5%)
- American Indian (2.5%)
- Two or more races (2.4%)
- Hispanic (1.7%)
- Other race (0.9%)
I think it's clear that they have grouped my kids and I in the "Other" category.
I bet the candle did smell good 'cause that was the smell of victory n___n A small victory perhaps, but hey, a win is a win. Good for you!
You're officially (if my opinion can be counted as official)getting more snow in flipping Texas than we are here in New Jersey. Maybe I should go did in my yard to see if I strike oil. (Here's a little story 'bout a man named Dave.....)
Hard for me to imagine anyone that hasn't seen five inches of snow - it's so 'normal' around here, we forget that parts of the country NEVER see snow.
You got snow, we had 65 degrees yesterday. Don't sweat it though, I hear we're getting pounded tonight - and not in a good way.
'Bout them logs and all - are you being limited to base 10 and natural logs (2.71something) and 'e', or are you getting all crazy and doing logs to different base numbers?
You can kind of sneak up on logarithms using algebra,
with the whole "adding exponents" method of multiplying,
using integer exponents. Like, y raised to the 4th power
times y raised to the 2nd power is clearly y raised to
the 6th power ((Y x Y x Y x Y)(Y x Y) = Y x Y x Y x Y x Y x Y).
Then you use the your selected base (10 for common logs, e for
natural logs, 2 for binary logs, and so on), and substitute
that in for Y.
Then you generalize to noninteger powers. You know that something
raised to the 2.5 power is somewhere between the same something
raised to the 2nd power and the 3rd power. You could approximate
some fractional logs, like say 10 raised to the 2.5th power would
be the same as the square root of 10 raised to the fifth power,
or 316.2mumble, and look up the log of 316 to see that its log is
about 2.5.
Then you can approximate some weird fractional powers of 10 using
a table of common logarithms, to convince yourself that it really
works. Feel free to use a calculator with a log function instead of
a paper based table.