We were asked to re-write a miracle story, but the only miracle stories I know are the biblical ones, and I don't really feel like doing those right now. On the other hand, how do you re-write your life?
How do re-write the converstion you have with your boss, when you tell him that you can't work tonight, because your wife is having a C-section?
Well, this was written based on "muddy creek", and some old ideas I had bouncing around in my head. It's way too short, because I forgot my memory stick with the story on it at work all weekend, and I don't have time to work on it today at work. Enjoy.
I'm looking for some recommendations for reading material. I read a lot. I get depressed and anxious when I don't have reading material available. I'm looking to build up a good list of books that I can order from the inter-library loan to keep myself supplied.
I should know better, but I tried to have a discussion on another site today, and got accused of poor basic math skills. Being generally thick skinned, I shot right back, but the other person insisted on being wrong. Can someone answer a question for me?
So imagine that each person has three kids on average.
Given this, would anyone care to tell me how many siblings an average child has? Assume for the moment all children survive.
Wow... Two journals in two days. That's unusual for me. FYI, Memtest confirmed that I've got bad memory sticks, and of course... I'm just outside the 30-day return window. So, $70 down the drain, and I've got to scrape it up again to get a stable machine. It'll be a few weeks.
OK, so fate and finances have determined that I won't be building myself a new PC anytime soon. What I did do is get myself some new memory, replacing my 2 256M PC2100 chips with 2 512M PC2100 chips. I would have gone higher, but my current motherboard tops out at 1G. Now for the weirdness:
I'm hoping to put together a new PC. I'm hoping to build it myself, mostly because I want to have an upgrade path available, and I hate trying to fit my big hands into those tiny little cases you get from Dell and HP. I'm am, however, more interested in power than upgradability, so if I get a big increase in power for my cash, I could conceivably go with a pre-built system.
This will not be a political rant. We've got a good showing of political journals in the zoo, and I'm not one of them. But I did find this article interesting, and while not terribly surprising, it does make you think. Gives more support to my personal conviction that what we really need is a Constitutional Convention.
David Brin's American Democracy: More Fragile Than We Think
As I've mentioned twice in comments now, I participated in the 2-question quiz. Unfortunately, it did me no good. While I actually answered "BZ", I was pretty much flipping a coin between B and C, and again between X and Z.
I think I know why, though. And it's not just because a 2 question test is so uselessly general as to be no more than a game. In fact, it has a lot to do with who I am, as opposed to who I think I am.
I've been under a lot of stress lately. Mostly work related. And a good deal of it is my fault. I feel like writing about it. It's long.
I've been working on a large project for several months now. We had almost gotten to where we were ready to test, and it got rolled into an even larger project.
My oldest son is having trouble with his grades. He's having numerous problems, but the end result is that he's failing one class, and his grades went down this quarter in every class. Letters to/from school and a parent/teacher conference tells me that he's having trouble getting projects completed. Testing is always good. Daily homework seems to be good, though he has some failings there. Anything that requires work over an extended time period, or more than average effort, doesn't get
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster. - Voltaire