do the math

I'm annoyed that Conan is not going to be stopping anywhere within a 7 hour drive in the midwest, so I'm not going. 'Sides, the Chicago shows are both sold out.

[I imagine he'll end up somewhere in town here (probably the Orleans) but, again, the tickets are ridiculous. -- GW]

I feel so much more connect to Albert now. Indeed I do!

[I've always felt a bit of kinship to him: he strikes me as being dissociated from the outside world by his ideas, which, till I discovered blogging, is how I felt my whole life. I still don't feel exactly like everyone else, but I have enough matching points with enough individuals that I can get by a little more easily. -- GW]

Let's face it: "The Mom" is very cool about these matters! :D)

[Any pretext at cool to which I aspire, I inherit the genes from her. -- GW]

The only thing I refuse to do that I hate, to get on with the rest of my life, is housework. I'm sorry, but I've done my share and my kids need to learn how and when to do it.

It may not be the theory of relativity but its my theory!! :)

[If you can't use your offspring as slave labor, what's the point? -- GW]

When I dropped out of college after only two semesters, my mother stated, "Well, you just wasted a year of your life."
I said, "No, YOU (meaning you and Dad, the ones who wanted me to go to college) just wasted a year of my life."
My smarmy retort got me grounded, at age 19.

[You didn't waste anything, even if all you learned is that you don't do well in a classroom setting and you thrive better in the Real World. -- GW]

nothing ever learned is wasted, but what is learned is also easily unlearned.

[With me, it has to be something I really don't want to know. for me to learn it just long enough for the quiz or whatever. For the most part, if I learned it long enough to use it in school, I still have it, whether I want it or not.]

[That could explain why I still know all the words to "The Alligator King Song" from Sesame Street, but keep having to stop and think about how to spell "occurrence." -- GW]

Is Math the same thing as Maths?

[I don't know. I always thought it was, but maybe "maths" is one of those words where I keep on using that word but it does not mean what I think it means.]

Also, the coolest thing Einstein ever did was split the beer atom.

[I'm too selfish to split a beer, myself. Get your own, that's my motto. -- GW]

occurrances. i have sympathy.
i have a problem with different. i want to spell it with an a, as in differant. it bothers me that i organically want to spell it that way.
i'll never understand the universe unil i understand myself, which will never happen because i'm differant.
maybe in lieu of understanding the universe, we can think of ourselves as being self aware?
there's more wiggle room that way. being self aware allows a certain amount of error and rationalization.
occurrances can become mere incidents when applied with some wiggle room.

[I think that all goes along very nicely with my theory that the reason we will never achieve world peace is that we usually don't even agree with some of the people in the same room. -- GW]