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April fools.
Apr. 1st, 2011 12:45 pmIt's spitting snow. Spitting. Snow!
A snow day was called because of the few meager inches of snow on the ground and the false promise of more to come. I wonder when the last day of school will be now. June 27?
(I think it's really stupid of schools in NEW ENGLAND to not pad the schedule with the expectation of at least a week of snow days. Especially if they call them over a measly inch or two of the white shit. It's... parsimonious. It's also really disrespectful of the teachers.
"Oh, we can't have you work less than 180 days! Because your job is so cushy as it is!")
If there's an exceptional winter and there are more than 7 or 10 snow days, then yeah, make-up days should be added. But to need to replace every. single. day is just mean spirited.
Not that Page would be in school today even if there were school. His cough is now at the juicy stage. Ew.
But, he's amusing himself by making up math problems for me to solve. An example?
___ + ____ - ____ + ____ + ____ - (___) + ____ + ____ - ____ + ____ + ____ + (____) + ____ - ____ - ____ - ____ + ____ = 5,141,100,000,000,000
The solution to the last one he gave me was 2.21 x 10^21. Written out. I had to explain to him that the trickiness of the problem does not necessarily increase with the number of zeroes, though I'll admit they did get a little trickier to fill in when he added subtraction to the problems. And way more amusing.
Meanwhile, I need to go pay bills and send out my application (and very large check) for a local, organic CSA. I did the math and our food bill will pretty much end up even steven, if not actually a few dollars less per week. I'll still grow our favorite veggies in the back, like kale, broccoli, cucumbers and napa cabbage, but this will augment our diet nicely.
I'm just bummed that the 3 hours a month work memberships were filled. I was looking forward to it. Ach well. Probably better this way.
So off I go. *bug sigh* (<--- rather appropriate typo. I'll leave it.)
A snow day was called because of the few meager inches of snow on the ground and the false promise of more to come. I wonder when the last day of school will be now. June 27?
(I think it's really stupid of schools in NEW ENGLAND to not pad the schedule with the expectation of at least a week of snow days. Especially if they call them over a measly inch or two of the white shit. It's... parsimonious. It's also really disrespectful of the teachers.
"Oh, we can't have you work less than 180 days! Because your job is so cushy as it is!")
If there's an exceptional winter and there are more than 7 or 10 snow days, then yeah, make-up days should be added. But to need to replace every. single. day is just mean spirited.
Not that Page would be in school today even if there were school. His cough is now at the juicy stage. Ew.
But, he's amusing himself by making up math problems for me to solve. An example?
___ + ____ - ____ + ____ + ____ - (___) + ____ + ____ - ____ + ____ + ____ + (____) + ____ - ____ - ____ - ____ + ____ = 5,141,100,000,000,000
The solution to the last one he gave me was 2.21 x 10^21. Written out. I had to explain to him that the trickiness of the problem does not necessarily increase with the number of zeroes, though I'll admit they did get a little trickier to fill in when he added subtraction to the problems. And way more amusing.
Meanwhile, I need to go pay bills and send out my application (and very large check) for a local, organic CSA. I did the math and our food bill will pretty much end up even steven, if not actually a few dollars less per week. I'll still grow our favorite veggies in the back, like kale, broccoli, cucumbers and napa cabbage, but this will augment our diet nicely.
I'm just bummed that the 3 hours a month work memberships were filled. I was looking forward to it. Ach well. Probably better this way.
So off I go. *bug sigh* (<--- rather appropriate typo. I'll leave it.)
