If you read this blog (semi-)regularly, you'll probably have noticed that numbers don't like me. Anything to do with numbers, in fact - dates, ages, birthdays, historical dates, statistics, time, distance - they hate me. Or perhaps it's more a sniggering contempt.
Look, they whisper amongst themselves, pointing in my direction.
She's trying to work something out again! Let's go scramble her brain...
Today was a good example. Something about the times/distances in
FirstLight ch. 9 was bugging me, and when I sat down with map, list of distances I've already worked out, plus the times in the book, I realised that I'd miscalculated. Cue about an hour's frantic activity while I cudgelled my brain (and Lutra's - thanks for the maths,
tenshi!) to get it right. Thank Babbage for calculators! The text is now correct, and I've started a document with the distances between the inhabited planets - but I need to draw a new, definitive map of the galaxy. Heh, that'll be fun! However, Kai's agreed to help me calculate the distances and times of travel, so with luck I'll have that done by the end of his Eostre break.
Yup, he's now on holiday until April 11
th. We have a list of things to do/places to go, and it looks like I'm not going to get a lot of time to myself. Blaise Castle, Museum and Brandon Hill, Cotham Park (and all the second-hand shops down the Gloucester Rd), a local train trip out to Aust, the cinema (
Robots is on at the Showcase, so will probably watch that. I'd much rather see
Constantine, but that will probably have to wait until it's out to rent), and I suggested we go swimming too. Haven't been in ages and I miss it. We're also hoping the weather is good: the garden needs a lot of work...
He had me laughing on the walk home from school - he's really turning into quite a comedian. And he brought home the slippers he made! They're great, and I would have taken a photo but I appear to have buggered up his camera: trying to download the last lot of shots I took I got a 'corrupt .exe' message, and the camera, although now empty, flashes up 'FULL' when I try to take a photo. (Any suggestions, Carol?) Damn gremlins... Looks like our first trip next week might be to Maplins. Or perhaps the
Special Reserve shop - after all, they fixed Nappa for me...
Ken had his monthly checkup at the hospital: no change (except for the better, he's further from being anaemic now than last time, so all the iron-rich green stuff I've been feeding him has obviously had some effect).
Food.
Morning: bowl of yoghurt, banana.
Dinner: jalfrezi (hot curry) of diced turkey, red and yellow peppers and organic onion, on organic rice, with organic plain yoghurt and coriander and garlic naan bread. I shall finish the rest of it later.
I've now cut the gold-beaded gold organza - and what fun that was! You ever want a laugh, come and watch me struggling to cut to size yards of fine material that wouldn't be out of place on a traditional Indian bride's outfit! But if I sew it tonight, we can probably get the whole thing finished and put up tomorrow.
Not that I can take any photos until I sort out the camera... [grump]
Haadri later.
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
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