So. . . what's new with you?

[Tripler]

I'm taking a break from an online Calculus 2 course, and don't feel like jumping back into it. Thought I'd procrastinate.

So. . . what's new with you?

Tripler
Waste my time, please.

[Solfy]

If you really want to kill a lot of time, you could read the "Unboxed At Last" thread.

I learned how to change backgrounds for Zoom meetings. My work group is having a Zoom-based happy hour on Thursday. The possibilities are endless.

[mjmlabs]

I've got a Zoom Happy Hour coming up, so now I have to try to remember all the different ways I'd disabled the webcam and microphone back when I bought this laptop. Hoping I didn't crack the case and snip the wiring.

ETA: I know I've opened the case a few times. Can't remember if I pulled wires during any of those innards-fiddlin's or not.

[Flying Saucerian]

Walked down to the local Krogers and noticed a sign in the window of the local bar: CLOSED: THANKS, DEWINE! (Our governor, who ordered all non-essential businesses closed) LOOK AT THE PARKING LOT AT KROGERS! NO CORONA THERE? THIS IS A JOKE!

Because, y'see, this guy sees no difference between a grocery store and a bar..

[Sunny Daze]

I have just taken a shower. This is an accomplishment, currently speaking. I have washed new sheets for the bed. We'll see where the afternoon takes me, but I might even put them on the bed.

Other than that, I'm going to re-plant some African Violets and maybe cook dinner. Or not.

[raventhief]

Originally Posted by Sunny Daze

I have just taken a shower. This is an accomplishment, currently speaking. I have washed new sheets for the bed. We'll see where the afternoon takes me, but I might even put them on the bed.

Other than that, I'm going to re-plant some African Violets and maybe cook dinner. Or not.

I washed my hair, and cooked meatloaf for dinner. Go us!

[Sputnik]

So many people with ambition. I feel lazy by comparison. I did find a half box of mini éclairs in the back of the fridge, hidden behind the tall jars. I don't remember them having green hair before.

[AuntiePam]

I'm gonna take a shower after supper. It's been awhile. I've been washing up at the kitchen sink cuz showering is hard, but I have new leisure wear (aka jammies) courtesy of JCPenney on-line, and nobody puts clean jammies on a stinky bod.

I resigned my part-time job, health reasons. Can't remember the last time I didn't have a paycheck coming in. A month or so in 2003, before that, a few months in 1990 while we relocated, then all the way back to 1968.

It will be weird!

[JackieLikesVariety]

hope you enjoy your retirement, Auntie Pam, congratulations. yay for the new PJs!

[3acres]

I went for a walk down to the end of the road and back, and I saw three woodpeckers. Then I mowed the grass. Now I have some coffee brewing, the bong is warmed up, I have the radio on, and I lit some incense.

[krisolov]

Worked, had 6 foot distant morning coffee outside with my neighbor who works with me. took a karate class thru zoom, got sweaty.

continued working on the never ending estate paperwork, so the karate class was a welcome break. Enjoying a post workout beer.

[Sunny Daze]

Originally Posted by Sputnik

So many people with ambition. I feel lazy by comparison. I did find a half box of mini éclairs in the back of the fridge, hidden behind the tall jars. I don't remember them having green hair before.

Is it meat? Is it cake? Meat cake! I'm sure it's fine.

Originally Posted by AuntiePam

I resigned my part-time job, health reasons. Can't remember the last time I didn't have a paycheck coming in. A month or so in 2003, before that, a few months in 1990 while we relocated, then all the way back to 1968.

It will be weird!

Good luck with the changes. I went through something similar a few years ago. It was an adjustment. I have to say that I still have nightmares about my last job, so getting out of that situation was for the best. I hope you will reap benefits as well.

To my list of accomplishments I wish to add that I have discovered yoga pants. I love them. So much. They are the best thing ever, after air conditioning.

[JackieLikesVariety]

yoga pants and air condition are two of the best things ever!

[Tripler]

Well, thank you all for the diversion. I had to spend another hour wrapping my head around ratio and root tests for infinite series' divergence/convergence testing.

I'll hit y'all up again tomorrow. For now, I need to get some snoozage.

Tripler
This is better than my first go-around with U-Substitution.

[Random Precision]

Calc2, eh? If all else fails, chain rule. Integration by parts is good too.

Had yesterday off for my 35th anniversary (35 years of wedded fucking bliss!) and the wife and I drove out to Granbury just to look at bluebonnets on the way and order takeout from a restaurant there. It was a bit surreal to see all of the usually bustling shops around the town square closed and tons of parking available.
Back at work from home today, but since I work from home normally, nothing new there.

[stormie]

I like calculus, now that I understand it. The path to understanding - well, shaolin monks should teach Calculus.

All you busy busy beavers! I saw two exciting things on two walks: someone was leaning out of their second story apartment to clean the windows, and playing music. I swear, people stopped to watch and listen. Item 2: someone was doing a toilet-paper-lawn-bowling challenge and recording it. Me, I just try to wear clothes that don't smell.

[Solfy]

Originally Posted by Tripler

Well, thank you all for the diversion. I had to spend another hour wrapping my head around ratio and root tests for infinite series' divergence/convergence testing.

Convergence/divergence is where I well and truly lost the thread in calculus.

[Jaglavak]

Calculus is just a math major's way of getting even for the fact that you are going to make more money.

[stormie]

[Rock]

Originally Posted by Random Precision

Calc2, eh? If all else fails, chain rule. Integration by parts is good too.

Had yesterday off for my 35th anniversary (35 years of wedded fucking bliss!) and the wife and I drove out to Granbury just to look at bluebonnets on the way and order takeout from a restaurant there. It was a bit surreal to see all of the usually bustling shops around the town square closed and tons of parking available.
Back at work from home today, but since I work from home normally, nothing new there.

Happy anniversary!

[Rock]

I haven't done much of anything the last two days. Did you get much snow up there yesterday, Tripler? We really only got a trace here but it was enough to piss me off. Tomorrow should be warm enough to go for a bike ride.

[thorny locust]

I pulled all the irrigation headers out of the strip of tall grass which had grown up around them, laid them out more or less neatly in a line next to that strip, got on the tractor and mowed the grass strip.

Also pulled some drip tape out of a field where it was in use last fall and moved it down to near the field I'll probably use it in next; which is almost dry enough to plant in.

Also patted four cats. And fed them. And fed me, though leftovers. And did some laundry. Will I wash the dishes tonight? Maybe . . .

[Rock]

I guess I did accomplish something today. I just finished off a can of Easy Cheese* that was unopened at 10 am. And a lot of club crackers.
Definitely gonna need that bike ride tomorrow.

*Made with real cheese

[Oxirane]

Originally Posted by thorny locust

I pulled all the irrigation headers out of the strip of tall grass which had grown up around them, laid them out more or less neatly in a line next to that strip, got on the tractor and mowed the grass strip.

Also pulled some drip tape out of a field where it was in use last fall and moved it down to near the field I'll probably use it in next; which is almost dry enough to plant in.

Also patted four cats. And fed them. And fed me, though leftovers. And did some laundry. Will I wash the dishes tonight? Maybe . . .

Where in upstate NY, locust? We're near Cap District, EtOH's in north central, near Lake Ontario, elmwood is Finger Lakes in the same town where I went to undergrad...

[Helena]

Originally Posted by Random Precision

Calc2, eh? If all else fails, chain rule. Integration by parts is good too.

Had yesterday off for my 35th anniversary (35 years of wedded fucking bliss!) and the wife and I drove out to Granbury just to look at bluebonnets on the way and order takeout from a restaurant there. It was a bit surreal to see all of the usually bustling shops around the town square closed and tons of parking available.
Back at work from home today, but since I work from home normally, nothing new there.

Happy Anniversary, Random and Mrs. Random!

[Oxirane]

Yes, Happy Anniversary, Mr. and Mrs. Random!! In this day and age, that's quite the accomplishment, we're in year 28, it's been tough at times, but we're in a really good place, Mrs. White is a patient and forgiving person...congratulations, that is quite the accomplishment!

[mjmlabs]

Happy Anniversary!

A moment's arithmetic reveals that it's been a coupla months shy of 33 years since the last time I thought about Calc II, or had reason to. Fck, that makes me feel old.

[Jaglavak]

Originally Posted by Bumbershoot

I guess I did accomplish something today. I just finished off a can of Easy Cheese* that was unopened at 10 am. And a lot of club crackers.

Listen I'm telling you. The fast lane may be fun now, but it'll burn you out before you know it. Take my advice. Slow down and enjoy life a little while you still can.

[Rock]

Originally Posted by Jaglavak

Listen I'm telling you. The fast lane may be fun now, but it'll burn you out before you know it. Take my advice. Slow down and enjoy life a little while you still can.

You are absolutely right. Maybe today I'll just sit around in my sweats and eat comfort food all day. Yeah, that'll be different from my normal routine...

[BJMoose]

I'm going to a medical facility every day this week. (Yesterday was the only trip for myself.) So much for stay-at-home.

[What Exit?]

Happy anniversary Random.

Originally Posted by Oxirane

Yes, Happy Anniversary, Mr. and Mrs. Random!! In this day and age, that's quite the accomplishment, we're in year 28, it's been tough at times, but we're in a really good place, Mrs. White is a patient and forgiving person...congratulations, that is quite the accomplishment!

We're going on 28 years. Hard to believe.

[Tripler]

Originally Posted by Random Precision

Calc2, eh? If all else fails, chain rule. Integration by parts is good too.

I hate integration by parts. I suspect its because my teacher has an ego bigger than the Cheeto Jeezus, and uses different terms/methods than the text book. I shelled out $180 for a full year of online tutoring, which is well worth it.

Originally Posted by Random Precision

Had yesterday off for my 35th anniversary (35 years of wedded fucking bliss!) and the wife and I drove out to Granbury just to look at bluebonnets on the way and order takeout from a restaurant there. It was a bit surreal to see all of the usually bustling shops around the town square closed and tons of parking available.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!

_{I'll be upon my first anniversary at the end of the month.}

Originally Posted by Bumbershoot

I haven't done much of anything the last two days. Did you get much snow up there yesterday, Tripler? We really only got a trace here but it was enough to piss me off. Tomorrow should be warm enough to go for a bike ride.

We got about 3 to 6 inches, depending on where you are in town. It mostly melted away by the end of yesterday though. . . Looks like thunderstorms over the weekend (20% chance).

Originally Posted by BJMoose

I'm going to a medical facility every day this week. (Yesterday was the only trip for myself.) So much for stay-at-home.

Oh man, I hope everything is okay, Moose.

Tripler
Up and rollin' with a cup of coffee.

[Wolf Larsen]

I'm drinking coffee and waiting for brain start. After that I shower and then work on the control theory class I'm doing. That will involve staring at root locus and bode plots and feeling my brain being permanently deformed. After that lunch. Then some cleanup and then go relearn the matrix transforms to go move triangles in three space and then transform them to two space in screen coordinates. Turns out writing unit tests for the inverse matrix function was hard because I kept getting rounding errors. I'd multiply the original matrix by its inverse to get the identity matrix, but the numbers had rounding errors.

I think I'm going to need a lot of coffee.

[Flying Saucerian]

I have become enchanted by the lady superimposed in a little box on the upper right corner of the screen who provides the sign language translations during the governor's daily speeches. She's an older lady, gray hair, floppy clothes, looks a little like Miss Hathaway from THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES and she is adorable. In addition to gesticulating wildly with all her might, she also pulls faces, pantomimes, I'm half-expecting her to pull out semaphore flags any second. She's gonna convey this speech to Ohio's deaf community if it kills her. She's so great.

[thorny locust]

Originally Posted by Oxirane

Where in upstate NY, locust? We're near Cap District, EtOH's in north central, near Lake Ontario, elmwood is Finger Lakes in the same town where I went to undergrad...

Finger Lakes; out in the hills near Seneca Lake.

Strawberry plants showed up today, and got stuck in the cooler. Not great planting weather today, and I need to seed a batch more transplants anyway; which can be done in the house. If we don't get significantly more wet today, the beds for the strawberries might be dry enough to run a cultivator over the top of them tomorrow. If we do, the plants will hold in the cooler for a while.

Most people seem to be either not in isolation, or not busy. I'm in isolation and I am busy -- (well, at the moment I seem to be goofing off online.)

[Iris]

I'm in isolation - with family. Last year sometime during Seattle's big real estate speculation period, my landlord doubled mine and I moved in with my sister and her family. Nowadays, I'm homeschooling! While my sister works from home in the basement, and her husband works from home in the attic, my nephew does his schoolwork in the dining room. I'd call myself his teacher, but mostly I'm his minder. I make sure he doesn't spend all day watching videos.

[Sunny Daze]

Happy anniversary to all the couples!

We're about to reach 27. We got married in LA during the Rodney King riots. It was memorable for multiple reasons. Then my son came along and insisted being born on May 2, so we really don't celebrate our anniversary much any more. Hmmm. I think I'll try ordering a few surprise items and try and make things festive. I'll try to have the dining room cleared off by then.

Originally Posted by BJMoose

I'm going to a medical facility every day this week. (Yesterday was the only trip for myself.) So much for stay-at-home.

Urg. Be careful. Stay safe. I hope everything is ok.

Originally Posted by Iris

I'm in isolation - with family. Last year sometime during Seattle's big real estate speculation period, my landlord doubled mine and I moved in with my sister and her family. Nowadays, I'm homeschooling! While my sister works from home in the basement, and her husband works from home in the attic, my nephew does his schoolwork in the dining room. I'd call myself his teacher, but mostly I'm his minder. I make sure he doesn't spend all day watching videos.

I'm doing the same thing with my kiddos. Let's just say that one of them is more committed than the other. On the other hand, I don't have to take them to school or pick them up. I think I prefer this.

[Pencil]

Went out for lunch.
Took a nap.


Dang. Been a busy day. I have to start planning tomorrow.

If we turn the wombat smiley upside down, would that work as a sloth smiley?

[silenus]

First time out of the house in 2 weeks and not for happy reason. Our smallest cat had been feeling poorly the last week or so. Took her to the vet (masked, curbside pickup) to discover she had congenital heart and liver disease that finally caught up with her. The other cats seem to know Brindle won't be coming back home. Not liking this year one little bit.

Sorry to bring everybody down. But I had to let her memory be known to the world.

Sorry, Tripler. I know that wasn't the sort of distraction from Calc2 you wanted. I stopped at Calc1, so you are a better man than I am, Gunga Trip.

[Solfy]

Aw, rest well, Brindle.

I am both isolated and busy. I love the smothering comforting weight of a big deadline looming on the horizon. Deadlines make things happen (or give nice, tidy boundaries to my procrastination). While I don't love juggling teaching vowel blends and two-digit subtraction while writing reports and generating spreadsheets, I do love waking up later and not having to catch any school busses.

Eldest went for a walk in the neighborhood today with her best friend. They maintained appropriate social distancing, and it sounds like it was good for the mental health of both.

[Rock]

Sorry to hear about Brindle, silenus. Losing a pet sucks.

[Helena]

Aw, silenus, I'm so sorry about little Brindle. Any time is hard, but this is a particularly hard time to lose a beastie.

[What Exit?]

Sorry silenus, that's very sad.

[Monstera deliciosa]

Originally Posted by Sunny Daze

Happy anniversary to all the couples!

We're about to reach 27. We got married in LA during the Rodney King riots. It was memorable for multiple reasons. Then my son came along and insisted being born on May 2, so we really don't celebrate our anniversary much any more. Hmmm. I think I'll try ordering a few surprise items and try and make things festive. I'll try to have the dining room cleared off by then.

If I'm reading this right, your anniversary is May 2. So is mine. It'll be our 17th (I didn't get married until I was 42. I'm sure my mother's sigh of relief was heard in the entire tri-state area.) Happy Anniversary to you, and to Random and everyone else who posted theirs.

Silenus, I'm so sorry to hear about Brindle.

As to what I am doing, well I've been working on my family tree on Ancestry dot com for years. I decided I wanted a physical record of my work, so I've been working on a binder of my ancestors. I've been printing off records, and gathering photographs. The last phase is going to be my writing a little story about each of the people I knew (parents and grandparents) and also whatever I've heard about the people I didn't get to know (great-grandparents and beyond).

[BJMoose]

For those wondering: no real medical problems here, just a lot of chauffeuring for me. Most of it is fallout from my wife's miniscus trimming a couple of weeks back -- P.T. on two days, gets the stitches yanked tomorrow. Today I took my oldest brother to an appointment (he doesn't drive). For myself, it was mostly the usual, pointless song-and-dance so I could get my blood pressure scripts renewed.

[Oxirane]

Originally Posted by What Exit?

We're going on 28 years. Hard to believe.

We are, too, I should have been clearer, September 4, 1992...

[JackieLikesVariety]

I'm sorry you lost Brindle, Silenus.

[Tripler]

Originally Posted by silenus

Sorry, Tripler. I know that wasn't the sort of distraction from Calc2 you wanted. I stopped at Calc1, so you are a better man than I am, Gunga Trip.

I have four cats; two from my own side, and two from my wife's side. We have a 'blended family,' and they're all roughly the same age. I will have my year too. But now, I'm sorry silenus. Pets are wonderful extensions of us, and we are extensions of them.

Tripler
Rest well, Brindle. It's a lotta work bringing all those smiles.

[What Exit?]

Originally Posted by Oxirane

We are, too, I should have been clearer, September 4, 1992...

So we're slightly ahead of you. Though from a different thread it sounds like you had a head start. Dating to marriage was only a year for us. A year later we bought our first house. First child came years later.
This was us in 1991.

Man, you would never guess my wife is actually older than me. I married out of my league.

[JackieLikesVariety]

good for you, Jim! I can tell she is cute, but not a great pic of you. still, it's nice to "see" you!