Cycling, Python and Worms
What do they all have in common? Me!
I've ridden my bike to work 3 days in a row now, riding home at lunch as well. I noticed today on my ride back to work after lunch, that my butt wasn't even hurting as bad from the seat. This makes me very happy. I really do think that I want to get different tires, but it's hard to justify the cost when the ones that are on there are perfectly good, if not particularly well suited to the type of riding I do. I'll have to look into what sort of cost I'd be looking at, and see if it's not too bad.
My geek proficiency is lacking in the computer department, and has been for some time, as I never really learned to program. In an effort to decrease my deficiency, I've downloaded Alan Gauld's 'tutorialV3' for Python, and am teaching myself the basics of programming. We'll see where I go from there. It feels good to be actively teaching myself something useful. One thing that I am having to accept is that I don't hate math. I think I've always known that, and I think that what it boils down to really is that I hate the way math is taught in most classrooms. Well, I'm not in a classroom, and nobody is going to tell me I did it wrong even though I got the right answer and can reproduce my method, so math doesn't seem so daunting. I suppose in all actuality I probably need an attitude adjustment when it comes to math instruction: After all, an instructor isn't really trying to teach you to get right answers, well not wholly anyhow, an instructors goal is to teach you a method or variety of methods from which you can produce right answers. Not every method may work as well for every person, but as they all build on one another, or are related in some way, it behooves the student to do their best to learn each individual method. So, mea culpa, math instructors of years past, I was a lousy student. Most of you were still arrogant egotistical jerks, though, and I don't know how you expect to excite people about your subject matter with attitudes like that. :-P
An integral part of fishing is bait, be it live, dead or artificial; and an integral part of live bait (quite often the most effective) is worms. Jerry has talked about building a worm bed, so that we might raise our own, and I think that it's a very good idea. Worms come in a carton of 12, which costs $2.99. The problem with this is that you aren't guaranteed a fish for every worm, as some fish manage to eat the worm off the hook without being caught. Granted it's still relatively inexpensive entertainment, but I'll take free over cheap any day. I love heading down to the river with my wife after work and fishing for a few hours. It gives us time to just be together, talk a bit here and there, but mostly just be together. I love that our relationship isn't based on having to talk all the time. Don't get me wrong, I love talking with Katie, however, it's also nice just to be out doing something together and being comfortable not saying much.
I've ridden my bike to work 3 days in a row now, riding home at lunch as well. I noticed today on my ride back to work after lunch, that my butt wasn't even hurting as bad from the seat. This makes me very happy. I really do think that I want to get different tires, but it's hard to justify the cost when the ones that are on there are perfectly good, if not particularly well suited to the type of riding I do. I'll have to look into what sort of cost I'd be looking at, and see if it's not too bad.
My geek proficiency is lacking in the computer department, and has been for some time, as I never really learned to program. In an effort to decrease my deficiency, I've downloaded Alan Gauld's 'tutorialV3' for Python, and am teaching myself the basics of programming. We'll see where I go from there. It feels good to be actively teaching myself something useful. One thing that I am having to accept is that I don't hate math. I think I've always known that, and I think that what it boils down to really is that I hate the way math is taught in most classrooms. Well, I'm not in a classroom, and nobody is going to tell me I did it wrong even though I got the right answer and can reproduce my method, so math doesn't seem so daunting. I suppose in all actuality I probably need an attitude adjustment when it comes to math instruction: After all, an instructor isn't really trying to teach you to get right answers, well not wholly anyhow, an instructors goal is to teach you a method or variety of methods from which you can produce right answers. Not every method may work as well for every person, but as they all build on one another, or are related in some way, it behooves the student to do their best to learn each individual method. So, mea culpa, math instructors of years past, I was a lousy student. Most of you were still arrogant egotistical jerks, though, and I don't know how you expect to excite people about your subject matter with attitudes like that. :-P
An integral part of fishing is bait, be it live, dead or artificial; and an integral part of live bait (quite often the most effective) is worms. Jerry has talked about building a worm bed, so that we might raise our own, and I think that it's a very good idea. Worms come in a carton of 12, which costs $2.99. The problem with this is that you aren't guaranteed a fish for every worm, as some fish manage to eat the worm off the hook without being caught. Granted it's still relatively inexpensive entertainment, but I'll take free over cheap any day. I love heading down to the river with my wife after work and fishing for a few hours. It gives us time to just be together, talk a bit here and there, but mostly just be together. I love that our relationship isn't based on having to talk all the time. Don't get me wrong, I love talking with Katie, however, it's also nice just to be out doing something together and being comfortable not saying much.