You Never Know!
Meanwhile, life goes on. Our friends from the Twin Cities, Bob and Phil, spent the night on their way from St Paul to Toronto. They will soon be new Canadians and are looking forward to the big change in their lives. Bob starts his new job in November and they are desperate to find housing in the big city before then. They thought they had found something, but turns out the sub-lease would have been illegal. So they are back to square one with their search.
Bob is not very sanguine (inside joke) about their finding a suitable place easily or quickly. Robbie and I have assured him that it is a big city and there are LOTS of places to be had. It is simply a matter of find it the right one. Let’s hope we are right!
Robbie is hard at work at school. Bob was impressed with his dedication and enthusiasm - as am I. I hope he can sustain it. As in any academic endeavour - and this is surely as much academic as practical - there are things being taught which seem to have little to do with the real world. Robbie has a particularly hard time with stuff like this. I have told him the story more than once of how when I was learning set theory and number systems in grade seven I had the same reaction: “What possible use could this stuff have in the real world?” Who would have guessed that 40 odd years later I would be debugging COBOL program dumps in octal and later designing relational databases based on set theory?
So you never know! Keeping an open mind to any kind of new knowledge is a good thing in my mind.
Bob is not very sanguine (inside joke) about their finding a suitable place easily or quickly. Robbie and I have assured him that it is a big city and there are LOTS of places to be had. It is simply a matter of find it the right one. Let’s hope we are right!
Robbie is hard at work at school. Bob was impressed with his dedication and enthusiasm - as am I. I hope he can sustain it. As in any academic endeavour - and this is surely as much academic as practical - there are things being taught which seem to have little to do with the real world. Robbie has a particularly hard time with stuff like this. I have told him the story more than once of how when I was learning set theory and number systems in grade seven I had the same reaction: “What possible use could this stuff have in the real world?” Who would have guessed that 40 odd years later I would be debugging COBOL program dumps in octal and later designing relational databases based on set theory?
So you never know! Keeping an open mind to any kind of new knowledge is a good thing in my mind.