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  • Today I shall do ALL the things

    I want to begin this week (Monday) with everything caught up. The list includes home maintenance, shed building, yard work, marking property lines, managing finances, scoutmaster duties, computer programming for clients, computer programming for me, and winning the lottery.

  • How often should you beat your kids?

    The Mathematical Association of America published a paper in 1990 using math to prove that you should beat your kids every day except Sunday.

    Apparent this is an exercise in probability, generating functions, Stirling’s formula, the Gaussian integral, and more.

    Click to access fulltext.pdf

  • Let the cleaning begin!

    Must. Not. Stop. Moving.

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: I will do all that I can do today and nothing more.
    Master: Who will do the rest?

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: I have failed.
    Master: But have you given up?

  • Orgasmic Pizza

    Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.

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  • How to end the day and begin the evening?

    You reach a point each day when you have to ask yourself, "Beer or Real Hot Yoga?"

  • From the mouths of babes

    This is what it is like having a phone call with your teenager:

    Me: "I love you."
    Teen: "Alright. Bye."

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  • Beautiful Day!

    Great day for woodworking

    Really wish I had time to work on the yard and a garden

  • It is time…there is no time

    Occurs to me that it is planting season. I really want to be building a raised bed in the yard and setting up a robot gardener. But I am so not ready. I need time and materials to build a greenhouse, raised beds, etc. Our biggest expense is food. I pay for food by working a job. My biggest time sink is my job. Catch-22. I really am enjoying indoor gardening. Now I want to turn the whole house and yard into growing food.

  • Where is the snow?

    The kids told me school would be canceled so I slept in. Where’s the snow? The ice?!

  • Frozen

    Here I sit
    All locked up
    Mentally deranged
    And out of luck

    Pondering all
    That must be done
    Thinking, thinking
    Doing none

    To banish
    The stress
    Must
    Think less

    Trying
    To decide
    Which thing
    To do

    Is still
    Thinking
    Much ado
    About nothing

    I turn
    Off my mind
    To think less
    And do more

    For doing
    Is how
    Things get done
    And

    Put my troubles
    On the run
    By thinking none
    And doing all.

  • Cooking for the week

    For most of 2017, I planned diner as I rushed home from work. It was inefficient and a costly way to prepare food often resulting in buying precooked food from grocery stores or restaurants.

    I have graduated to preparing meals a week in advance. I hope to eventually prepare a month in advance. Currently I only prepare dinners. My next step will be to add lunches for the week. As I work toward monthly preparation, I will start using coupons and more strategic shopping.

    I have now grown my own lettuce indoors and learned much doing so. I want to add to tomatoes but think rosemary and other herbs will Be next. By 2019, I hope to be growing most of our vegetables in the house or in a greenhouse. I am optimistic.

    First meal complete.

    Second meal complete. Hamburgers:

    Two more meals ready. Taco meat for tacos and rosemary chicken:

    Tonight’s meal. Rosemary chicken, portobello mushrooms, and roast squash and zucchini:

    Lastly, chicken prepared for chicken noodle soup: