Random Words on the Wing

It was a weird week of being a little bit sick, and often a tad short of words. Many things fell by the wayside, and now a small mountain of chores awaits. What horror lies in piles of small tasks? What does it all mean? It's nice to be comparatively well again, whatever else might be happening.

Being a mathematician errant has some advantages but also quite a few penalties. The worst of those penalties is the lack of support and ignorance of what might be in the literature. The isolation also breeds some mistakes. For example, I just debugged one of my calculations and discovered a massive problem (Alpha close to zero instead of close to unity!!!), and now the calculation doesn't work in a whole different way! Isn't mathematics wonderful? Before catching the problem, it was a disgusting and non-linear mess, and now it's just a nothing. I may have to change vocation to hat skimmer once again.

Oh, those jolly days of hat skimming in the local skimmery. It was a boom industry until very recently, amongst the bohemian intellectual set of the valleys. Rarely would you find a hat skim anywhere in the United Kingdom without the three red dots that indicated its origin in the great green vales. Even now, if I close my eyes, and imagine a colander in my hands, the old technique comes right back to me... I'm amazed they ever let us all out of political prison...

Reverting to reality, the editing down of 'Wordspace' was hit by sickness, but will come back off the back burner on the morrow. Thanks to a generous helping of season three of 'Star Trek', I also feel a need to write about how it's not so bad as people seem to think. Truly, it's not as subtle or nuanced as the previous two seasons, but it's not worthy of so much hate! However, let us not jump the gun. It's time to get back to sleeping the glooms away, and waiting for the solstice.

That's another session of wordsmithing done. Someone needs to explain why this is supposed to be difficult again. Oh, I suppose it might be difficult if you keep the idea of an audience in your head, but wouldn't that be silly?

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