Tony,
You are a joy to my heart, I swear! Your reply on the EN forum was very good and I can tell you are trying so hard....good for you! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />
I do get a tickle out of you. It would seem to me that you may have forgotten I'm Jewish. Not only do I do math in my head, I count money and calculate interest at the same time--then change interest rates "just for fun". Heehee. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="images/icons/tongue.gif" />
Not to perpetuate a stereotype, I'm just kidding around. Actually, I really do math in my head, but probably not in the Thinker way. See, my parents did not believe in calculators when I was a child, so I went through high school doing all my math manually. No problem right? Well, as luck would have it, I am a math genius, so I was put into college-level mathematics courses, and ended up having to do trigonometry and pre-calc IN MY HEAD! OY VEY! When I finally got to calculus my freshman year, it was a BREEZE because I had a calculator, and not one of those fancy T.I. ones either (that cost $90)--oh no! Just a regular old calculator. It was hilarious--statistics was a BREEZE because all I had to do was follow the theories and formulas...Accounting was a dream! Plus by then I had learned 10-key by touch and was keystroking away.
I don't just sit and make up math problems though. I go through the grocery store and figure which is a better deal: BOGO of 12 oz. at $2.79 or 15 oz. at 1.99? Which makes more servings? What's my gas mileage if I went 243 miles on 9.16 gallons. See?? Life junk.
Does that work for you?? Is it close to what you are asking for??
BTW, I'm sorry to hear you have a cold, and I hope you feel better. Wear your SpongeBob jammies--that should help (haha).
You're calculating friend,
CJ
