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Sex work involving circumcised males falsifies evolution while proving Jesus to be a Mithra copycat!

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
That would be so cool! I understand holding it down while in school, have been doing that myself. Though my gig isn't wearing me down so much as it's just annoying to have to do it.
I pretty much am ready to get back in the field, but unless it's somewhere I want where I'll be comfortable I probably won't want to take it because it will tons more stress for less money than I make now (even after expenses).
And while what is typically spending most of the weekend (literally most of it) in my car is really getting old, doing all the repairs and maintenance and endless cleaning really has me feeling there is some ethereal tethering of sorts that doesn't let me get away from my car often.
It's the acidic nature of a pleasure becoming a consuming and weighty obligation.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
I think I understood some of those terms. I get so lost when it comes to doing anything involving tools! You should have seen me trying to put up blackout curtains and that's supposed to be easy. I was so frustrated!

What are you going to do with the trailer? This just to make it easier to do work related stuff or is this for fun?
It's for fun & my avocation....transporting antique machinery
to & from museums & shows. I buy, sell, donate, haul, & show.
 

Polymath257

Think & Care
Staff member
Premium Member
I have a (very) long term writing project. I start with the axioms of set theory and develop mathematics up to about the upper level graduate level (PhD quals). I have been writing for a few years and have a bit over 900 pages. And I haven't even defined derivatives!

I also know this project will never be published: it is too idiosyncratic and has the level of detail I need to remind myself what is going on. If I wanted to actually publish it, it would be at least twice the length.

But I have learned *a lot* by doing this project.
 

Meow Mix

Chatte Féministe
I have a (very) long term writing project. I start with the axioms of set theory and develop mathematics up to about the upper level graduate level (PhD quals). I have been writing for a few years and have a bit over 900 pages. And I haven't even defined derivatives!

I also know this project will never be published: it is too idiosyncratic and has the level of detail I need to remind myself what is going on. If I wanted to actually publish it, it would be at least twice the length.

But I have learned *a lot* by doing this project.

This is why we need more time. I can't tell you how many things I would benefit from sitting down and building up something similar. But it's tough when also taking classes, and doing thesis, and working, and insisting on at least having some social life on weekends. Only young once and all that (and that's running out).

That being said I'm excited for all the quantum grad stuff I've been missing like actual QFT. I think that's either in the class this semester or otherwise the one in the spring.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Yep - if you show your antiques, @Revoltingest will be inclined to show his.
It's not yet plumbed up in this pic.
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exchemist

Veteran Member
Now that I have your attention, I hope your day is going well! Tell me about a project or hobby you've been working on ^.^
You are one of the liveliest minds on this forum, I must say!

My hobby, which is choral singing, is in a state of suspended animation, due to the virus. I'm hoping we can resume in September. We need a new choir director, the previous one having moved to Wales.

I have three sort-of projects. The first is helping my son make the transition from school to university and thus to independent adulthood. (He starts at St. Andrew's, reading Ancient History, in September.) He is embracing the change with enthusiasm - and a fair degree of competence - I'm pleased to say.

The second is an interminably tedious one, viz. trying to close out my late wife's affairs. She was French and left both a French and an English will, the French one being in favour of my son. This seemed like a good idea at the time but has led to enormous problems in practice (double taxation treaty etc). It is still not fully sorted out, five years after her death and with the help of both English and French lawyers. I now know far more than I ever wanted to about the French administrative system - and about the glacial slowness of French "notaires".

The third is house repairs. This is a bit like painting the Forth bridge but the latest is getting new double-glazed copies made and fitted of the old, decaying and draughty Victorian sash windows. This is an element of my longer term goal of reducing my carbon footprint. The guy who did the ones in my bedroom did a super job, so now I've given him the job of doing the ones in the piano room. New windows inevitably makes a bit of a mess of the wall, so some interior redecoration is then required. I redecorated my bedroom completely (I did it myself), something that had not been done since we moved into the house almost 20 years ago, so I'm pleased to have done that. I'm hoping to get away with just repainting one wall in the piano room, but a lot depends on how close a match I can get to the paint. So far I've tried 6 different samples and I'm close, but it's not a 100% match.

So all very middle-aged and dull, I'm afraid.;)
 

Meow Mix

Chatte Féministe
You are one of the liveliest minds on this forum, I must say!

My hobby, which is choral singing, is in a state of suspended animation, due to the virus. I'm hoping we can resume in September. We need a new choir director, the previous one having moved to Wales.

I have three sort-of projects. The first is helping my son make the transition from school to university and thus to independent adulthood. (He starts at St. Andrew's, reading Ancient History, in September.) He is embracing the change with enthusiasm - and a fair degree of competence - I'm pleased to say.

The second is an interminably tedious one, viz. trying to close out my late wife's affairs. She was French and left both a French and an English will, the French one being in favour of my son. This seemed like a good idea at the time but has led to enormous problems in practice (double taxation treaty etc). It is still not fully sorted out, five years after her death and with the help of both English and French lawyers. I now know far more than I ever wanted to about the French administrative system - and about the glacial slowness of French "notaires".

The third is house repairs. This is a bit like painting the Forth bridge but the latest is getting new double-glazed copies made and fitted of the old, decaying and draughty Victorian sash windows. This is an element of my longer term goal of reducing my carbon footprint. The guy who did the ones in my bedroom did a super job, so now I've given him the job of doing the ones in the piano room. New windows inevitably makes a bit of a mess of the wall, so some interior redecoration is then required. I redecorated my bedroom completely (I did it myself), something that had not been done since we moved into the house almost 20 years ago, so I'm pleased to have done that. I'm hoping to get away with just repainting one wall in the piano room, but a lot depends on how close a match I can get to the paint. So far I've tried 6 different samples and I'm close, but it's not a 100% match.

So all very middle-aged and dull, I'm afraid.;)

What else is a girl to do working nights when she really doesn't want to sift through hundreds of thousands of galaxies? RF is a nice break.

I am glad for your son, that's a big step and a huge chapter in anybody's life (I hope things go well for him).

I don't know what to say about French bureaucracy except that they literally invented the term I guess, so there's that. I hope this extended process doesn't cause more pain than is due with the circumstances.

I wouldn't call home updating dull, I change my room at least about as often as I change clothes... or avatars. That probably says something about me, who knows what.

Is your avatar something from projective geometry? I was thinking like a fano plane, but it's not quite that.
 

exchemist

Veteran Member
What else is a girl to do working nights when she really doesn't want to sift through hundreds of thousands of galaxies? RF is a nice break.

I am glad for your son, that's a big step and a huge chapter in anybody's life (I hope things go well for him).

I don't know what to say about French bureaucracy except that they literally invented the term I guess, so there's that. I hope this extended process doesn't cause more pain than is due with the circumstances.

I wouldn't call home updating dull, I change my room at least about as often as I change clothes... or avatars. That probably says something about me, who knows what.

Is your avatar something from projective geometry? I was thinking like a fano plane, but it's not quite that.
My avatar is norbornane, a molecule in organic chemistry that I was delighted to come across at university, as it gives rise to the norbornyl cation, which is about the only example of 3-centre, 2-electron bonding in carbon chemistry. (Boron, which is next to carbon in the Periodic Table, does that all the time). So the norbornyl cation is one of those "rule-breaking" things in science which makes the subject exciting.

Details here, if you are up for a full-on nerd-out: 2-Norbornyl cation - Wikipedia

But why are you up all night sifting through galaxies? Are you working at an observatory or something?
 
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