View From the Bushes

Sorry about yesterday -- I forgot. Okay, I didn't forget in a classical sense (as in the way ancient Greeks forgot to write a play with a happy ending), it was more I got distracted (like the time some comely joggers distracted me from the car which had stopped on the highway in front of me, the resulting accident was neither comely nor did it have a happy ending). Generally, if I haven't already done my blog, I'll open it up when I get home, and then work on it when I get bored of whatever my "primary" task is. Well, yesterday I was so engrossed in running some numbers through a spreadsheet, that I totally forgot all about the blog. So you'll have to add saving us from Ross's blog to the list of things Math can do; come to think of it, is there anything it can't do?

Yesterday I came to the realization that Monday is a holiday. It's amazing the warm fuzzy feeling you get when you realize that a day you thought you would have to work is now available for staying home and picking the lint out of your navel while your brain turns to tapioca. It's one of the greatest feelings in the world. It is for this reason that I vastly prefer to take Monday off rather than Friday (if I'm looking for a three-day weekend). If you take Friday off, then literally before you know it, the additional time is gone and you're back to having a normal weekend (generally without anything to show for having Friday off).

On the other hand, if you have Monday off, your weekend proceeds normally until you reach Sunday evening. It's then that the reflexive dread of work the next morning begins to weigh upon your soul. Just when you're about to curl up in the corner and weep you remember, "Hey, wait a second. I've got tomorrow off! I can stay home and pick lint out of my belly button." Of course, you would only think this if you have an "innie." I have no idea what people with an "outie" think, and quite frankly I don't want to know what goes on in the heads of those partially evolved proto-humanoids.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross

P.S. My wife reminded me that I need to include a link to something interesting, so here is a link to a Logarithmic Map of the Universe.