The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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ooooooooooh, i killed it.

^^^ Lau! You used an animated smiley! Colour me surprised as all heck!

Allergy, life is so cool without it, i just realise that when reading you nan.

It's probably only a questions of days/weeks now, the first sun is there, and i have forgotten about allergy all winter.
I wish i new what i am allergic for, quite probably some kind of plant, cause it's always during certain months and not others (early spring and late summer most, a bit less in between, and less when i don't go in the garden. The forest seems a bit of a safer place)
I also think i might be allergic to the harvest mite, but tests have never given any results.

that's probably it, lemon, if you only have allergies in certain times of the year - pollen.

me, it's transformed into either a viral or bacterial infection in my throat with truly amazing side-effects. at least i no longer look like a chipmunk, but i've an appointment with the doc on wed. morning just the same. i'm too old to futz around with things.

that and i've been having weird nightmares all week, which i'm attributing to the cold medication - one of them is that we took a trip back to england next week, flew in on an overnighter, and landed in the middle of a war. people running everywhere, screaming. very strange.... another is that i got up in the middle of the night, put on my fuzzy bathrobe, and went down the hall to the kitchen to get a snack, but when i flipped on the light it was somebody else's kitchen. and then there's the one where i come home from work one day and try my key in the front door lock and it doesn't work, and someone else opens the door and says they live there and have for 30 years, the previous owner (me) having disappeared one day without a trace...

i have GOT to not eat pizza rolls before bedtime.

Thanks SleepyDragon !

It will be published first in Dutch, then French and English. Dutch in September.
I have no idea how long after it would be in English, it doesn't need a lot of extra work,
but maybe the publisher wants to spread it ? no idea. i'll ask (or let hubbie ask, cause he does the talking)

A rumination for Richie (mainly)... a we approach the (slightly) magic "four 1s" page number...

Well, on page 11, we were at a prime. No big surprise there.

On page 111, because there were three 1s, and that adds up to three, it was divisible by three, as in 3*37, so not prime.

Our impending 1111 is not a prime number of 1s (4=2*2, so it obviously isn't prime. In this case, four 1s, you can break it up as 11*101. The same sort of thing applies even more, to six 1s, as you can obviously break it up as either 11*10101 or 111*1001 (and just 3*37037, since it's digits add to 6, which a multiple of three) - all clues toward its full factorization as 3*7*11*13*37.

Anyway, it will be rather a while before we reach five 1s, but that isn't prime either (11111=41*271). Neither is seven 1s (239*4649), eleven 1s (21649*513239), thirteen 1s (53*79*265371653) or seventeen 1s (92071723*5363222357).

However, it took my computer all of fourteen seconds to tell me that nineteen 1s (1,111,111,111,111,111,111) is prime. It'll be some while before we reach that page number, I suspect.





(Hands up, all those who didn't need to know all that.)

Sorry, I've been kind of distracted this weekend/early week, trying to convince people that the finale of Battlestar Galactica did not in fact suck, but followed on logically from plot and character elements introduced much earlier in the series. (Even Lee's final decision near the end fits into Laura's observation that he gets so wrapped up in doing the Right Thing, he forgets to do the Smart Thing.) It's been an uphill battle, I can tell you, especially with people who seem to have a problem with mysticism (yet they didn't complain about Laura's vision of the twelve snakes in "Hand of God", or #3's quest to see the faces of the Five in "the space between life and death" during the first half of the third season, or...).

Lau, when I see 1111, I see it as either 15 or F, depending.

Interesting thing about palindromic numbers prime or otherwise is that many have palindromic multiples or
powers:
11²=121
111²=12321
1111²=1234321
11111²=123454321
111111²=12345654321
1111111²=1234567654321
11111111²=123456787654321
111111111²=12345678987654321

11³=1331
101³=1030301
111³=1367631
101^4=104060401
Pretty soon my post count will be 11^4 or 11x11x11x11 or 14641

Now you know what I have been up to at Lake Whoop-Dee-Doo...

You heard what the mice do when the cat's out of the house. It's not only the mice:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOK9rdLJwAw&feature=channel[/youtube]

guess who's traveling again?
guess who's daughter bought her a ticket to dublin for her birthday? (it was cheaper than the ride on the B-17 would have been - $340 round trip for dublin!)

guess who's hip-deep in library books on the ruins of the british isles and who has a car reservation to toodle around in the west of england and wales for the first week in May as well? (it is only like 20 pounds to take the ferry from dublin to wales.)

two weeks. two entire weeks. i haven't had two full week's of vacation in my life.

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. eeeeeeee. eeeeeee. eeeee. eeeeee. eeeeeeeee!

of course, no vacation for the rest of the year, not even one day, but this is worth it.

WOW! I've been looking at flights from Great Falls, Montana or Calgary and the cheapest round trip flight I can find is $929. Where in the world did you find a flight for that price?

I know. I was floored when it came up on the computer. We were just checking to see if all the "airfare wars" we kept hearing on the news was correct and looking to see if we were going to get to go back to London for next Christmas (nope, the fares are too high). For several days it was not all that inexpensive, then these low fares just magically popped up - it's cheaper for me (and the kid, respectively) to go to Dublin and take a puddle-jumper to the UK than it is for us to go to San Francisco! (Which I was also looking at SF for a break in June.) What the heck? Maybe if you just keep checking the airline websites daily?

It was on Northwest Airlines (now merging with Delta). The fares popped up and they mostly were for travel prior to May. Northwest flies to London from Minneapolis (and apparently from Atlanta to Dublin). www.nwa.com - I'm still seeing flights from Chicago to London for $481 tonight for early May ... is that close enough to you? The prices are rising daily as the seats are being bought up.

We have one hell of a flight to Dublin (5 hour layover in Atlanta, then the overnighter). Some time toodling in the west of England, some time in Wales, then back to Ireland. Not much we want to see there, a few places maybe - Rock of Cashel and the Burren, (for me, the inside of the genealogy section of their national archives in Dublin is the priority and there's a few graveyards I need to visit). The kid wants to visit someplace that makes lace and/or knitting stuff. I should probably dig up the addys of the relatives and let 'em know we're coming and see if they want coffee or something. Though that would be weird. I haven't seen two of them since I was 7 years old and I've never met the rest! Still, my grandmother (rest her soul) would be spinning like a rotisserie if I don't say "hi" to the kin....

You know, I have traveled more in the last year than I have pretty much ever done in my lifetime (as far as distance goes). I always used to dream of being able to do this, but never thought it would ever happen. Might as well enjoy it while I can - the doc slapped me with an ekg at my last checkup, I'm due for extensive bloodwork tomorrow, and I have to go in for a treadmill test very soon. Might as well enjoy myself before they tell me I can't! And it's so nice that the kid can (and wants) to go with me.

As long as it lasts... it's a really good thing.


PS I just looked on Delta and it's $830 USD from Alberta to London Gatwick in mid-April.

If only the sulphur-crested cockatoos in our town would stick to nice, quiet indoor pastimes instead of chewing up the vegetation and ripping all the rubbish out of people's bins like they usually do!

Fun with tesselations.









The above are variations of this basic pattern:



What can I say, it beats the hell out of doing housework.

Well, I finally did it!! Last July I decided it was time to lose weight and give myself a makeover. At the time I weighed 190 lbs.

As of this morning I have lost 50 lbs. and am down to the size 6 that I set as my goal!

YAAAAAA!! !! !

good for you Blessed Mom! what a great picture (you might have forgotten but I have your pic with your little dog and it comes up on my rotating screen saver! You look MAHV-elous!

Merle