Coffee and grub

[Trinity]

I'm a letch and a perv too, but have been too bashful to share that side of me.  I guess I can do it now, right? 

[Forty Rod]

I keep tellin' you, I'm a etch. 

Pervs ain't got no class.

It's a minor distinction, but a matter of pride.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

I keep tellin' you, I'm a etch. 

Pervs ain't got no class.

It's a minor distinction, but a matter of pride.

What's an "etch"?

Trinity, I thought you were one of them, it was leaking out around your ears.

Here. Go blind. You asked for it!





AnnieLee

[Trinity]

Ah looooooooooooooooooooooove Flannel!!!!!! 

You couldn't really tell that I was an "etch" could you?  I keep it well hidden. Only other "etches" can tell... Hmmm.  I wonder what that's tellin' me 

[Delmonico]

OooW gotta get GG ta get a pic. of me in ma flannel night shirt.

[Trinity]

  And all that could be heard were crickets chirping as everyone stood staring at each other with wide eyes and mouths wide open.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Naw, I was on the phone with my son. Instead of Spanish, he wants to take French, and he wants to take welding instead of Algebra 2.

[Trinity]

FRENCH!?!?!?!?

Welding vs. Algebra?  Tell him he'll need the algebra at some point anyway, so go ahead and get it over with!

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

That's pretty much what I said, Trinity. I was hard on him. 

[Trinity]

"Aw, c'mon Mom!!!"

I remember those days!  Shoot, I'm still whining to my mother. 

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

I spent a lot of time, love, and energy with him, trying to ease/mitigate his turning into a jerk teenager. I don't think I succeeded. I am trying to be content that he isn't smoking, drinking, or doing drugs.

[Delmonico]

Me self I thunk they done should learn de kids ta speak proper Eglish afore they try ta make em lern some ferrin' type speakin'.  I took Algerbra and welding both.  Never have used the Algerbra since I turned in the book.  But I made a good livin' welidin' before I got all crippled up.  Fact I was a pretty good one which is good fer you, cause you drove under several bridges that I did a lot of welin' on goin' to and from Cracker Barrel that night.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

OOooooooooooooooo, I remember that stuff. My Mom talked me into taking print shop instead of Automotive or Welding. Went to a Vocational School. took Algebra, physics, Geometry, Drafting. What did I do for a living? Put together Sweepers and drove a fork truck. Did I need Algebra? NO! Geometry helped some, Physics helped me understand that two objects couldn't occupy the same space at the same time, so I guess that helped some. I never ran a printing press after I got out of school. Maybe it helped me think or use my head. Even though some don't think I do I loved History and music, still read history and watch the History Channel, don't play anymore, though. I worked on my own cars for years though, got into some involved stuff in my 30's. To old for fooolin' around gettin' greasy now though. Annie, You just have to try your best to guide him. Has he given any hint as to what he's interested in? What he might want to do for a living? Classes geared in that direction would be best. I'll get off'n my box now...........Buck

[Old Top]

Annie,

If he is talking to you, you are succeeding, hang in there they eventualy grow up (although my mother is still waiting for me to do so, we will not get into the idea of her son dressing up and still playing cowboy).  If worse comes to worse you can move while he is in school

Old Top (who still lives at home with his mother, wife and son.  Although I do own the house )

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

"Never used Algebra."
I taught Algebra for a while. When I lived in Germany, I was teaching it to Army guys, who had to get their GEDs in order to be promoted. They were forced to take it. Nearly everyone of them had an attitude against it, almost universally saying "I'll never use it."

If you are ever in a position where you have to buy carpet and you have to figure out how much to buy, you are using Algebra. If you are doubling a recipe, or converting smidges and pinches to some measured amount of a substance, you are using Algebra. If you need to figure out how many bags of Quikcrete to buy, but before that, you have to figure out the cubic feet of the footer you are going to pour... that's Algebra. You want to put new shingles on your roof and you know that you have one inch of rise for every horizontal foot. How many shingles do you need? You are in a restaurant and just got the bill. If your waitress was good and you want to give her a 20% tip, what is your final bill? You want to drive from Omaha, Nebraska to Hell on Wheels. Let's say you drive 55 mph, stop 45 minutes for lunch, and take three fifteen minute potty breaks. How long will it take you to get there?  But it seems that you are having to fill up your truck more often than you used to, even though you are driving to the same places. How do you figure out your miles per gallon? Just how much kinetic energy will that 250 grain bullet have at 30 feet if it is leaving the muzzle of your revolver at 850 feet per second?

You don't have to be a rocket scientist, an engineer, or a physicist to use Algebra. But if you want to get into one of the "hard" sciences, you'd better know it. For scientists, Algebra is just the tip of the iceberg that includes Trigonometry and Calculus.

Any time, and every time you want to solve for "x" where "x" is some unknown quantity, you are using Algebra. It touches our lives in many small ways, nearly every day. If you don't know Algebra, you may be able to get by in the world, but you will be the mathematical equivalent to a functional illiterate.

And there is my rant for the day.

AnnieLee

[Delmonico]

Algerbra is just the snobby brother of practical math.  I have used a lot of practical math, but never gave it a fancy name.  And I got theat from a teacher in High School that taught a practical math class.  The BS terms in algerbra just makes it difficult for someone who only wants to learn practical math.   

Only those who are interested need to understand the molecular chemistry involved in the firing of a round of ammunition.  Most folks can reload by just following simple directions and formulas.  All the fancy math won't hold the bridges and ships of the world together. 

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Algebra is a tool. It doesn't matter if you call it practical math, or "life skills with numbers," or some other made up name to make it sound like something other than a scary Greek word, it's still Algebra.
Sure, people could attempt to make bridges and ships without Algebra, but if they don't use it, the bridges will collapse or sheer apart and the ships will sink.

You use it all the time, Delmonico, you just don't want to call it what it is: Algebra.

AnnieLee

[Delmonico]

It's all in presentation, use a $5 Arab word and have me try to figger a bunch of silly meaninless letters into something that resemble's Ernie's nightmare on Sesame Street and I'll get bored.  Leave of the ferrin' word and teach me to figger stuff I know about like apples oranges, steel plates or cups of flour and I'll consider what you have to offer.

Don't forget many think in the same manner as I do, or at least in some areas.   I never use alphabit noodles in soup so I don't care how many x's y's and q's ya have, and if it's boring nobody wants to learn it.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Okay, Annie, you win. guess I've used Algebra, just didn't know it..........Buck

[Russ T Chambers]

Is Del lookin for a lesson in


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