f(x)=x+2 in A small but passable life.

I’ve been sitting right here since I scribbled the last entry.

I watched a TEDx talk by some guy who said that the grade one makes in high school algebra class is directly correlated to future earnings. Umm, okay, makes sense for me as I never took high school algebra and been as nearly broke as can be for my entire life.

He put a thing on the screen and said that, basically, that if you didn’t know what it was that you were dumb as a box of rocks and wouldn’t amount to jack shit in this life:

f(x)=x+2

I googled it and youtubed it. Yeah. First of all it is not a problem, it is a function. It is dots on a graph thingy with a line drawn through it. And second of all no one could explain a use or reason for it.

After three days of researching this and getting nowhere I said fuck it. No point to the thing.

I asked Daughter last night if she knew the deal. She’s taken calculus and all that goes before it so I thought she’d have an insight. She said that it could be used in chemistry. Thanks babe, that doesn’t explain it to me. Sorry. I just don’t get it.

Anyway, I also haven’t made any progress on this living life with a purpose thing either. I do give myself points for thinking about it though.

The high point of my day is after the hours have passed and I can lie down, turn out the light, pull my blankets up and close my eyes and have nothing to do but sleep for the next eight hours.

It may be warm enough by Thursday afternoon to return to the pool for a lay-about.

Last updated January 23, 2018