failed at elementary mathematics
Jan. 14th, 2012 01:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
incandescensTired. Damn tired.
Also failed in mathematics while plotting out how to get the required number of patchwork pieces from a given number of fat quarters (no, a twenty-inch wide piece will not produce four six and a half inch pieces), so must get some more of said fabrics. But that wasn't an urgent piece of work, so I'll probably wait till the Creative Crafts show in Manchester in February, and see if I can get any of that range of fabrics cheaper there.
Also, more darn morphology.
Tired. And staying up to do stuff will not immediately solve anything. Sleep seems a good idea.
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"This professor that I've heard you mention?"
"Exactly!"
Inspector MacDonald smiled, and his eyelid quivered as he glanced towards me. "I won't conceal from you, Mr. Holmes, that we think in the C.I.D. that you have a wee bit of a bee in your bonnet over this professor. I made some inquiries myself about the matter. He seems to be a very respectable, learned, and talented sort of man."
"I'm glad you've got so far as to recognize the talent."
"Man, you can't but recognize it! After I heard your view I made it my business to see him. I had a chat with him on eclipses. How the talk got that way I canna think; but he had out a reflector lantern and a globe, and made it all clear in a minute. He lent me a book; but I don't mind saying that it was a bit above my head, though I had a good Aberdeen upbringing. He'd have made a grand meenister with his thin face and gray hair and solemn-like way of talking. When he put his hand on my shoulder as we were parting, it was like a father's blessing before you go out into the cold, cruel world."
-- The Valley of Fear, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Also failed in mathematics while plotting out how to get the required number of patchwork pieces from a given number of fat quarters (no, a twenty-inch wide piece will not produce four six and a half inch pieces), so must get some more of said fabrics. But that wasn't an urgent piece of work, so I'll probably wait till the Creative Crafts show in Manchester in February, and see if I can get any of that range of fabrics cheaper there.
Also, more darn morphology.
Tired. And staying up to do stuff will not immediately solve anything. Sleep seems a good idea.
---
"This professor that I've heard you mention?"
"Exactly!"
Inspector MacDonald smiled, and his eyelid quivered as he glanced towards me. "I won't conceal from you, Mr. Holmes, that we think in the C.I.D. that you have a wee bit of a bee in your bonnet over this professor. I made some inquiries myself about the matter. He seems to be a very respectable, learned, and talented sort of man."
"I'm glad you've got so far as to recognize the talent."
"Man, you can't but recognize it! After I heard your view I made it my business to see him. I had a chat with him on eclipses. How the talk got that way I canna think; but he had out a reflector lantern and a globe, and made it all clear in a minute. He lent me a book; but I don't mind saying that it was a bit above my head, though I had a good Aberdeen upbringing. He'd have made a grand meenister with his thin face and gray hair and solemn-like way of talking. When he put his hand on my shoulder as we were parting, it was like a father's blessing before you go out into the cold, cruel world."
-- The Valley of Fear, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Date: 2012-01-14 03:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-14 03:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-14 06:06 pm (UTC)been there, done that! frustrating isn't it? my motto has long been "measure once, cut two or three more times, go buy more fabric, and try cutting again..."
the staff at the local quilt stores love me!
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Date: 2012-01-14 11:04 pm (UTC)Ah well. At least they had some more of that fabric (Fabric Freedom, Marbled Magic, in the blue shades), so I was able to get it then and there. Bad for my wallet, but good for my satisfaction.