Am I back?
12.07.06 (7:56 pm) [edit]
I don't know.
I might start blogging again. I've been busy since my last posts on this, and I might post on some of this. I'm about to undertake some major changes in my life, but I don't like "jinxing" things by talking about them before they happen. What I would do is post as they happen, even if a small percent of these things pan out, it will be pretty cool to post it here.
I am looking foward to the new session of congress; and "we" need to be very active and keep them focused on what needs to be done, which I think are: oversight of government contracting, investigating the abuses of power overlooked by the last (well, current) congress, minimum wage, funding the actions of government (taxation and revenue generation), restoration of civil liberities, overhauling energy policy to reflect reality, health care, and inserting economic justice, environmental standards into trade agreeements, and resusitating our economy.
I have to run, but I'm looking foward to sharing what I hope will be good and new things going on here for me and my family and the people around me.
later
posted by: akelso (reply)
post date: 12.07.06 (6:08 pm)
You posted as promised music! Thank you for coming back, whatever it means.
We'll just have to wait and watch for those "major changes" in your life - and I suspect meanwhile, we'll all be watching the river flow in each our own lives as well.
Oh, oh, oh - the new congress is both to celebrate and hold the breath for. My own anxiety's sky high on this one. Your list of oversight, investigation of abuses of power, reinstitution of civil liberties, etc and etc. are absolutely in my sights - first and foremost if you looked at the profile on *my* blog is an insatiable hunger for impeachment to launch these efforts.
I'm a student-nurse educator at a southwest virginia university, so the healthcare piece has special interest for me.
How fun to see this sign of your return. Hey - welcome home, music.
- Andrea
posted by: drforbush (reply)
post date: 12.12.06 (12:39 pm)
Hey, saw your reply over at PastorDave's blog. I had to come over here and see if you had started posting again. Nice to see that you have. Welcome back.
I have been cutting back on the politics since the election, and it seems to have effected my readership. I guess people would rather read my rantings instead of my reflections on life. But, hey I don't get paid to do this, so I don't care....
posted by: musicalhair (reply)
post date: 12.13.06 (10:03 am)
Reply to: drforbush
Hey Dr,
Yeah, I'm going to try to be back. I've got a lot of stuff to do today but I'm going to try to post something. Thanks for the welcome.
I've seen you recent blogs, and while they are not overtly political I think you in a very positive way it comes through in the subtext any way.
I'm trying to get back to college for a couple of classes if I can fit them in my schedual. I want to take a writing class, but I may not be in the cards this time around. I also wanted to take a "linea algebra" class which has calc I as a prerequisit, mainly because I want to take more math classes but I'm afraid of diving right in with Calc III since it's been like 13 years since Calc II for me. Sun Tzu said the successful warrior wins the battle before sending in the troops, so I plan everything like that when I can-- Afghanistan and Iraq should have been planned that way.
I wanted to post a comment on your blog but it seems like they've been disabled or I just can't find it. If you disabled them let me know, so I don't spend twenty minutes looking for them each time I read your blog.
catch you later,
Lou "musicalhair"
posted by: drforbush (reply)
post date: 12.13.06 (11:06 am)
If you want to take a math class, but you are worried about not remebering enough calc, then think about taking abstract algebra instead of linear algebra. Abstract was one of my favorite classes, right up there with music theory. While I was taking it I used it to solve Rubic's cube, if that dates me a bit.
I may have limited comment to tblog members, so if you weren't logged in you might not be able to post a comment. I was getting a bunch of spam comments a couple months back, so I did that to stop it. Thanks for telling me, I will remove the requirement and see if the spam comes back.
posted by: musicalhair (reply)
post date: 12.13.06 (11:28 am)
Reply to: drforbush
I thought I was logged in. It could very well be "operator error" on my part. I think TBlog fixed the spam thing. I "require" membership to post and I had a lot of casinos posting comments which I had to spend half a night deleting, but they've not come back.
I will look into abstract algebra, I think it has a prereq that I haven't taken yet but I might be wrong. If you can even put Rubic's cube, music theory and abstract algebra in the same thought, then I think I'll really like it.
I took my math classes late in college and so Calc II was in my last semester. I loved it, and if I had it all to do over again I'd've taken a math every semester.
posted by: musicalhair (reply)
post date: 12.17.06 (3:01 pm)
Reply to: drforbush
Hey Dr. Just for the record, the Astract Algebra offered in my school has both "linear algebra" and "foundations of modern math" as prereqs, I guess they want to save the fun for their own faithful. But, you've given me a goal to work towards. I think I'll go Linear Algebra to Foundations to Abstract, with probability thrown in there somewhere.
The one thing I tell every kid I know going to college is take a math course every semester, work on it every day and get a tutor if needed-- regardless of how they feel about math or what they want to major in.
