The cold wasn't so bad and I got a little time to read up on my mathmatics and read a paperback novel. I did some cleaning and a few other little projects too.
The thing that amazed me was that there was a nice little tool mentioned in the math book that I wish I had learned about before. It's called the Sieve of Eratosthene. Using some pretty standard memorisation techniques I should be able to use a 10x10 version of this to help me better remember multiples and primes and devision and well everything. It's just a chart from 1-100 in rows of ten. But by using it to figure the prime numbers You see patterns of multiples and it's 10x10 organisation makes it startlingly easy to do visually in your head. This thing could have saved me so much trouble when I was younger.
Most of the rest of the math was just a refreshers on the techniques used for certain functions. The chapter on number theory was some what helpful. It's amazing that they ever tried that "because I say so" approach of rote learning. It failed me greatly I think.
Hopefully this is the start of fixing that.
Now I'm thinking I will hit the book on HTML programming. It is a bit easier to try my hand at and definately more useful in the immediate future. I can use it to work on my web page and a few other things around the web. I have ways of immediately trying things out and learning as I go al0ng.
I'll try to go thorugh this with relative speed, so that I'm not made to wait too long for trying my mind on the summerian cunniform.
Then I've got next weekend to do some pleasure reading and research of style and technique of stories that have something to help me get ready for my writing of novels in November (NaNoWriMo.org).
I gotta get going but I'll post again monday night (in time for tuesday readers).
Until then Take Care of yourselves.
Roving Jack
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