Happy Birthday, Iris!
Shir, I saw things were getting hairy in Gaza. I hope your sister's ok
Sis is currently home, and going back to the ugly and hairy tomorrow (no offense to Gaza Strip dwellers). She'll start an overlap for her new commanding role. New commanding role means less sleep and less home for her, but she's got it without going to special training for it - so, mucho respect there. Thanks for asking.
I missed a show I wanted to go to, terribly hungry, just got back from the parents and have almost 500 new posts in Natter, and other errands to take care of. So ~ma all around, but I gotta balance some shit before addressing specific ~mas.
Also, which one of you hid my portable CD player? 'Cause that's not nice.
I'd call the vet, cats not eating for over 24 hours can be bad they lose weight too fast.
I sympathies with you over yourmom,Hil. Hate to say it but most of us with chronic conditions have times when we neglect ourselves.
I'm sure there was more , but my retention rate is low -- spent yesterday tileing kitchen. Today will be spent washing, sealing ,possibly grouting floor.
and happy birthday Iris and a happy birthday one day late to ChiKat
Happy Birthday to Iris!
{{Bitches}}
Sorry your mom is giving you a hard time, Hil. In our family it is the opposite. We give my mom a hard time about not getting proper medical care. And she lies about it!! My sister went to her house to mail her some stuff she left in NY and found medication she had purchased for mom that she never opened and totally lied about taking. Grrr.
Math is making my brain hurt. I am trying to help Brendon with Trig, but we can't get past the preliminary stuff because I can't remember, or find explanation for, the simple stuff. Help! We have simplified the very complex equation down to x² - 2x = 3 in about 20 steps, which we can see with the eyeballs means that x=3, but there is a mathy way to get there for an in between step (or 10) and I can't figure it out. Wah!
Yes, on the list is finding a math tutor because it has been 20 years since we did this stuff and we fail as parents in assisting at this point.
I missed ChiKat's birthday! I hope it was a wonderful day.
Laura, make that into x^2 - 2x - 3 = 0, and then factor the left side to get (x-3)(x+1)=0, so x=3 or x=-1.
Oh, happy belated birthday, ChiKat!
{Hil}
Thanks, Hil, but still confused. I can see how you factored it, but I don't see how that gets closer to the answer of x=3. Is it just that at some point it is ok to just see that 3 works? I'd type the whole original problem, but that would make me crazy on a keyboard. We were at the x² - 2x = 3 point of simplifying when he jumped to x=3. Is that a reasonable jump?
Also, worship your mathy brain.
You can jump to x=3 and x=-1 when you get it factored into the linear factors. Once you have (x-3)(x+1)=0, you know that either x-3=0 or x+1=0 (since if the product of two things is 0, then one of the factors must be 0), and so then solve those for x=3 or x=-1.
