Friends

"If there is at least one person in your life whom you consider a close friend, and whom you would not have met without being part of an online fandom, post this sentence in your journal."

Yep. And if my number ever comes up on the Premium Bonds then I'm coming to visit all of you - World Tour! :-)

Day Skipper stuff

My Day Skipper class was good this week - calculating tidal heights from tide tables and tide curves. I feel we're getting into the meat of what I need to know. And now there's no excuse for me anchoring on a falling tide and ending up stranded high and dry!

I give thanks yet again for a good brain, though. Some people in the class are finding this stuff challenging, but it's making perfect sense to me. And I give thanks for the stuff my old maths teacher at school instilled into me, about always using a sharp pencil, and laying your work out neatly, and showing your workings so that if you carry an error forward at least you'll get marks for doing the calculation the right way. It sounds obvious, but the experience of what I'm seeing in class shows that it's not entirely so.

Must start investigating practical courses for the Spring.