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I do scrambled eggs really really well.
Just set that cast iron skillet on the back burner with that thought and wait for the rest of this "post" to pop up.
School started and this changes schedules for parents as it does for students.
Students in this case being about so high, freckles and bed hair and that stupid math stuff they hate.
So once again, I, your humble "Adopted Uncle Steve" had a suggestion of course.
Nice part about being the "Adopted Uncle" is ... well...you know how grandparents say "spoil the grandkids and send them home to parents, to drive parents nuts, as payback for them parents when they were kids driving us nuts" ...yeah along those lines.
Being as I had a good looking young honey, brunette in a mini- skirt, teach me Geometry, I aced it. Funny- how I paid attention in that class...
So I share with the young lady how cool compasses, triangles, protractors and all are, bisecting angles and then flip over to Postulates and Theorems in back of textbook and in hushed tones so her mom could not hear us - how I really had a good time explaining to the class why the Angle-Side-Side is not valid.
Side-Angle-Side works, and is often called "SAS" . Still every geometry class wants to add a new Angle-Side-Side and that does not work, even if it is cute to mention its shortened name in class. I...understood all this and volunteered to explain this to the class.
Did I mention the young brunette in a mini-skirt teacher up at the blackboard assisting me with them blackboard sized tools? I like the times where she steadied herself and tools using my shoulder.
"You still remember all this stuff?" young lady asked.
"Honey - he is guy, guys may forget to put the toilet seat down, and they never forget a brunette in a mini-skirt". - Mom.
I smiled, nodded, and thought back to that Geometry class for a second, or ten, and said "Math was not easy for me, I still have to work at it. I tend to think geometrically instead of algebraically. Not a bad thing, just geometry I aced and I found it fun.
"Math being fun, you are kidding - right?" young lady asks.
"No I am serious, I finally had an instructor that understood my basic foundations being taught were during some times of "new methods" and basically confused me and other students.
This instructor knew how to instruct, and my attitudes about Math changed. I had to work at it, still do, but math is going to be in everything you do, and you will find yourself using it in other subjects as you get older. Just being honest with you - to just accept math is something you really need and to have a positive attitude about it. Do not let math have power and control over you - instead YOU learn to use math to YOUR advantages...and have fun doing so"
Yeah I actually said all that , and all three us and the dog had a funny look on our faces.
"Honey" Mom said "Do we need to do some challenges or something, what do feel comfortable with?"
"Uncle Steve?"
"Yeah Uncle Steve?"
"woof-woof?"
Thank goodness I think on my feet fast (or butt in this case)...
She has a nice kit with the compass, protractor, 30*-60*-90* triangle, and 45* triangle, rulers…et. She also has a smaller less expensive set.
Me with bifocals using the small set showing her how to use her set I could actually read, and bisecting angles, and measuring angles and *Ding-Ding-Ding* the 4" protractor I was using set off an idea.
They shoot BB-Guns in the back yard. So I traced this 4" protractor on a sheet of paper.
Young lady had two ten point quizzes in geometry the next day. One was vocabulary and definitions and the other on ID the tools and practical use.
Challenge: Mom has to shoot 10 BBs inside the "dome" if you will of protractor, and daughter has to make 8/10 on each quiz.
"You’re Kidding - right?" – Mom and daughter in unison.
"woof-woof" - what do I get out of this deal? - dawg
Remember them scrambled eggs I do so well? Well I had showed these two how I do them, and the deal is, loser has to fix the other one scrambled eggs on Saturday Morning since they are both off Saturday.
Why can't ladies do anything right? <kidding>
Email I get informs me:
Mom got 10/10 BBs in the "dome"
Daughter got 10/10 on both quizzes.
"Nuh-Uh! We tied!" - Mom
"Okay, since you ladies just cannot do anything right, there is going to be a shoot off, I’ll be there when I get there, do you need anything on my way out later?
“Yes, eggs are going to be scrambled no matter what, come Saturday, and I am low on eggs anyway from making a Chef Salad and Tuna-fish.”
Now I tend to keep a boiled egg or three in my fridge all the time anyway, I put these in a salad myself or whatever...
Red Ryder BBGun and 3 eggs for each lady to shoot, you have to break your egg to count. Distances for Mom a bit further back than that of daughter due to skill level.
All Three of Daughter's eggs broke.
Only Two of Mom's eggs broke, "for some unknown reason" she could not break the third egg.
I, being the gentleman I am and all, cleaned up the mess...I insisted.
Saturday Morning Daughter is getting Scrambled Eggs, fixed like Uncle Steve does them, blackberry preserves , wheat toast and other stuff, that seems to keep being added to this challenge by a young lady that is having fun so far in Geometry.
"woof-woof-woof-woof"
"Oh shut up! Here is a new rawhide bone, just don't tell mom- deal?"
<wags tails and jumps> that mean "yes" in "dawgie"
"crunch, chew, slobber, paw, crunch..."
Just set that cast iron skillet on the back burner with that thought and wait for the rest of this "post" to pop up.
School started and this changes schedules for parents as it does for students.
Students in this case being about so high, freckles and bed hair and that stupid math stuff they hate.
So once again, I, your humble "Adopted Uncle Steve" had a suggestion of course.
Nice part about being the "Adopted Uncle" is ... well...you know how grandparents say "spoil the grandkids and send them home to parents, to drive parents nuts, as payback for them parents when they were kids driving us nuts" ...yeah along those lines.
Being as I had a good looking young honey, brunette in a mini- skirt, teach me Geometry, I aced it. Funny- how I paid attention in that class...
So I share with the young lady how cool compasses, triangles, protractors and all are, bisecting angles and then flip over to Postulates and Theorems in back of textbook and in hushed tones so her mom could not hear us - how I really had a good time explaining to the class why the Angle-Side-Side is not valid.
Side-Angle-Side works, and is often called "SAS" . Still every geometry class wants to add a new Angle-Side-Side and that does not work, even if it is cute to mention its shortened name in class. I...understood all this and volunteered to explain this to the class.
Did I mention the young brunette in a mini-skirt teacher up at the blackboard assisting me with them blackboard sized tools? I like the times where she steadied herself and tools using my shoulder. "You still remember all this stuff?" young lady asked.
"Honey - he is guy, guys may forget to put the toilet seat down, and they never forget a brunette in a mini-skirt". - Mom.
I smiled, nodded, and thought back to that Geometry class for a second, or ten, and said "Math was not easy for me, I still have to work at it. I tend to think geometrically instead of algebraically. Not a bad thing, just geometry I aced and I found it fun.
"Math being fun, you are kidding - right?" young lady asks.
"No I am serious, I finally had an instructor that understood my basic foundations being taught were during some times of "new methods" and basically confused me and other students.
This instructor knew how to instruct, and my attitudes about Math changed. I had to work at it, still do, but math is going to be in everything you do, and you will find yourself using it in other subjects as you get older. Just being honest with you - to just accept math is something you really need and to have a positive attitude about it. Do not let math have power and control over you - instead YOU learn to use math to YOUR advantages...and have fun doing so"
Yeah I actually said all that , and all three us and the dog had a funny look on our faces. "Honey" Mom said "Do we need to do some challenges or something, what do feel comfortable with?"
"Uncle Steve?"
"Yeah Uncle Steve?"
"woof-woof?"
Thank goodness I think on my feet fast (or butt in this case)...
She has a nice kit with the compass, protractor, 30*-60*-90* triangle, and 45* triangle, rulers…et. She also has a smaller less expensive set.
Me with bifocals using the small set showing her how to use her set I could actually read, and bisecting angles, and measuring angles and *Ding-Ding-Ding* the 4" protractor I was using set off an idea.
They shoot BB-Guns in the back yard. So I traced this 4" protractor on a sheet of paper.
Young lady had two ten point quizzes in geometry the next day. One was vocabulary and definitions and the other on ID the tools and practical use.
Challenge: Mom has to shoot 10 BBs inside the "dome" if you will of protractor, and daughter has to make 8/10 on each quiz.
"You’re Kidding - right?" – Mom and daughter in unison.
"woof-woof" - what do I get out of this deal? - dawg
Remember them scrambled eggs I do so well? Well I had showed these two how I do them, and the deal is, loser has to fix the other one scrambled eggs on Saturday Morning since they are both off Saturday.
Why can't ladies do anything right? <kidding>
Email I get informs me:
Mom got 10/10 BBs in the "dome"
Daughter got 10/10 on both quizzes.
"Nuh-Uh! We tied!" - Mom
"Okay, since you ladies just cannot do anything right, there is going to be a shoot off, I’ll be there when I get there, do you need anything on my way out later?
“Yes, eggs are going to be scrambled no matter what, come Saturday, and I am low on eggs anyway from making a Chef Salad and Tuna-fish.”
Now I tend to keep a boiled egg or three in my fridge all the time anyway, I put these in a salad myself or whatever...
Red Ryder BBGun and 3 eggs for each lady to shoot, you have to break your egg to count. Distances for Mom a bit further back than that of daughter due to skill level.
All Three of Daughter's eggs broke.
Only Two of Mom's eggs broke, "for some unknown reason" she could not break the third egg.
I, being the gentleman I am and all, cleaned up the mess...I insisted.
Saturday Morning Daughter is getting Scrambled Eggs, fixed like Uncle Steve does them, blackberry preserves , wheat toast and other stuff, that seems to keep being added to this challenge by a young lady that is having fun so far in Geometry.
"woof-woof-woof-woof"
"Oh shut up! Here is a new rawhide bone, just don't tell mom- deal?"
<wags tails and jumps> that mean "yes" in "dawgie"
"crunch, chew, slobber, paw, crunch..."
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