Safe travels to all who are wandering today. The weather here can't make its mind up and as a result I have spent the day sneezing and blowing my nose and feeling like crap. Can't wait for my workday to be over so I can hang out and read books with rd95.
I was not expecting them to both show up at the same time, so I got some work to do. The big difference between The Road to Reality and seven Pratchett novels is that novels are light reading... this is a guide to physics being read by someone who estimates her current mathematical capabilities at a 3rd grade level. Like when he talks about fractions at the beginning? I'm nodding and thinking, I know I learned fractions in school but I remember nothing about how to deal with them now. The good news is that I have been doing exercises on Khan Academy occasionally in an attempt to build my skills back up to something less pathetic.