About a month ago, I wrote about an upcoming Internet radio interview. It’s about the 20th Anniversary of the For Dummies books. Tomorrow is the last, final, we’re-done interview. The guests are Dr. Ruth and myself.
What a combo!
I’ll post the link as a “news” blog post later, once I have it. Supposedly the Interview will be at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ — somewhere on that page. I don’t know the specifics.
The time is 11:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time, which is 2:00 PM Eastern.
You can read my original Dr. Ruth rant here. I was mistaken about the date, transposing March 31 into March 1st in my brain. Yeah, I’m weird, but 3-1 is March 1st.
For insight into how my brain works, I’ll let you know a secret: When I write a number between 12 and 19 and I write the second digit first. So when I write 14, I write a 4 and then a 1. People tell me that’s “backwards,” but it works that way for me.
When I was in the 7th Grade, we had an adding machine class for math. I loved it!
Adding machines were the gizmos we used before calculators, which were expensive toys at the time.
Using the Adding machines was simple because you merely punched in the numbers and the machine did the math. Or so I thought.
With my brain the way it is, I consistently typed the numbers in backwards, so all my results were incorrect.
For example, if the number was 123, I typed in 321. If the number was 5638.89 I typed in 98.8365. I have no idea why I did it that way; it just came naturally. It also shows that the teacher never bothered to explain how to input the numbers, figuring that everyone would simply “understand” that you type in the largest values first and then the smallest.
I failed that section of math class.
I don’t make that same mistake any more, especially when I use Quicken to balance my check book. But I still write numbers between 12 and 19 with the smaller digit first. Even if it’s a large number, like 416: I write the 4, a space, then the 6 and then I write a 1 between the 4 and the 6.
Call me weird.
Maybe Dr. Ruth will figure me out tomorrow? Who knows?
