@evamarie Minnesota governor, right? That probably means he can use his words as a whip that will sting and leave the person wondering how a nice compliment could leave them feeling naked and burning.

@MookyTroubadour @northernbassist One thing I know I remember correctly is that Pythagoras could explain this.

@MookyTroubadour @northernbassist You got an answer that works and were brave enough to ask for help...double win!

@MookyTroubadour My spouse - who is a human calculator - is working on this. I said your choices for the "walls" are going to be either equilateral or isosceles - determined by the height. So I think for the angle at the apex to be 90*, they have to be equilateral. Because I think isosceles would give a more narrow angle at the point.

They said, "That's not necessarily the case," and went back to looking things up.

@MookyTroubadour I could very easily be wrong (I have dyscalculia), but I think that's more of a trigonometry question. If nobody can tell you how to do it, that might at least give you some idea of where to look.

But now I want to know how to do it, too. I have to go ask questions.

Said in household debate about why someone cannot climb into a space someone else can:

"Because my body is not a flat, finely trimmed carpenter's board! MY body is a fine art sculpture made from mashed potatoes!"

We have the best non-arguments around here. 😄

@Boyceaz That's a really good specification.

Being able to say that about myself with love and joy was a big step in my healing. And even though I'm not a kid anymore and I do understand what's really being said, some unconscious part of me wants to go hide in my school library and cry while the librarian covers for me again and says she asked me to help with something and my teacher must not have gotten the message.

Kids aren't going to get it. Not all of them. Most likely not the younger ones. Many of them will pick up, "It's not nice to call people names, and it's okay if I'm weird, but weird people shouldn't be President." By the time the do understand it, that still will have done harm.

And I'm kind of afraid that proudly saying I'm weird will turn into people thinking I'm saying that's who I voted for. Again, they embraced "deplorable".

I have realized over the past few days that this whole "weird" thing is raising my anxiety. The people it's aimed at might just embrace it. (Remember "deplorable"?) And I have spent a lot of my life learning to love being "weird". Learning to stop trying to bend myself into fitting others' expectations so they won't give me That Look and say, "You are WEIRD..."

How do we tell kids it's okay to be weird while they also hear, "Don't vote for the weird guy"?

Actual conversation in our house tonight:

"I'm not ugly, but I'm not pretty. Like, you can be lawful or chaotic pretty, or lawful or chaotic ugly. I'm true neutral."

"I think you're chaotic pretty."

My Aqua Dragons are already hatching, AND...a baby Sea Monkey hatched! That one is from an egg layed by the ones I've been raising since March.

We have to find joy where we can. I'm finding it swimming around with brine shrimp.

#snake - I actually got to see Shai-Hulud at his water bowl today! In almost 4 years I've seen him in positions I recognized as "on the way to water" and "on the way back from water", but never "at the water".

@LaurelGreen I get it...but I've spent years embracing and celebrating my weirdness. They aren't cool enough to be weird.

I set up the Aqua Dragons (Artemia salina) tank and added the eggs. Now I have to keep track of two different numbers for days. Day 138 for the Sea Monkeys (Artemia NYOS) is Day 1 for the Aqua Dragons. I'm glad I'm writing this down! 😄

https://youtube.com/shorts/8Vi4GEy77BU?si=YMtXPddTSPTCypHy

Why do I always think an arthritis flare-up that is preventing me from playing instruments is a good time to change my strings?

I've been doing this 20+ years. It's not like I just haven't had time to learn yet.

@carmen We were just talking in our house the other night about wanting to put up a sign but not knowing where to get one yet. Now we can order one!

I'm still awake at Should-Be-Asleep o'clock. It's been a physically rough week. Decided to play with the digital collage thing again and do a Lake Monster one.