i wanted to brag to my math nerd friends that in a surprise move at the xshousehold, i have moved to the fore, as the preferred algebra helper for xsteen. one night when xshub had thrown up his hands and left the kitchen table, i sat down and said, what the heck... it was calculating area of rectangles, finding border areas etc. Now, while i cannot do the actual operations, i set up the formulae of the word problems properly! xsteen can do the operations. this is such a wonder to me, considering word problems in math were always the bane of my existence. i am very proud of myself, and xshub was in awe of me!