The Hobbit Hole XXIII - Let them go! Let them go!

[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Let them go! Let them go!

• First thread: New Zealander builds Hobbit hole
• Second thread: The New Hobbit Hole
• Third thread: The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads! (Congratulations, we filled it up!)
• Fourth Thread: The Hobbit Hole IV - The Road Goes Ever On...
• Fifth Thread: The Hobbit Hole V - Where Many Paths and Errands Meet...
• Sixth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VI - And Whither Then? I Cannot Say...
• Seventh Thread: The Hobbit Hole VII - But not yet weary are our feet...
• Eighth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VIII - Still round the corner we may meet...
• Ninth Thread: The Hobbit Hole IX - A sudden tree or standing stone
• Tenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole X - That none have seen but we alone.
      Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
• Twelfth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XII - Tree and flower and leaf and grass
• Thirteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XIII - Let them pass! Let them pass!
• Fourteenth thread: The Hobbit Hole XIV - Hill and Water Under Sky
• Fifteenth thread: The Hobbit Hole XV - Pass them by! Pass them by!
• Sixteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XVI - Still round the corner there may wait...
• Seventeenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XVII - A new road or a secret gate...
• Eighteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XVIII - Though we pass them by today...
• Nineteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XIX - Tomorrow we may come this way...
• Twentieth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XX - And take the hidden paths that run...
• Twenty-first Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXI - ...Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
• Twenty-second Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXII - ...Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe

New verse:

Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass! Hill and water under sky, Pass them by! Pass them by!

Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate, And though we pass them by today, Tomorrow we may come this way And take the hidden paths that run Towards the Moon or to the Sun. Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe, Let them go! Let them go! Sand and stone and pool and dell, Fare you well! Fare you well!

Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are all alight. Then world behind and home ahead, We’ll wander back to home and bed. Mist and twilight, cloud and shade, Away shall fade! Away shall fade! Fire and lamp, and meat and bread, And then to bed! And then to bed!

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[JenB]

HEY! Dark moods are easier with chocolate and venting. Don't go on account of us, we'll be silly at you until you feel better.

[Lil'freeper]

The one that teases me a bit sometimes is 'caloric' theory - 'fluid heat'. It's appealing in a poetic sort of way. Just because caloric doesn't have any mass just means it's harder to keep it out of my office in the afternoons. :)

Mmmmkay - time for some REM cycles....

[JenB]

No, I only had to take one. I took Chem waaaay back when I started community college because we thought we might have to persuade the school district I was still being edumacated, but it turned out since I was sixteen they didn't care.

Then I just ran out of time, I'd have had to take two maths and a physics class in the same semester. Plus my programming courses. I did think about doing it.

[Ramius]

Well, yah... there's that.

[JenB]

I'm coming around to think that maybe the whole "Earth, Air, Fire, Water" list of elements wasn't so far off. Maybe they were right

It's certainly neater that way! Plus then I could study alchemy instead of computer science and have a cool job.

[Ramius]

I took both chemistry and physics... couple of years on the chem side, and I was an accounting major.

I hated chemistry. Mostly because of the Rohr model. Really ticked me off, that. :-)

[JenB]

I hated chem because the lab nazi wouldn't let us blow things up. Even that chemical that's supposed to burst into flame if you expose it to air. It doesn't, they lie about that.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

I had a year-and-a-half of both Chem and Physics in high school, then a year of each in college. After that the courses got more specialized, like Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, etc.

Calculus was similiar... a year, then specialized math, like Differential Equations, Statistical Analysis, etc.

[Ramius]

I'm still harboring a suspicion that the flat-earthers were right all along.

When I was learning celestial navigation at the CG nav school, the teacher let us in on the secret that lets all of celestial nav work: "The world is flat and the sun and the moon and all the stars rotate around the earth, and they are all equidistant from the earth, as points of light on the inside of a great sphere. Ignore the big turtle. "

Without this basic truth, all of celestial nav falls apart. But Cel Nav *works*... therefore the assumptions must be true.

[sigh] I love science. :-)

[sip]

[JenB]

Ouch, makes my head hurt. I managed to get through three semesters of Calc, Linear Algebra, Statistics, and Discrete Math without too many visible scars. They usually made my CS classes look easy. It's a baaaad semester when Data Structures is the fluff class.

Needless to say, I had a good time later snickering at classmates in things like Western Civ who moaned about how hard the class was. If it doesn't require a calculator (and nothing before Trig does) or a compiler, how hard can it be?

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Heh, yeah... I managed, but I definitely wasn't a fish in those waters.

[Ramius]

Ack... Western Civ at the UW was a bugger. It was always listed at the top of the "three hardest classes" at the U. Western Civ (Hist 110), then Chem 140 (taught by an evil Nazi torture expert), then Math 120 (Calc).

Those were the U of WA Med school "weeder" classes. Pre-meds got *all* of the A's. If you weren't pre-med you didn't get an A in the class. Just that simple. Engineering sucked up the B's... and so it goes...

[ecurbh]

Whew. We had to go to ~town~ today. Spent money. Unloaded a half-ton of hay.

I'm tired.

[RosieCotton]

~Town~?!? Oh dear!

[HairOfTheDog]

ecurbh found out why it's bad news when I finally do go to town.... I spend money :~D

[Ramius]

rut-roh

[RosieCotton]

Get good stuff?

Money...I had some of that, once upon a time.

[JenB]

Really? I have a knack for putting together dates and names and events in my mind, and history's sort of been a passion of mine forever, so I never had any trouble in history. Managed to sneak in a course on British History as my "other cultures" requirement, which strictly speaking probably wasn't kosher, but...

And Calc 1 was fun. It wasn't until vectors that I hated Calc.

[HairOfTheDog]

Us too!

I got good new horse stuff!

And we picked up our horse blankets from the clean and repair lady :~D

[RosieCotton]

Horse stuff sounds fun!

I now live very near a Petsmart...but I miss the feed stores back home. *sniff* Really nifty places to get pet stuff as well as just browse. Nice folks, too.