sohcahtoa and other random thoughts

Remember that post I made about the online classes?  I got about two weeks into it, then a question popped in my mind that made me stop: "Why exactly am I learning this?"  That was one of the things that bugged me in high school and college.  I'm simply unable to feign interest in something that seems of little use to me.  I still have yet to find a use for the Pythagorean theorem or sohcahtoa in my everyday life.  (It's not that the classes were bad; it's that taking them felt like more of an egotistical than a practical thing to do.)

I've been doing some writing over the last few days with the hopes of entering it in a competition.  Of course, my story has already changed, and will likely change again as I try to map it out.

Looking a little too much through the new IKEA catalog.  There's a couple of things that seem interesting to me; of course, the build-it-yourself aspect of their products is equal parts exciting and terrifying.  I mean, who wants to spend cash on a bed, dresser or bookshelf only to have the darn thing be unusable?

Well, gotta get ready for work.  Later.