Randoms

6fsn

- FIL and SMIL are bringing the new frig today.  I need to clean up a bit but was forced to pop a benadryl.  Now I just hope the kids don't tie me up.

- New furniture comes tomorrow!  I've got all of baby's clothes washed and folded and ready to put in the drawers.  I'm more excited this time then with the other two.

- I had carpet cleaners out yesterday to try to clean the paint spot.  When the guy was figuring the bill he asked if I had a calculator with a percent sign.  Both guys had phones, but the phone doesn't have a % and they didn't know how to calculate the sales tax.  He accused me of knowing voodoo magic.  I accuse his middle school of failing him.

MNNEBride

-Yay for a new frig!  LOL @ the picture in my mind of your ILs showing up and you tied up on the couch. 
-Yay for new furniture!
-Middle School failure indeed!

My randoms
- I saw a middle-aged Buddhist monk at the grocery store last night in his safron robe....with matching safron Crocs.
- I have a terrible cough and went to the dr. to get codeine cough syrup.  I took some in the very early morning and I'm at work with a cough syrup hang over.  I might nod off.

NOLABridesmaid

How far along are you, 6?

GBCK

yay fridge.

And definately a midle school math fail.

And I would wear coordinating saffron crocs if I had to wear robes taht were already a fashion disaster :P

Mine:

-Someone frickin stole my box of kleenex.  I provide them for the tutoring center--I buy them and get reimbursed (although at least 1/2 the time I don't bother to get reimbursed).  The box was new last week and some asshat stole it over the weekend.  So I've resorted to stealing a partial roll fo TP from the bathroom and I' hostile.

-I need allergy meds.

-My child can now climb out of the crib she uses at my folk's house.  This bodes ill for nap times for the rest of the year :-P

-My husand and I have been married 9 years and he STILL doesn't realize that conversations we have in bed in the AM before I"m vertical don't count.  He insists we talked about something this morning.  And that I answered.  I BELIEVE him, but, I can do that in my sleep.  i have no recolection of this conversation.

VarunaTT

Yay for new fridge!  We need a new one desparately, but I can't make up my mind what I want.  I can buy furniture and paint colors for the rest of the house in a day, no problem.  But the kitchen?  Somehow I can't do a danged thing for it w/out freezing up.

I suck at figuring out percentages.  I can DO it, but I'll round up to an easy 10 or 5 to do so or use a trick.

I'm laughing at GBCK's morning convo.

It's fall and I'm wearing new boots!  Yay!

6fsn

Nola- I'm 30 wksish.  I'll delver sometime the week of Dec 17.

Ha at the morning conversation!  I want new boots V, but it's not in the budget.

I have no idea what the frig looks like.  The spare one died during the summer storm so this is just a new back up.  We asked FIL to keep a look out and he picked up this for $150.  My only need was that it be big enough for a platter in the frig part and a cookie sheet in the freezer.  Stupid side by side freezer won't fit the cookie sheet.

baconsmom

I can only figure percentages in tens.  Of course, I don't really get the percent button on a calculator, either. So I usually leave the math to anyone else in the vicinity. 

6fsn

Neither of us were doing it in our heads.  I was using my phone.  He didn't realize that 6.35% was the same thing as 0.0635.

NOLABridesmaid

Yeah, I never use the % button. I passed middle school, yo.

I was just helping a kid figure out his average in his class. He was all kinds of confused, poor baby?

GBCK

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[QUOTE]Neither of us were doing it in our heads.  I was using my phone.  He didn't realize that 6.35% was the same thing as 0.0635.
Posted by 6fsn[/QUOTE]

<div>My brain doesn't like decimals, so I always do the latin break down...per cent = per 100.</div><div>So then I create the tiny cross-multiplication chart in my head.  </div><div>(I am aware this is WAY mroe work.  But it clicks better for me.)</div><div>
</div><div>so...if it was $135.00</div><div>
</div><div>x/135 = 6.35/100  (this would be beter if it looked like this, but I don't know if it will look right once I hit submit:</div><div>
</div><div><u>x_</u>       =     <u>6.35</u>___</div><div>135               100</div><div>
</div><div>then cross multiply </div><div>100* x =  6.35 * 135</div><div>
</div><div>x = (6.35*135) /100</div><div>
</div><div>Which is the same thing in more steps. <img src="http://cdn.cl9.vanillaforums.com/downloaded/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-embarassed.gif" border="0" alt="Embarassed" title="Embarassed" /></div>

VarunaTT

GB, I have another way to figure that is a lot of steps too.  

If something is 70% off, I'll take 7, multiple it by however many tens are in the price (so if $40, take $7 x 4 tens = 28 off), subtract 28 from 40, so $12.  It's longer, but I can keep track of this in my head for some reason.  You can up it to 100s pretty easily too.

GBCK

Makes sense for me--if they're in 10's especially.  (harder for 4.3% or whatever)

In my state, sales tax is 6% so, my very math deficient sister has orders from me that her tip should be "triple the tax, round up, and add a dollar"

Which, for mid-range restaurants, makes her leave a 20-25% tip, more or less.

Iths the only way she knows it.   It's been working for the last 10 years or so for her--she's screwed when traveling elsewhere though.

DG1

If you turn the phone sideways, you get a gajillion more buttons, including % and square root and logs, sin, cos, tan, etc. 

I assume just about every phone calculator app works this way, anyway. All 3 of mine do.

ETA: Yes, that's a major middle school math fail. And I'll confess I don't really know how to use a % button. I always convert to decimals.

GBCK

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[QUOTE]If you turn the phone sideways, you get a gajillion more buttons, including % and square root and logs, sin, cos, tan, etc.  I assume just about every phone calculator app works this way, anyway. All 3 of mine do. ETA: Yes, that's a major middle school math fail. And I'll confess I don't really know how to use a % button. I always convert to decimals.
Posted by DG1[/QUOTE]

<div>works on the calculator on the computer too.</div><div>(well, I mean, you can get to it.  Not by turning sideways but start>run>calc brings up the calculator and view-scientific brings you the rest of the commonly used math keys--the % is already there I think)</div>

6fsn

V- If something is 70% off multiply by 0.3 and you skip the subtracting crap.  40*3=120 move the decimal point one spot and you've got $12

NOLABridesmaid

Children also don't know how to tell time. Put a clock in front of them, and see how long it takes to figure it out.

They all say they just look on their phones, or wear digital watches. smh

VarunaTT

yeah, my mother does it that way, 6.  

I always think it's interesting to see how people's different minds work.

If I have something that's like 6.5, I just round it up to the 7.  The .5 isn't going to make enough of a difference.