My commute time is now increased by 500%

It increased 400%, not 500%. Increase means add, not multiply.

I don't understand how people who know that going from 100 to 101 is a 1% increase, not a 101% increase can at some unspecified ratio switch to multiplying. One of my pet peeves.

Good going Kris - not only have you quadrupled your fuel bill, but you managed to piss Bill93 off in the process...

> It increased 400%, not 500%. Increase means add, not multiply.
>
> I don't understand how people who know that going from 100 to 101 is a 1% increase, not a 101% increase can at some unspecified ratio switch to multiplying. One of my pet peeves.

I conclude that you must be one of the happiest people on planet earth.

Stephen

Awesome!!!!! Lovin this thread! 🙂

So yes, thanks for asking. We've finished the add on to the farm house and have moved from town to the Wilds of East Texas (2 miles outside of town) on our 67 acres. It's quiet, too quiet at times. My daughter expressed her mega-loathing this morning for the rooster waking her up at 5 a.m. I told her she wouldn't hear it in a week.

At any rate, my other house is for sale, and hopefully, the proceeds of that sale will pay off the farm and then I can build the house SWMBO wants on the back side of the property, thereby allowing me once again to rent out the farm house (which was a 2/1 and now is a 3/2) for money to pay the note off faster.

We did all the painting and trim work ourself. There is a HUGE savings if you put the sweat equity into a house, but the family may not be on board with it (as was the case with this one).

To persuade SWMBO into helping with the new house, I indicated that our finite finances would only allow certain things, unless we cut costs, which would be the difference between granite and Formica, and kick ass refrigerators versus normal. She wondered why I was bribing her with appliances, but reluctantly agreed.

We will see how this goes now. 🙂

Bill, it's all good. You're correct, I was making an exaggeration, but it's whatever dude. 🙂

Yes, now we just need some yahoo to use they're, their, or there incorrectly.

For those less fortunate...

I went from about 7 miles to zero.
Does that mean I went to negative infinity?
Just curious.
Don't ya'll just hate us mathematicians with nothing else better to do?
😀

I prefer to call myself a mathemagician as I've forgotten more math than most people have ever learned. My skills waned with the minimal math used in this profession.

I do recall:
For every epsilon greater than zero there exists a delta greater than zero such that if the absolute value of the difference between f(x) and f(a) is less than epsilon then or implies the absolute value of the difference between x and a is less than delta.

All true mathematicians or mathemagicians can name this theorem.

We Who Live or Die By the Cross.........

........Bronx Expressway salute you!

My commute time is now increased by 500%>spledeus

Have you graduated to a "Geomagician" yet?

From some of your plans I would say so!

hahahaha Just Kiddin!!!

My commute time varies on where I am in the house at the time I decide to step into the office. We have casual Monday's....and Tuesday's....and Wednesday's....and....

That's quite short... I wonder who has the longest commute? Hour and a half one way for my surveyor wife

My commute time is now increased by 500%>spledeus

Thanks Don, I do try to translate everything to State Plane and be the closest to a geodetic surveyor that I can be. I will probably be one of the guys who helps destroy the profession by making GIS layers that are survey-grade.

Your commute is less than a minute. Roll out of bed, out the back door, shake off the chill and into the office. I still have to drive, but it is a short drive.

My commute time is now increased by 500%>spledeus

Maybe a long minute of a commute... I do have to pass through the kitchen!!!

See you Thursday evening?

Actually Bill

minutes (and miles) are 25% longer in Texas than the rest of the country.

Congrats bro! Hope you enjoy the new place.

We are. It's nice to go home and when work is done, you go inside as opposed to loading everything back up and going home and unloading it.

> I conclude that you must be one of the happiest people on planet earth.
>
> Stephen

LOL. This day is starting off great...

A pls who is a surveying business guru/expert once said:

If you can do a job for $800 and charge $1000, your
profit will increase 20%. As Bill would say the increase is 25%-maybe.

However, if you broke even doing the job for $800, and instead bid the
job for $1000, your profit increase infinitely.

If the $800 job actually had expenses of $700, then the profit is $100

If the $800 job was done for $1000 and had expenses of $700, then the
profit is $300 and the increase is 200% over the $100 profit.