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Yep, must be a mid-life crisis...

2 o'clock, June 15, 2004

. . . ’Cause I just bought a calculus textbook.

Of course, if it was a real mid-life crisis, I’d have paid list — $195.00 — instead of finding an old second edition on abebooks.com for forty bucks. But, still.

Comments

You have your mid-life crisis your way, I'll have mine my way...of course, yours is much more peaceful.

—— Jay Lake, 2:40 PM, Tuesday, June 15, 2004

If it involves a Corvette, Las Vegas, a calculus textbook, or a girl named Trix, it's definitely a mid-life crisis.

—— Greg van Eekhout, 2:59 PM, Tuesday, June 15, 2004

You know, the idea of all four of those together sounds really good right now.

Assuming Trix has a Ph. D. in physics, naturally.

—— David Moles, 3:06 PM, Tuesday, June 15, 2004

wasn't it you telling me that I'd be disowned if I thought about vegas myself? though the other three don't sound half-bad.

—— brandon, 3:09 PM, Tuesday, June 15, 2004

It’s really just the road-trip aspect.

—— David Moles, 3:16 PM, Tuesday, June 15, 2004

Plenty of other destinations out there - you don't have to get so desperate! How about FL for a start? I'll see you there...

—— brandon, 3:31 PM, Tuesday, June 15, 2004

I used to go on road trips to Atlantic City with a girl named Trixie. Does that mean I got some of my mid-life bullshit out of the way early on?

—— Karen, 3:37 PM, Tuesday, June 15, 2004

the four of those together sound like something one might find in heinlein's later novels.

—— aphrael, 5:06 PM, Tuesday, June 15, 2004

Them’s fightin’ words.

—— David Moles, 5:10 PM, Tuesday, June 15, 2004

Anyway, you’re living with a mathematician, so you’re hardly one to talk. :)

—— David Moles, 5:11 PM, Tuesday, June 15, 2004

David -- Why calc? You should start with Set Theory. Everything starts with set theory. Sets. Groups. Then onward. It *must* be a mlc.

—— Deborah, 11:12 PM, Wednesday, June 16, 2004