this is silly
Feb. 15th, 2005 09:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gmonkey42I spent a good chunk of the work day today working on my own web site then I brought home a binder of info I have to read for work. I guess it doesn't matter as long as it gets done. My bosses certainly don't care. I'm lucky. I know.
I went to a cardio kickboxing class and I survived so that's good. I'm surprised at how little damage the almost total lack of exercise for the past few months has done. I have to take it easy in the classes but I'm still getting through them. And I did some pushups afterwards. 20 of 'em. Not too bad. I haven't checked out the weight area yet. I go to 24 Hour Fitness, by the way. I got an amazing deal on it. It was about $500 total for the first three years, paid up front - that's the catch - and then $99 per year after that. I'm almost into year three now and I'm still using it so it was definitely worth it. Anyway. The one in Davis had this machine where you can do pullups but you're kneeling on a platform that moves up and down with you and you set how much of your weight it supports. I hope they have one of those here, I like that one.
Snape (my cat) keeps worrying me: she goes up on top of the kitchen cabinets and then she leaps down, bouncing off the counter and hitting the ground. I'm afraid she's going to hurt herself. My parents' neighbors' cat did that. He jumped down off an 8-foot high book shelf and dislocated his shoulder, I think. His shoulder looked messed up. But before they could even do anything, he popped it back into place. And later, he tried to jump off the same shelf again. They had to get rid of the shelf. I think I'll have to put boxes on top of the cabinets so Snape can't get up there. She gets up via the frige but I'm afraid that if I just block that part, she'll start trying to jump straight up from the counter. Loony cat.
ETA: Also, I got my discount Valentine's chocolate. Twenty eight chocolates for $5.00. That's about eighteen cents per chocolate. It's 31.25 cents per ounce. And I worked that out on paper. Sometimes I prefer to do long division by hand. If that doesn't make me a nerd, I don't know what does. Except I gave up on the idea of working out how much it cost per mol because I'd have to get an average molecular weight for the chocolates and there are too damn many different kinds of molecules. I think I'd have to make so many assumptions that it'd be wildly inaccurate anyway. So I'm a nerd but not the queen of all nerds.
You know what? I'm going to make the assumption anyway. And I'll do everything on paper. This awesome page has the molecular weight of theobromine, which, according to the site, accounts for about 1% of the total weight. But I have more to read for the lab meeting tomorrow so I'm going to pretend I bought a pound of theobromine. Its molecular weight is 180.17g/mol (C7H8N4O2 so the molecular weight is correct). Except why is it called theobromine if it does not, in fact, contain any actual bromine? Just wondering. Anyway. 1 pound is 454g (according to the package - I'm too lazy to do that conversion). ...I'm just going to round off the .17, OK? Since I have no idea what the average molecular weight really is and this is all going to be bullcrap anyway. OK then. 454/180 = 2.5222 so I have 2.5222 mols of "chocolate" for $5. That's $1.98 per mol. Assuming it's pure theobromine, which it isn't by any stretch of the imagination. That was fun. OK, back to work.
I went to a cardio kickboxing class and I survived so that's good. I'm surprised at how little damage the almost total lack of exercise for the past few months has done. I have to take it easy in the classes but I'm still getting through them. And I did some pushups afterwards. 20 of 'em. Not too bad. I haven't checked out the weight area yet. I go to 24 Hour Fitness, by the way. I got an amazing deal on it. It was about $500 total for the first three years, paid up front - that's the catch - and then $99 per year after that. I'm almost into year three now and I'm still using it so it was definitely worth it. Anyway. The one in Davis had this machine where you can do pullups but you're kneeling on a platform that moves up and down with you and you set how much of your weight it supports. I hope they have one of those here, I like that one.
Snape (my cat) keeps worrying me: she goes up on top of the kitchen cabinets and then she leaps down, bouncing off the counter and hitting the ground. I'm afraid she's going to hurt herself. My parents' neighbors' cat did that. He jumped down off an 8-foot high book shelf and dislocated his shoulder, I think. His shoulder looked messed up. But before they could even do anything, he popped it back into place. And later, he tried to jump off the same shelf again. They had to get rid of the shelf. I think I'll have to put boxes on top of the cabinets so Snape can't get up there. She gets up via the frige but I'm afraid that if I just block that part, she'll start trying to jump straight up from the counter. Loony cat.
ETA: Also, I got my discount Valentine's chocolate. Twenty eight chocolates for $5.00. That's about eighteen cents per chocolate. It's 31.25 cents per ounce. And I worked that out on paper. Sometimes I prefer to do long division by hand. If that doesn't make me a nerd, I don't know what does. Except I gave up on the idea of working out how much it cost per mol because I'd have to get an average molecular weight for the chocolates and there are too damn many different kinds of molecules. I think I'd have to make so many assumptions that it'd be wildly inaccurate anyway. So I'm a nerd but not the queen of all nerds.
You know what? I'm going to make the assumption anyway. And I'll do everything on paper. This awesome page has the molecular weight of theobromine, which, according to the site, accounts for about 1% of the total weight. But I have more to read for the lab meeting tomorrow so I'm going to pretend I bought a pound of theobromine. Its molecular weight is 180.17g/mol (C7H8N4O2 so the molecular weight is correct). Except why is it called theobromine if it does not, in fact, contain any actual bromine? Just wondering. Anyway. 1 pound is 454g (according to the package - I'm too lazy to do that conversion). ...I'm just going to round off the .17, OK? Since I have no idea what the average molecular weight really is and this is all going to be bullcrap anyway. OK then. 454/180 = 2.5222 so I have 2.5222 mols of "chocolate" for $5. That's $1.98 per mol. Assuming it's pure theobromine, which it isn't by any stretch of the imagination. That was fun. OK, back to work.
