DoChenRollingBearing
Yellow Jacket
Languishing in temporary exile here at the office. My wife has a friend and their ex-teacher of Italian (a real Italian, does not speak English, yes indeed "The Magic City" has it all!) over for lunch. Speaking in Italian... Like I am going to stick around for that!
Disclosure: I start Italian myself next Saturday. I had read that learning a foreign language was the best brain exercise there is. Well, we'll see...
So upon leaving our apartment on a Sunday, I decided to take "make lemonade out of lemons." Since the gold store is closed on Sundays, I decided to go buy the next best thing: booze! Partly in solidarity with my buds (booze for barter) here at pmbug.com and partly because I LIKE Absinthe and Raspberry Vodka (previously discussed long ago on another thread), I went and STOCKED UP on both. And picked up lunch. Great! One hour down, three more to go. At least the weather is nice, a bit nippy at 77 F, we are almost back up to ancona's measure of where life really begins (at 80 F).
So, I have decided to start a new project, using statistics to look at our bearing sales from 2009 - 2011, to see if I can tease out any new actionable patterns... I use the statistics program "S", which is pretty much the same as statistics program "R", the latter is downloadable for FREE (look around for it). The only problem with S and R is that are both very hard to use. Command lines, etc. And it takes a LONG TIME for me to select the data from my database, set it up JUST RIGHT in MS Excel, move the data over to S and figure out how to do those routines (again).
Or I could just spend some more time here in our cozy community or even waste time over at Zero Hedge (or both) to avoid having to expend mental energy on a Sunday... Hmm. We'll see how this goes. Dessert has just started...
Disclosure: I start Italian myself next Saturday. I had read that learning a foreign language was the best brain exercise there is. Well, we'll see...
So upon leaving our apartment on a Sunday, I decided to take "make lemonade out of lemons." Since the gold store is closed on Sundays, I decided to go buy the next best thing: booze! Partly in solidarity with my buds (booze for barter) here at pmbug.com and partly because I LIKE Absinthe and Raspberry Vodka (previously discussed long ago on another thread), I went and STOCKED UP on both. And picked up lunch. Great! One hour down, three more to go. At least the weather is nice, a bit nippy at 77 F, we are almost back up to ancona's measure of where life really begins (at 80 F).
So, I have decided to start a new project, using statistics to look at our bearing sales from 2009 - 2011, to see if I can tease out any new actionable patterns... I use the statistics program "S", which is pretty much the same as statistics program "R", the latter is downloadable for FREE (look around for it). The only problem with S and R is that are both very hard to use. Command lines, etc. And it takes a LONG TIME for me to select the data from my database, set it up JUST RIGHT in MS Excel, move the data over to S and figure out how to do those routines (again).
Or I could just spend some more time here in our cozy community or even waste time over at Zero Hedge (or both) to avoid having to expend mental energy on a Sunday... Hmm. We'll see how this goes. Dessert has just started...
