Brain things

Our machining teacher seems confident we'll be able to find work easily enough, but I'm having difficulty finding anything we'd likely be qualified for online. It might be that the type of place we'd be hired by wouldn't post job openings online, but I'm not sure. I guess I'll have to ask further about that. I'll also have to brush up on geometry, because I was getting confused the other day. We were supposed to be cutting a groove into our workpiece with a 30 degree angle on either side, and by my (apparently mistaken) calculations, the dimensions shouldn't have been able to add up. But eventually I got fed up with working out the theoretical dimensions and just got to cutting the part and ended up with nearly the exact dimensions I was meant to without quite understanding how. It's a bit funny since earlier that day I was talking to Alu about the ills of overthinking things.

That said, I would like to at least figure out why my figures were so far off. And I was actually really enjoying the attempt as it was happening. The actual use of my brain is quite a departure from our current job (I know we complain about our job a lot, but it really is just so dull), so I'm really looking forward to doing things like that more often.

I wonder if it's going to be long before we'll have to train our brains to interact with things more directly. I also wonder how difficult an endeavor that will be, trying to make things happen without the use of our hands and feet just by thinking in a certain way.

Weird.

Anyway, that's about all I've got for today, so

Take it easy!