Update. Forever new definition of.

I had been posting stuff like this at "Posterous", forever means until we change our mind.

#Twitterfail

I thought I would update you on what's going on in my life. I mean that the purpose of blogs. a few weeks back I started working as a substitute paraprofessional educator at the shocker P [Shakopee] public schools. I should note I'm using voice type on my Android device. So I will bracket any type of changes I make. I probably wouldn't but I really liked shocker P public schools.

I have helped children of all ages from kindergarden through senior year I like it all I've been at five schools work nearly every day I take a day off a week just for me to regroup. I would consider this a career. I am still unsure if I want to be in front of a class room per se but I really enjoy helping kids learn. I'm not sure if they'll be assignments this summer enough to keep me busy I have many other plans two week from my summer other than working including working on a boat, working on a project float and building a campsite. that's all for now more later chow [ciao].

Sphere of Seven

I'm obsessing about the sphere again. A long while ago, I was reading an old alchemical text. There was an illustration of a unique style of globe shape cage. It was made of 7 great circles. I think it was a map of the heavens - ie 7th heaven.  With a bit of time and effort, I figured out how to make one.  I have yet to construct one, but I know how.

Today I was looking at flat pak furniture and housing. These are large projects that work not unlike those snap apart wooden dinosaur models.

So now, I am fighting the urge to make a small scale cardboard model of my 7sphere. The full size would be made out of mdf panels which will be two panels thick, offsetting the seam by one half each arc. Without giving away my design, I think each of the 7 great circles will have an obvious and similar number of segments, each layer rotated one half way round the circle, intersections to be calculated. It is a good thing I received ribbons for my geometry grades.

The purpose of  writing this was to get my brain solving the problem. - It happened. This work is closely related to Buckminster Fuller's Bamboo Geodesic. If that means anything to anyone.
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For more info

1. A mathematician's view of the significance of 7
2. Forty two Flat Pak furniture and house designs
3. Free Spirit Spheres
4. Circle and sphere calculator
5. Means nothing to you?

Fire

I cannot say enough about fire. I arrived in camp pretty late Saturday night, fully expecting to fire up my vintage 425 camp stove and finish the pot of spaghetti I brought along for first night.
Pump pump times 50 and no pressure. So cheese sandwiches.  The next morning I went to my back up plan. Grilling. I grilled hot dogs for breakfast but never managed a good boil for either my coffee or the spaghetti. Back up number two was my bottle stove with fuel tabs. Boils water in a jiffy with sterno, but the fuel tabs fizzled. 
Yesterday after kayaking and swimming at my aunt's nearby lake home, I mentioned my gas pressure problem. She and my uncle lent me some 3 in 1 oil. Apparently the pump seal dries out. Well considering the stove was my other uncle's and was stored nearly 20 years I figured it was likely. Last night I had my spaghetti dinner and this morning i have my coffee.
Fire rocks. I understand what all those cavemen were so excited about.
-Kevin Fillips

Abandoned log house loft

http://instagr.am/p/Kkv9WiGSb9/

tested in the brain

Last week, in a switch, I took aptitude, skill, dexterity, memory, IQ, pyschological  screenings and more.

This is all for my reboot of my career. While my cardiologist is not willing to release me to work, after my valve surgery, she'll consider it.

I am in a vocational rehabilitation program through Social Security and the State of Minnesota.  That's why all the tests.  It was fascinating to see how completely unsuited I was for some of the skills, as well as how I was the "fasted the tester had ever seen" in others. Proof that for this world to work, it takes all types.

One of the tests was a vocabulary test. I had answers for every word but one, the final one.

What I remember seeing was: PILLIATE

In this test, no context or pronunciation was offered.

I focused on the word "pill" and the perceived action of ate.

When I got home, I mentioned the word to my dad. He knew of the pileated woodpecker. I was certain that was not the spelling.

It became an obsession of mine, as outlined in my tumblr.

Better Health, Dismal resume

The Ticket-to-work (TTW)

It is supposed to shrink the rolls.  I have been dancing around with the program for some time, and still do not get it.  The explanatory process is circular.  This points you to that which points you back to this.  It reminds me of looking up "adult words" in the dictionary, each definition  pointing to another unfamiliar word which takes a route round back to the first word with a few stops.

I downloaded the audio file.  It was pleasant enough, just the same information on the web site, read slowly and deliberately.  When I worked in a financial department, I would hear other agents simply repeat themselves when their callers asked "What?" as if the problem was with hearing and not understanding.  Being able to explain something someone does not know within a context they do know is the gift of teaching.  Soap box, off.

If you read my medical blog about my heart surgery experiences and recovery, you may have gleaned that I have many of the symptoms of a healthy person.  It is time for me to try to find a way to support myself without grabbing the government teat.

Last week I had over $7,000 worth of medical tests, simply to confirm this healthiness.  My ssdi check certainly does not afford me the life I would prefer.  But the specter of losing Medicare for a job that may or may not provide health care, is scary./

I am 48 years old.  Prime for re-employment. I would love to be able to get the TTW program to provide back office and confidence building.  Finding the right Employment Network (EN) is like picking a college.  The big key difference is there is not the infrastructure that colleges have for information and recruitment.  To me choosing a network is like a bad Japanese game show.  Push the wrong button, and you get bonked in the kanoidy noids.

The article below outlines my experience with Social Security's "Ticket to work" program

BUSINESS DAY

Disabled, but Looking for Work

By MOTOKO RICH

Published: April 6, 2011

The number of people collecting Social Security disability benefits is rising, and the agency’s Ticket to Work employment program has done little to ease the burden.

More later.
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K
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104 year old barge sinks

http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/224506/group/homepage/

Did I Ever post this

Self portrait?

Flying

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WebUrbanist/~3/mJyPxwRjFQo/

I dream of flying

Short stack

Stacking in Style: New Trend Puts Houses on Houses