April Fools is Cancelled, 1st April 2020

It was April the first with not a joke to be seen.

Because the world was transfixed on COVID-19.

 

Does that work? It sounded good in my head. I failed to mention COVID-19 in my previous entry because, well, my life is more-or-less the same as it has been for the past 9 months or so. Go to work, sleep. Come home, sleep. Do everything in my power to avoid human contact. To be clear; I’m not lonely. There’s a big difference between being lonely and being alone. I very much enjoy being alone.

It gives me time to do things that are fun…like Maths. No, seriously, Maths can be fun. Let me give you a prime example: 7…here’s another prime example: 23…see? Fun!

Now you’re probably thinking; “How many children does one man have to father to get that level of dad jokes?”

Well…

 

 

Let x = the total number of kids. Use the equation x = √2 X 0

Sounds pretty rational to me.

 

 

How should I end these? How bout a magic trick? I’m gonna make the end of this reference disappear. Ta-dah! Ah, it’s-it’s gon—

 

 

Dear Journal, 31st March 2020 (LE)

Dear Diary Journal

 

I’ve decided to embark on taking notes of my daily activities in the hopes that I will one day become famous and these will hold some kind of monetary value…

Seriously though, I think a few minutes of this before I go to bed may help reinforce things I have learned. We’ll see I guess, or whatever…who cares. Ok…ah…I’ve been reading E=mc^2 by David Bodanis, and I have had the speed of light (represented in Einstein’s equation with the symbol c) put into some perspective. Mach 1 is well known as the speed of sound, comparatively, the speed of light is equal to Mach 900,000.

The example given in the book is that of an annoyingly loud person on the opposite side of a restaurant talking on the phone. Since phones use radio waves that travel at the speed of light, the person on the receiving end of the phone is hearing the speaker significantly earlier than you are from the other side of the restaurant.

I’ve personally noticed this when assisting at a school swimming carnival. The light signifying the beginning of a race can be seen well before the sound of the cap gun firing, both of which happened at the same time. The delay is admittedly minimal over such a short distance, but it is noticeable.

Well, this already feels productive. Hopefully, I will be able to fill this notebook (that I’m physically writing in, wasn’t until a day later I decided to post this online) on a consistent basis with interesting points I don’t want to forget easily. If nothing else, this should be therapeutic.