Tuesday, January 13, 2015

My Mom came over today. She usually comes over on Tuesdays to see Tanya and to help out if necessary. Today I took the opportunity to take a Quantitative Exercise for one of the jobs that I applied for. It was basically 11 Questions in Excel. I haven't done advanced analysis in Excel in so long, that I was over thinking it, and there were faster, easier ways to get at the answer, at least for the first few questions. So I spent twice as much time as they wanted (there wasn't a time limit but they mentioned the average time). I just wanted to get at the right answers. And if I had to do a new set of data on similar type questions, I would go a lot faster now. But alas. It doesn't matter really - it is not like I'm really invested in this particular job. I would love to find out what the right answers were at some point, though. And I did enjoy using my brain very much. It has been awhile.

I did more Excel work tonight - it seems a day for it. I had to balance Bear's books for the year for his personal 3D computer animation business. Well, basically I had to determine how much money he has to declare for taxes this year by subtracting expenses from payments. The business is still new, there are too many of either, but still. It's not a lot, but with taxes coming up, I like to be prepared when we go to our accountant.

And now I have about an hour free time, so I'm determined to just sit and read my fiction book. No more work tonight. The Martian picked up a bit since the POV is not just of the astronaut and the main character is not just talking about science all the time.

Oh, one more thing. This morning I used my slow cooker for the first time. I made vegetable curry from the recipe book that came with the slow cooker. It took 25 minutes to cut everything up and then it all just cooked by itself for 4 hours and I could just forget about it. It's nice. And it came out very well.