January 27, 2010
Matthew started a new daycare center called Buds and Blossoms this week. It is operated under Asian American Civic Association. I really like the new space and the lead teacher An Chen. An and I clicked right away and I knew she is someone I could be friends with. However, I can’t seem to warm up to the center’s director just yet. The director is a nice lady but she seems a bit overly by the books, even when it comes to billing matters. Since accounting is typically done on a monthly basis, she decided that each month the cost be calculated by taking 4.3 weeks (52 weeks / 12 months) X $ weekly rate. Since 12 doesn’t divide evenly into 52, 4.3 means 51.6 weeks. She is giving us 0.4 weeks X 7 days = 2.8 days for free each year. At $70 per day, that’s about $210. I know it’s not a lot but it still seems silly to me. Since she insists that this is the way to do it, then by all means. I don’t mind making use of $210 for diapers or anything.
January 7, 2010
Benjamin Disraeli said, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Harvard President Lawrence Lowell wrote in 1909 that statistics, “…like veal pies, are good if you know the person that made them, and are sure of the ingredients.”
I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I’m not absolutely sure of anything, and in many things I don’t know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we’re here, and what the question might mean. I might think about a little, but if I can’t figure it out, then I go to something else. But I don’t have to know an answer. I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn’t frighten me.
January 4, 2010
Can’t wait to meet her soon. See you in Feb.
January 2, 2010
Weighing in at 5th percentile, Matthew’s new diet will now include PediaSure. We’ll see how he does in one month.
