Monday, March 23, 2020

End of March, 2020

Hello Math-girlies,

It has been a busy year.  The mind forgets, doesn't it.  If you wrote down all we did, it would be a year of good adventure.  Kelleys Island.  Dad's new Job.  New baby.  Kings Island.  Christmas.

I'm in the basement writing a letter because the world is nearly shutdown. There is a virus, "covid", a coronavirus SARS-2, that has been overwhelming medical resources of 1st world countries like Italy, and Spain.  It came from Wuhan China, a product of their "wet market" where they kill, cook, and eat near where the animals are stored.  Very unsanitary.  Only in the 3rd world can things like that still exist.

I have a new cough.  It's really weak, but its unlike coughs that I have had before: its really dry.  I worked from here all last week, and I don't get out much.  Allergies?  Flue?  or Covid?  Time will tell.  The dry cough has been around since Saturday the 21st of March 2020.  We will see how this goes.

We have started playing through "Storm Kings Thunder".  I want to tell you how to think of goblins with AC15 and your first level characters.  Neither hit so well. How do you stack the numbers so the individual goblins become a non-issue?  You don't know it but the same approach works for the college application process, the job application process, and other game-theoretic situations.

I have to get working.  Cognitive models, and optimal computing beckons, and it also pays our bills.

I love you dearly.  You are all four my favorite girlies.  
-MathDad