Nerd

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I was having a largish bottle of beer with my girlfriend who is trying to console me about the fact that I have no job and $11 in my account. I called it a 40 (as in 40 ouncer as the kids say) and she said, "Actually, it's a 24 oz."

Well...i can't have somebody actually me without finding my own info (it's all good, it keeps me on my toes). I can never remember how many oz. are in a cup, pint, quart, etc., but I remembered I had an analog list of measurements and their conversions. I say analog because my brain lives on this thing that you call the internet and my source off choice this day was my composition notebook that a good friend gave me to use for writing.

When I looked in the back, I found that they skip from "gills" (gi.) to pints, then gallons. Well, my blood was up because I couldn't figure out if we were drinking a pint or not (it turned out to be a pt. and a half, but that's not important right now). So I got out the measuring cup and had to write my new found data in the "useful information" section in the back of the notebook in case this happened in the future.

And this is what came of my calculations:

Liq.: 8oz/cup, 4c/quart, 4c=32oz, 1pt=16oz
1gill=4oz, 400 gills = a crowded fish-tank

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I know it was a long way to the well and the bucket came back empty, but that is my little nerdy joke that I made today. It helps to try to laugh when things seem really, really hopeless. Or go insane, but that kind of laughter is always really unfulfilling to me.

BTW, 400gi. is equivalent to 3.125 gallons if you are curious. It still is even if you aren't. That's the great thing about math.