Bachelorhood

Wednesday’s comic pages in the Washington Post included a Sherman’s Lagoon strip that hit home to me: Fillmore, a turtle nerd who is not a success with the the lady turtles, is talking with Meghan, the lady shark. Meghan says, “Alright! Your total makeover begins today.”

“I’m ready,” says Fillmore.

“Women like to know a guy’s interests.”

“Uh-huh.”

Meghan asks, “What are some of your hobbies? What gets you excited?”

Fillmore answers, “Math . . . any kind of math . . . poetry . . . Baroque music . . . Ooh! Norse mythology!”

Meghan, looking downcast: “Wow. I got nothing to work with here.”

I am rather mathematical (I was the principal author of a paper, “Correction in the Equation for the Third Order Kroener Bound on the Shear Modulus of a Polycrystalline Aggregate of Randomly Oriented Cubic Crystallites”), I am, in a very minor way, a published poet, I enjoy Baroque music, especially J.S. Bach, and I have something of a taste for Norse mythology, as well as history and saga literature. No wonder I couldn’t get a girl.

The Red Queen’s Race

I called this weekly feature The Red Queen’s Race because I use to typically have a substantial number of amendments on my docket, and I was trying to keep the numbers down. It’s now starting to resemble the old days, since I received another amendment early this week, raising the total to five amendments on my Amended docket. I have been working on one of the older amendments, but I’m not finished yet. I hope to do some more searching, and post an Office Action this weekend.

I did finish an Office Action on my oldest Regular New application a couple of days ago, so that’s something accomplished.