B. U. G. S.

Sounds like you were working your tail off. I was just concerned. That is all. I did not understand what you meant. All clear. I totally understand.

Comment by Tim

ME:

Loud and clear.

I want you to make comments like that, TELLING ME I sound like some Washington gobbledeegook to you. If it sounds that way to you, it sounds that way to others, and I need a chance to explain it. If you worry about my reaction, I don’t get the feedback I need.

I am searching for another comment I received about referring to Google.

One problem with repeating basics is that it sounds like I am saying, “Well, you clown, all you have to do is …”

I’m not.

You will notice Joe has no problem with this. When you get our age you are very used to forgetting basics. Look, gang, if you were not a part of the VERY few who understand the basics, we wouldn’t need to BE here.

I get these terse little messages about how I’m misspelling things or I got a fact wrong. The people who do this are generally outsiders who do not understand this is not Mommy Professor territory and if I say something wrong, you will simply correct me. That is absolutely ALIEN thinking outside this Blog.

Just repeating the basics can sound like I’m being peevish. Telling someone the same thing again normally sounds crabby. But let us remember what we are doing here versus what Mommy Professor does. If you are in Mommy Professor territory you take down what M.P. says and then you vomit it up at the next exam.

Then you forget it.

We are like Isaac Newton. We are hammering at basics, building on basics. Newton kept reminding people that things fall and water runs downhill. And he never took his eyes off that basic. He was not trying to dazzle them with his footwork.

I remind you over and over and over that water runs downhill and things fall. This can easily sound crabby.

It doesn’t matter HOW I sound. I appreciate your respect for my opinion, but the simple fact is that I appreciate my regular commenters more than I can express. Let me just go ahead and say things and you get what you can out of it. If you don’t get something, say so.

If it confuses you, it confuses others. Every single thing I get from you makes me hone what I am saying. If it sounds peevish, it is because I am concentrating hard on what I am trying to say.

If I sound peevish, let me know. But that is not the point. The point is what YOU are getting out of it, how YOU will expand on the basics I keep repeating, how ***I*** am contradicting my own basics.

We are leaving Mommy Professor far, far behind.

Ain’t it GREAT!?