I quilt. I make dollhouse miniatures. I sucked at Geometry. (Loved Algebra). Make lots of frustrating mistakes in my hobbies because of it.

Picked up a Geometry book from Kindle Unlimited. It’s never too late. I found out one of
my angle difficulties. I know what I’m supposed to do to figure out the difference between two angles. But guess what, I have also never been good at doing math in my head. (Al is a whiz. On the options exchange he could add and subtract and multiply sixteenths in his head. On the fly.)

So twice now, in doing VERY basic problems. I have miscalculated in my head. 145-85 came out 70. And I did it several times. Finally got out the calculator. It’s 60.

Another example. 180 minus 145. I kept wanting it to be 45. Finally used the calculator. It’s 35.

So I guess the moral of the story is not measure twice, cut once, which I have always done and half the time it is STILL wrong, but rather don’t trust yourself when you are a person who has to count 8 + 3 and 8+4 on your FINGERS because you will get it wrong every. single. time. Use the calculator.

Also, when mitering corners on dollhouse moulding figure out which one will be the obtuse and which one will be the acute before you cut the 45 degrees. It becomes an expensive proposition to keep making that mistake. I’m not even sure if that’s an accurate description of what I want to do, because it’s 3-D.

I will get to the bottom of this tho. Enough is enough.