Tonight’s fine distinction is between cardinal numbers versus ordinal numbers.
Cardinal numbers are for counting. 1, 2, 3, etc. Three sheets.
Ordinal numbers are for ordering. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. The third inning.
Been a long, long time since I last ran into this concept. Grade school, probably. Fun to consider it again.
It’s interesting, I think this book sometimes is less aiming at making distinctions between two (or more) terms that are commonly misused or swapped, and more just bringing up terms that are closely related, whether they’re common, confused, or neither.
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Had a busy day, starting with brining Coops to his second vet visit of the week—the checkup kind, not the injury or illness kind. He’s in good shape! Both his checkups went great, one on his heart and the other on his general innards. Kidneys and liver, in particular, are healthy. Whew. He’s healthy. Happy. That’s all we want. That’s all that matters, truly. Boy how I am reminded of that these days.
Got the finances project started. I find myself here every year, wishing that I’d been better throughout on keeping them organized regularly rather than all at once, like right now. Sigh. Maybe next year will be my breakthrough. It can be done. It can. I’ll figure it out, eventually.
Work was busy in the morning, but slow in the afternoon, which meant I could do some work on the finances. Tomorrow should be even better, I hope, because I won’t have Cooper’s doc visits to hijack my morning.
I started watching Gladiator II. Movies have changed so much. It’s wild. They’re fundamentally different in this era, the blockbusters in particular, how they’re built around massive, grandiose, animation-like VFX set pieces. The scenes in between only serve to propel us toward those scenes. And the characters are all larger than life. They don’t talk or act like real people, they talk and act like movie characters. I kinda hate it. Watching this movie makes me wish things could be scaled back in visuals and scope so that we could film more reality. Like…it’s not really all that cool to watch a cartoon of the coliseum filled with water. You know what would actually be cool? If you really filled the coliseum with water. So, like…how do we film that? How close to genuine reality can we get, and can we film that instead of a million visual effects?
The movie is fine. It’s not quite as bad as I expected it to be…but it isn’t good, either. Sigh.
Night night.