(no subject)

Heh. I have found my first error in Apostol's Calculus. (Okay, I'm 98% sure - going to look over everything one more time tomorrow, but Maxima agrees with me, and alternate methods of solving the silly thing get my solution and not his.) It's just an inversion - 2 instead of 1/2, but still. (Okay, it's kind of my second, but the other one didn't really make sense as a problem unless you changed it slightly, and then the answer was fine.)

Better, it is one that K did not find. (Hey, sometimes it's a little depressing that he's about a year ahead of of me on this having started a bunch earlier. I kind of aspire to catch up, but that will involve being healthy and not swamped fairly consistently.)

(no subject)

Phoo. Unless I am quite mistaken, I seem to be having an allergic reaction (mouth and throat itchy, sore, and slightly blistered) to something I ate. The candidates seem to be Tinkyada tri-colored rice pasta (Tinkyada rice pasta is a household staple, but the tri-colored bit I could live without - then again, spinach, tomato or carrot powder?), capers, or pine nuts.

Since I already have a (minor, mostly) allergy to hazelnuts and almonds, the pine nuts seem to be the most likely culprit. Except I don't like that explanation at all. (And... having the hazlenut and almond cross reaction to birch pollen allergen isn't the same thing as a real tree nut allergy... right? *hits the literature* Darn. Huh. Okay, usually oral allergy syndrome is pretty small potatoes in comparison, but it's not supposed to include skin or asthmatic reactions. And my allergies have been so well behaved since I went off of milk, too...)