At work, something will come up and it takes all of my attention. When I am done dealing with the problem, I have to figure out what I was pulled away from.

Since I get bored at work with actual work stuff (formatting documents or doing design stuff), very often I will be poking around the internet or reading LJ or playing some stupid flash game/solitaire. Then I will crunch through whatever I am suppose to be doing quickly.

I just got off the phone from dealing with some issue and was casting about for what I was doing when the phone rang. It had the feeling of one of those absorbing activities like LJ, reading an article online or game playing. Then I realized I was devising a way to calculate the size of a graphic for a table of numbers. Each number gets a different size circle to indicate size relative to a max and min number. Each row has a different set of max and min numbers. I have been playing around in Excel creating formula for exact size measurements for the circle for each cell of the table (5×8). I am digging into my Pervey Math Fancier side and really getting a kick out of the formula building.

I so enjoy playing with Excel beyond the simple table format it provides. Math teaching you a way to think. Do step one and that leads you to what you need for the next step, and so on. I really like things that match that way of thinking. Even the games I play are of that sort (i.e. solitaire, picross).

I am such a geek. And I love it.