Sort Of Depressed And Need Cheering Up..

Sorry, Ron, but the info you were given is not quite correct.



Only if you have already had your birthday this year. If you have not, then you need to add one.

I agree, that is a fun tidbit. I'm sure nobody is interested in knowing why.



This actually happens quite often. In general, it will happen every 5, 6, or 11 years depending on the effect of the leap year cycle. It last happened in 2005, and will happen again in 2016.

Yeah, I was a math major many many eons ago...

I wasn't fudging ok look. I was born Dec 12 1972 I'm currently 38 years old. = 110 but I do see the mathematical wizardry here. in December it will indeed be 111.

EDIT: I just noticed the post a little above this one about adding 1 if you havent had a B-Day yet in the year.

@ Skilo54 I just moved up here from the Jersey Shore - Wiliamsport area of Pennsylvania called Pine Creek in Lycoming County. We had the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon and the best fly-fishing streams & creeks in the county but that Marcellus gas drilling companies are destroying everything in sight down there. I really don't want to get into it more than that But your right it is a little piece of heaven here too! So many different species of birds and game animals to watch. definitely some big land up this way!

Khj, with respect why do U.S. citizens call it MATH when it's MATHS, there is more than one number involved. To Australians, MATH makes a sentence sound incomplete without the S.

HEY!~ maybe that's why I was never any good at mathematics that darn S! Really though that's true? maths? that makes it plural in the united States. more than one math. maybe it's just slang were all just used to? I'm not sure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math

I always thought that "math" was just a shortening of the word "mathematics".

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We call it math here in Canada too, and I get 110. Maybe I'm just not good at maths.

Some time back we were looking up what 'Infinity divided by Infinity equals', shock, these clever people proved in a few lines that 2=1.


http://www.philforhumanity.com/Infi...nfinity.html

Math: Addition
Math: Subtraction
Math: Division
Math: Multiplication

Maths: All of the above.

I_Love_Stamps, I was in Williamsport a few years ago...an old Jaycee buddy of mine moved out there to teach at a college...next time I go to the APS Hq. I will stop by and see them...i live near Kingston, New York on the Hudson river...the coal from Pennsylvania used to come there by canal barge and then by boat to New York City...must have been a lot of barges !!

I am glad you found something relaxing to give you pleasure. Good thought going your way. Regardless of how much time (which we don't really know) we have on this planet it is good that you have supportive family and friends. Even us SCF members whom have never met in person are friends. Those small pieces of paper are what binds us together. I myself have been going thru a rough patch with my wife's health and find taking time out for stamps and SCF has helped me decompress a bit.

Live, Love, Learn

Jeff, been down the big C road three times myself, so I know better than to say, I know how you feel, but I as a vet I am allowed to say "keep plugging" ride through the depression, there are sunny days just down the road, and without all the platitudes, just know that all you stamp buddies are here and will be here, and later on will still be here. Collect away and let me know what is in your "want list" and I'll help you fill it. - Jeff

Why thank you jhlovell as my Wife is also in college to become a vet or did you mean a veteran? Also @ philb their are a lot of old canals and tons of history around that area with the logging industry boom around the turn of the century so there are attractions a plenty! I live about the same distance from Bellefonte [Home of the www.stamps.org or A.P.S. headquarters] here that I did in Jersey Shore. I would love to hook up with a fellow S.C.F.-er if our coming through en-route to the A.P.S.hq as I have only been there once and, go figure. it wasn't open...lol.

I actually have a fighting chance but sometimes it feels as if the only light at the end of the tunnel is a train.
Thank you all for your great support as I really need it. You are all super duper in my stock book! and I most certainly appreciate the gratis mail surprises but it's certainly not necessary but you know that already. Who knew that the little collection I found in the back of a closet that I hadn't seen in 30 years would bring me this much joy and FRIENDS! I am truly humbled.

I_Love_Stamps I live 300 miles from Bellefonte door to door....i have been to the old APS Hq. in State College twice and to Bellefonte once...being we have to travel 6 hours I make sure the place is open..having a wife who collects also certainly does not hurt..i have to admit I was shocked when I saw the match factory in Bellefonte...except for the space occupied by the APS its really a dump...i don't know who made the decision to move the APS there.it looks like a real money pit to me...we have no immediate plans to go out that way as we have already been to Charleston S.C. and Ottawa this year...but I will certainly make contact with you..we would take a motel for at least one night...i don't know if you would want to do that or follow us out on our own..cheers, phil