strange remark about your collection?

AS you know, I regard personal observations as being very useful. I know sports s are not fun to everybody because they are not fun to me. Even when I was very small I had no interest in playing with a ball i nthe garden. I was more interested in looking at clocks (something that I love to this day). I never wanted to watch sports on TV. I will admeit that therefore I have avoided doing any form of sport all my life, and it's _possible_ (but unlikely) there's something I would enjoy. But that is _vey_ unlikely. I don;t think it was bair. I think he was genuinely suprised that anyone would do mathematics for fon. I suspect he thoguth that solving equations was the ultimate torture. Jaut as I would regard having to chase a ball around. Actually, I am a lot less methematically-inclined than many of my friends,. In fact I try to avoid doign maths if I can find a neat solution to the problem. Recently I've been looking at a resisotr network circuit [1]. I can (and did) write down the equations givign the output voltage as a function of the input voltage (using the superprosition principle to solve for one input at a time) and solve them. This shows me it does indeed behave as I'd esxpect, but I still don't feel satisfied. I don't feel I really understnad it. I am still looking for an intuitive way to figure it out. On the other hand, I am a lot more mathmeatically inclined than 90% (or more) of the populatiion. It worries me -- a lot -- that none of the neighbours here had any idea what 'e' was (base of natural logarithms, not the elctronic chaerge), for example. -tony