I

 never did get math. I failed algebra in high school, and again my first year in college. It just wouldn’t click in my brain. I understood the principle, but I just couldn’t make it come out right. I managed to get thru Intro to Chemistry, and Intro to Physics, mostly by rote memorization of the calculations, and loved the subjects, but using math to solve things just wasn’t in my skill set.

I went on thru my life without having to really have to use math. Then I got back from Peace Corps, and started my little bidness in carpentry and building. I decided to start my own bidness because I had gotten fired so many times from working for some officious idiot, who would eventually say, “Just do it because I said so, and stop arguing.” I often had better ways to do things at my various jobs, and was not shy about trying to implement them. So, being the patient guy that I am, and always being willing to be bossed around by bureaucratic little twerps who were on power trips, when it would get to that point, I would say, “Well, F— You.” And they would say, “Well, you’re fired.” And I would be looking for a job again. Hence, working for myself.

I found that regularly, in my various jobs as a Jack-of-all-Trades, I would be called on to build steps, or construct rafters, both of which had mathmatecal formulas to figure out angles and lengths. Triangles, And Pythagoras and his unintelligible theory. I tried math, but after it would let me down time and again, I invented the swag method to replace math. It almost never fails, and has allowed me to build complicated steps, and roofs with all sorts of angles. And all kinds of other things. And I didn’t have to mess with math.

I use it all the time, and always teach it to those who work with me, so that they too, can be math free. The more you use it, the better it works for you. I built a whole 2 story house one time, without using math, with just the swag method.

What is the swag method? Easy peasy. Scientific Wild Ass Guess. Never fails. Probably because it is scientific.

Math, no thanks. Always lets me down.