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June 2017 began my Recalculating Period

Roger Skibowski
4 min readApr 4, 2019

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What is a recalculating period?

There are two concepts that I think best describe what a recalculating period meant.

The first one the GPS device and the second one an Albert Einstein saying.

One benefit during employment was job related travel. During travel usually meant rental cars in a foreign town or country. There were three options I recall on devices before smartphones, either a TomTom, Magellan, or Garmin. They all worked just about the same. I think I had one of each at one time.

The one phrase I recall is “Please wait Recalculating” when you did not follow the driving route to your destination. The device would recalculate the new route based on your current location and destination, and provide a new set of instructions to follow.

The second by Albert Einstein who said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.” And one of my favorite saying to refer to from time to time.

With that thinking I started reviewing what I’d been doing to determine what required some tweaking to not go insane.

My first thought of recalculating

I have in my One Note a page with my early thought about recalculating, the date of March 8,2014. I’ve…

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