mholik in Santa Fe is doing 39 things including…

convert to metric

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mholik has written 4 entries about this goal

Pretty good 14 months ago

I mean, I still live in an English-system society but I feel like I could at least kind of get by in a metric world.



OK 17 months ago

Parts of this goal:
*Car odometer and mileage (kilometerage?) in metric -DONE
*be able to estimate distances in metric-halfway
*know my height and weight in metric-DONE
*measure and maintain my weight in metric-DONE
*cook in metric
*be able to estimate liquid and solid liter and gram measures by eye
*know temperatures in metric-halfway, I check the weather in metric anyway.
Feeling pretty close to checking this off. The real problem is maintaining it. I mean, when I really look around and think about it, how can I fight against EVERY SINGLE THING around me being in the english system? I wish sooooo badly that the other measurement system would just go away!!



Got the temperature 20 months ago

And I’m getting distance pretty well. Volume, not a clue yet. Maybe I will try cooking in metric to get those. Weight, I can’t find me a metric scale for sale in the US. But at least I know I weigh 61 kg. It’s becoming easier.
Am I missing anything else?



Enough! 2 years ago

I’m sick of the english system or whatever it’s called. It’s a really outdated system and I’ve been waiting since grade school (when we had to learn both) for the country to get with it and change over, but nothing’s happening so screw it, I’ll change over by myself. I know the conversions, but I still “think” in english units, miles, cups, inches, etc. So I want to get to a point where I think in metric. So when someone from the rest of the world tells me it’s 40 degrees out I know immediately whether that’s hot or cold. Whether 60 kilos means I’m fat. English system, I wash my hands of you!



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