FWE: Finished With Engines, Being A Restauranteur and The Myth of Sisyphus/

[GrimwoodCT]

FWE. Finished With Engines.

Maritime engineers often wrote FWE at the bottom of their logs when totalling up consumption of bunker fuel, distance travelled. FWE meant that all effort has been expended, we've used up our energy, we've delivered, we're done, it is time to relax.

Finally, after months of work with no days off we've almost come to the end of our season at my restaurant. FWE.

Sisyphus was ****ed to roll a rock up a hill every morn only to have it roll back down said hill to restart afresh.

Each night we struggle, run hard, sweat, swear and at the end of the night our efforts disappear into a morass of dirty dishes, stained shirts and remembered insults or slights.

Tomorrow a fresh rock awaits.

"Hi, how are you, what can we get for you today?"

[KyrosKrane]

Unlike Sisyphus' plight, running your own business has its consolations and rewards.

You put a big smile on the face of each and every customer who walks in your door, and when they hold their bellies and groan from how stuffed they got, it's a compliment to you.

You have the satisfaction of knowing that no matter what, this is YOUR business. I know that being an entrepreneur is hard, constant, grinding work, but it also grants a sense of self-satisfaction, fulfillment, and success that is incomparable, empowering, and indescribable if you haven't experienced it for yourself.

If you take a hands-on, personal approach to dealing with your customers, you will find that this reaps you many subtle rewards. You not only make contacts with people from all professions and all walks of life (which means that when you really need someone, you at least have a starting point of where to look), you also have the opportunity to make new friends. One of my best friends was a gentleman who ran a card store, back when I used to play Magic. He ran his own store, and while it didn't make him a millionaire, it did cover his living expenses and allowed him to spend time working with and playing the games that he loved. His joy in his profession shone through, and it made his store into a popular local venue for gamers and collectors of all stripes.

[SincroFashad]

I learned the acronym QED for Quod Erat Demonstratum, which roughly translates to: It is demonstrated. Often used at the end of difficult physics or math problems or proofs. I used it occasionally during my stint in the AF when someone would hand me some intractable problem and I solved it.

[Itek]

Huh, I never took Latin in high school, I was told by a math professor during our study of proofs for discrete math (oh gods, no, NOOOO!! speak not the name of evil... discrete math proofs.. run away!!) that QED meant "Thus it is proved."

/shrug

Amounts to the same thing.

[Twistagain]

Yeah, I think it's "quod erat demonstrandum" which literally means "that which was to be demonstrated" (quod = what/that, erat = was to be). In other words "I have shown what I set out to show."

[olhoss]

I think it would be better to use Habe Crustulam (Have a cookie!)

Non Cogito, ergo Sum Stultus!

[Diani]

Yeah, I think it's "quod erat demonstrandum" which literally means "that which was to be demonstrated" (quod = what/that, erat = was to be). In other words "I have shown what I set out to show."

Actualy, QED is used to just impress the lesser math people. It stands for Quite Easily Done.
Its counterpart QEF (proven by construction) of course stands for quite easily fiddled