Exactly what it says in the tin. The election has been/is a train wreck, so I'm writing sports anime fluff to deal. Pairings and theme will be marked in the subject of each reply.
"Dad, what are you doing?" Kinjou asked when he came home from school one day to find Kaidou squinting at the computer with pages and pages of scrap paper and a calculator surrounding him.
"Shingo! What are you doing home this early!?" Kaidou asked, shoving the papers under a blank notepad.
"We cut practice a little short since we have that race tomorrow, remember?" Kinjou said. "I'm not home that early though; I usually get back around now."
"Really?" Kaidou looked frantically at the clock. "What happened to the time!? How am I going to finish this before your father gets back?"
"Finish what?"
Kaidou looked down. "Well, it's just that, since it's Valentine's Day, I wanted to do something for Inui," he mumbled.
"With a spreadsheet?" Kinjou asked, squinting over Kaidou's shoulder.
"It's a list of what I like about your father, except I thought I'd try to make it into a report since he likes those so much. I didn't think it would be that hard, but nothing's adding up right, and it keeps giving me errors every time I try to change anything."
"Can I take a look?" Kinjou asked. "I may be able to help."
"Please," Kaidou said desperately. "Inui's going to be home in less than two hours."
Kinjou dragged a chair from the kitchen table over to the computer and sat down. "What exactly are you trying to do?" he asked.
"I made a list of everything I liked about Inui and how much I liked each thing relative to the rest, and then there's this list of all the nice things Inui's done in the last month and how many times each one happened."
"Hmm, okay, pie chart for the first and bar graph for the second then?"
"I don't know! Will that fix it?"
"That's just how the data's going to be presented. It doesn't actually change any of the data you're putting in. What do you have so far?"
Kaidou turned the computer to face him, and Kinjou squinted at the screen.
"That's a…unique…approach to spreadsheets," he said finally. "Maybe I'll start a new tab, just so I don't, ah, interfere with your work. Do you have your raw data somewhere?"
"You mean this?" Kaidou asked, handing Kinjou several pages of his notes.
Kaidou glanced over the pages. "Yes. This will work fine," he said. "Just give me a couple of minutes." His fingers flew over the keyboard as he entered all of the relevant data points into his spreadsheet and set up the charts he wanted.
"How does this look?" he asked less than five minutes later, angling the screen back towards Kaidou.
"It's perfect! How did you do that?" Kaidou said. "I've been fighting it all day."
"It's just a matter of shifting your perspective to think like the computer," Kinjou said. "Why don't you go ahead and clean up your notes, and I'll print this out."
"Thank you, Shingo," Kaidou said several minutes later when Kinjou handed him the completed report (printed in full color and bound with a table of contents, index, and appendices no less). "You're a lifesaver."
"Anytime, Dad," Kinjou replied, awkwardly returning Kaidou's attempt at a hug.
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Inui/Kaidou, Kaidou & Kinjou: Data Valentine
"Shingo! What are you doing home this early!?" Kaidou asked, shoving the papers under a blank notepad.
"We cut practice a little short since we have that race tomorrow, remember?" Kinjou said. "I'm not home that early though; I usually get back around now."
"Really?" Kaidou looked frantically at the clock. "What happened to the time!? How am I going to finish this before your father gets back?"
"Finish what?"
Kaidou looked down. "Well, it's just that, since it's Valentine's Day, I wanted to do something for Inui," he mumbled.
"With a spreadsheet?" Kinjou asked, squinting over Kaidou's shoulder.
"It's a list of what I like about your father, except I thought I'd try to make it into a report since he likes those so much. I didn't think it would be that hard, but nothing's adding up right, and it keeps giving me errors every time I try to change anything."
"Can I take a look?" Kinjou asked. "I may be able to help."
"Please," Kaidou said desperately. "Inui's going to be home in less than two hours."
Kinjou dragged a chair from the kitchen table over to the computer and sat down. "What exactly are you trying to do?" he asked.
"I made a list of everything I liked about Inui and how much I liked each thing relative to the rest, and then there's this list of all the nice things Inui's done in the last month and how many times each one happened."
"Hmm, okay, pie chart for the first and bar graph for the second then?"
"I don't know! Will that fix it?"
"That's just how the data's going to be presented. It doesn't actually change any of the data you're putting in. What do you have so far?"
Kaidou turned the computer to face him, and Kinjou squinted at the screen.
"That's a…unique…approach to spreadsheets," he said finally. "Maybe I'll start a new tab, just so I don't, ah, interfere with your work. Do you have your raw data somewhere?"
"You mean this?" Kaidou asked, handing Kinjou several pages of his notes.
Kaidou glanced over the pages. "Yes. This will work fine," he said. "Just give me a couple of minutes." His fingers flew over the keyboard as he entered all of the relevant data points into his spreadsheet and set up the charts he wanted.
"How does this look?" he asked less than five minutes later, angling the screen back towards Kaidou.
"It's perfect! How did you do that?" Kaidou said. "I've been fighting it all day."
"It's just a matter of shifting your perspective to think like the computer," Kinjou said. "Why don't you go ahead and clean up your notes, and I'll print this out."
"Thank you, Shingo," Kaidou said several minutes later when Kinjou handed him the completed report (printed in full color and bound with a table of contents, index, and appendices no less). "You're a lifesaver."
"Anytime, Dad," Kinjou replied, awkwardly returning Kaidou's attempt at a hug.