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OFIH's package was delivered yesterday at about 2PM local time. That's one worry gone. Don't know yet if she was there to receive it, or if she liked it. Soon, perhaps.
My dad flew out to take us to lunch this afternoon. He's looking more and more like Paul Newman as he ages (having spent his younger years looking like Tom Selleck—so what happened to me?). He needed magnifying glasses to read the menu, and his hair has turned the color of granite; my titan is stooping now. But he's fit and sharp and funny, still the same Dad, maybe a bit more easily befuddled.
At work last night Brendan asked me to give him a calculus primer; he's taking calc for the first time this summer, but he's bringing a blank slate to the class. I explained how little rectangles can approximate the area of a curve, and demonstrated that for the line y=x those rectangles reach a limit of x^2/2. I told him a little about sines and cosines and tangents, showed him the unit circle, explained about the old Indian chief who invented trigonometry. I enjoyed it, and he was an attentive audience; I think I helped him. He may hire me to tute.
Due to our massive early lunch at Grizzly Peak, Kendra and I are too full for dinner. Not sure what we'll do tonight. Hm.
My dad flew out to take us to lunch this afternoon. He's looking more and more like Paul Newman as he ages (having spent his younger years looking like Tom Selleck—so what happened to me?). He needed magnifying glasses to read the menu, and his hair has turned the color of granite; my titan is stooping now. But he's fit and sharp and funny, still the same Dad, maybe a bit more easily befuddled.
At work last night Brendan asked me to give him a calculus primer; he's taking calc for the first time this summer, but he's bringing a blank slate to the class. I explained how little rectangles can approximate the area of a curve, and demonstrated that for the line y=x those rectangles reach a limit of x^2/2. I told him a little about sines and cosines and tangents, showed him the unit circle, explained about the old Indian chief who invented trigonometry. I enjoyed it, and he was an attentive audience; I think I helped him. He may hire me to tute.
Due to our massive early lunch at Grizzly Peak, Kendra and I are too full for dinner. Not sure what we'll do tonight. Hm.
