What plans do you have for the coming Weekend?
10-31-2017, 06:07 PM
#521
Whatever is going on with my rib is minor compared to a truly broken one. It is tolerable but makes me pissy. As far as what to do with this down time, I bought this Great Courses 6 disc set months ago and this is the perfect time to open it up. I never felt like I got a good feel for calculus when I took it 40ish years ago.
10-31-2017, 06:59 PM
#522
10-31-2017, 08:30 PM
#523
11-01-2017, 04:27 AM
#524
Patty, you are amazing...I've never taken calculus, and I don't even think I'd pull out a high school geometry book if I was laid up. I did fine in algebra, but not geometry. I guess I could not see the angles. 
Good luck with your studies. If you get bored, I'll see you here or on FB.
Good luck with your studies. If you get bored, I'll see you here or on FB.
11-01-2017, 04:56 AM
#526
I am on Saturday AM soccer duty with the grandson. A nine AM make up game. Something tells me I will need the heavy coat and warm shoes/socks.
Dinner with friends Saturday, one of whom is celebrating her 40th birthday. It's fun hanging with the younger folks.....they keep us young. We remember turning 40!
Dinner with friends Saturday, one of whom is celebrating her 40th birthday. It's fun hanging with the younger folks.....they keep us young. We remember turning 40!
11-01-2017, 09:27 AM
#527
Patty, you are amazing...I've never taken calculus, and I don't even think I'd pull out a high school geometry book if I was laid up. I did fine in algebra, but not geometry. I guess I could not see the angles.
Good luck with your studies. If you get bored, I'll see you here or on FB.
Good luck with your studies. If you get bored, I'll see you here or on FB.
11-01-2017, 04:31 PM
#528
I loved calculus, all of them. Multi-variable was a hoot as was differential equations also known by engineering students as diffy screws.
The part I find the most amazing is how old the topic is. Fermat, was alive in the 1600's, Euler and Gauss did their work back in the mid 1700's.
Pure mathematics with very little to base it on in the real world, by candle light no less.
The part I find the most amazing is how old the topic is. Fermat, was alive in the 1600's, Euler and Gauss did their work back in the mid 1700's.
Pure mathematics with very little to base it on in the real world, by candle light no less.
11-01-2017, 04:45 PM
#529
Tomorrow night we are having dinner with my SIL and her son (my nephew) and family that recently moved here. SIL then leaves to return to AZ. You remember my pics of those two adorable little girls. 
Sat from 8-1 we are babysitting those two girls (ages almost 3 and just turned 1) from 8-1 while the wife goes to the orientation she missed when my nephew started his new job. I hope we get plenty of instructions! 
Sat from 8-1 we are babysitting those two girls (ages almost 3 and just turned 1) from 8-1 while the wife goes to the orientation she missed when my nephew started his new job. I hope we get plenty of instructions! The oldest one came in one of her Belle dresses. Turns out we will not be babysitting on Sat, but I'm sure we will see them again soon. Since they will be here at Christmas, we will get together Christmas Day. Already talking about what to cook. I will probably make my famous quail. Yum...
11-02-2017, 09:08 PM
#530
Registered User
We are in Maui, listening to the waves out the sliding door. Just met a friend from CA vacationing here and he has a friend with a catamaran. He invited me to go out this weekend with the two of them, should be a hoot. They are often are in the midst of whales. Hope we see some Sunday. If not, have to be satisfied with sun, water and sailing.