Drinking a cup of coffee, having onion rings/fried chicken strips, then finishing up the day with a bottle of diet coke, though these cost my own money, I still felt very relaxed. It's much better than assembled sandwiches I made by myself for almost every lunch. Grande Latte at Tully's on our site is much better than free coffee we made by ourselves definitely. Just like I shared with that girl on board the flight from Stockholm to Amsterdam two weeks ago, in addition to Starbucks, we have Tully's and Seattle Best Coffee in Seattle as well, not mentioning hundreds and thousands of coffee kiosks by the streets. Coffee Capital is definitely not fake.
Before dinner, I watched BPL Pre-show on NBCSN and was so excited that it would kick off on Saturday morning. Though I wasn't sure if I could get up at 4:45am to catch the full match of the first one, I would watch as many as I could anyway. BPL will last till next May, so almost every weekend will be my holidays.
FOX Sports will televise Bundesliga starting from next week, though most of the matches will be played on FSN2 & FSP, I will still be able to catch some on FSN1, which is one of the channels covered by XFINITY I subscribe. Checking schedules on Fox Sports website, I figured that I can watch Wolfsburg hosting Frankfurt at 6:30am on next Sunday, then I probably will give up one BPL match.
Next Sunday, August 16th, I will have full day events planned:
First, I will watch BPL & Bundesliga matches on TV until 11:00 am;
Arriving at Centurylink Field at noon, I will eat something in one of the restaurants close to Occidental Park, then participate the parade to go watching Sounders to take Orlando. Sounders added another international striker, hopefully both new additions can get the visa in order to play then. Valdez will be a new Designated Player. I watched several clips on Youtube I wasn't allowed to upload onto my blog here, Valdez seems a typical productive striker. Hopefully he will be able to keep the same level of competitiveness as he had a couple of years ago.
From 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm, an event will be held at Cheney Stadium for free. One of my favorite bands: For King & Country will perform. After Sounders' soccer match, I plan to drive to Tacoma to attend this event. Free of charge is always great but hopefully I will be able to find a seat.
During the dinner, I, my dad and my son discussed about Calculus. I shared with my dad that my son isn't very good at Algebra, so it's not very easy for him to do the exercises because eventually the solution of either differentiations or integrations comes down to algebra. My son didn't agree, then I asked him if he remembered the formula of X^(3) + Y^(3). I do remember:
X^(3) + Y^(3) = (X+Y)*(X^(2)-XY+Y^(2))
My dad probably was very good at mathematics when he was young since he was a very respected and honored civil engineer. He thought Calculus was so easy but I didn't agree. However, he said that each different section of calculus is not really related very much, so when he learned it, he could do bad for one section but great for another, then caught up the bad part later. I didn't think so and I contended that it's my son's issue that he didn't understand Differentiations thoroughly and would be challenged a lot by Integrations because the latter is inversion of the former. An example in his textbook tells it very well:
Indefinite Integral of X^(2)dx = X^(3)/3 + C
Due to: d/dx (X^(3)/3 + C) = X^(2)
If you remember this:
[X^(3)/3+C]'
= 1/3*[(X)^(3)]'+C'
= 1/3*3*(X)^(2)+0
= 1*(X)^(2)
= X^(2)
You will understand this thoroughly.
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