Damnit! It's already 5:21 in the morning on Monday, Thanksgiving long weekend became a history so quickly. I will be on road to work in an hour. Ok, let me wrap up my diary for Sunday to keep some relaxed memories on my blog.
I watched dozens minutes of a BPL match Liverpool playing Swansea, the former had dominated the match and the latter was only able to defend in and out of the big box. Then, I started solving the problems given at the end of the first chapter of my son's Precalculus textbook he used in winter quarter at the beginning of the year of 2015. My plan is to review all the concepts and formulas and solve all the problems in this book quickly, then move to his single variable calculus textbook he will bring back home after this quarter ends in mid-December. As I shared, I want to become a mathematical economist in the next 15 years, to be proficient in calculus again is very critical. I learned calculus and differential equation at college and hundreds applications in financial world, it is just how much time I need to retrieve all the knowledge from the back of my memories. It's not so easy to solve all the problems, I actually was stuck on one in the morning until thoroughly understood the given conditions late in the evening.
Driving my son back to his dorm, I advised him to focus on final exam of Integral in the next three weeks by utilizing all the resources. At least, he should wrap it up without contingency carried over to later quarters. It's not difficult to get 5 credits but a reasonable grade is still a challenge. When I dropped him off, I saw a bunch of students coming back school as well. I hope my son will enjoy his academic studies from next quarter in addition to the restaurants on campus and around University District because he is going to take whatever he is interested in or he considers critical for himself as he told me. He selected heavy courses in his first quarter of freshmen's year totally on his own because of overconfidence, which probably killed his appetites at the very beginning. In the following three quarters, he has been struggling with calculus I encouraged him to take. It doesn't matter if I wanted to review with him to help, he is just not interested, so doesn't have will to get help from anyone. It's understandable because we all went through this in different degrees when we were young.
I decided to stop by Northgate Mall on my way home to buy three shirts because I hadn't found the right size at Alderwood Mall on Friday. Hesitating a second, I missed the exit on I-5. While I was thinking about to go to Alderwood to try other stores than JC Penny, I glanced Barnes & Noble bookstore standing behind the parking lots attached to Northgate Mall, I had thought about to go to one of their stores to find some books, so took the exit further north to drive back to the mall.
Searching on the shelves in the area of men's shirts at JC Penny, I finally found a plenty of them at the size of 17 32-33 and happily grabbed four with different colors. Then, I picked a pack of five pairs of socks, shoe laces for my black shoes and two shoes creme for polishing my shoes. It's so fulfilling that I got everything I needed here in 10 minutes.
I forgot if Barnes & Noble had an entrance with the mall or not but walked toward its location inside the mall. However, It apparently didn't have but was a part of the entire complex. I walked out of the mall, then entered it at its own entrance facing to the parking lots and freeway.
While I was looking at the books on the presenting table right inside the entrance, it's a surprise that a friend whom I hadn't seen for at least 5 years walked toward me and called my name. Unfortunately she had to run to catch her husband and kid, so we didn't talk much. I heard she gave birth to a baby two or three years ago, but she looked still in a very good shape, young and pretty.
I glanced through the economic books in business section and found several I had found on Amazon in last week. I hesitated for a second if I should buy Economic Rules but gave the idea up. I still had so many books I needed to finish at home. Probably, I will come back during Christmas break to enjoy reading some of them while having a cup of coffee. I most likely will buy one or two in the store for immediate reading, then order more through Amazon.
I told my mom not to cook for lunch because I wanted to eat outside. In food court, I found a Taco Bell stand, then ordered chalupa meal. I felt so relaxed to sit there alone to enjoy my last lunch for this long weekend.
Driving back to our area, I found it still very foggy. Stopping by the gym, I started on treadmill for half an hour while watching Seahawks' game. It's a slow start, both Seahawks and Steelers didn't score much in the first half until Seahawks made a TD while I was on bike. Coming back home, I kept watching and witnessed Baldwin making three TDs, oh, Wilson made record five TD passes.
After dinner, I kept solving the problems in my son's textbook and had a discussion with my dad for some of the problems. He started bragging his greatness as a civil engineer at work a half century ago. It's him who recommended me to pursue a civil engineering major at CUMT and it's me who recommended my son to pursue a BS in Economics at UW 30 years later. Eventually, sons probably would all go different directions.
Ok, I am ready to leave in the next 10 minutes.