Life Lately: Smart Men Who Do Stupid Things, Stupid Math, Espresso with a Kick, and a Selfie)

So school happened this week and you know how it triggers mixed emotions -- you hate for summer to end, but you also look forward to some semblance of a routine. And because we are all over the place here you go, a hodgepodge post for a hodgepodge week ...


~1~ Still reading


I'm on page 536 of Chernow's book, Hamilton. Let me just say that this isn't light reading. The words are many (and tiny) and the details are exacting (and excrutiating). The first part of the book was fascinating, the middle was slow because it was all about Hamilton's financial and central banking plans (yawn), but it's starting to pick up again because of the Reynolds Pamphlet. (If you don't know what that is, Google it. Dirty politics with a capital D and P. You can file it under Smart Men Who Do Stupid Things.)

~2~ Just in case your morning espresso needs an extra kick (grazie Benedetta!) ...

~3~ If you read yesterday's post, then you know my bambino started high school. How can this be when THIS just happened yesterday?

~4~ Timothy told me he had analytical geometry first period.Immediately I thought, "What an AWFUL way to start the day." But I didn't tell him that. Instead, I showed him this ...

~5~ I also showed him this, but he didn't get it.