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Damn, today was fine.

When I got up, Chad was just about to leave for Chapters. He waited for me to have my morning English muffin, and cereal, both of which weren't necessarily eaten in the morning, though they are patently morningish foods.

He invited me to drive him, which was a pleasant surprise, and I think I did an okay job of getting us both over there in one piece. It's great that he's willing to let me drive, because this means I might actually get some practice in Peterborough. The drive to Chapters is about six blocks, and we made a brief stop at Rogers to drop off a couple movies.

Once we got to Chapters, we stayed for the better part of five hours. I attacked some more of Don Quixote, aswell as looking at a book of the Ten Greatest Mathematical Puzzles of All Time, and some Latin stuff. The Ten Greatest weren't really that awesome, and I think the author might have been embarking on some crazy tangents. In the section on the Fibonacci problem for example, he found a way of mentioning, and illustrating Mobius strips... How'd he do that? Another one I checked out, was Introducing Relativity. I would actually like to sit down and read that whole thing, because it seems fascinating. They did even go so far as to mention some nontrivial math! Sacre bleu!

We managed to come up with some nontrivial math ourselves, when we came up with a question about the Harmonic Series. We were looking for a function such that H_f(n)≥n. Where of course f(n) is the smallest such integer, and H_n is the partial harmonic sum. After shottily messing around with it for an hour, we appreciated a barista's hair who was working at Starbucks, and deemed the problem intractable by our means. Chad kept on looking at Voltaire's Bastards, and that was it. When we got home, we checked MathWorld, and figured out it was way harder than we'd originally though.

When Victoria got home from work, Chad and her went off to the gym. I went climbing and finally splurged on a Rock and Rope membership. Damn, so much fun, but my hands are still callousing up and I need to pause often.