bonkers

I am unable to keep from looking at my CafePress.com order history page. I peek every ten minutes or so, checking on the status of my last order. It has been listed as being in production for the last three or four days now.

The book I picked up in my last Amazon order, called something like Math-A-Day, is not very good. By that, I mean that it is too simplistic. I wanted to get challenging problems that could be done in fifteen minutes to an hour, but what I have are somewhat trivial problems that can be done in less than fifteen minutes. Perhaps I could use it as for warm-up exercises so that I can get in the right frame to tackle IMO-level* problems. I have a couple of books for that, but I need to train because they are totally unintelligible to me right now. I remember when they weren’t. Like anything else, you have to constantly hone your skills or you lose them. They seem vaguely familiar, but it’s like seeing someone you haven’t seem in twenty years.

* IMO refers to International Mathematics Olympiad. Geeked!