Ported over all the OLD posts...

I finally ported over all my old sabbatical blog posts from my MobileMe account... now you can follow the entire genesis of the book in one convenient place!

Has it been a month already?

Time flies when you're having fun... or when you need more of it. This last month has been punctuated by illness, fatigue, and the usual school nonsense. Writing a book on sabbatical is one thing; writing to keep up with Jeff's class while teaching 17 hours is quite another. To say I am weary is an understatement. The preliminary version of 10.4 (Identities) is off to Jeff for edits and exercises. I revamped our website and added a page for Jeff's students. You can visit it here for the latest progress on the Trig portion of the book. Section 10.5 needs to be ready in a week, and it will cover graphs of the circular functions and will finish Chapter 10. I hope to "cash in" on all my work from Section 1.8 (in particular, the final theorem of that section!) and apart from introducing some terminology, make quick work of it. I am about a week ahead of Jeff's class, and am hoping to make hay during Spring "Break." How many weeks until Summer? Not enough.