Happy Pi Day Poohbear! We had cherry and blueberry pie to celebrate Pi Day yesterday in our math workshop :)

When Pi day is a school day, you should see the pies that stack up in the school office, waiting to be picked up for math classes! Despite being a decidedly mathy kid, DS16 slept in past 9:26. We did have quiche for brunch (also a Frenchy kid). And for dinner, since he has involvement with Sweeney Todd, we having Shepherd's Pie (not "peppered with actual shepherd"). Or perhaps chicken pot pie, with chicken, not cowards. Also watching the movie (with Angela Lansbury and, believe it or not, Neil Patrick Harris!) And French Silk pie for dessert. And a long long walk tomorrow to work it all off.

Even though I was good at HS geometry (stunk at math, though), I realized the use of Pi when I bought a house and wanted to put a mulch circle around a tree and edge it with plastic edging. Then I learned I don't need to take Pi beyond the decimal, because the edging came in 20' rolls. Some kids in my son's third-grade class had a Pi contest: how far out can you memorize and recite Pi? DS won, closely trailed by the girl who had a huge crush on him through high school. He is still such a math kid. Won't write an English essay to save his life but took Differential Equations for fun. And finally, the Purdue engineering school cheer, according to my dad (I can't type in math on my tablet, so forgive the modern English representation) "E to the x, dy, dx E to the x, dx. Cosine! Secant! Tangent! Sine! 3.14159!" And to this day, I take Pi out to 5 places (even though edging comes in 20-ft rolls).

This brightened my day so I thought I should share