Ambuscade!

I was ambuscaded by another hot day, which woke me up at five after about as many hours of sleep. I need to keep better track of the weather forecasts. The last few hours have been painful to get through. Thankfully, work is slow. Instead, I devoted some time to cluing NYT attempt II.

Seeing aussie_nyc's travel update [journal deleted, link not preserved in transfer from LJ] reminds me that my own trip to Indianapolis, Indiana (the city so nice they named it twice and added "polis") for the NPL convention is only two weeks away. Um, wow. Time has been a bit distorted for me in the past week, but still, I haven't been paying attention to this. I'll have to get myself in gear. I don't even know if I'm going to bring anything.

Speaking of the NPL, the npl community on LiveJournal is apparently going to get an appearance in Graffiti on the Sphinx, an informal NPL publication. Treesong asked for my permission to duplicate two flats by me from said community.

And speaking of Treesong, yesterday in the NPL chatroom, we were playing the NPL's own particular brand of $25,000 Pyramid. (Hey, someone rewrote the intro to that page. Great!) Anyway, I've found myself particularly haunted by a series of clues I gave yesterday, based on a category by Treesong:

• Our heroes encounter a logic problem that does have enough information to solve it.
• Harry is shocked to discover that he killed James and slept with Lily.
• Hagrid fortuitously raises a strangely footed beast in the Forbidden Forest.
• The challenge turns out to be Tom Marvolo himself.

Divining the category is left as an exercise to the reader.

Good Day Because I Missed It.

I think I've got the mix right for the AC unit. I managed to recoup lost time from yesterday, and I've got a plan, now, for the future. I don't yet have a knowledge of how hot is too hot, so I'm going to play it safe, at least until my vacation.

Also, I finally got my copy of Harry Potter and the Ri Order of the Phoenix. Along with it came a check from Panache for some of the ultra-hard clues of mine he used. Both nice things to which to wake up.