Unweakend

[tablesaw]

I've been sleeping mostly well this week. Long, deep sleeps with heady dreams. On the other hand, I've been waking up prematurely as well. The early wake-up started on Saturday, when I kept waking up thinking I'd been out for hours, only to find out it had only been minutes. So I got up early and went to cramerica's for IAIV. And the next day I slept for twelve hours or so. It's been nice.

This weekend, I plan to go out and do things again. I was hoping to head down to UC Irvine to scope out ALT+CTRL, pointed out by Grand Text Auto (grandtextauto). Unfortunately, the gallery is closed on Sundays and Mondays. Well, screw you too, academe!!! I guess I won't be revisiting Middle Earth any time soon, either.

Perhaps I'll just go out geocaching again. I haven't had the time in a while.

Wrote a few flats tonight, since it was slow and I was inspired. I even managed to knock off a base that had been lolling around for a while. All were theatre-themed for the next issue, and I even managed to put together a theatre form. Lots of fun.

For a while now, foggyb and I have been writing the Kudos Kount in Graffiti on the Sphinx. If you're not an NPL member, you'll have no idea what GotS is. For the most part, it's a collection of comments and other annotations to accompany the puzzles in The Enigma, the main magazine of the NPL. The Kudos Kount is a summary of notable puzzles from The Enigma: the easiest, the toughest, the most acclaimed, etc. After the September issue of GotS (it's running a little late), I'll be doing it solo.

I'm excited. I enjoy writing about puzzles, and I like compiling the KK in such a way that it isn't necessary to keep crossreferencing to the original issue. Since the KK runs three months after the original issue even when GotS is running on time, I think it's important to be mostly independent. Of course, I don't think they'll be very understandable to non-NPLers, but if you want to see them, I'll oblige.

September Enigma holes: 26, 35, 46, 54, X1, X5, X6 and crypts. I have an answer that's semi-justifiable for 24, and I have a logical but unjustifiable answer for 25.

ThuNYTX: 11:04. FriNYTX: 8:52.

Comments

Middle Earth!

[cramerica.livejournal.com]

That intrigued me when I visited Irvine too... plus the ring-shaped campus :) Tangentially, I was just thinking how the Dark Lord really gave the Nine Rings to the Supreme Court justices, his most terrible and deadly servants.
--wear all black
--were once human
--fear is their main weapon
--remain long past the term of mortal men

[cazique.livejournal.com]

of those (including 24 and 25), the only one i have is 26 - I made up an answer and found it was right. also missing 16, 32, and the longer half of your 50. seemed like a relatively easy issue except for these last few.

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I love the Kudos Kount - I wrote it for a year or two and had a devil of a time coming up with a theme every month. My advice is to do it as long as you enjoy it.