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Tablesaw Tablesawsen ([personal profile] tablesaw) wrote2002-03-24 03:23 am
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Simple Puzzleheadedness

(which is a googlewhack, when using the content filter)
So there is nothing going on at work. Monstrous, flaming pies of nothing. It's lunch, and I've spent circa 10 minutes working. (I typed a label! Go me!) So instead, I'm scanning through my puzzling options. I whacked Google for a bit, then moved on to my crosswords. New York Times and LA Times Syndicate went down in thirty-two and eighteen minutes, respectively. Not bad. I then went over to the National Puzzlers' League. I'm a member of this group, which publishes a small magazine for members containing a goodly amount of tricky word puzzles (in verse, even). There's been a delay in printing, so the February issue became available only today, and the March installment will follow early next week. Further, I've only a few days left to finish up my work on the January issue; solutions are due this week. The delays have distracted me from that work, and I've fallen far behind. Further still, I still don't have a puzzle to bring to the Local NPL Chapter "Puzzling Party," this Saturday. Maybe it's good that there's no work today.

Off the Wagon

[identity profile] tamaraland.livejournal.com 2002-03-24 07:44 am (UTC)(link)
I'd been 10 months without a NY Times Crossword puzzle until this post.

You sure know how to get a girl to drive her non-native english speaking beau insane.

Re: Off the Wagon

[identity profile] tamaraland.livejournal.com 2002-03-25 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
Evil. You are simply evil. I think we both might have trouble with TV guide.

[identity profile] davidglasser.livejournal.com 2002-03-24 08:51 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, yeah, damn you -- if you're talking about the Saturdays, the NYT defeated me (Google in about ten minutes), and I'm still not done the LAT (trying not to cheat on it).

If you're talking about the Sundays, hopefully I'll have better luck.

[identity profile] davidglasser.livejournal.com 2002-03-24 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I just did the Monday NYT pretty quickly, so that cheered me up again.