Life Update
I got my first vaccine shot yesterday, of the Moderna vaccine! Everything went straightforwardly. My arm is a bit sore today but otherwise I'm fine. The one annoyance is that they were set up to automatically schedule you for an appointment exactly four weeks later, which happens to be second day Shavuos. They told me that they think if I call today they'll be able to juggle me over to four weeks from today, switching me with one of the people who gets the vaccine today or a second dose allocated to someone who no-shows today. If not, I'll have to separately look for a second dose appointment. But the good news is it seems to be fairly easy to get appointments right now. I became eligible on Monday and was able Sunday night to get an appointment for Tuesday, so there wasn't much leadtime at all.
Otherwise, life is puzzles! Last night I solved the NY Times cryptic crossword from the weekend with
primeideal. It was a nice puzzle with a lot of clever clues, apparently created by a crowd on zoom.
The night before I wrapped up Spring Boswords with a poor showing on Kevin Der's lovely puzzle, which went well except for absolutely being flummoxed by some words in the Southwest corner. My best showing was last week, when the puzzle was completely in my wheelhouse starting with 2D being an SFF book clued by a chapter title that was an absolute gimme for me. I got 12:03 last week, this week I hit 27 minutes and gave up with a few wrong letters in that lower corner. Based on current scoring, I will likely finish in about 250th place in the top division, out of about 300. Frustrating.
My big logistical breakthrough that I am excited about is that I can now solve crosswords on Shabbat! I bought a set of 500 Scrabble tiles from Amazon for 10 bucks, and combined with my D&D map I can now solve gridded word puzzles on Shabbos. I am much slower at solving that way, but it's a really nice tactile feeling moving the tiles around, and I'm finding it really satisfying and a great way to spend Shabbos afternoons.
There is also much Mystery Hunt, about which I can't say much except I am having so much fun. This entry was originally posted at https://seekingferret.dreamwidth.org/378275.html. Please comment there using OpenID. There are
comments.
Otherwise, life is puzzles! Last night I solved the NY Times cryptic crossword from the weekend with
primeideal. It was a nice puzzle with a lot of clever clues, apparently created by a crowd on zoom.
The night before I wrapped up Spring Boswords with a poor showing on Kevin Der's lovely puzzle, which went well except for absolutely being flummoxed by some words in the Southwest corner. My best showing was last week, when the puzzle was completely in my wheelhouse starting with 2D being an SFF book clued by a chapter title that was an absolute gimme for me. I got 12:03 last week, this week I hit 27 minutes and gave up with a few wrong letters in that lower corner. Based on current scoring, I will likely finish in about 250th place in the top division, out of about 300. Frustrating.
My big logistical breakthrough that I am excited about is that I can now solve crosswords on Shabbat! I bought a set of 500 Scrabble tiles from Amazon for 10 bucks, and combined with my D&D map I can now solve gridded word puzzles on Shabbos. I am much slower at solving that way, but it's a really nice tactile feeling moving the tiles around, and I'm finding it really satisfying and a great way to spend Shabbos afternoons.
There is also much Mystery Hunt, about which I can't say much except I am having so much fun. This entry was originally posted at https://seekingferret.dreamwidth.org/378275.html. Please comment there using OpenID. There are
comments.