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Difficulty: Medium Sunday, April 15, 2007

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CHAT LOG for Sunday, April 15, 2007

12:39 am
WHB

Done, but I had to guess.
2:31 am
himuran

done
5:50 am
irv

done easy x-hatching only
6:04 am
spreadeagle

Hmmm, 24 filled in, going green.
6:04 am
Andy

morning all
6:05 am
spreadeagle

Hi Andy
6:12 am
spreadeagle

Done. I finally found the clue I needed.
6:21 am
Andy

done
6:21 am
Andy

no greens/ cross hatching and intersections. no guesses needed.
6:22 am
Andy

that / should be a .
8:09 am
drwho

Difficulty score 18. Easier than the last couple of Easies.
8:24 am
smooth_pappa

good morning... go!
8:30 am
smooth_pappa

done
9:07 am
MaW

I'm now doing yesterday's Easy... today's Medium was much easier!
9:14 am
peternl

hi all
9:16 am
Minski

Easy! Done! Only one guess but used Greenies.
9:18 am
MaW

These puzzles are much easier if I don't develop a blindspot about the location of a given...
9:19 am
peternl

definitely
9:19 am
MaW

Couldn't see a way to make any progress without guessing
9:19 am
MaW

Then I realised I had a whole column marked with green 3s which had a 3 at the bottom of it...
9:20 am
MaW

(this is yesterday's puzzle, which is bizarrely much more difficult than today's)
9:20 am
peternl

today's seems straight forward so far
9:20 am
MaW

It is
9:29 am
peternl

very easy
9:30 am
MaW

Good for a Sunday really :-)
9:30 am
peternl

tajes a lot longer without green script though
9:33 am
hurshy

i need gloves
9:35 am
chebuctonian

good morning :)
9:38 am
hurshy

cold morning
9:38 am
MaW

it's hot here
9:39 am
hurshy

well i don't really want hot i just want to not have cold fingers
9:41 am
hurshy

it helps when i hold my tea
9:44 am
chebuctonian

hurshy - where are you located?
9:44 am
hurshy

teeeeea for twooooo and twoooo for teeeea
9:45 am
hurshy

oh right now i am in rhode island
9:45 am
chebuctonian

mmm... what IS in your tea? ;)
9:45 am
hurshy

it is tangerine orange tea
9:45 am
mamabear

meeeeeeee for you and you for meeeeeeee
9:45 am
hurshy

nothing is in it, not even sugar
9:45 am
MaW

not enough brandy it seems
9:46 am
MaW

aaah. Not enough caffeine!
9:46 am
hurshy

singing is just fun, see, mamabear understands
9:46 am
chebuctonian

I'm a couple hundred miles up North... it's pretty cold, and I'm hoping spring comes asap
9:46 am
mamabear

yeah I love when I log in just in time for the sing-a-long portion of the program!!
9:47 am
Andy

Rhode Island? Me too! Well, I live here... :)
9:47 am
hurshy

i grew up here and am temporarily staying with my mom
9:47 am
Andy

aa too but she's doing an expert puzzle from the archives and is unable to chat... must concentrate :)
9:47 am
Andy

aa grew up here. I'm a transplant. Grew up in NY.
9:48 am
hurshy

is aa your wife?
9:48 am
Andy

Yep
9:48 am
mamabear

I just spent a week in Florida ...... t'was very nice and warm - but now back to reality of chilly Chicago
9:48 am
Andy

I got her hooked on this so she wouldn't yell at me for playing Sudoku all the time
9:48 am
hurshy

ah. well tell her good luck with the expert.
9:48 am
Andy

Now if I can just get her into Warcraft...
9:49 am
hurshy

lol, doubtful
9:49 am
Andy

We're heading out to see a movie shortly.
9:49 am
hurshy

what movie?
9:50 am
Andy

Last Mimzy. Our son wants to see it. And there's not much better to do today :)
9:50 am
hurshy

hmm, haven't heard of that i guess
9:50 am
hurshy

have fun :)
9:51 am
Andy

It's not doing well.. reviews were ok, but it's not been out long and alraedy vanishing. Only one show at the Warwick Mall Showcase.
9:51 am
hurshy

lol, i could meet you there but it doesn't sound very inspiring
9:52 am
Andy

hehe... I'll never make it in marketing...
9:52 am
hurshy

ugh, left the teabag in too long, now it's overwhelming
9:52 am
hurshy

don't worry i am a bad salesperson too
9:52 am
mamabear

will make you sing louder!
9:53 am
Andy

Singing? *scrolls down*
9:53 am
Andy

Ahhh...
9:54 am
Andy

Tonight, I get to sit up all night watching for water coming in to my basement and being ready with the pump and shop-vac. YAY.
9:54 am
hurshy

oh dear but lol
9:55 am
mamabear

I heard the storms are pretty fierce out your way, Andy - take care
9:55 am
Andy

Shouldn't be too bad... looking ike 3-4" rain total. That's JUST enough to start coming in. In Oct '05, when we had 7" in one night after a week of nonstop rain, we got 5" water in our basement. THAT was no fun.
9:56 am
hurshy

no fun no fun at all
9:56 am
Andy

We're on a hill so the only flooding we're subject to is basement. Now, Reservoir Ave down the hill (and Oaklawn behind us on the other side of the hill) are different stories...
9:57 am
mamabear

My first house - got 2 feet of water in the basement one year. The power went out and a friend of mine was swimming in it. He was nuts.
9:57 am
Andy

Yeah, my wife thought I was insane when I walked through the water to kill the circuit breaker for the whole house. There were extension cords lying in the water.
9:58 am
aa

you were insane! : )
9:58 am
mamabear

I'd say she was slightly justified in her assessment
9:58 am
Andy

Ah! There she is!
9:58 am
hurshy

lol
9:58 am
aa

see? : ))
9:58 am
Andy

We need to get a picture into your profile...
9:58 am
aa


just hit the wall everyone else hit
9:58 am
Andy

"Do you have a flag?" --Eddie Izzard
9:59 am
Andy

In the mid-March expert?
9:59 am
aa

No flag, no country...
9:59 am
mamabear

does today's puzzle require guessing? I seem to be at the proverbial brick wall here
9:59 am
aa

yes
9:59 am
Andy

I did today's with no greens and only cross-hatching/intersections
9:59 am
mamabear

Really? WOW
9:59 am
aa

and since andy did it I had to...
9:59 am
hurshy

no puzzle requires guessing
9:59 am
hurshy

and certainly not a medium
10:00 am
mamabear

mine do
10:00 am
Andy

hurshy, you should come out and meet us! Always fun to meet the scary people you find online! :)
10:01 am
hurshy

lol. i would like to, really, but i'm sort of waiting for a phone call...
10:01 am
mamabear

OK. guessing - some people call it "forcing"
10:01 am
Andy

no prob. We're not showered and will have Captain Sugar-High with us
10:01 am
hurshy

even forcing shouldn't be done unless it's an expert and you haven't got all day to think.
10:01 am
Andy

If you really can't solve it by pure cross-hatching/intersections you may have a number wrong
10:02 am
hurshy

well, with the amount of cookies i am now eating, i could be First Mate Sugar-High
10:02 am
mamabear

I guess I'm missing something on this one
10:02 am
Andy

hehe
10:02 am
hurshy

take a little break and come back to it mama, that always helps me
10:03 am
aa

I got stuck - had to go green, before i found one that could only have 1 answer - then all the rest fell in place
10:05 am
aa

gotta get dressed - bye! (have fun during your ri visit hurshy!)
10:05 am
Andy

A solo
10:05 am
hurshy

thanks aa :) have fun at the movie :)
10:05 am
hurshy

han solo?
10:06 am
hurshy

i'm gonna read, i think. ttfn all.
10:06 am
Andy

Trumpet solo?
10:06 am
Andy

Later!
10:06 am
mamabear

All done!
10:06 am
mamabear

have fun at the movies Andy & aa - enjoy your book, hurshy!
10:15 am
Andy

Thanks! Bye!
10:16 am
TeaNCrackers

go
10:16 am
h

go
10:22 am
TeaNCrackers

done
10:23 am
h

wow - im still slogging only about halfway thru... congrats.
10:29 am
h

actually i want to go green, 22 filled
10:35 am
h

im sure there must be some xwing crap working here, but im gonna guess...
10:43 am
h

done
10:47 am
Krys10

oh yes, intersections, that is what I was missing last night
11:39 am
dorens

in
11:41 am
ypsigirl

done
11:45 am
dorens

screwed this up somewhere along the way... starting over
11:53 am
dorens

actually pretty easy with greens
12:05 pm
brittlefish.com

go
12:20 pm
brittlefish.com

done
12:50 pm
bunnyvicious

go
1:00 pm
bunnyvicious

done
1:25 pm
smdnjv

go
1:27 pm
Andy

and we're back... :)
1:29 pm
smdnjv

Ooops
1:33 pm
smdnjv

done
1:40 pm
Andy

And done and gone again :)
3:26 pm
UnikeTheHunter

Go.
3:51 pm
UnikeTheHunter

Done. Used greens. Shouldn't have needed them if I had looked for an intersection.
4:23 pm
helenkeller

go
4:37 pm
helenkeller

done
4:38 pm
helenkeller

easier than yesterday's 'easy'
5:34 pm
Zugzug7

go
5:45 pm
Zugzug7

done but the phone rang too. dang it. disturbing my sudoku time.