And we're off...

Good evening Orb and all

just missed ratings run *sigh*

The ratings run?? What's that?

they run the ratings at 12:10. if you finish before then, you get the points for the day before everyone else does

they run the ratings at 12:10. if you finish before then, you get the points for the day before everyone else does

so you sit at the top of the list for a day... it's dumb, but it gives me something to shoot for

I've only made it once or twice

it's fun, yeah. when ratings first started in april, I accidentally got credit for a puzzle twice, and I was at the top of the list ofr about a week. Some people got really burned about it.

Ah ... now I understand. Okay, if that makes you happy, go for it.

I don't really care what my ratings are. I'm just happy when I solve these challenges. 8-)

oh - that was an accident? I thought you were just really fast :)

nope, just dumb luck on my part

The ratings here don't mean much, but it's a good speed challenge so I stay up 'till midnight to give it a shot. a little more practice and I think I can hit the 10 minute mark consistently (at least for the easy/medium ones)

and now? sleep - so you addicts tomorrow night..

er.. see

you need the sleep, orb :)

Good night, Orb. We slow folk will keep going. 8-)

I actually have a shot at hitting that ten-minute mark with the green script someone shared with me last week

all done! g'night.

Good night, Krys.

Everything in its right place.

I'm slowly getting there. I think I have the top three rows.

Yay! I got it. Not too fast, but done.

Good night.

morning all

hi!

You a Radiohead fan, augurus?

hi

hi

morning Sprite

1 full box already....!

Hi Ginger! This one went fast until the very dead point for me. I am soooo stuck. But I started my day with yelling at the kids, so I am not in the best of moods, lol.

LOL I can emphasise with that!

:)

Well, it took one guess for me, so no cigar, but at least I solved it :)

wd.... which box was your guess in?

upper left one.

I had 2 options left in the upper row.

thanks :)

I think I know which ones

good luck! I am back to babble, see you in a bit ;)

:-)

ho hum, a little trickier than first it seems

morning

done, that was easy... At least for my techniques...

hi all

bye

hello everyone!

OR ANYONE...

hello!

r u still there?

hi

is anyone there?!?

yes!

yay!!!

i'm trying to do the puzzle.

me too

*sniff* my last puzzle this year

why where are you going

I do these inclass and I'm grounded from computer at home

todays my last day

r u breaking up for the summer hols already?

all righty then

when i was grounded from the computer at home over the summer, i went to the library almost daily.

an hour online wasn't much time, but it was better than nothing.

yeah tomorrow i go to the bahamas for fun and then to africa amost a wek later

yeah here in GA, USA they get out on Friday

wow, busy.

yeah

I'm stuck

alright for some. in the uk we don't break up until third week of july

why africa?

mission trip with my dad

we are going to a bunch of small villages

when do you go back in UK

sounds like it'll be quite an experience

first week of september

yeah

Wow that is short

we are out from May to August

it should be fun but I sm afraid of needles and i have to get alot of shots

yeah, that part wouldn't be fun.

nope

furthest i ever went with my dad was to mexico. which would have been more fun if it were further than 30 minutes from home.

the will have to sedate me lol!!

where do you live?

san diego

Phoenix

georgia

just finished the puzzle. have a good hol you lucky thing

but I have never been to mexico because my mom is afraid that i'll get rapped or something

theanks

lol

well, i'm 23 now. last time i went to mexico i was 6. the mexican army was marching through our campsite or something, and my dad decided we'd never go back.

lol

i could go on my own, but i have no desire to get lost just south of the border, which knowing me, would happen quite easily.

lol yeah i get lost in the city sometimes

but its always fun for laughs

yeah

and i know this is hipocritical but why do people leave the U.S..A to visit but they've never seen most of their own

i would love to go to all 50 states.

me to that's my goal

then after that... IRELAND!!

but i think most people consider the majority of the states just like wherever they're from, whereas other countries have different cultures and the like.

but that's not true

i know that. but most people don't =)

each state has a little bit different of something to offer

:)

hello everyone

hjey I've been thinking about this for a while..

looks like 7's are the place to start today...

what does your name 'embyr' mean

like an ember from a fire, but spelled with a Y. it started off as a running joke from another game i played

ooooo ok i got it now funness

what was the other game?

Pyroto Mountain. it died a few years ago.

one of the players created another game, Badde Manors, that died a few months ago.

o probably why I never heard of it

Oh Are you sad about it embyr

i play alot of runescape. I know it's kinda nerdy but o well get over it

you wouldn't have heard of it anyway. i think no more than 300 people from around the world ever played Pyroto, and less than 75 played BM.

o

not sad. partly cus i know some secrets =) and partly cus our community has managed to stick together fairly well.

Bye ALL

that's good

about 30 of us are in a clan in KoL. and there's a group of us that stay in touch on livejournal. plus e-mails and im's... it all works.

that's nice i wish i had some friends who would go that far to keep in touch

we've been through a lot together. it's hard to go silent.

wow true friends

the truest friend i have is moving to live with her homeless drunk of a mom in New Jersey

have to go see you later

bye!

man you guys are making miss playing games with friends. 7 years of online gaming and friends had to be given up at a moments notice

how come?

Health issues

=(

not mine, but had to give up a lot for a while

i get it.

my mom has alzheimers.

which just makes me more grateful for my 'net friends. no matter what time i'm stressing about something and need a friend, there's someone online.

played EQ (ever quest) for what seemed like forever, still talking to the first person i ever met in the game, then had to practically disappear

that's rough

yeah now i just get to do this at work :-), dabbling a little in runescape now

am i me?

yup!

well i'm off to lunch nice chattin embyr, keep those friends dear (i'm jealous) :-)

i have no intention of losing any of them =)

bye

hey hursh :)

hey

so how hard is this one today?

i'm doing fine so far.

Hello Again

hallo hurshy and btwrt

and hallo grace

Hello caffeinatedelf

hi grace, elf

Hey Hursh

i am in my office with the lights off, as my head hurts today

:(

I'm sorry

somehow i don't think a math game is a nice relaxing and soothing thing to be doing right now :-p

no... maybe some soft music? norah jones perhaps?

I agree but it can get your mind off things you know

hey elf listen to some mozart

It is smooth and relaxing and boring all at the same time

Hey hursh wrote anymore of that song?

no, sorry grace

Oh thats ok

if i had beethoven with me, that would be good

If I could write songs and sing worth a darn i would sing for you

Do you have any music with you at all

Man This is a guess and check sudoku

i do - but mostly when my head gets this way, any noise at all makes it worse

also, aww thanks grace for the offer :)

Oh do you have a migrane or what?

hi everyone

is anyone else struggling with today's puzzle?

Hi

Ya kinda

grace, it wants to turn into a migraine. i can feel it.

Have you had any choclate today?

a little, yes... is that supposed to help?

no

No it does the oppisite of help

I know this because I get migrains from stressing and eating to much chocolate

that was WAY after the headache itself, lol

i woke up with this one

I'm sorry are you stressed?

Life stinks sometimes don't you think

well having a headach is better than the stumach flu

i AM stressed, that is part of it for sure

but you are right about the flu, augh

Yep the the stress can help make life horrible but i hate stumach flues

i'm sorry :(

thankfully i can leave work early today so i can deal with this where i'm more comfy... so adios guys

Bye

Hursh you still there

Well bye you all I have My room to work on bye

hi evry one

hello all

HELLO

grrr... I'm stuck.

we finished at last !!!!now we can go and take a shower...

Hi Big Tom!

Hi mamabear

Happy Birthday, pro!

Did you unwrap your checkpoints yet?

Thanks, mamabear!

So much for subtle hints.

I thought you were talking to someone else when you said "pro"

I will spell it out: I upgraded your sudoku status to pro as a birthday present. Get it?

I finally figured it out.

You're a quick one.

I'm new to this stuff.

This game is not that hard.

Do you like your birthday cupcake?

You're doing it to me again!

I see!!!!!

Yes, I do.

doing what?

never mind.

gotta get back to work.

Thanks again!

go

hi helen!

hiya mama

done

*^*^**^*^*^*^*^*FIREWORKS *^*^*^*^*^*^* For Helen!!!!

u there bluskies???

yup i am

all is well?

ya. you?

about a 7 today...cant complain too much

that's good. gonna make time for a sunset today?

rainy and heavy clouds...nothing too see...

hope to take some pics this weekend...supposed to be nice...nice and hot 8 )

sounds horrible.....

i hope you're stuck in the office :P

one word

hammock

eternalfatalist were do u live

hi everyone

is anyone else finding today's puzzle difficult>

YES!

this is my fourth attempt. two times the comp erased my page... once i gave up... i'm ready to throw in the towel

Hi, talk, I've just started, so can't offer any opinions on the puzzle. Sounds like a tough one, though

yeah its starting to tick me off lol i can't get past this one point each time

good luck though

Thanks. I started in the center left column square and got the 1 and 3 right off...but have to put little one to bed in 10 minutes --- maybe I'll get back to it later, though

(yawns)

WAKE UP DAVID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Oy

vey

Hi, mamabear

:)

Hiya David!

How are you this evening?

Tired... just trying to unwind a little - doing some archived puzzles. And you?

Hello everyone

hi yul!

I'm tired too, though I did ingest a good bit of caffeine recently, so that might change

Hi, yul

i am back to london from fab barcelona and feel a bit sad

yep, that'll do it!

that comment was aimed at David's caffeine ingestion

sounds exciting, yul!

it was nicy nice

Cool, yul

it was +28 and in london is +10 C*

Brr. That's a different sort of cool.

it's chill :)

(yawns)

WAKE UP DAVID!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (part 2)

(yawns) I dunno, that caffeine isn't doing much for me

Isn't it nearly 3 a.m. over there, yul?

i don't sleep at night

Ah

I don't sleep enough at night. ;)

when do you sleep, then, yul?

i am lucky to have all the time in the world to do anything i like. i would like to sleep at night but can not fall into it.

it must sound bad but it is the truth. i used to working at nights and 3 years ago i turned into a total owl.

anyway, good night to all of you. switching away

Oh, good night, yul

good nite yul!

david mitchell, my brilliance is increasing. i can do most puzzles without marking at all now! it's a little slow but gradually improving.

but anyway...i'm off to bed... just thought you'd be proud of me :)

Hey, hurshy!

I am really really struggling to do this without marking

I nearly gave up before finding two more 3's

you can do it david!!!

I am proud of you, hurshy

:)

i've been practicing today on some "evils" on websudoku. they don't have any as hard as some of the experts here can be, but if i have to mark once in a while, so be it.

You could get Simple Sudoku, too

i guess but why bother when websudoku has billions

well anyway i should be going, but nice to see you today, albeit briefly.

See you soon; have a good night

:)

I so stuck

Finished!

Time for bed.

Finally figured it out.

This is cool.