Saturday, January 16, 2010
Unusual and grand
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News conference with Obama, Bush and Clinton - amazing images for those of us who live in the conviction that differences can sometimes be set aside in the service of important things. Each patting the others' arms, patting and resting hands on the others' shoulders, smiling at each other. (And Obama didn't even use a teleprompter!) Wait, what's that? ah, I hear . . . oh yes, it's my mother intoning yet again that "God writes straight with crooked lines" and yes, okay, sometimes it is so so true.

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Friday, October 2, 2009
And on another puzzling note...
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I finished the first puzzle of Matt Gaffney's "Hell Month" and know the answer to the question and got all the words and everything!! All before the end of the first day and without any harrowing bafflement or wondering where my brain was or yearning to google things. I'm amazed and happy, I must say, although if the past is any predictor of the future, my sense of triumph will pass in, oh, seven days, as soon as next week's puzzle comes out (his puzzles getting progressively and ultimately impossibly difficult as the month wears on), but it's a pleasant puzzling beginning to Fridays in October.

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On a puzzling note. . .
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I'm a somewhat obsessive puzzle doer so I have to enter this Puzzlefest, of course. Furthermore, I thought some rare readers might like to as well - just click the puzzle or "this Puzzlefest" for details and info (h/t to Rex).

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