I haven't been blogging for the usual reasons (work and school), but I've also found another distraction, one that is taking on alarming proportions: Sudoku. Yes, I admit it: I'm hooked on goddamn Sudoku! It's driving me crazy! It started innocently enough. I knocked out a quick puzzle in the Post over Saturday morning coffee, and it was kind of fun. Then I got the idea that Sudoku might get my brain in shape for the logic puzzles section of the LSAT. So I bought a book, and the rest is...hours of bleary-eyed torment and frustration! There is really nothing quite like the murderous rage of getting down to five empty squares and realizing you've made a mistake. I finally had to leave the damn book at G's so I'd stop doing them, and in the process got G hooked. And last night I was jonesin' so a quick Google for "Sudoku" was all it took. I can't escape! When G moves away for school I have images of myself locked in my bedroom all weekend, wild-eyed and covered in eraser shavings.
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Okay, here's what crazy, Sudoku crazed, always-a-bit-strange old aunt does to avoid being institutionalized when down to the last three cubes and finding two 6's or 2's (fill in the dastardly number)in the same row/cube; sure numbers get a dot in the upper right corner. When things start to get tentative I place a small circle now in the upper left corner - shapes change the more tentative I get,circle, rectangle,diamond, parallelogram, rhomboid. When I start frothing at the mouth it's time for phase two; enclosing the numbers in various shapes. All coded so that when I realize how far off I am I can start with the last of the codes and erase from there on up. (More often than I not I rip it up!) See how relaxing these ancient puzzles can be. Forget about getting the brain into shape, these will kill off more gray cells that a vat of margaritas! Good luck.
ps - weapon of solving choice, Papermate Sharpewriter #2. Buy them by the case.
pps - Love your origami underwear but think about color coordinating them too!
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