Jul. 26th, 2023

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This weekend I went up to Boston. It was a really fun trip!

The original impetus for the trip was the Boswords crossword tournament Sunday afternoon, but after last year's crazed one day trip I wanted to give myself more time, so I took off the Friday before and the Monday after. And then proceeded to make the weekend even more manically over-stuffed than last year. Eventually the trip ended up with three main impetii: crosswords, seeing CTY friends, and meeting someone I was set up with a few weeks ago.

I'm not going to say much about the shiduch, we spent Friday afternoon together in downtown Boston and then spent most of Shabbos together, and I had a really good time.

Sunday morning I went to Cambridge to meet up with Tal and bike around Cambridge and Somerville. Then we got ice cream. Then I went to West Roxbury to see Rivka and family, we caught up for a while and I admired her new house. Then six hours of puzzles. Then I had dinner with Diana in Allston. So it was a lot of running all over Boston, but Boston is great and all the people I saw were great and I don't see them often enough.

Puzzles were very good. I sat next to two Hunt teammates who are both faster than me, but while one of them solidly beat me as expected, the other one made a mistake that erased nearly all of his lead on me and he only pipped me by 5 points. I finished in 39th place out of about 80 contestants, roughly the same percentile as last year. I'll take it. Importantly, I didn't make a single mistake over the 5 puzzles, some of which were bruisingly difficult, and I'm very proud of that. I also enjoyed hanging out with other crossworders in between puzzles. I thanked Steve Mossberg for his Chanukah cryptic crossword set and we got into a conversation about other kinds of Jewish cryptic content people should make.

Monday morning I drove home, I was in no rush so I didn't check traffic or anything, and just drove the most brainless route I knew... and ended up stuck on I-95 in Connecticut for three hours because of construction related delays. All told the expected four hour drive took eight hours. Grah.

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