life update

[seekingferret]

I have been trying to shove my sleep pattern earlier, mostly with positive results. I've woken up most days this week more cheerfully than usual. Some bumpiness... a few nights where I wake up at 3 in the morning, read for a little bit before I can go back to sleep. But mostly it's been good. And then last night I got home from work at 8PM and was in bed by 9PM, because damn was it a long day at work.

Tuesday night was Puzzled Pint. Mostly the puzzles were eh, but there was one word puzzle that I thought was really elegant. There were strings of letters that were 'double encrypted'... First you figured out the encoding mechanisms the first time, and you decoded to get a series of clues that clued short words. Then you applied the associated encoding mechanism to the clue words to get a new word, all of which were part of a common, thematic dataset. I'll try to remember to link it when it's been posted online.

Tomorrow morning I'm flying with my family to Arizona for a cousin's wedding, which will either be really fun or a giant mess. :P Yay family. I know none of the details of the event because I never actually got an invitation- word passed through family backchannels that no slight was intended. :P My parents took care of the travel logistics so all I know is that I will show up tonight at their home, sleep over, we'll go to the airport tomorrow, and at some point in the weekend there will be a wedding and then I'll be home Monday.

Hopefully I will be recovered enough by Tuesday because I'm seeing the Met's Rigoletto again with ghost_lingering. And I've been thinking of trying to go see Andy Statman's Thursday show next week because I haven't seen him play in a while.

Comments

[ambyr]

I liked this week's Puzzled Pint, but that's because I like it when the puzzles are word-based and don't require I consult the key (which I find tedious--anything with pigpen or semaphore I immediately shove across the table in annoyance to my teammates).

[cahn]

ahahaha, just got through part 1 of ?? ~WEDDING DRAMA~ with a cousin where I got an invitation two weeks ago but my sister and parents have not. No slight was intended :P :) (The wedding is not for another month. We'll see how much ~family wedding drama~ occurs at the actual wedding.)

[amnisias]

Very envious about Rigoletto, enjoy and report!

[brainwane]

I wish you well in all of this!

I thought you might want to know: I saw A Serious Man and realized that I wished you were in there to help Lawrence systematically think through what was happening to him!