Easy again?

not too bad at all

Yeah, not bad.

Not bad enough, I say. :)

bring it

does anyone know (Pro feature) - if you go back & do puzzles from previos days that you did not get a chance to do, will your score improve??

EasternBlue - Yes you can do the archived puzzles and your score improved when those archived puzzles are completed.

*improves

thanks Limer...I proboably would have gone back to finish 'em anyway....I've missed quite a few due o work travels!!

Know what you mean.

oops...to work....

(it's very late for me...I'm going to head off to bed)...

goodnight!

later

Nailed that puppy!

Rank me, baby

Is it a nice one? Morning all :)

Hi s, pretty easy today

And there I was, thinking I was getting better at this ;)
It IS easy, you are right.

That's the easiest one I've done so far

morning/evening everyone

another easy one, hi all

Hi Parernl

sorry... hi Peternl (bad spelling lol)

Intereting spelling, certainly

wow, that was an easy one

I keep making silly mistakes :(

yeah, so did I, but thankfully it picked them up for me

mind you, having 3 kids daring to interupt my Sudoku session doesn't help!!!!

I know that feeling, its much the same here (an impromptu party going hosted by my 3 year old on at the moment)

lol.. mine have tennis lessons this morning so we now have the weekly routine of 'where's my tennis gear mummy'!

Yo, GingerUK

Hi Limer

I see you have changed your icon

yes... a change is as good as I rest so they say :-)

I finally broke down and signed up

lol good for you :-D

hope it didn't hurt too much!

Working lke a mug trying to catch up.

Negative on the pain.

I caught up to my join date but not before then

Hang on....

Had to pet the kitties....all 5 of them

awww

I live about 500 feet from a grain elevator.

Mice!

do the cats earn their keep then?

Ohhh, yeahhh.

the mice are indirectly a part of their diet.

that's great... as long as they don't bring them as gifts!

That's just part of the territory.

When they give me a "gift", I make sure they get pets and "Good Kittie" greetings!

lol ... I'd do it from a distance!

gotta go for a bit... a visitor!

Oh, don't get me wrong...Its not the most enjoyable thing in my life.

hello, everyone

Yo, moedog

hi, limer

annnnnd done! :)

excellent

limer, your name is in the babble grid today

Oh?

It's lime spelled backward

Hi all

opps have to start over

cool! think I'll rush over the the Babble Grid and enter a name or two!

That's funny cause I tried emil but not lime!

done

hi all

:)

silent here, isn't it?

has been all day cheb'

Hi btw!!!

that was definitely a no-brainer

i'm feeling a bit slow this morning

woo! got it no greens!

^*^*^*^*^*FIREWORKS^*^**^*^*^

:)

=)

i just started, but it seems easy enough.

scribble!

hurshy!

:) :) how are you today?

fine! how are you?

fine also.

hi all... how's everyone doing today?

it appears we are fine, talk.

:)

me three

yeah were all fine and dandy!

if only we had fruit salad handy

i'm tired.... but that's my own fault for staying up past 11pm when i had to work at 2am... oh well **sigh** sudoku then basketball then church... then sleep!

sorry hursh...you ate it all yesterday. and im out of kiwi. :(

'sok scribble, i've got some watermelon to eat in a bit. :)

are you in college, talk?

fruit salad sounds good... i may have to go buy some... nah.. to lazy

no.... should be but not enough money to go right now... work full time though

where would you like to go if you had the money?

dream college, NYU... but going to prob just start at a community one or somewhere smaller.. never went, mid twenties now, married... going to have to go part time instead of how i'd wanted to ya know?

*sympathy*

hehe thanks, it's okay though, my hubby is awesome... and i did have fun going to concerts and living life before then too so i don't regret it too much

just have to get focused to go :)

well i hope you enjoy it when you do.

thanks :) how bout yourself?

i went on the usual timetable, to williams.

i'm 28 now.

hurshy did you have a birthday?

i have had 28 of them, scribble :)

i'm not familiar with williams (lack the college know-how since i never looked into going) ... what did u study?

i mean recently. :P

oh... i majored in psychology... it doesn't really mean anything though

i know scribble, i tease you. but no, birthday is in july.

lmao hurshy... 28 of them haha

scribble how bout you? college?

scribble is 12 :)

i'm dying to do photography

um...im only 12 but i plan on going to UT.

12? lol my bad

scribble you can NOT be planning on which college to go to yet :)

you'll change your mind 653,897 times by the time u graduate, and then probably a few times after that too LOL

well i am and i know my major too.

i think

youre right talk.

:) what are u thinking about studying?

science/chemistry, along those lines

what a fine little scribble you are.

thanks hursh :) but i like LOVE science.

thats cool.... at least u have an idea.. hey who knows, it might be what u go for and work for you ya know?

i hope so

i don't. i like math. when you have to deal with the real world, the numbers don't always work out so nicely.

this is true

but i'm glad that you love science - we need people to do that - just not me :)

math was always my best til i slept my way through calculus lol

math is ok i guess. its probly my 2nd favorite.

hurshy i wish you were my math teacher.

hmmm, maybe we can do a correspondence course :)

youll have to explain that first...

learning at a distance.

by corresponding, rather than being together in person. seeing as we are on opposite coasts.

aha...sounds cool

what math are you in now?

algebra 1

but its like super easy

yeah :)

what grade are you in?

algebra was my ave math, i did well in 1 and 2

*fave sorry

7 going to 8

public school?

yeah

i hope you have a good geometry class when you take that. we did proofs galore - the kids here now are doing baby stuff.

hmmm...geometry....

proofs are important, they teach you to be rigorous - and in advanced math, proving stuff is what it's all about.

ok ill remember that. :)

well guys i have to go now, were going to go eat. but ill be back later. C-ya!

toodles :)

hurrah, my brain is back!

oh, bye guys!

i'm staying, i'm decently far with the puzzle but the brain is working slow... too sleepy

i don't think i finished yesterday's i'm going back to that one

i want to pay for pro but i'll prob wait a few weeks .. i'd like to be able to do all the old ones

yeah, it's nice.

yeah I am finishing my last archive, unfortunately it is an Expert and I am struggling hahaha

how far back does it go?

moozey - if you need a super duper coded hurshy clue, let me know

all the way, talk. :)

hink I need more than that, doing March 28th one

lol how far is that though, when did it start? LOL

early March

well if you are at a point when a guess would cause a breakthrough, moozey, you may not need more than one bit of help.

11th March to be exact

oh okay so not too long but that's good i'd have at least 30 i can do :)

I wouldn't mind but the other Expert I did really easily but this one grrrrr a real brain drain job

there was one where you def. had to guess (or maybe if you know the most advanced techniques you wouldn't...)

well i've opened it up moozey in case you want help.

many thanks hurshy

I don't know the advance techniques I've looked but went arrrrggghhh

me too

i can't figure out those 3D medusas. i think if someone were physically with me to explain i could, but not the written explanations.

exactly though I am the sort of person who learns by using manuals more than sitting with someone, some of those explanations seem to be beyond me ;o)

i can usually learn most anything in any sort of way, but i haven't got that. i suppose if i spent more time on it, i might...but it hardly ever is needed anyway, so doesn't seem worth it.

that is true

HA

Got an archived done.

hey limer

Rank me, baby

Hey Hurshy

i meant limer was in the grid before, i didn't know your name was emil :)

obviously if limer is there so is emil

So is lime

yes and that one counts

Pet the kitty

purrrrr

all done. yay.

Awesome, hurshy

ty

I tried to enter "emil" because I thought it was a word. Didn't occur to me to try "lime" until I read the I.S. log!

I'm at that awkward age...I'm having senior moments but not old enough to get the senior discounts!

Just joined ironsudoku. Anyone who has been playing babble knows I have been playing that. Will be switching around.

hey stid, I'm just leaving to go babble a while.

me too, matt :)

Hey, I resemble that remark!

Enjoy!

My dad is also going to come in and put on plug-ins and update for Mozzila.

I know that was random.

hi stidmatt, harp, and leslie :)

'Sup hurshy?

hello

mad wack stuff, stidmatt

Hurshy if I give you a column can you tell me whether I have made a mistake or not on the Expert I am struggling with?

yup

ok top row 6th column heading down. 7,1,9,6,3,2,8,4,5

hi everyone!

hi cole

that is not right

darn now wonder I can't get any further, I'll start over. Thank you for checking for me

but moozey

yes

is there a mix up

?

no nvm

nvm?

NeVerMind :)

hahaha sorry

imho

yes Limer

hello

hi

Trying to finish a puzzle from March 11.

It's labeled "Easy". HA

now I could help you with that one, I am stuck on 28th March

I am finding out the Hard ones are easier than the easy ones.

they can be sometimes

OK, kicked the March 11 one in the rear end.

OH, GEEZ

March 28 is expert

OMG

the other expert was easy but this one is proving tricky

I think this is one I bailed on when I had not signed up yet

ahh but you have signed up now and it would be criminal not to do all of them LOL

working on it....

why the heck is this puzzle so difficult?

What day are you on, Cole?

today

then it ain't :)

uh oh!

keep it up, Cole. There are a couple of places that can be somewhat crazy.

thanx, i'll try!

Moozey, how are you coming on the March 28?

just filling all the greenies again

AGAIN?

yes, I must have gone wrong somewhere so starting over

I'm praying right now...

ROFL

Decipher pleasen

rolled on floor laughing

k

You Brit's, I swear....

and I don't think praying is going to help me on this one haha

Woman, I have to have some help from SOMEWHERE.

I know but it is hard, hard, hard

think you need a few advanced moves to solve this little baby

Just filling in the green numbers right now.

good luck

Thx

DONE!

stidmatt, excellent!

yay stidmatt! :)

WTG stidmatt

Moozey, how are you doing? I need to have some company with my misery!

Done.

Moozey, my strategy for today's puzzle was boxes, columns, rows, then green numbers. It all just came together. Best of luck!

Oh, I see -- you're doing an old puzzle. Oops.

Oh, geez.... what a chowder head I am.

Wow, finished that one without using any markup. Pretty easy.

Yeah, try the March 28 puzzle.

oh hell got down to the last two numbers and then find out I went wrong somewhere arrrrggggghhhhhh

..

Moozey, I feel your pain

I got screwed and didn't even enjoy it.

think I need a cup of tea and come back to it in five minutes

Lager

Pale stale ale, with the foam on the bottom

Frothingslosh??

Ja

Not often I hear that jingle!

Long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.

alright finished

so easy

moozey?

back yet again

hello

Is there anyone here who understands the scoring?

oops i just erased the whole puzzle. snap!

they have a formula under the rankings i think.

but its hard to understand

yes, but I don't undertand - seems to me that if a group has completed all the puzzles, those folks should be tied.

arent they village elders..

average(total points earned ÷ total puzzles completed x 100) + (total puzzles completed)

oh sorry i dont know about that.

scribble: if you only complete expert puzzles and ignore the rest you'll have the highest ranking

yes, but (myself for example) - I've completed every puzzle, yet still rank (well) below some others. Not that I much care (unless they would pay me) - but I can't figure that out

you kididng, jojo?

no

(make that kidding)

i think i understand cuz like if you do 5 easies then you have 5 points but if you do 5 expert then you have 25 points, but you did the same amount of puzzles.

doc is going to change the ranking system cause of that

well its close to that but since they add the number of puzzles you've completed it adds a nominal ammount to it

yeah he was talkin about that once

hey hursh! :)

hi all

hey scribbledy dibbledy

hi grace! :)

oh no!

i suppose further on in the future the ammount of puzzles you've completed will help more but now since theres only 60 or so... thats all you can earn

i haven't written your pirate song, grace

oh no what?

i forgot all about it!

about what

your pirate song that i was going to write

ooooh....shame on you hursh! :(

looks like she forgot too scribble :)

Oh now I remember well just try to write it ok but if you are to busy you don't need to I remember

let me try now

ok

go hursh!

ooh pirate songs? how did this come about?

Grace O'Malley was a pirate

arrrrgh, mateys!

*lol* your funny

why thank you. :) but wait till hurshy starts singing!

you're right... i didn't make the connection, i'm way into pirates

thats mean

odidnt mean it like that....i mean her lyrics are really funny.

Yeah jojo me too

(which i knew)

Are they really funny

i'll tell you a tale of a pirate queen with a sturdy pirate ship
and if you have some gold, watch out! it's what she'd like to nip

I like it

ja me too!

oh no scribble not you too

what?

what made you say "ja"?

I think its cool

its faster to type and sounds cool. me and my friends talk in funny accents alot. usually arab or german or something. but i like "ja". its like zha when you say it

scribble?

ah there you are.

got it from the VW commercial with the german dude "german engineering" ja.

i see.

that's ok then.

:)

Thanks i'll sing it all the time hursh

why would it not be ok?

i could write more but if you are satisfied with one verse, grace, then i'll leave it at that :)

if you had picked it up somewhere else, i might be disturbed, scribble.

if you want to write more i would love it

like fronm MikeyInBerlin?

;)

aha.

no not from him, though he says it an awful lot on babble.

yes...an awful lot...

ja.

lol

lol

grace - the only trouble is, i don't know much about grace o'malley, so i'm lacking content.

well she lived in the time of Queen Elizabeth the 1st and hated the queens guts out

did she have one eye or a pegleg or something?

or a parrot?

No she was just a regular woman

hatred isn't very festive for a song

I heard she carried a bottle of rum wherever she went...

I now

the pegleg/eyepatch/parrot thing is overrated for sure

I mean know

i know. sorry.

i ment for my sentence

i was talkin to jojo

did pirates have drums? can i use that for a rhyme with rum?

oh sorry

or crumb...

they could have you know

maybe drums to keep their rowers in time?

I thought that was vikings

did her ship have a name?

yeah i thought pirates could have borrowed an idea or two...

It did but i cant remember the name I'll look it up k

Good point scribble

somethin about Clare island

Guys i'll be right back k

and Clew Bay

are those places she went, scribble?

yes i think so

she owned those places

ohhh

found it on a website

I think her ship was called province

i never pictured pirates as landowners... you think of them as nomadic, you know?

nice name for a ship

province? that's odd.

she owned everything on them except a castle owned by Iron Dick

I t was because her father was a chiftian

and she died while robbing a merchant ship

sword? gun? how?

well actually no one knew how she died

oh sorry goin by a website here

I think she used swords and cannons

no i meant what killed her... but nvm cause we don't know

I think she got either stabbed or shot

suddenly gilligan's island music seems all wrong

need something more haunting

or she died of old age she was 99 years when she died

wow thats what i was playing your song to hursh! cool!

well that makes a big difference

I think it sounds cool with gilligans island

so far, sure

but if we have a violent demise to deal with...

you can look on websites to find something positive

this one says she possibly died in here castle called Rockfleet

I knew that much

well all Have to go now might be back later and keep writing that song hursh please

bye

they have a pirate festival in her honor every year and call themselves "Ye Loyal Krewe of Grace O'Malley "

if you heard the province drawing near with the sound of its fateful drum
you'd see o'malley on the deck with her favorite rum (her favorite rum)

bye grace! :)

where is the festival held?

good one hursh!!

tampa, florida

Good thing I havn't left yet huh hursh

:)

i hope you're writing it down cause i'm not

Yep sure am

okay i'm out of here cant sudoku any longer, must run errands

c-ya jojo!

bye jojo

Have to really go now don't write anymore till I com back k hursh

ok :)

bye

bye again grace!

well hursh im heading off too, have to find a peice of piano music for next years recital. oh yesterday went well btw!

glad to hear it :) do fur elise! :)

ill consider it, but im definately doing a peice called "angel eyes" it is soooo pretty!!

who's that by?

jim brickman

well, have a good rest of the day scribble! :)

bye! :)

bye! :)

That one was toooo easy.

*flops* hey hurshy, I'm back. just exhausted. lets have a big catach up tomorrow :)

i figured you would have jet lag :)

blechy jet lag. am off to bed for a long sleep now!

ok, see you tomorrow :)

byeee!

byeee!

hello everybody

yo

starting over :\

same here

oh, come now. this one truly was easy.. I did it without greens - my first one

not first board, first w/o greens ;)

Not doing todays, that's completed in 10 minutes. Doing one from March 15

didn't pay attantion

Too broke to pay attention.

oh, yeah - march 28 is kickin'; my butt right now

:)

stopped that one to try to get my confidence up

=) I understand that! it is painful

yeah, baby!@

March 15 knocked in the head

OK March 25th

ANOTHER hard one....

i'm gonna try my hand at march 25 too

now done

Good one, yut

i have another very addictive game to play, and it's cute too :)

k

have a nice time playing the hard ones. buybuy

still on march 25th limer?

hello

hello

sorry, sorry, there's an echo in here!

jojo!

oh you're not here anymore :(

start

done

woot

w00t

Hi all

easiest one yet :)

goodnight