Done

Difficulty score 22. No green.

Done

gogogo

done. no greens

good morning avarybody

everybody

finally

it's too early for me

have a great day everybody

Go

go

go

done

no greens

Done no greens

Done, no greens. (one red. Yea, red.)

done. no greens, pretty easy

start

done. no greens

No-greener, but a little slow.......

done, donner, donnest

done

go

done no greens.

Wow. Late Start.

Done

commence

terminate.. no greens

what a meaty easy...
have a great Monday!!!

go

no green

Go.

oh i know!

What?

it WAS about emailing doc but you didn't know it

you were saying your screen was flashy

i mean flashing, really

Oh yea.

is it still?

No. I think I reinstalled Firefox or something that fixed it.

ah ok

i had been heroically trying to tell you at the time that that happened to me and i didn't remember how doc told me to fix it, but he DID tell me how and that you could email him.

Oh, I see. Thanks for your concern.

np

I had got this "new" (for me) computer so that I would have Windows XP, so I could do my tax. I copied some things from my old computer, but I haven't gone back in all this time to copy everything.

I need to do some computer copying myself this evening

I used to be a techy who did all that stuff. But I just let it go now.

well mine will be pretty basic

and i'm only assuming that i can do it ...

I'm getting today's puzzle pretty fast. But I'm always at least twice as long doing it as anybody else.

that's cause slow people don't post their times!

Oh.

i mean, as a former psychology student... that would be my guess

not like i would know PERSONALLY ;)

And I think some people type "Go" just before their last cell is done.

i'm sure on www.websudoku.com people paused and printed and then came back and filled in, because the average times on there are just ridiculous

Today's puzzle, though called "easy" has some virtuals and dual virtuals.

and botheration, i have somehow messed it up.

I do that sometime.

i need to make brownies to motivate myself.

Why does that motivate you?

Done, no greens.

go

because brownies are yummy

yummy makes me happy

happy makes me better able to do stuff

the brownies are ... browning

except that's wrong because the batter starts out brown

well they are baking, anyway.

there, that time went much better

and all i did so far was lick the spoon!

and by spoon i mean that funny kitchen aid stirring thingy

pause

i love paws

AND triple chocolate hot fudge brownie sundaes

boy did THAT hit the spot

imagine if you had a really really good brain... so good that you wouldn't figure out where the numbers go little by little, you'd just see all the connections and impossibilities all at once

that would be neat.

i guess that's how God does sudoku.

hmmm...

hi artlady, how are you?

Doing well. How about you?

i am pretty good!

That's just great!

thank you

Just catching up on the games I missed the past few days.

i'm catching up on the games i missed the past few weeks

Sudoku forgives us if we don't pay it daily homage.

ooh, you have me beat!

unlike babble, the unrelenting tide of which waits for no man

Yes, and it depresses me that I can't keep up with it.

But not too much.

aw, why? just means you have a life

i'm actually proud of myself for having the self-restraint to forgo babble several times over the last few weeks and not care!

in fact there was one grid - and it was only like 80 something - that i started and FORGOT TO FINISH - and i didn't think it was a big deal!

I don't think I've played since last summer. I can't start one without trying to finish.

Wow, you have such self-restraint!

but not when it comes to triple chocolate hot fudge brownie sundaes

I can't have those. Enjoy them for me, please!

i did! lol

are you diabetic?

yes

ah

i had a friend who was just allergic to chocolate

she used to sniff our candy bar wrappers

I can still have a wee bite of chocolate now and then, though.

I'm not allergic to anything ...

except bigots

liars

i'm only allergic to one thing, and i don't know what it is

idiots

artlady, have you been dating lately?

oh? How do you know you're allergic? (Hope it's not cats!)

no, lol

facing my 30th anniversary (but I wasn't referring to my husband with those earlier comments!)

no, it's not cats... when i was trying on bridesmaid's dresses for my best friend's wedding about 5 years ago, i had hives afterwards

i dunno if someone else who tried it on had some weird lotion or something on, or what

strange!

i have a question

?

well, my husband and i were separated for just over a year, and now we have reconciled

next year would be our tenth anniversary... but does it count as ten, or only nine?

Hmmm...you were still married, so it's still the 10th anniversary of your wedding day, right?

yes, but you know, usually people think of having made it through 10 years together

Together with a pause...

i just don't want to be... you know... dishonest

You've been married 10 years. Who cares what others think? I hope you are h appier now

i'm real happy with our condo and my job, and it's pleasant being around him. i'm just working on convincing myself that sex isn't everything and that maybe it can improve anyway.

(that wasn't supposed to be happier with a pause... h appier, I just hit the space key accidentally...freudian slip???)

Ah, well I haven't believed sex was everything for many many years. But that's my own problem. My husband wishes I thought it was everything! ;-)

well... maybe i should say then... that sex isn't ... a major thing

and

now

we

must

get

embarrassing

topics

off

the

screen

how

true

you

are

doing

a

good

job

of

that!

thank

you

except it's really strange seeing my face repeated over and over like that. Ugh

yes

but it can't be helped if nobody else will talk with us

I was just at a meeting and we were working on a web portal and the guy in charge posted a picture on it of my talking to the group (he was demonstrating how easy it was), but he forgot to take it off.

ugh

i'll say hi now! (didn't want to interrupt earlier).

now I'm on the site in the middle of saying a word--you know how your face gets all twisted up? Well, mine is frozen that way.

at least online, lol

h'lo kanga

greetings, kangabrat!

goodness artlady, i'm sorry! too bad he didn't pick some narcissistic male to post

Well, males in general are greatly under-represented in our profession...

not sure how many of them are narcissistic

how are you, kanga?

well, thanks artlady. putting off work!

chuckle! I can identify with that. I'm supposed to be typing up the minutes from the meeting I was at. All 19 pages of them. ugh

My own fault for being a fast typist...

what kind of a nutty meeting has 19 pages of notes???

i don't admit to being able to type any more. get's one in all kinds of trouble.

I had the great pleasure of going to Little Rock, Arkansas (first time in Arkansas). Seriously, it was a pleasure, but I took the minutes for the meeting and now have to clean them up. It lasted 3 days.

goodness me

my work is looking like fun, now!

My own fault!

well, i'm going to take a break from sudoku to watch american gladiators (yay!), so, ttfn

No, it was a great meeting. All the leaders in art education associations from the central part of the U.S.

ciao, hursh!

bye, hurshy.

start

done, nice easy

hello? Anyone here? I'm new.

Nope .. Nobody here ..

oh. hello

is this like normal sudoku?

It's sudoku .. The rankings tend towards a little tougher than the ones you see in books or on a lot of websites ..

you're not new madi, it's the same ol' babble crowd by and large :)

new to iron sudoku

I thought I had seen that name before ..

i'm a babble addict, that much is true

we're all one big (sometimes) happy family

Sing it!! o/` We are family o/`

i got all my servos with me

we are family!

Get up everybody and sing!

I am just passing through. What kind of pie today, torgone?

mmmmmm pie?

If I can finish, it will be bananananana cream ..

I'm kinda stuck at the mo ..

gah

oh, you are not concentrating. We are distracting you, sorry

Wait .. There it is . .I think I have it now ..

I can smell taht banana cream pie. When are you going to share with us??

Yeap ..bananannana creme it is ..

he'll likely give us a faceful...

Bravo, torgone

I would never ...

Madi 95, did you get your piece?

..Unless it was funny ..

nope

may i have one?

torgone, where are your manners? Give that lady a piece of pie

One slice of banana cream pie for Madi ..

Good boy!

yummmmm

Fortunately there aren't a lot of people around, so there's plenty to go around ..

i'm still stuffed from my triple chocolate hot fudge brownie sundae

Mmmmm ..

In half an hour Detroit is having its big US Canadian Fireworks show down on the river. Catch in in the news if you can.

Hey Ms. hurshy .. When you get a chance, go take a look at who's near you in the standings ..

down on the river, out in the sleet...

you?

i'm catching up on the last couple of weeks as we parlons

We have a whole week of festivities with Windsor,--which used to be called South Detroit

We have similar festivities with South San Diego, which used to be called Tijuana ..

do all these festivities involve police and guns?

Our firefighters have a tuck of war across the Detroit River against the Canadaian firefighters. hehe

The fireworks tonight are closely guarded, but no guns

Our border patrol agents have a push of war at the fence ..

Verry funny!

relations at this northern border are much more friendly.

*grumble* what's the sort of standard way to move all your program files and stuff when you switch to a new computer? gmail won't let me send myself exe files, and i can't just have it as a draft cause they won't download on the other end. have i got to figure out where my memory stick is? :P

or is there a cable i can hook from one to the other and just copy the whole darn C drive

you are way over my head, and I need to warm up the TB anyway. Till tomorrow. *poof*

I meant TV

you need to warm up the tuberculosis?

ohhhhh

that does make more sense.

Not sure, but I think you can hook up a USB cable between the two, treat one as a drive, and just copy to it ..I think ..

that would be nice! i'll give it a shot.

*Hopes it doesn't blow up both computers*

thought i had a usb-usb cable but parently not

Ask an expert before you do that though . .cause I'm not ..

i'll probably just use a stick but i can't find one

i shall have to borrow one from work tomorrow or something

That too ..

i don't see why gmail won't let me download the files from the draft i saved... that should be an option.

Can't say ..

it's like computer people have an addiction to not making things easy.

That's true . .Maybe it's a file size thing ..

no, you can't download ANY file from your own draft.

it's just not a function.

and i can't SEND the exe files because it says "for security reasons gmail does not allow you to send executable files"

i wonder... can i zip them...

Yeah, that's because a lot of bad stuff sent in emails is .exe files ..

viruses

so if i zip it will it not notice that there are exe files in the zip

back now. And with a baked tater i might add. Anyone for a piece? it's buttery...

Maybe .. some mail programs won't send zips either .. plus you have to unzip to get at the files, so that may be allowed ..

Mmmmm . .baked tater ..

nope, still stuffed from the triple chocolate hot fudge brownie sundae... (that really has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?)

i'm jealous, husrsh even though i'm eating my favorite food

there's not many foods that you can revel in having eaten them just cause they sound so nice

now it's going to say, this file is tooooo huge, i cannot send it

sending all programs at once = ng

You could use ftp, but I don't know how to set it up ..

oh, yes, i know how to use it, but not set it up, lol

don't you work in computers?

I work WITH computers ..

do you suppose it would be VERY rude if i used someone else's FTP server...

:|

a yacht owner's FTP server onto which i used to upload photos... so i know the login info...

If you can send to and retrieve from . .you're just moving bytes ...

it doesn't like, sap their energy or anything?

Only if they have bandwidth restrictions . . but a hard drive full of stuff shouldn't be noticed ..

gmail is still trying to send my 107MB email, i hope i haven't blown up the GMAIL computers!

They're just waiting for the time out to tell you it's too big ..

but it timed out once fairly quickly. then i tried again and it's not timing out so fast.

i have gmail and have been trying to use it all day.

lol madi, i just started, so any problems earlier than say, ten minutes ago, are definitely not my fault

every time i click on the link it says the page cannot be displayed.

i know it's not your fault.

Can anyone help?

you can access this site, so you have a connection...

you clicking on it from google.com?

argh! i accidentally hit the nuda tees link while trying to switch tabs!

dang, it DOES notice if your zip has an exe in it.

where did everybody go?

In n' out, Ms. ..

but madi asked for helps and then disappeared

that is odd

These aren't the droids you're looking for ..

your jedi mind tricks won't work on me

o_0

nor your goggly eyes

o/` Barney Google .. With the Goog-Goog-Googley Eyes ..o/`

:)

is it just me or is nancy grace really annoying? content wise but also voice wise

I can't watch her ..

i'm not even watching her - the mere memory of her voice popped into my head and irritated me

what exactly is "mental toughness", other than "something i don't have"

I interpret it as "The ability to concentrate on something, ignoring emotional and other spurious influences .."

hmmm, maybe i'm not wholly without it, then

i usually hear it describing athletes and assume i must not have it because obviously i can't have anything in common with athletes...

Despite all the training etc. athletes seem to be highly influenced by emotion .. As an aside, I always find it hilarious when a commentator gushes over an athlete making a "really athletic move" ..Huh? They're friggin athletes ..

well, if you had smart people competing for something and the commentator said someone made a smart move, would you find that odd?

"Holy cow, Bob! Did you see Hawking draw that last conclusion? That was genius!"

see, that would work

i think it's that there are degrees of smartness and degrees of athleticism.

being an athlete is not a binary proposition

Absolutely .. creativity too ..

ergo it is ok for the commentator to say that.

however, it is NOT ok for the commentator to say, "the one thing we know for sure is that whoever scores more points today will win"

I just think it's a little obvious sometimes ..

ah, but what is tele for if not obviousness

You're obviously right ..

alrighty well i have five puzzles left to do but i think i shall go to bedfordshire and do them another day

my GOODNESS mitty kitty is pretty!

night torbaby

Sweetest of dreams ...