Ryan Faces the World

Once again, work has been very busy and I did not have time to write up the play-by-play of my solving adventure.  But I was able to complete the puzzle without outside help.  The were a few moments where I almost caved but something told me I’d be able to figure it out and that […]

If it’s Tuesday night/Wednesday morning it must mean I’m at my soul crushing job. But, on the bright side, I’m about to load up Wednesday’s puzzle.
Today’s puzzle was constructed by Peter A. Collins and edited by Will Shortz.
Top left corner. 1A. Choice of colors (PALETTE). 15A. Extreme pains (AGONIES). 17A. Fraternity […]

Today’s puzzle was constructed by C.W. Stewart and J.K. Hummel and edited by Will Shortz.
Almost cracked the 10 minute mark with a time of 10:07.  I got flummoxed for 20 seconds or so by  22D. Tangled, as hair (SNARLED).  I put in SNARRED which read like SNARED to me which doesn’t make much sense anyway.  […]

Running out the door. Finished today’s puzzle in 6:48. Good time for me. Will have detailed write up tonight.
Ok, I’m back. The puzzle was constructed by Michael Blake and edited by Will Shortz.
Overall it was a pretty easy puzzle but I’m still happy I finished in under 7 minutes. The […]

Since I’m home and I have an outside chance of finishing this puzzle without help I’m going to time myself. Who knows maybe I can get the whole thing done in under 30 minutes. Stranger things have happened.
Here goes, loading it up now and I’ll be back…
Ok, about 47 minutes later and the […]

This entry may have to be in 2 parts. I stayed up way too late after I got home from work. Should have gone right to bed but Rock Band was calling me. 2 hours later, my hands sore from playing the fakes drums, I ended up only being able to catch […]

I’m about to load up the Friday puzzle. This whole journal started a week ago when I inexplicably finished last Friday’s puzzle. Not to take anything away from that accomplishment, but I think that particular puzzle was on the easy side. Earlier today, I printed out a Friday puzzle from about a […]

Back at the soul-crushing job. I had acrobat training earlier. Not as cool as it sounds because it was training for Adobe Acrobat 8.0. So no trapezes or brightly colored leotards. There were some brightly colored pdfs so that was a plus.
In other news I just registered online for the crossword […]

[Blogger’s note: I didn’t go back and edit any of this after the fact except for 3 things. I added pictures, I unbolded incorrect answers so everything that is bold is correct, and I wrote the blogger’s note that you are reading now.]
Ok, back to doing the play-by-play. I’m at my soul crushing job […]

Perhaps it’s just me getting cocky but I’m going to try the same thing I did yesterday. I’m pretty confident I can bang out a Tuesday puzzle in 15 minutes or less. Hopefully less.
Loading it up now…
Time of 11:32. Once again, I got hung up on part of the puzzle which ended […]