Do you hear that, Buffistas? That is the sound of ultimate suffering. My heart made that sound when I reached the bottom of my large Coke Zero. shrift makes it now.

Heh. I knew someone would make the Princess Bride joke... I would have made one myself, but I just got to the bottom of my tea cup and was in despair...

It was as though a whole shrift cried out... and was suddenly silenced.

I fear something terrible has happened.

You'd better get on with your training posting....

Someone just sent me a support request. It's in English, but I have no idea what it means.

Something about cults being absorbed into the pantheon and generating confusing myths?

Happy birthday, Cindy!

Jesse & Erin, what a pleasant surprise to see you at the tournament! I just got an email with the breakdown of my results: 6 out of 7 puzzles correct. (I told them not to bother with details of puzzle 5 since I screwed up so royally.) I feel much better now because I thought I made a dumb mistake on the last puzzle - either left a square blank or maybe reversed one of the arrows - but I didn't. I was just slower than I thought.

OMG, people. How did I totally flake on a meeting this morning? I ended up dialing in a half hour late. Fortunately I wasn't really going to have anything to contribute until the end, but still. Jeez.

Wouldn't even cursory fact-checking by the publisher show that the woman was making the story up?

I think it would have. The editor is a NYTimes writer's daughter... so they quoted her a lot.

I think it's interesting that her sister turned her in. Won't that make for a fun family Thanksgiving!

::makes popcorn::

Do you hear that, Buffistas? That is the sound of ultimate suffering.

oh this is going to be a good day on the board. which is good. for I am squelching into bad spaces.

Happy Birthday Cindy!

Oh, Joe! Did you get the set of the puzzles that was promised? I never saw it around, but would like to have one.

Something about cults being absorbed into the pantheon and generating confusing myths?

"Help! My blah is blahing the blah when I blah dee blah blah even though the blah is a blah blah blah!"

Happy Birthday Cindy!

I need to pay more attention to weather reports apart from storm warnings. I knew it would be getting colder last night, but was taken completely by surprise when I discovered I was the proud owner of a carsickle when I got to the parking lot this morning.

I totally want to go to the puzzle tournament next year. I better start doing crosswords again.