Milestone 2000
- BrennerTJ
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Milestone 2000
Having reached this nice round number, I'm now going to end my streak of daily NYTimes xword completions.
-Tamara
- MMe
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For some reason I can't bear doing Mondays and Tuesdays, but I must have violated that policy at least once.
- MikeM000
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Nice job! I think sometimes about blowing a puzzle on purpose right before my auto-renew so I can make a new account and start with fresh stats.
Speaking of...I have some streak weirdness going on right now. At the end of August we had a 3-day power outage and we ended up staying one night in a hotel. At 10 pm as usual I got the next day's crossword on my tablet and did most of it. I finished it the next morning but, as hotels are wont to do, it signed me out of their guest wi-fi overnight and since I was only doing that puzzle on the tablet, I didn't think about the connection. Then we went back to our no-power home and I forgot about it until 10pm that night to do the next one.
So...if I look at my NYT account on my phone or laptop, it shows a break on August 30th and I have a streak of about 50 days, but on the tablet where I successfully completed it while not connected to the internet, my streak is several hundred days long.
Speaking of...I have some streak weirdness going on right now. At the end of August we had a 3-day power outage and we ended up staying one night in a hotel. At 10 pm as usual I got the next day's crossword on my tablet and did most of it. I finished it the next morning but, as hotels are wont to do, it signed me out of their guest wi-fi overnight and since I was only doing that puzzle on the tablet, I didn't think about the connection. Then we went back to our no-power home and I forgot about it until 10pm that night to do the next one.
So...if I look at my NYT account on my phone or laptop, it shows a break on August 30th and I have a streak of about 50 days, but on the tablet where I successfully completed it while not connected to the internet, my streak is several hundred days long.
- BrennerTJ
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Here's the follow up image...
My times were still improving on every day of the week -- I'm not objectively competitive, but I had several personal bests within the past couple of months, which added entertainment to the early days of the week. I also had a weird thing with ipad tally versus regular computer at one point (and still have the email thread where I inquired about it... it was at day 1176).
I might continue with Sunday's and probably also the daily mini until my current subscription finishes. My times were still improving on every day of the week -- I'm not objectively competitive, but I had several personal bests within the past couple of months, which added entertainment to the early days of the week. I also had a weird thing with ipad tally versus regular computer at one point (and still have the email thread where I inquired about it... it was at day 1176).
-Tamara
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- BrennerTJ
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That woulda been 8-ish times as many levels as I completed on Candy Crush back in the day.
I'm kinda liking 0 as a round number now.
-Tamara