Re: "Unfinished Business" September 29, 2023
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:10 pm
On the beach! Went down several rabbit holes but finally had my Aha Moment.
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"Unfinished Business" September 29, 2023
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Re: "Unfinished Business" September 29, 2023
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:13 pm
Ashore with a nudge. Some people might object to crucial parts in this one --the misdirection that calls your attention to something irrelevant, the heavy disguising of the most important element. But some people ain't me.
Re: "Unfinished Business" September 29, 2023
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:47 pm
On the beach.
Business finished.
Business finished.
Re: "Unfinished Business" September 29, 2023
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 8:20 pm
For the first time in quite a while, I was home at 4:30 on a Friday and got to go to the zoom. What a great group! And so much bigger than the usual Sunday crowd.
Like Eric, I had noticed something important, and like Eric I had not seen anything useful to do with it until the zoom. On shore now.
Like Eric, I had noticed something important, and like Eric I had not seen anything useful to do with it until the zoom. On shore now.
Eric Porter wrote: ↑Fri Sep 29, 2023 5:04 pm I'm now on shore after the Zoom meeting.
I was the one who provided the final piece of the puzzle in the chat, but I didn't think it was relevant to the meta until some people who had solved saw what I wrote.
Re: "Unfinished Business" September 29, 2023
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 8:22 pm
I'm ashore. And unlike last week, I think I'm actually right!
Re: "Unfinished Business" September 29, 2023
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 8:25 pm
Ashore!
Re: "Unfinished Business" September 29, 2023
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 9:35 pm
I am not ashore. I'm not even sure I am on the boat, so much as dog-paddling in a sea of meta cluelessness, is what I'm saying.
Re: "Unfinished Business" September 29, 2023
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 10:24 pm
Arriving way after dark at the Beach
Margaritas all around.!
Margaritas all around.!
Re: "Unfinished Business" September 29, 2023
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 10:28 pm
On the shore. No unfinished business this week.
Re: "Unfinished Business" September 29, 2023
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 11:04 pm
You know where I like to hang out on Friday nights? A rabbit hole, that’s where. I am generating plenty of unfinished business for Isaac. I just wish he would stop rolling his eyes every time I tell him (between sips) that this *must* be significant.
Re: "Unfinished Business" September 29, 2023
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 11:11 pm
Need a gentle nudge, thought I had something, but another rabbit hole.
Re: "Unfinished Business" September 29, 2023
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 11:30 pm
It will be interesting to hear what all of you are finding to support your view that you have the answer. As I said on page three, I do believe I have the answer -- it is incomprehensible if I do not -- but I can find absolutely nothing to support this other than the obvious certainty that this is the answer. I will eat this mother of all rabbits if I am wrong: please use pumpkin or cocoanut-cream pie if you wish to splatter my face in that case. But I hope that those of you who have found confirmation of the answer (assuming you have the same absoultely dead certain answer I have) will describe those confirmations on Monday. (Please no private message before then.)
Re: "Unfinished Business" September 29, 2023
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2023 12:47 am
Thanks to the zoom call this afternoon, I was able to take what I already had and finish things off in time to get the perfectly baked meatloaf out of the oven for dinner!
Re: "Unfinished Business" September 29, 2023
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2023 12:52 am
Quietly sitting with Isaac and a light Aperol spritzer. Print comments are interesting this week. Really want to get this one on my own so I’ll pass on nudges. Still have 2 days to go!
Re: "Unfinished Business" September 29, 2023
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2023 1:56 am
Ashore!
Though I wasn’t just nudged, I was shoved!
I will NOT be submitted for mug consideration this week. I’m not deserving!
Though I wasn’t just nudged, I was shoved!
I will NOT be submitted for mug consideration this week. I’m not deserving!
Re: "Unfinished Business" September 29, 2023
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2023 8:18 am
INTRIGUED! I can’t imagine someone stumbling upon this one without the key. I predict a rabbit hole award in your future!otlaolap wrote: ↑Fri Sep 29, 2023 11:30 pm It will be interesting to hear what all of you are finding to support your view that you have the answer. As I said on page three, I do believe I have the answer -- it is incomprehensible if I do not -- but I can find absolutely nothing to support this other than the obvious certainty that this is the answer. I will eat this mother of all rabbits if I am wrong: please use pumpkin or cocoanut-cream pie if you wish to splatter my face in that case. But I hope that those of you who have found confirmation of the answer (assuming you have the same absoultely dead certain answer I have) will describe those confirmations on Monday. (Please no private message before then.)
Re: "Unfinished Business" September 29, 2023
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2023 8:30 am
Finally got it! Woo-hoo. Thought this was another one that was way beyond my thought processes but an aha moment of looking at it! Love to be on the beach!
Re: "Unfinished Business" September 29, 2023
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2023 8:37 am
Ashore with major help.
Re: "Unfinished Business" September 29, 2023
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2023 9:09 am
I predict he noticed something and got the correct answer but just hasn’t quite realized why yet.HeadinHome wrote: ↑Sat Sep 30, 2023 8:18 amINTRIGUED! I can’t imagine someone stumbling upon this one without the key. I predict a rabbit hole award in your future!otlaolap wrote: ↑Fri Sep 29, 2023 11:30 pm It will be interesting to hear what all of you are finding to support your view that you have the answer. As I said on page three, I do believe I have the answer -- it is incomprehensible if I do not -- but I can find absolutely nothing to support this other than the obvious certainty that this is the answer. I will eat this mother of all rabbits if I am wrong: please use pumpkin or cocoanut-cream pie if you wish to splatter my face in that case. But I hope that those of you who have found confirmation of the answer (assuming you have the same absoultely dead certain answer I have) will describe those confirmations on Monday. (Please no private message before then.)
Re: "Unfinished Business" September 29, 2023
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2023 10:09 am
Isaac, good man, reach down to the bottom shelf and pull my mug off.
Fill it with anything from the top shelf, sir. Yes, to the brim. Could be 'ere a while.
Fill it with anything from the top shelf, sir. Yes, to the brim. Could be 'ere a while.