matrix

Still trying to achieve balance

More like it...still nothing to brag about

It occurred to me on the way to work that the way to eliminate the negativity of the previous attempt while retaining the letter-count and that valuable "e" was to use "restabilization" instead. The symmetry thing was unintended: I had no graph paper at work, so making nice, big rectangles seemed like a good work-around. Yes, I was working on my own project on company time.

Of course, this still isn't a puzzle, and I don't know if I'll complete this one, now that I've already published the answer. But I should check it over for consistency, uniqueness of solution, redundancies, and such, and throw out any entries that are otherwise troubling. It could return in editted form.

First Crude Attempt

Noah Benshea

I ended up making the very error I said was not an option in my previous post.
Thankfully, no moth "landed in the soup".
Thank Someone, not me.

So I'm trying to watch/listen to Noah Benshea this morning.
He makes a lot of sense, but sometimes, like that gas meeting night before last, it seems like too much all at once.

So, anyway, last night it ended up being about four and a half sheets to the wind, leaving a remainder of 2.5 (approximately).

Interesting thing on the "sheets to the wind" mataphor: according to The Urban Dictionary it possibly derives not only from ships, but also from windmills. See the connections? I do. But seeing the connections is not enough. Insight must be worked out in practice (that could be worded a LOT better). I guess the best thing I can think of to do right now is take the central issue of stability and try to work it into a puzzle. But I'll use "destabilization" because it's fifteen letters and has that useful "e" in it, and try to turn it from negative to positive somehow.

Don't wish me luck.

three sheets to the wind

so here i sit
too lazy to hit a shift key
nearly finished with a Vendange 500ml carton of SHIRAZ
and wondering what to do with the remains

drink it down, and then, mayhap, open the cab?
or stick it in the fridge
or leave it sitting around for bhopal to possibly fall into?

NO! the latter is NOT an option!!
into the fridge it goes
(I can always take it out again later if I think I need to)

There are "remains" I can deal with; and those
I can't.

And then there's always "now"...

I submitted my first answer to the NPR Sunday Puzzle a little over a half hour ago. We'll see what happens next.

I went to the gas meeting last night and took some notes. It's difficult to process, but I'll try to make some report to the family this weekend.

Because of the return of winter this morning, I decided to go get the mail and take out the peelings for my friend. I also did a duct-tape-repair to the styrofoam cooler I damaged the last time we went for groceries. He talked me into watching about the first 45 minutes of "The African Queen". It was difficult to determine what Bogart's character's last name was..."r" or "l"...."d" or "t"... I looked it up when I got home: Charlie Allnut.

You can't make this stuff up!