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yet another less than optimum day [message #44578]

Tue, 30 August 2011 20:05

b_twin_1
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Yet another less than optimum day

I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder

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Re: yet another less than optimum day [message #44580 is a reply to message #44578 ]

Tue, 30 August 2011 20:51

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Okay, should I go and re-read Hero in order to consider who mmmmpph (sp?) is, and cross-connect to Pegasus?

Probably not, so I will re-read Blue Sword instead. It's too hot for Hero and all that dragon-fire.

Ooh, Tsornin doodle!

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Re: yet another less than optimum day [message #44582 is a reply to message #44578 ]

Wed, 31 August 2011 06:48

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After rather too many games of Montezuma*** during which I failed to go up any levels because I was too busy being hysterical

I love it when one has several of the 'rewards' activated and a good series of matches makes it go all over flashes and get the extra gold star for the level. But then I look over and see my husband waiting, patiently, for me to emerge from the game and reply to something he said to me several minutes before... Razz

I don't think that Montezuma 2 and 3 are available for the iPad yet. Probably just as well.

I'd be very happy to find some good jigsaw puzzles. All too many of them are sickly and chocolate-box-y in the extreme. I prefer those that are based on fine art paintings, so I've got something interesting to look at as I go. And they have to be of at least 1,000 pieces. Smile

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Wed, 31 August 2011 08:37

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AJLR wrote on Wed, 31 August 2011 06:48

I'd be very happy to find some good jigsaw puzzles. All too many of them are sickly and chocolate-box-y in the extreme. I prefer those that are based on fine art paintings, so I've got something interesting to look at as I go. And they have to be of at least 1,000 pieces. Smile

I was at a friend's house a couple of years ago near Christmas time (when for some reason American stores are full of jigsaw puzzles.) On her table was a half-finished jigsaw puzzle of one of the Kinuko Y. Craft paintings originally done as cover art for Patricia McKillip's books. My friend said she & her son had recently picked it up at Target or some such store. I've been looking for a Kinuko Y. Craft jigsaw puzzle ever since, because that would be *so* fun, but I've yet to find one.

"Purity of heart is to will one thing." Kirkegaard

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Wed, 31 August 2011 09:18

AJLR
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blondviolinist wrote on Wed, 31 August 2011 13:37

AJLR wrote on Wed, 31 August 2011 06:48

There are a lot of online puzzle stores and I've found some interesting ones that way. But my favourite picture types - sometimes differentiated as 'museum art' - only ever have very few offerings.

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Wed, 31 August 2011 12:46

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I agree! I have a real hard time shopping for jigsaw puzzles, made worse by the fact that I will only ever buy Ravensburger (after a rather painful experience with a puzzle from another company).

I would love something painted by Kinuko Y. Her cover art was what made me buy my first McKillip book (and after the first one I was totally hooked, of course...).

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Re: yet another less than optimum day [message #44587 is a reply to message #44578 ]

Wed, 31 August 2011 14:35

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Robin wondered:

But . . . how do you know all this? What buttons are you pressing that are invisible to me? I’m still stuck not understanding what half the frelling totems do. And one of my several fiendish enablers, in inquiring how I was coming along, mentioned her high score. Score? I’d just been crawling slowly up through the levels. After much anxious button-pressing . . . I can still only sometimes find what my score is, when it deigns to appear . . . and I exist as player since I have no idea how to name myself!

Ah, I spent many years - and hours - playing it on my old computer! I have been too mean to buy a copy for this one (I got it as a freebie on my old one), but did buy the iPod app - which is not NEARLY as nice! I really do prefer the full-size one. I don't know what the iPad version is like, as I don't own an iPad! But now that I am earning again, I might just consider buying the full version of Montezuma - noooooooo, I don't have time! This work stuff impinges on Real Life with a vengeance!

Mrs Redboots
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Thu, 01 September 2011 14:41

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LOL! I used to be the puzzle buyer for the game store where I worked; we did a whole holiday store of puzzles from October-December each year. My first management gig was managing our first puzzle store back in 1994 or so.

Fine art puzzles are a little harder to find than they used to be, true--I think this partly has to do with IP issues, a lot of museums are getting more and more tight about licensing the artwork they own for poster/puzzle purposes. But Austrian puzzlemaker Piatnik is always a good source for arty puzzles, they do a lot of Monet, Vermeer, Renoir. (They're also famous for making high quality playing cards as well.) Other good quality manufacturers you might google would be F.X. Schmid, Great American Puzzle Factory, and Buffalo Games.

/gamesnerd

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Thu, 01 September 2011 15:30

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Goodness, I've just looked up the Piatnik ones. *hastily wipes drool from chin*

Ok, that's me sorted for a while. Thanks, Black Bear! Smile

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Re: yet another less than optimum day [message #44626 is a reply to message #44578 ]

Fri, 02 September 2011 02:05

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something out of a Charles Williams novel

Snork! Smile

Diane in MN wrote: There’s an acupressure point near the stifle that I use if anyone’s stomach strikes my neurotic brain as being a little tense.

Excellent. Where do I find an acupressure chart??

I thought I'd sent you a link to a picture of this quite a long time ago, but my brain is mush these days and I could certainly be wrong. Check here, and if the link doesn't work let me know and I'll download it and send it to you as an attachment. If you print the article, a color printer is much clearer about where to apply pressure than a black-and-white.

It’s a great pity the hellhounds had nothing to throw up on her floor with.

Very Happy

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Re: yet another less than optimum day [message #44636 is a reply to message #44626 ]

Fri, 02 September 2011 08:38

Robin
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WOW. Thank you. Smile

!!!!! I'll print it out as soon as I can get one or another of my computer/printer combinations to WORK. [GRUMBLEGRUMBLEGRUMBLEARRRRGH]

[Note: Wordpress. MORE ARRRRGH.]

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