Game Hell

I have discovered Su Doku. It rivals Add Them Up. Between those two and the damn logic puzzles I enjoy (here is a sample 3x3 logic puzzle - the magazine I get every few months has them as large as 6x6), it's amazing that I ever get out of my house. Of course, then there's the jigsaw puzzles, which I haven't even opened a single box of since last summer, and other various games I find on the internet.

Fuckin' Minesweeper. Thank GOD I haven't played that one in a while. I think I was about to get a broken wrist playing that one.

Paper Done - Finally

Well, I finally sent in my paper on educational instructional delivery issues to the lady at the World Bank I was writing it for. It was due last December. I kept giving excuses through January, at which time I sent her an uncompleted paper of around 14 pages with the promise of sending the remaining "any day now." After that, I just stopped responding.

I had every intention of getting it completed and really did work many hours on it. Many, many hours. I ended up leaving off a whole section that I meant to write and had many research papers to be referenced, but ended up just leaving that section off so that I could be done with it. Total pages = 21, not including the long-ass bibliography. Who knows how long the section that I left off would have been.

She responded back this afternoon. Amazingly enough, she didn't bite my head off. She did say that she couldn't pay me for the work, since her grant expired in June. That's no worry. Once I didn't have it completed by January I really wasn't expecting any money. If she still insisted on paying me, well, I'm not one to turn down money, but I wasn't going to press the issue. I just didn't want to leave it hanging over my head. I wanted to send it to her as complete as possible.

Yeah, this should help get a load off of my back.

Anyone who would like to read it, just give me a buzz.