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THE SHERIFF IS HOT!

just when i’d thought the answer would always be “épée”. ah, well. épééd again.

I never once stopped thinking that it said “Relatively nice person”. After i resigned myself to “CLUBFED”, i was surprised to hear the happy music, because that is not a nice person. I do the crosswords to reassure myself that my brain is still working well, but that was not reassuring. Surely there are others who mis-read it too? Oh well. Amam said there’d be days liek this.

when i figured out the theme, i caught such a wave of admiration/amusement that it made me giddy. gosh i’m so glad i got into crosswords. how great to have a natural source of dopamine like that.

I AM SO GRATEFUL THEY FINALLY GAVE US DARK MODE! i do these at bedtime. once i finish, closing the puzzle and suddenly getting hit with the bright light of the screen… it wakes me fully up at the worst time. i enjoyed this puzzle, and i’m thrilled to celebrate the solve in dreamland.

i spent way too long thinking “how interesting to learn that Montana has a Spanish Lotto!”

hazard of coaching singers for a living: i thought that “silence-enforcing doc” was ENT

new PB for me, and on a phone too! and then i got to go back and admire the puzzle afterwards. so clever and fun!

i’m sleeping in my childhood home tonight, keeping watch over my dear father, who will have passed on from this world by the end of this week — if not this night. a few days ago, we had our last two-way conversation , as i was flying back to NYC for a bit and I knew he’d no longer be responsive by the time i returned. i wanted to make him smile, so I used one of his favorite old puns. “I’ll see you soon, Dad. I have to catch a flight. Oswego, into the wild blue yonder.” And he smiled — the last smile of his that I’ll ever see. ❤️❤️❤️ thank you for Oswego