Less a eureka…

…than a (maybe) interesting observation.
After telling Sylvia yesterday that I had had a good idea about MSG4 I wracked my head for the rest of the night and into today trying to remember what it was.  Then, while I was drinking my 7th cup of lapsang souchong, it hit me – and I was immediately [...]

Remind me to always…

…pay my taxes, because these audits do nothing but chap my hide.  And I’m not even the one getting audited, the Foundation is.  Nothing bad or shady or anything like that, just the normal annual stuff that goes along with getting much of your funding from donors and trusts.  But it means that all the [...]

No rest for…

…the terminally muddled.
Of all the times for our pal the puzzler to leap back onto the scene.  Of course it’s the very evening that I get a big new personal case with a short turnaround time.  And I really want to try to figure out what I sincerely hope is another anagram. But it is [...]

That voice again…

…and it’s still not telling me anything useful.  Thanks for the comment, Mort. Wish I was feeling warmer myself.  Low of around 30 today, and I am just about over it.  Why the heck can’t I get assigned to check into giant catfish in the Gulf of Mexico? You’d think with all the toxic runoff [...]

My Google mojo…

…done fell out of the canoe. Or whatever it is they paddle around in down on the bayou.
That only makes slightly less sense than it probably should, so perhaps I’m feeling better. Amend that. I am definitely feeling better. Best I’ve felt in over a week. Pretty much back to, if not [...]

Lazarus, come forth…

…(silence, followed by sound of body hitting floor next to bed)
Lazarus, crawl to the fridge and get a glass of water!
Maybe.  If I try really hard.  I think I am feeling about 50%, which is 75% better than the last estimate, but I think I can see the corner that I need to turn up [...]