i have a habit
February 20th 2008 01:20
I know I am supposed to only write about the environment and by the end of this post I am sure I will have somehow twisted this topic to be relevant 
but today I want to talk about Sudoku...I am totally addicted. This is how it happened.
Last Friday my Bro needed someone to be at his house for the Telstra guy, given he walks my dogs sometimes and I can theoretically work from wherever I like, I volunteered...of course I forgot given Telstra were coming to connect th internet, I would not actually be able to do anywork........after my laptop battery ran out, and i discovered the TV didn't work, I started looking for things to do in what had become my prison for an additional four hours.
The only thing I could find was a two day old Sydney Morning Herald, given there was nothing else I figured I could do the crossword or something, as much as I detest them.
SO I turned to the comic pages; And there it was, the innocent little Sudoku puzzle, sitting there, angelic, saying play me, play me..so i did...little did I know......
Given I spend a lot of my day playing with numbers of some description, I thought -- oh wow, this will be easy--.....WRONG: I don't know if anyone else here plays Sudoku in the Herald, Thursdays puzzle was rated "diabolical" and I had no help and no clue how to play, the more I couldn't do it, the more i wanted to do it, fnally after like an hour after the Telstra guy was supposed to turn up (of course he was a no show) I dragged myself out of my Brothers Flat, Sudoku puzzle in hand, drove myself home and continued to play, refusing to speak to people...I got it down to one number (which means the whole dam thing is wrong) then on Saturday morning googled the answer.
Not too bad you think, but I needed more, so on Saturday I went and bought every paper to see which ones have Sudoku and I played every spare moment (to my partners annoyance) and then some, when I did the ones out of the paper, yes, I went online.
By Sunday night I realised I had a problem, so I swore myself off. Then on Monday on the way home, there it was FREE in my Mx (dealer), another little Sudoku, just a little taste before I cook dinner I thought, yes, we had takeaway........
And yes, that is why I can't post on the climate, sudoku is all i can think about, please help. I get the feeling this is not going to end, this time last week I had never heard of it, now it is everwhere I look........nothing else seems interesting, its all i think about.....
cheers
Louie the Junkie.
Do any other Orblers have sudoku habits?
Here is a wiki link to a definition for those who don't know what sudoku is.
WIKI LINK
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but today I want to talk about Sudoku...I am totally addicted. This is how it happened.Last Friday my Bro needed someone to be at his house for the Telstra guy, given he walks my dogs sometimes and I can theoretically work from wherever I like, I volunteered...of course I forgot given Telstra were coming to connect th internet, I would not actually be able to do anywork........after my laptop battery ran out, and i discovered the TV didn't work, I started looking for things to do in what had become my prison for an additional four hours.
The only thing I could find was a two day old Sydney Morning Herald, given there was nothing else I figured I could do the crossword or something, as much as I detest them.
SO I turned to the comic pages; And there it was, the innocent little Sudoku puzzle, sitting there, angelic, saying play me, play me..so i did...little did I know......
Given I spend a lot of my day playing with numbers of some description, I thought -- oh wow, this will be easy--.....WRONG: I don't know if anyone else here plays Sudoku in the Herald, Thursdays puzzle was rated "diabolical" and I had no help and no clue how to play, the more I couldn't do it, the more i wanted to do it, fnally after like an hour after the Telstra guy was supposed to turn up (of course he was a no show) I dragged myself out of my Brothers Flat, Sudoku puzzle in hand, drove myself home and continued to play, refusing to speak to people...I got it down to one number (which means the whole dam thing is wrong) then on Saturday morning googled the answer.
Not too bad you think, but I needed more, so on Saturday I went and bought every paper to see which ones have Sudoku and I played every spare moment (to my partners annoyance) and then some, when I did the ones out of the paper, yes, I went online.
By Sunday night I realised I had a problem, so I swore myself off. Then on Monday on the way home, there it was FREE in my Mx (dealer), another little Sudoku, just a little taste before I cook dinner I thought, yes, we had takeaway........
And yes, that is why I can't post on the climate, sudoku is all i can think about, please help. I get the feeling this is not going to end, this time last week I had never heard of it, now it is everwhere I look........nothing else seems interesting, its all i think about.....
cheers
Louie the Junkie.
Do any other Orblers have sudoku habits?
Here is a wiki link to a definition for those who don't know what sudoku is.
WIKI LINK
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Comment by Cibbuano
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Comment by katyzzz
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Meanwhile you have my sympathy, damn funny habit you have but superior to and less harmful than pot, so carry on my love.
One day I'll join you, what you have reproduced here looks very clear unlike some of the c...p I've seen.
As for the environment, it's good to have a change, less preachy.
katyzzz
Comment by Louie
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I guess at my level they are all diabolical....
Comment by Lilla
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Try as I might, I just cannot 'get it' ... perhaps I am not trying hard enough?
Will give it another go.
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you are dead right about the mathematical part, i read you could even use colours if you wanted, so maybe there is scope for mspaintart to create colour sudoku and fill the world with more happy colours, i am sure there are way too many numbers floating around already.....
and yes i am hoping it is much less harmful than pot....
cheers
Louie
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Comment by KylieW
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My sister used to make fun of me for doing them. Then I showed her how to do them. And then one day she spent 10 hours on the couch doing sudoku's and then decided that she had to give them up forever because she's obsessive compulsive!!!
Comment by Michaelie
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You should go get yourself one of those little Sudoku books so you don't have to buy all the papers.
Comment by Mountain Fog
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QUOTE ME NO QUOTES!
My name is Louie, and I am an addict.
Welcome to SA, Sudoku Anonymous, it is a 12 step programme!
I came to believe I was powerless over Sudoku...
Just think of this, who invented it and why? Is it a subversive plot, hatched by unscrupulous companies, to absorb young minds in mindless pursuits while secretly hypnotising them, by numerical sequence, to buy their products?
I hate it....sudoku...read the very first instructions in the newspapers when it started, we were all made to feel DUMB because Asia had been doing it for years, and then, I found out I hated it...love crosswords though, puzzles...ho hum..
fog
Comment by DuskDevi
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I'm addicted to cryptic crosswords...so I feel your pain!
Figure anything that makes your brain 'reach' has got to be stimulation, regardless of familiarity.
I've never done a Sudoku puzzle but so don't know how 'good' I'd be.
...maybe I'm too scared I won't have the faintest freakin' clue what to do and how to do it!
...I'm also seriously addicted still to my Rubik's Cube. Sad and so very retro...I have a small Rubik's Cube key ring, which is always in my bag and if I'm waiting around somewhere...well...great time waster. AND I get my youngest to 'mess it up' for me after every use!
Hope you're well Louie Louie. arkx doing well I bet/hope...
Dusk
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i might have to be like your sister and give them up, mind you I have maanged to save one for the weekend yesterday.....maybe thats a good improvement
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as for the corporate conspiracy, poosibly.........i googled the origins and it seems pretty innocent enough tho. dates back to latin squares or something....then again that could just be a cover...
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AWESOME to see you....you know they have a version of the Rubiks cube called the Sudoku cube ..
arkx going slowly but surely,,,,,,,,,,,
as soon as we are successfull ill be using my discount vouchers, at the moment rent is a priority
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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I've found (from my extensive studies) that those addictees - are generally also list makers (blessed are the list makers).
Perhaps give Sudoku away and get creative with my tax accounting . . . it pays a whole lot better.
MNG
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Comment by Ann 1
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When I saw the title, I thought another female Orble blogger had run way to a convent to become a nun.
I enjoyed the post regardless.
Your dilemma of how to occupy yourself without the net or TV reminded me of an obscure American fiction novel called 'Mesmerised'.
Without boring you too much, bascially it goes like this. The host of a US TV show about weird and wacky religious nutters goes out to investigate 'one more weirdo' called Fr Ebeneezer just out of LA. During his 'tent show' Fr Ebeneezer puts a curse on modern technology, including electricity. The TV host does his thing (films the event, etc) but thinks nothing of it until he returns to LA, and finds everyone wandering around the streets. Hundreds of thousands of people. He asks someone what's going on. The someone says, There's no more electricity. We have no access to TV or the net. We don't know what to do with ourselves, so we're just wandering around.
Btw. I'm not even going to attempt Sudoku.
Ann.