It's all very logical

The holiday weekend is about half over. It's Sunday night, and I'm doing a little writing while drying off after a shower, yellow towel wrapped around me and my hair pointing every which way (which seems to be the fashion nowadays). The Pistons are trying to catch up with Miami--it's early in the fourth quarter.

Monday is Memorial Day, and I'll be going to two different cemeteries for pictures of the ceremonies in the morning. The weather is supposed to be fine. Then we'll most likely be going out to visit my mom--better remember to phone her later, so she can hide the silverware.

On Saturday, with the paper all done with, we went to Eagle River, Wis., to see the new Star Wars movie. We'd usually go to Iron Mountain for that, but my son wanted to see the theater in Eagle River--they're about the same distance from us, just under an hour away. Enjoyed the movie a lot more than the two previous episodes.

At this point, I was planning to embed a (very obvious) spoiler in this blog--you'd have to click a link to see it--but I don't know how to do that yet.

(I also don't know how to embed pictures in blogs, either. I want them so that the type runs along the side, but I couldn't figure out how (or even if it's possible). I don't like blank space. Been working on newspapers too long, maybe.)

I also invested in a puzzle book. One of those cheapie "Logic Puzzles" books you see at the newsstands. The stars were lined up for it--I think I'm pretty good at logical thinking, so I figured it would be a good mental exercise. They have five levels of puzzles--I thought I'd start with the 3-star puzzles to get warmed up and then go for something challenging.

I bet you can guess the rest of the story. I'm finding that the 1-star puzzles are plenty challenging enough, thank you! I also learned very quickly that a nice dark pen with bold ink doesn't cut it for something like that--some No. 2 pencils are what's called for, not to mention a good eraser.

Oh, I still think I'm fairly good at figuring out puzzles. Well, a little good. Well, better than the average bear. Well, better than an 8-year-old. Well ...