Sudoku-Yeah Sudoku

Eliminate the impossible and, no matter how improbable, whatever is left must be the answer.-Sherlock Holmes In my half hearted effort to keep my mind working as it should I have taken to doing Sudoku puzzles. I know there was some study recently that said Crossword Puzzles don’t actually help the mind, but who believes that? Besides, Sudoku works a slightly different part of the brain, what with all those numbers. Solving Sudoku puzzles seems easy enough, until you get to the end and find that you put a number in the wrong place and it all went wrong after…

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Trivial Pursuit and Knowledge in General

During the recent Holiday season I had the annual opportunity to mingle with a bunch of strangers that are in some form or fashion, sort of related to me. Family, for lack of a better word, has never been my strong suit. Trivia Games, on the other hand, are something I am pretty good at. More than once I have watched Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and yelled at the screen as the poor sap couldn’t figure out the answer to some dumb question that I knew. But family and friends are not offering up a Million Dollars and…

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