Days in
Days spent alone in the apartment with only a bar stool as furniture and a newspaper as entertainment: 11
Crossword puzzles attempted during those 11 days: 11
Crossword puzzles solved: 0
Jumbles attempted during those 11 days: 11
Fastest time, in minutes, for completing a Jumble: 5
Highest score on Issac Asimov’s super quiz, without cheating: 11
Novels read during one really bored night: 1 (The Catcher in the
Counties that I’ve traveled into for work: 3
Length, in miles, of the longest round-trip bus ride I’ve taken for work: 70, twice, to an Indian casino in
Transients that have sat next to me on the bus and engaged me in conversation about how important a good set of headphones are when you don’t have a very nice Walkman: 1
Transients seen drinking booze on the bus: 2
Items purchased at
Average discount on those items: 55%
Processor speed, in megahertz, of my computer at work: 800
Price, in dollars, of computer in 2000: 1,538
Processor speed, in gigahertz, of my new Macbook: 1.83
Price, in dollars, of Macbook in 2007: 999
Factor by which my Macbook’s processor is faster than my work computer: 2.5
Number of lawyers I’ve met in social settings: 0
Number of lawyers I’ve interviewed for work: 8
Number of lawyers I’ve interviewed for work who were really nice: 8
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