{"id":32919,"date":"2024-07-24T10:53:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T15:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=32919"},"modified":"2024-07-24T10:53:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T15:53:46","slug":"a-collectors-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/24\/a-collectors-item\/","title":{"rendered":"A Collector’s Item"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite mini-games in the role-playing game of life is to count how many magazines in the racks at the grocery store checkout stand have Taylor Swift on the cover.<\/p>\n

On a recent trip, I thought<\/em> the answer was three (the range generally runs between three and six) when my son pointed out that she was also on the cover of one of the digest-sized puzzle magazines. So it was. Four<\/em>.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I thought about picking it up, and at the last minute did throw it onto the belt. And now I own it.<\/p>\n

Mainly, I wanted to see how they could make a Taylor Swift-themed sudoku–what, did they only fill in the 8s and 7s? But, no. The regular sudokus are regular sudokus, but apparently, they have invented a “picture” sudoku, presumably for puzzle fans who don’t like math, and these have little images kinda related to women singers.<\/p>\n

I probably will bag this and throw it into a collectible magazine bin. I mean, I don’t do puzzles that frequently. I have several crossword puzzle books that I inherited from my sainted mother which still have more of her handwriting in them than mine. I have a collection of old GAMES<\/em> magazines from when we got a subscription for our young son who liked games (but preferred dot-to-dots). Wow, that’s been a while; GAMES<\/em> merged with another magazine in 2014.<\/p>\n

Not that anyone will collect anything in the future, but it will be a little something to burn to keep warm when needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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