Look up! Look down! Now look at Mr. Frying Pan! *WHAM*

[slipjig3]

There is no greater source of pride than completing the creation of a variety crossword not only in record time, but with plenty of interesting entries (likely the only puzzle in history to include both "NELSON MANDELA" and "BEER GOGGLES.")

However, there is no greater source of soul-crushing misery than discovering that said puzzle is utterly worthless due to a spelling error.

Unless, of course, it's a mind-bogglingly stoooopid error. That's much worse.

How bad, you may ask?

Would you believe not noticing that LOVE LETTERS only had one T?

And no, it's not fixable. *weeps in abject despair* Anna, sweetie? Hand me that hari kiri knife, wouldja, love? Thanks.

*sigh* Oh, well. I will attempt to cheer myself up through gratuitous cat macro postings, so that we may all together as one be DEAD OF THE CUTE:

Comments

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

Once again, that's: http://www.cuteoverload.com
But the cheezburger site is pretty deadly too:D.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Can it be used as a "SPOT THE ERROR" sort of puzzle? Maybe that would work. "There's one spelling mistake contained herein. Can YOU find it?"

And out of curiosity, what got you into creating crosswords?

[irisira03.livejournal.com]

Are those your kitties??

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Yay cat macros, and thanks for posting the first cookie one, I was trying to tell my mum what a macro was and used that as an example and then couldn't find it to show her!

[oneagain.livejournal.com]

in ur kitchen
eatin ur cookies

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

No! No! I won't go back there! Never! Noooooo....!

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

No such luck. It's already got a gimmick, I fear. *sigh* Oh, well, back to the drawing board. (Pretty much everything I do nowadays gets a rewrite at some point, it seems, so might as well get it over with early.)

To answer your other question....um, brain damage? Chronic lack of a life? In all seriousness, I've been a puzzle nut since I was a little kid, and solving them led to writing them. They were pretty universally horrid until one batch that I sent to Games on a whim included one puzzle that they liked enough to buy. I wrote back thanking them, along with a stack of other stuff and a note saying, "Well, heck if you liked that one...." It's all been downhill from there. I've pretty much learned by the seat of my pants, but I think I'm finally more or less comfortable enough with the process to just roll with it. Until, of course, I make a stupid ferking boneheaded spelling error on a 10-letter entry in a blackout variety grid. Gahhh!

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Nope, I ganked the macros from elsewhere. We have one tortoise-shell, Sunny, and a tabby, Lucy, both considerably bigger than the two pictured. Still cute as the dickens, though.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Glad to oblige. I don't usually do cat macros, but these two? Nigh well irresistable.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

*gigglefits*

[rafaela.livejournal.com]

This is Sunny as a kitten. Fear the calico cute. Unfortunately we don't have a digital camera and our scanner's on the blink, so we don't have any pics of Lucy uploaded.