Flawed Humans

If I may delve a little further into my lack of expertise at sudoku, permit me to share something about my comparative results.

When I finish a game, it will say something about it. It might tell me that my score was better than usual, or perhaps that I completed it in more or less time than my average. Another variant is that I have completed x number of games in a row.

That is all fine and dandy, but sometimes, it tells me how my time compares to the average player. The comparison is never flattering, for I am typically in the 30-40% range. Very seldom am I faster than more that 50% of the players.

This doesn't surprise me.

For about 10 years, I hosted the high school chess club in my room at noon. I sometimes played against the kids. I won most of the time against most of the kids. When they wanted revenge, they would challenge me to a game of speed chess. If I ever won any of those speed matches, it sure wasn't many.

This affects me in daily life too. My brain (I typed brian again) must work like a cow's digestive system. It just takes the information awhile to get all of the way in there. Sometimes, I will get back to Sue hours later or even longer with something that came up in conversation earlier. I may continue as though we had just been discussing it, but by then she has lost the thread and stares at me blankly

This proclivity has been unfortunate at times. There are times when I really should have said some Father Know Best type of thing, but I missed the opportunity with my slow processing.

But that is better than the converse, for sometimes when I have have said or done something impulsively, it has been the wrong thing to say or do. I guess I do need time to digest effectively.

I am a very flawed human being. I guess most of us are in our own ways.