Solve it, Meat grinder

So when we were on the road trip I had brought my new Rubiks Cube along.  I figured when I was in the passenger seat I could finally learn how to solve the cube conventionally.  When I was younger I would “solve” it by taking it apart and putting it back together.  Well I wound up not doing any cube fiddling on the trip.  When I wasn’t writing blog entries or taking in the scenery, Plants vs Zombies 2 on my tablet gobbled up the remainder of my passenger seat time. I do however still want to learn how to solve the cube without disassembly, a goal that dates back to 7th grade.

Last night Cindy and I had a little cube challenge.  It was simple, see who could solve the white side in the least amount of time.  I had done it once casually untimed already.  So I mixed the cube up a bit and handed it to Cindy for a psuedo casual run.  She said she finished in just over a minute.

Ok so now it was getting serious.  We brought up the timer app on Cindy’s phone and went again.  I futzed around more this time, enough to take just over 7 minutes to solve one lousy side.  I mixed the cube more up this time before handing it to Cindy.  Even so she got it done in around two minutes flat.  There is no denying she obliterated me but that will only fuel my desire to improve.  The end game is a total cube solve anyway.

So as is always the case after returning from a September road trip I am now entering a pretty exhausting part of the year.  The last three months of a year are the busiest and most stressful at my normal job.  Unfortunately the same holds true for my part time job as the running club point man for anything and everything that touches a computer.  I literally have dozens of details and leg work to be handled for the 8 events left in the year.  My reward for getting through the end of 2014 is handling our half marathon in mid-January, our largest and most prestigious race of the year.  Awesome.