The last month or so was extremely busy. I got my annual Easter treasure hunt done for my pups. This year it was in the form of a medieval fantasy adventure set around the 1200s and involving space aliens. Really. The narrative is broken up by nine puzzles to solve, each puzzle revealing a clue as to where to find the next chunk of the story. It took me about 20 person-hours to write, and about an hour to set up and hide everything. It took my 6 oldest about 2.5 hours to solve. The last clue in these always leads to where the Easter baskets are hidden.

My oldest is a senior in high school this academic year, so this might be his last time participating in one of these. I kind of hope not. I'll continue to do them as long as I'm able and they want to do them. I can imagine how fun it'll be when I can expand the radius of the hunt to include the whole town and beyond....

Constructing the Easter hunt and a tight schedule at work leading up to a grant progress demonstration for a project team I'm on made other endeavors nearly impossible to undertake. However, today at lunch I started back into chapter 16 of "The Last Tanuki", so hopefully I'll have a draft of that posted in a week or two.

I will also try to start catching up on some of the amazing artwork that the furs on FA that I'm watching generated over the last month. I've only had time to skim, but there are some really fine looking pieces in there and I'm looking forward to the writing and music that's been posted as well.

Hope you all had a great Easter and are having a great day today!