Tuesday March 12th 2019, NY Times Crossword

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Time: 14:50
Tuesday Average: 13:03
Best Tuesday: 5:05

After several more delays, I finally made it back to Bloomington. I guess United wanted to try to make up for all their failures, so I was fortunate enough to get upgraded to 1st class for the SFO to IND leg. However, I had to explain what an Irish Coffee was to the servers on the plane, so I was immediately skeptical. It will be some time before I’ve successfully SEGUED to this time zone, but it’s good to be getting a start. I suspect that this 6 week trip TOOK A TOLL ON me overall and I’ve been just staving off a cold these past few weeks and I’m betting that it’ll be out to get me now that the adrenalin is wearing off.

Today’s theme was BUTTON-DOWN, which may be appropriate as I return to my normal life. As you can see, there are 4 theme answers running down that start with kinds of buttons in SNOOZE FEST (I probably won’t need that for a while because I’ll be up at 4am if I’m lucky), LIKE YOU KNOW (I just want to say “whatever” to quote Lisa Simpson), BELLY UP TO THE BAR (an excellent phrase), and PANIC ATTACK (but just don’t panic).

There’s not much in the Wikipedia entry about the PEWEE bird, but it confirms that they’re small or medium sized fly catchers, usually gray in color.

Another benefit of being home is that I get to WEAR clean clothes. I guess I’ll just see what there is when I wake up at 3. 

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