I'm a simple man. All I wanted for this little vacation was an opportunity to puzzle without being attacked by my new freeloader. I had the house to myself one morning so I put Hacks on the big screen and got to work. Historically, 1000 piece puzzles can take me around 7 hours so that was the amount of time I budgeted. I had my timer going while I was puzzling, but paused it when I took a few short breaks. I tried to pause every 30 minutes to drink a glass of water and stretc

My parents gave me a powershot for my 11th birthday, which birthed little ken, my inner child that has forever loved blogging. I have been on snapchat since its origin, which is a terrifying statement to my fully developed brain. As digital sharing became more socially standard and my life experiences became more vast, my digital archives grew. I effectively have daily content from my life for over a decade, spread over 3 Gmail accounts. I lived with 3 roommates for the past

This is the story of where my love for puzzles began, since I’m sure you’re all wondering where the desire to be the fastest puzzler in the world came from. I knew from a young age that I was really sad. I was a depressed kiddo. We always had puzzles around and did them during the holidays. Once I became sentient, and would start puzzles on my own, my dad would grumble about how he couldn’t walk by the puzzle without doing it. I would set up our puzzle board in front of the