MY FIRST MODERN JIGSAW PUZZLE

October 14, 2016

Calling this my first my modern jigsaw is most likely not correct.  Since this was from several years ago, and I've done many puzzles since then, my memory is a little hazy as to whether this is the first puzzle I did since I really started getting into puzzles.  I do remember completing a puzzle and being disappointed that I would have to disassemble it and there would be no evidence of my accomplishment.  I'm not sure how long it took me to realize that I lived in 2016 and not 1916, and that I had a camera on my phone that could be method of archiving my work.  So this is called my first modern jigsaw puzzle because this is the first puzzle I photographed, and that's all I have left to go by.

This photograph was obviously a pretty sloppy affair, and lacked the meticulous precision that I try to achieve now.  A lot of these early photographs were taken at weird angles, but this one I didn't even have enough sense to clear the puzzle of my iPod and headphone cables.  I didn't really plan on making a well kept catalog, so I was merely trying to capture a memory.

I also had no intention of cataloging these photographs with any tags.  All tags from now until late 2017 were done after the fact, so info will be sparse.  In late 2017, I decided that I wanted to keep a record of: puzzle manufacturer, number of pieces, and what I was watching/listening to while working on the puzzle.

I will go into more detail about the information I record for each puzzle in the upcoming posts, especially how I have any information for these pre-2018 puzzles where I wasn't recording any data at the time.  For all subsequent posts after this one, I plan on having the puzzle information at the top, and then I'll go into a little discussion about the puzzle or whatever else I want to talk about after that.  So it should look like this:

TITLE: BERNER OBERLAND, SWITZERLAND

MANUFACTURER: MILTON BRADLEY

PIECES: 1000

MOVIE: CHOPPING MALL

Much like my early archiving of these puzzles, I'm guessing these early blog posts to be pretty clunky as I get more used to writing them.  I would say I don't have much of a voice yet, so hopefully I get better at writing and I can bring a little bit of flavor and interest to these posts.  If you are in the future and you are going back and reading old posts, then you will agree, I got better!  Or maybe I got worst and then why the hell are you even reading this blog you masochist!

Anyway, thanks for reading.  

And yes, I did watch Chopping Mall while doing this puzzle.  A+ in the head explosion department.