At last! We were able to attend a Foreigner concert..the official band of the puzzle table!!
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Foreigner
At last! We were able to attend a Foreigner concert..the official band of the puzzle table!!
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Final statistics
In completing the puzzle, we logged a lot of time. Here is the breakdown, computed in terms of both of us puzzling. So, to compute total man-hours, multiply each of these numbers by 2.
Sydney - 63.25 hours
NYC - 74.25 hours (by FAR the hardest quadrant)
San Francisco - 70 hours
Singapore - 56.75 hours (we kicked Singapore's ass)
Total hours spent puzzling (together) = 264.25
Total man-hours spent puzzling: 528.5
So, in real-life terms, if one person had a full-time, 40 hour a week job, this puzzle would have taken them just over 13 weeks of "work" to finish - that's roughly 3.25 months of non-stop, 8-5, M-F time. The fact that we held full-time jobs, let reasonably well-adjusted lives, took breaks, traveled, etc. and STILL got done in under 2 years is incredible to me.
Our favorite quadrants, in order:
1. Singapore. Purple was definitely cool. All we had learned from the prior 3 qudrants really gelled with Singapore. We knocked this one out of the park.
2. Sydney. This was our first qudrant, and was very special to us for that reason. We also really enjoyed the bridge in Sydney (which Eve worked on) and the sky, because those fireworks were really fun to put together (which was mostly Jen until Eve helped out once the bridge was done.)
3. San Francisco. This one took FOREVER because we took like 3 months off right in the middle of it. It actually sat on the dining room table for so long that the pieces faded, which meant that when we resumed the pieces we were adding didn't look like they were the right color until we realized what had happend. This one was rough - the water was awful, the sky was awful. But not as awful as...
4. New York. This was by far the hardest and most frustrating one. The black water was atrocious. The double Statue of Liberty sky was maddening. The buildings were nondescript and difficult.
We agreed that we are very lucky the quadrants ended up in the random order they did. If we had started with San Francisco or New York, we may have never finished. We're happy we got to end with our favorite qudrant, because it left a very good taste in our mouths.
Now, onward to the 24,000 piece puzzle that is now the World's Largest. We plan on starting this one in the fall of 2010. Can we finish in under 2 years? Time will tell!
Until then, thanks for staying with us through the amazing journey. There will be one final post once we get the entire thing assembled.
Sydney - 63.25 hours
NYC - 74.25 hours (by FAR the hardest quadrant)
San Francisco - 70 hours
Singapore - 56.75 hours (we kicked Singapore's ass)
Total hours spent puzzling (together) = 264.25
Total man-hours spent puzzling: 528.5
So, in real-life terms, if one person had a full-time, 40 hour a week job, this puzzle would have taken them just over 13 weeks of "work" to finish - that's roughly 3.25 months of non-stop, 8-5, M-F time. The fact that we held full-time jobs, let reasonably well-adjusted lives, took breaks, traveled, etc. and STILL got done in under 2 years is incredible to me.
Our favorite quadrants, in order:
1. Singapore. Purple was definitely cool. All we had learned from the prior 3 qudrants really gelled with Singapore. We knocked this one out of the park.
2. Sydney. This was our first qudrant, and was very special to us for that reason. We also really enjoyed the bridge in Sydney (which Eve worked on) and the sky, because those fireworks were really fun to put together (which was mostly Jen until Eve helped out once the bridge was done.)
3. San Francisco. This one took FOREVER because we took like 3 months off right in the middle of it. It actually sat on the dining room table for so long that the pieces faded, which meant that when we resumed the pieces we were adding didn't look like they were the right color until we realized what had happend. This one was rough - the water was awful, the sky was awful. But not as awful as...
4. New York. This was by far the hardest and most frustrating one. The black water was atrocious. The double Statue of Liberty sky was maddening. The buildings were nondescript and difficult.
We agreed that we are very lucky the quadrants ended up in the random order they did. If we had started with San Francisco or New York, we may have never finished. We're happy we got to end with our favorite qudrant, because it left a very good taste in our mouths.
Now, onward to the 24,000 piece puzzle that is now the World's Largest. We plan on starting this one in the fall of 2010. Can we finish in under 2 years? Time will tell!
Until then, thanks for staying with us through the amazing journey. There will be one final post once we get the entire thing assembled.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Faithful viewers, we are happy to announce that after a few short hours on the last all bluish-purple pieces, we are DONE WITH THE PUZZLE!!!!!
The last picture:
And some fun pictures of us just celebrating and having a great time:
We want to thank you for following our blog over the past 2 years as we've worked to put this puzzle together. We decided against moving the last quadrant to the basement to assemble the whole thing this evening, but we will be doing that very soon. Jen will also calculate how many hours it took us to put the puzzle together and post that as well.
For now, thanks for following us. We'll let you know when we start the next one!
~Jen and Eve.
The last picture:
And some fun pictures of us just celebrating and having a great time:
We want to thank you for following our blog over the past 2 years as we've worked to put this puzzle together. We decided against moving the last quadrant to the basement to assemble the whole thing this evening, but we will be doing that very soon. Jen will also calculate how many hours it took us to put the puzzle together and post that as well.
For now, thanks for following us. We'll let you know when we start the next one!
~Jen and Eve.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
A solo session by Jen. She managed to place all of the special pieces we had left!
Later that evening we managed to do some work together. The whole picture is finally finished!! Now to just place all the purple edge pieces, and we're done!
Later that evening we managed to do some work together. The whole picture is finally finished!! Now to just place all the purple edge pieces, and we're done!
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Friday, March 5, 2010
A solo session performed by eve since she's not working and Jen was at work. LOTS of progess in the upper left hand corner in the purple section!
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