Last week's diary featured two songs. The solution to the gremlins' puzzle was "Today", by The New Christy Minstrels:
... and the solution to my puzzle was "Some Day One Will Do", by Holly Near:
Welcome once again to Sunday Puzzle Warm-Up, a weekly opportunity to have a little fun and to get your brain in gear for the regular Sunday Puzzle (which posts Sunday evenings at 8 pm Eastern time).
I'm away until September 13th, harvesting blueberries in Maine, but I've queued up a series of Sunday Puzzle Warm-Up diaries to entertain you until I return.
The theme for these diaries is Summer Songfest. Each week you'll get a puzzle spotlighting a noteworthy song and a YouTube clip of the song featured in the previous week's puzzle. You can find out what tonight's song is by solving tonight's puzzle ...
NOTE: This diary was supposed to post on September 12th, while I was away for blueberry season, but the gremlins removed it from the queue in order to post one of their puzzles. (They claim I gave them permission to do this 5 months from now.)When I got home and discovered their tampering, I re-queued the diaries which they had replaced and most of those diaries have now appeared.
I also told the gremlins they needed to apologize for tampering with the diary queue during my absence. They agreed to do so, and their apology will be in tonight's diary.
Additional note: They haven't quite finished writing their apology but they promised to paste it in at the end of tonight's diary before the diary posts. And they provided me with this excerpt, which is part of what they will post. The full text should be at the end of tonight's diary. We are sorry that we substituted our puzzles for the ones which were queued while you were away. It was stupid and thoughtlessWe are sincerely sorry
Once again: we are sorry we altered the diary queue, and we promise that in the future we will not do this again.
(Oh, yes! The head gremlin assured me. These exact words are part of our apology. We'll say all this, and more. This kind of thoughtless error needs to be acknowledged in full to make sure it doesn't happen again..)Well, that seems clear enough. I'm looking forward to reading their full apology. Meanwhile, let's get on to tonight's puzzle...
