This past weekend I was on the road visiting one of the Rogue daughters. While there, I played Chihuahua on her iPad using the Safari browser, very touchy-feely. In general this went pretty well, but I was constantly frustrated when I tried to scroll through my found words list. The space between the words and the margin of the box was sometimes very narrow and my fingers are not, so a very high percentage of my scrolling attempts resulted in my inadvertently "clicking" on a word to open the Wiktionary box. This led to much gnashing of teeth. Is this something that can be fixed, or is there some method I should employ to get around this?

A shout out to our favorite rhinophile on her birthday! I hope you'll be doing something suitably fun and eating and drinking things that are suitably yummy. All the best wishes from Inside the Beltway.

I have to question whether distrait, which was listed as common in the ten-letter puzzle from this past Monday, is, in fact common. It was new to me.

My brain is so cold that time has slowed down here. Ergo, by the power invested in me for living so close to the seat of government, I hereby declare that it is still officially your birthday and send you birthday greetings! Never mind that I am late. We operate on government time here, and everyone knows that we shut down when any snowflakes fall No doubt you have whipped up a big batch of gumbo filé or jambalaya or your own magnificent creation (or all three) to keep you warm in the current frigidness. If our good wishes could keep you warm, it would be plenty cozy in the A household.

If you are reading this, you have survived the end of the world as we know it, so bring it on! I hope you are celebrating the day in appropriate style. The Rogue family will be all together tonight, so we will hoist one in your honor (or not)! And many happy returns.

I am frustrated by a couple of inconsistencies in today's 10-letter puzzle. Metered is common, but metred is not. On the other hand, mitred is common but mitered is not. ?

Happy birthday, Dave! I hope your day is a good one filled with good friends and good food.

P. S. I'm still older than you, so there's no use in trying to catch up to me

Alan, I have discovered an interesting after-effect of when you had to delete our word histories in order to restore functionality to Chihuahua last September. I had a couple of random games started for both the Standard and Challenge puzzles. In a moment of idleness I returned to these puzzles today. Naturally I had to start all over again, but the scorekeeping was somewhat schizophrenic. The score kept alternating between my new score and what was probably a combination of my previous score and my new score. The result is that I now have a trophy cup in each of the random games without having found all the words! Since it is fairly unlikely that I will ever get a trophy by honest effort, I am reveling in the moment.