Thought I lost my Rubik's Cube

(tags Rubik's Cube)

I thought I lost my Rubik's Cube on the bus a week back. I placed it on the window sill and immediately in the back of my mind the voice that makes me keep things said "You're going to lose that." I got back home, emptied my bag of Ichigo Mashimaro OVA 2 DVD 2, slept, then went back to work. I noticed only then that my Rubik's Cube was gone. All that day I was going through Rubik's Cube withdrawal pains. At work I kept thinking about that bus seat. I was reading that Doki Doki Tama Tan in Nakayoshi issue 2009/04 during that bus ride and it was just... not much of an improvement. I also kept thinking that I had to break out my spare Cube and lube it and get it all nice and loose like.

In the end, I got home and noticed the Cube was where I dumped my OVA DVD. Oh. Carry on.

I'm feeling pretty fast with the Cube today. Usually it takes me a complete escalator ride at the Kobe Subway Harborland Station (watch the train come in) to solve one, but today I solved it 75% of the way. I credit the feeling of looking ahead one combo move. I'm not going to bother with a measurement though.

In other news, I keep reminding myself that I need to learn some new moves. I have been experimenting with just some moves at random, to see if they stick in my brain. I like the moves that are cyclic, e.g. I do the same move three times and it brings me back to the same position, like L2 U2 L U L' U L. Ah, I had to bust my Cube out to write the sequence. Learning it by feeling, not by sheet music.