The puzzle is very recognizable now. Instead of a big jumble of pieces, there’s a discernable pattern. In fact, when I look at it now, I can pretty much picture the finished product instantly. It’s been 35 days since we dumped 2000 pieces onto our new table, and the progress has picked up.

It used to be that we’d sit down at the puzzle and struggle to find a piece that fit somewhere, now we’re tackling whole sections of the puzzle in a matter of minutes. Just like any idea in the office, the pace seems to accelerate as we flesh things out more (and as we get closer to the deadline). I’ll sit down at the puzzle at the end of the day to find that someone else has pieced together a whole chunk that wasn’t there when I came in that morning. Inevitably, I’ll site there for 15 minutes before going home and everyone else comes back in the next morning saying “wow, you connected that to that”. Each connection spurs further action. I suspect that by the next entry, the puzzle will be nearly completed.