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A Room Of One’s Own

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I saw a sign yesterday, advertising a house for sale. Five (5) bedrooms and seven (7) bathrooms; 6,200 square feet for only $249,000 or best offer.

Five bedrooms and seven bathrooms. Really? What kind of lifestyle, I wondered, leads to such a house design. Ah, I thought, maybe they are a very sociable family and entertain a lot. That could be a reason for having more bathrooms than bedrooms.

Maybe the owner is a germaphobe and doesn’t want to share a bathroom with anyone else. I imagine a Keep Out! sign on the door of the bathroom that he chose for his own. The only other person allowed in would be the maid, of course, who would come in twice a day to clean it and then the owner would clean it again after she left.

The price: $249,000 or best offer. It was just one of those little signs stuck into the ground without any room for an explanation, but I’m sure it’s not really “or best offer.” It probably means “or best offer” above a certain price level.

I just wonder how many people are lined up with their piggy banks, trying to put in the best offer they can afford. The idea of having A Room of One’s Own is definitely attractive. (with apologies to Virginia Woolf)

My Most Frequent Reader

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Turns out that on some days I am my own most frequent blog reader. By accident, of course.

That’s because when I exit my blog, WordPress loads my home page with my current post and somehow that counts as a visit. Considering that when I’m in my writing and editing modes, I frequently remember ‘just one more thing’ a few minutes after I have logged off. I come back in, sit down at the computer, log back in, tinker with a few words and log back out.

The first time I suspected that it was me that was increasing my visit count was when I logged out and logged right back in within a few seconds. (Sometimes I think of that ‘one more thing’ immediately.) Hmmm, I thought, when I saw that my visit count had gone up by one in the few seconds I was logged off. Someone was reading my blog exactly at the time I was exiting or … maybe that was me? I tested it a few more times. Yes, indeed, that was me increasing my visit count. My home page doesn’t load each time I exit my blog and I can’t figure out the whys and the wherefores.

Just so you know, by the time I schedule this blog and exit, I will be up to 13 visits for the day. Lucky me!

Drawing, Lesson 07

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Learning to draw cubes

Here is one drawing in Lesson 07 from You Can Draw in 30 Days by Mark Kistler. Lesson 07 is Advanced-Level Cubes. Ohh, I’m advanced now! With each chapter I learn a little bit more, but at this point I’m following step-by-step instructions for each drawing. Works for me.

Here’s the one from the book. Mine looks almost just like Mark’s! (Copyright belongs to the author Mark Kistler, his publishers, etc.)

Lesson 07 Advanced Level Cubes