I can't remember, where do we talk about Netflix shows like Stranger Things? I have a minor fandom vent.

The Streaming thread.

There are two houses on the same block in Baltimore for sale. Both are 4 BR, one has 2 baths and one has 3 baths - so by my calculations, 4 of us could start a small take-over of that block. I AM JUST SAYING!

I need to figure out what I need to do to be able to get in on something like that. Gonna take ages to actually do, but I should have a plan.

Looks like orders can be voided at a rate of approximately 4 per minute. This is not gonna be done before I go home unless the rate isn't constant.

There are two houses on the same block in Baltimore for sale. Both are 4 BR, one has 2 baths and one has 3 baths - so by my calculations, 4 of us could start a small take-over of that block. I AM JUST SAYING!

My co-editor, cohort Kim Cooper, posted something about Bungalow Courts (hence my dalliance with that on FB), but also Fourplexes. And that was interesting looking at a lot of old styley fourplexes and thinking about that living arrangement.

My thought at the B'more layouts I am looking at is me making a finished basement with a full bath into a large master suite, someone else living on the 3rd floor which is typically 3 Bedrooms and a full bath - we share the main floor which is living, dining, kitchen or 2 livings and kitchen.

Yes, private space plus common area sounds optimal.

I've managed to depress myself by pouring over Google satellite images of where I grew up. Still rural, more populated than it used to be, my old elementary school is some sort of car lot, the house I grew up in is replaced by another house, all traces of my house are gone, there are people living across the creek where I used to play, and the ancient trees are gone. So many car repair places along the road into town and houses with dead cars in the yards and so many places full of industrial equipment for the mine and the natural gas extractors. The passage of time sucks.

edit: but the house where my father was born 99 and a half years ago is still there.

We just discovered via google maps and National Park maps that the farm/ranch my dad grew up on and I visited as a child has become park of National Monument/World Heritage Site land and the people who bought it cannot farm the land anymore although they are still allowed to live there. No idea what will happen to the house once they pass, if it will become a visitor's building or a staff house or be torn down. I loved that house, but I am sure my memories of it are way off from what it would seem to me know.

Oh, how interesting!