We found the one we like. Hyattsville, old, nice, near the metro, fireplace. These are a few of my favorite things. We’re working now to put an offer in, but I have no idea what the timeframe will look like after that. We were looking at another place, and then changed our minds. That place went off the market last night, literally hours after we decided to pass on it. Woof.

Work has changed a bit, and compensation is now rewarding slightly shorter pieces, which will be a new style for me. Next week is the first time we’ll be working in the new format, and I’m interested to see how the change affects my performance.

In the same vein, I’m submitting a fiction piece to a real magazine for the first time ever, this week. I’m also going to be doing a piece for an economic magazine to see if they’d like to have me around. That’s a long shot, but it would be fun and mix up the tone of my writing, which would be lovely.

First, let’s see how this house thing goes.