Area curiosity
Over and over again, I proved myself that I have too much idle time. This afternoon, I began to wonder. How large was my family home. The one where some of my family still lives. The one built according to a standard floor plan developed around the time of the Second World War. And I have a number of ways to find out. The simplest way would be to go and drive over there with a tape measure and do my own measurements. Not so simple really because if property is 2 days away. I could also ask a family member but most of them are busy. Too busy for such a thing. I have a nephew who lives not far away who is in the trades as they say. He knows how to use a tape measure so that might be a possibility. Then I started to think outside the box. What if I went through the various for sale notices on the Internet and found a similar property. Remember it is a standard floor plan. Or I could call up a taxation notice because in many municipalities those are also available online. Let us be even more creative. I have an app that would allow me to call up a satellite image and to make a good approximation of the floor plan based on those photos. Or, I could search the archives that are out there of floor plans developed for the government back 80 years ago. What about if I called a local realtor to see if they had something similar in their archives. As you can see there are too many possibilities for me to act immediately or rationally. Remember I do not need to know how large the house was. This is just idle thought. In the end I will probably do none of the above. I will simply wonder for years to come. At least I know how large my own house is. I did those measurements years ago. And I recorded them in a number of apps because that’s what you do when you have too much time and too much technology available. I can even provide a 3D walkthrough of the house with imaginary furniture. But I won’t. Knowing that I can is enough.
