The day was cold, brisk and windless.  He'd just stepped outside his house, onto the unadorned concrete slab that passed for a porch in the subdivision to look out at the other houses.  As he did every morning, he liked to look at the day, see what sort of hustle and bustle was going on, and use that to juxtapose the tenor of his sedentary stretch of office to come.  In truth, the office was quite busy with being late to meetings, or conversing at cube thresholds with coworkers, but it wasn't looking out at an open space vista framed by a few houses in the cul-de-sac.

The neighborhood he lived in was quiet in the early am, busy around 8 or 9 as people left, unless it was the weekend when the elementary school aged kids and their parents would block off the cul-de-sac with kids-at-play flags and hover as children sped around on trikes, bikes, or just running with abandon.  His cats would peer curiously out the front windows on weekends.

On the really nice weekends, he'd let the cats out in the back yard and sit on his pressed wood deck and listen to the weekend days open like a pop up book.

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... And then I allowed myself to be distracted. Thanks to Google Doc's "Word Count" feature, 2,000 words is going to take 10x as long.

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Words:  -  216
Characters (no spaces):  -  932
Characters (with spaces):  -  1146
Paragraphs:  -  4
Sentences:  -  8
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Readability Selection Document
Average sentences per paragraph:  -  2.00
Average words per sentence:  -  27.00
Average characters per word:  -  4.31
Average words per page:  -  108.00
Flesch Reading Ease: [?]  -  67.41
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: [?]  -  11.00
Automated Readability Index: [?]  -  13.00