Hi!  Yes, it took lots of practice.  When we first got a computer and started playing games on it, they became quite addictive.  I stayed up all night more than once.  Rogue was the one that hooked me the most.

The browser has been well-behaved since the other night.  I think I figured out what happened when my post-in-progress disappeared, so it shouldn't happen again.

Also, I'm not always at my computer when I'm logged in.  I pop in and out of the computer room to work at the game, then go about my business around the house.  If I get an inspiration, then I run back to try it out.

While I recognize that Mary Cassatt was a groundbreaker in many ways, her work leaves me cold.  It resonates with a lot of people, including my husband, but her color palette just makes me say "eeeew!"  Reminds me of a dentist's office. 

Among the Impressionists I like Corot, Manet and Renoir.  Among the Post-Impressionists I like Gauguin, Redon, and Henri Rousseau.  I am not up enough on art history to know if he is classified as Post-Impressionist, but I also like Modigliani.  Whenever I see Redon's painting of the Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C., I just want to cry.

Hello!

Although there are other beltways, you have the correct one.  I do indeed live within spitting distance (so to speak) of the U. S. capital.  Our neck of the woods is called the Commonwealth of Virginia.

My dad was a career army officer, and we ended up in this area during his final tour of duty at the Pentagon.  I had enough of moving around while I was growing up, so my husband and I have been in the same house for 30+ years.

I have a bachelor of science in applied mathematics, which I parlayed into several years of computer programming before settling down to raise two daughters.  Now that they are grown and out of the house, I earn a few nickels doing genealogical research for other people.

Genealogy is my raison d'etre, but I love solving puzzles of many types, which led me to this website.