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Common Mistakes Officials Make — Part IX
Pasture gates and peripheral vision

Other parts in this series:
  Common Mistakes Officials Make — Part I — What does "common" really mean?
  Common Mistakes Officials Make — Part II — Gadgets and geometry
  Common Mistakes Officials Make — Part III — Lumber, lead feet and foul reporting
  Common Mistakes Officials Make — Part IV — Throw your hands in the air, Brothers and Sisters
  Common Mistakes Officials Make — Part V — Toe your own line and hoe your own row
  Common Mistakes Officials Make — Part VI — What to my wandering eyes should appear?
  Common Mistakes Officials Make — Part VII — Doing the paperwork
  Common Mistakes Officials Make — Part VIII
  Common Mistakes Officials Make — Part IX — Pasture gates and peripheral vision
  Common Mistakes Officials Make — Part X — I can see clearly now
  Common Mistakes Officials Make — Part XI — Forward and down
  Common Mistakes Officials Make — Part XII — Three seconds wtih Heidi Klum
  Common Mistakes Officials Make — Part XIII — 5...4...3...2...1...Tweet
  Common Mistakes Officials Make — Part XIV — Fun with fingers and toes
  Common Mistakes Officials Make — Part XV — Things happen in threes

Today I've ventured forth in search of somewhere I can write. I find a change of pace, a shift in scenery, a variation in venue very helpful when I'm in between creative spurts. Will it help today's literary efforts? You be the judge.

A new building in town

I'm at the new library here in town. It's a handsome mixture of modern architecture and materials with old. The reading gallery is well lit, airy and open, with a wall of glass reaching well beyond the second story. Gunboat gray steel rods, an inch and a half in diameter, fitted with massive turnbuckles crisscross between the hulking rough-hewn timbers that support the free end of the trusses. Those trusses are monstrous wood and steel structures, each several feet thick and assembled with parallel rows of shiny steel bolts.

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