Paksworld

Not that I’m jittery or anything…just because the US edition of Oath of Fealty will hit the stores in five days…but I started thinking about fives.  Five bits of wisdom about fives that I’ve accumulated over the years:

1.  Five hours of sleep a night is not enough once you’re over forty.

2. Five pennies make a nickel, but if you’re going to save coins, save bigger ones: five Susan B. Anthony dollars  is five dollars, which will actually buy something.  And it’s just as hard to lean over and pick up that penny as it is to pick up the dollar.

3.  Flowers with five petals create more different shapes than flowers with four…for no reason I can see, but they do.

4.  A musical interval of a fifth is easy to sing.  Not so a sixth.  For me, anyway.

5.   Five pages of writing usually takes me less than two hours, but the next five pages will take twice as long.

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