Themis kindly pointed out I'd gotten the Free space wrong on my card so I'm off to fix that once I finish going through my feed. Sigh. It's so embarrassing to look like a dummy. Seeing Patrick with his hot pink horns cheered me up, though. :)
@Barks: Patrick is easily excused for wanting to occupy the "Amateur Sleuth" square already -- he's adorable, and there can't be enough pink-horned versions of him on the card!
@PoI: We're all equally new to this thing (even those of us who already participated last year), because we didn't have bingo calls last year, so all of us had to figure out the new rules. I only knew about the central square because my one and only bingo so far involves that square, too, and I triple-checked MR's explanations before actually claiming that bingo ... and I mentioned it because it means you're one square closer to a bingo yourself!
I danced all over the place and started to read strategically after day 3 :-D. I didn't know what the calls would be, but at least tried to read in a line, than hit the center, corners, etc.
@PoI: We're all equally new to this thing (even those of us who already participated last year), because we didn't have bingo calls last year, so all of us had to figure out the new rules. I only knew about the central square because my one and only bingo so far involves that square, too, and I triple-checked MR's explanations before actually claiming that bingo ... and I mentioned it because it means you're one square closer to a bingo yourself!