Sharing some more pictures of the last day at the Archives, and hey, maybe a surprise or something.
Peeking out toward the front of the store, and one of the other customers who might be talking with the owner, whom I don't seem to have photographed. To let you know what the owner of this used bookstore looks like, please picture in your head ``the guy who owns a used bookstore''. You are correct.
More aisles. You can see something of the tiled(?) ceiling. Also the door that I think was the bathroom but that I never saw opened, possibly because of boxes in the way.
In the background behind the religious painting is the door that used to open on the adjacent restaurant, back when that was a coffee shop.
Ah, here we go, better view of the ceiling, and confirmation that that was the bathroom, looked over by ... uh ... a picture of Harry Truman? I don't know. Also the elegant barrier into the back office space on the right there.
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bunnyhugger, who was there with her film camera, standing in front of the postcard boxes. The roll she was taking got damaged when I dropped the camera, but fortunately almost all the pictures were saved because that camera unrolled the whole film when you inserted it, and spooled it back with each picture, meaning that the exposed film was always at the end and stored in darkness.
So how much longer do you think those shelves would have lasted with those boxes of paper material on top?
We were almost ready to leave. I think this might be the antepenultimate customer at the front there.
Oh, hello! Roger's given a chance to shine a little and show off his curious face.
He'll come out for head petting, of course.
If you wondered what it looks like when a rabbit is happy, here you go.
Roger was surprisingly tolerant of being touched around his hindquarters. Most rabbits find that at least a bit concerning.
Tail! Rabbit tails are longer than you'd think and Roger's was long even for that. Also you see how much he was ejecting fur into the atmosphere.
Trivia: Since 1985 the world has built at least 5,237 square miles of artificial land added to the world's coasts; this is about the area of Connecticut or Jamaica. Source: The World In A Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization, Vince Beiser. The book was published in 2018 so this figure is probably accurate to sometime around 2016.
Currently Reading: Comic books.
