lives unlived

[merriehaskell]

Having been mildly thwarted in my plan to order up a furnace today--who closes their office at 10 to 4?!--I thought I'd share this brief interlude I had while driving home from the lake this weekend

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[_earthshine_]

... mad notion of what it would be like to buy one of the abandoned storefronts and open a bookstore and private lending library.

Would you consider doing it in a historic house in downtown Manchester?

I'm serious.

Plus you could throw in B&B on game weekends and make some dough.

I'm still serious.

[cathshaffer]

I like Hickory Corners. I will be your partner in the book store and library. We'll put a cafe in it as well. With wifi, so that the throngs of people can come in and use the internet. There is an antique store there I've always wanted to go into. We are always on the way to or from somewhere else when we go by it, though. You can almost walk to Hickory Corners from my in-laws' house.

[ext_121528]

Wouldn't it be interesting to clone yourself when one of those notions hits, so you could live that branch of reality and find out? I know: frou-frou. The idea reminds me of Northern Exposure's Cicely, though, and that brings on the nostalgia.

Your diversity comment made me laugh. We did a stage tour in '02 that had a long leg across the northern US. It wasn't till we pulled up to a venue in southern California and opened the truck to see our local crew of high schoolers that I realized how monochrome our human contact had been for several weeks. :) That said, Calumet, MI, was one of my favorite venues -- great pasties, great local crew, and a little tavern on the main strip that had a gorgeous Tiffany bar-back. You would never have guessed from the outside.

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[anonymous]

Thank you for giving us the opportunity to see how you work and learn so much!