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Bad News.
As you can see we're about 2/3 of the way done with the bathroom re-do. All we're missing is the cabinets (the cabinet guy is handcrafting these out of solid, sustainably harvested Fair Trade, hardwoods using nothing but solar powered implements...or so says he in justifying his prices and timeliness), the, er, throne and the jewel-encrusted, solid 24KT gold faucetry.
The last picture ties in with Flashback Friday.
All bookish people will know the sad feeling that overwhelms you when a power greater than our own tells us, in no uncertain terms, there are too many books. In this case it was done by snapping a shelf in twain. One half of the shelf is off to the left of the red books -- about which more anon -- and the other half peeking out from underneath same.
About these books. This is my encyclopedia. When we moved to the Fringe O' Paradise area (I'm originally from Rust Belt City) around 1975, these books were in the house my parents bought. It was, even then, a woefully out of date encyclopedia; its meager usefulness protracted feebly with the addition of annual supplements. I didn't care. I was a book-mad, knowledge whore and I loved them. I have schlepped with them from dwelling to dwelling.
Alas, the shelf which held them has shouted "Enough! I'm done!" and split neatly in two.
Since all the other bookshelves are of a similar vintage, this means an expedition to upgrade the shelving situation, lest we all awaken to find ourselves aswim in tomes and volumes.
And there ya have it.
-J.
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Picture 3: I was addicted to the World Book Encyclopedia. My favorite volumes were M and D. Our set was blue, but I recognize the annual updates.
The shelf they were on collapsed at 3 in the morning right next to our heads.
We thought it was a police raid.
I still have them, of course.
My World Book was brown. Blue sounds nicer.
My word verif is qhmgryqs, which I am sure you will find, if you look it up in those beautiful red tomes, is a shelf-eating worm that is attracted only to encyclopedia-bearing woodwork.
Jewel-encrusted solid gold taps? Are you taking the piss?
Shula - What would you be doing that a collapsing encyclopedia would automatically trigger thoughts of a police raid?
Suse - Only very slightly.
-J.
Pondering: Just how many encyclopedia salespeople do you think the internet boffins put out of work? Damn technology!