My biggest dilemma is still what to do with myself without the store. (A couple years away yet.) I really don't like doomscrolling and yet I seem to be addicted to it. I seem to be able to read a book only about half an hour at a time these days. Either that or I'm simply not finding books I find engrossing. Linda is able to watch entire seasons of old shows (she currently working through the old Perry Mason shows) but I become quickly bored. Even at night, I have to distract myself with coloring books. 

I don't want to be pest at the other bookstores, which I could easily become. I'm not ready to really consider opening a used bookstore, though if I can't find a solution to my lack of activity, I might end up doing that.  

Take up writing again? Thing is, I don't know how to do that as a leisure activity. I'm either all in or I'm all out. I've tried writing snippets but I quickly lose whatever motivation I had by not diving all in. Still...I could probably get into some routine where I write stuff I want without any consideration of saleability. Just write what I want. But that would pretty much be mental masturbation, though I'm not sure that doomscrolling isn't even more that. 

I'm assuming that I'll come up with an answer in the next couple years. Meanwhile, the store is a lot of fun to watch operating at full blast. I waited so long for that to happen.