Wacky hotel room

Checked out of our hotel; dumped off our luggage at the new hotel; and, since we couldn't check in for a few hours, we walked downtown.

Went to The Bathurst Antiques Center, which has antiques plus used books. I always look through the cartoon anthology (e.g. Calvin & Hobbes), woodworking, sports/martial arts, and music/musical instruments sections. Generally, I can find something good in at least one of these -- though not always.

In this case, I bought an old UK ''Woodworker'' magazine, with an article on ''how to choose a wood-turning lathe'', for AU$3; and a 1950's-ish book caled ''The Australian Carpenter''. Since I have a preference for hand-tools, I've found that woodworking books from the 1950's and before are more handtools-oriented; newer ones dwell more on power tool techniques.


Then we returned to the hotel, and checked in. Nifty! The Lady and I suspect that the hotel room actually used to be a small business: that is, that the motel complex used to be completely office suites, but that some of them have been retrofitted to be motel rooms.

For instance, notice that some of the rooms still are businesses (both above [red writing on door], and below [photographers]:


And our room looks business-like:


From the inside, notice the interesting ''ledge'' just inside the window: perfect for a mannequin or other small display:



...and the hook above the door, for the dingle-y bell that alerts you of customers -- not to mention the whole ''window-over-the-door'' thing:



Finally, notice that the room is freakishly large! 7m x 4m (about 21 ft. x 12 ft.):


And this doesn't include a bathroom that you could roller-skate in:


Coincidentally, the size of the room (4.0m x 7.0m) is the size I'm considering for my ''wonder shed''. And the same ceiling height -- 10 ft. ceilings! -- as well. So it gave me a chance to get a feel for what a shed that size would be like. I paced around, mumbling things about ''keyboards here... punching bag there...'' The Lady thought I was a little nuts.


--GG