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I spent another fruitless while yesterday in the Bargain Basement of Books Warehouse in Pigeon Forge yesterday.  The place is a shambles with tens of thousands of books in bins or on shelves with very little in the way of organization.  It's impossibly difficult to find anything specific.

My thinking there went in this direction: if I had one of ( Read more... )

From e-mail, specifically my Spamtrap: Who, in their right mind, would think that I could possibly be in the market for a vacation to Pigeon Forge?

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Has anybody else on LiveJournal seen a lot of sockpuppets show up in the Comments lately? I removed a couple this past week. When their statements show up 3500 times in a Google sweep, I get

Bought a new pair of shoes today at the Bass Outlet in Belz Mall at Pigeon Forge. List price: $110; marked down to: $20. They're sturdy, comfortable and a little classier than my usual sneakerage.

(After a week of horrible, sub-freezing weather and outright dangerous driving conditions, things finally improve to allow me and Moonshine to sortie out.)

ME: Sevier County! ( Read more... )

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Took Mum to Sevier County to window shop. The Bumbershoot book store has been replaced by one called "Bumble Bee". The housewares store at Red Roofs Mall was closed today for no apparent reason. Gatlinburg was crowded. We visited a few more stores in Pigeon Forge and Sevierville. She got some fabric at Cherry Pit for a project she's working on ( Read more... )

A convergeance of changing pop culture and improving technology...

There is a new "laser tag" place moving into Pigeon Forge. But since "space opera" is "out"...

Laser units have gotten more and more compact...

And modernist fantasy is "in"...

The place is going for a Harry Potter theme with the lasers in "magic wand" form ( Read more... )

*) Just got paid $20 in the course of helping my father bring a neighboring elder lady's TV arrangement closer to 21st Century standards. We're not quite there yet but still have two months to go. $20 used to be the too-much kind of money, but these days it's the nowhere-near-enough kind ( Read more... )