It is five-thirty a.m. My four-legged alarm clock – Ernie – is bed side, parked in the darkness on the floor staring at me. When I try to ignore him – which is most mornings – he lets out a nearly imperceptible whimper. That’s audible number one. Trying to hide is a fool’s task but I attempt it anyway. Predictably
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Asheville, North Carolina. Imagine walking around a downtown corner bumping into a Pinball Museum! And it’s not your normal Touch-It-On-Pain-of-Death museum; here visitors are expressly invited to play its relics. [See image below.] My reason for becoming animated by Asheville was that in the 1970’s I had one of these, an old wooden 1940’s model. [The image above is just
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