Full of Win in an otherwise months long embarrassing situation for Buncombe County residents...

> S. S. Spooner | Plixi

Hats off to @ssspoonah

Still makes me scratch my head that we have to plead for our fair share of sidewalks east of the tunnel in light of comments about taxation from Asheville City Council members like Bothwell

Dear Asheville- Despite City Council's best efforts to ignore, Asheville does have a part of town called "East Asheville" that exists to the eastern side of the beloved West Asheville, the happening East-West Asheville and the canonical Downtown/Lexington Ave area. I love those areas of town. However, we need to talk. Seriously, there's more than just a mall over here. There's the beautiful municipal golf course, the WNC Nature Center (now with two otters!), the VA, great local restaurants and bars, a fantastic dog park, the East Rec Center (better soccer than the world cup) and a ton of good folks. A good number of those folks vote too. I know, I was a precinct chair (now Vice Chair). So can we start talking about sidewalks now? We'd love to walk more on this side of the Tunnel, but walking is just shy of Russian Roulette (especially for our younger families with strollers looking to put down roots and create a nice tax base for our community's future). Thanks- Sam

The iPad is an especially good reader for @mxnews' print publication, which is our local free and excellent weekly (that you can see at MountainX.com). Don't tell Jeff, but I actually look at the ads more when they are presented as pixels on my iPad than I do when I view them in print. In fact, I'm heading to Ingles for the 5-for-1 Breyer's ice cream sale today.

I had no idea our local library system carried digital ePub books:

Buncombe County Public Libraries: "Buncombe County Public Libraries has expanded its downloadable book collection with the addition of EPUB eBooks at the North Carolina Digital Library (NCDL). From the comfort of home, library card holders can browse the collection, check out, and download eBooks and more anytime, anywhere. "

You have to love the public library system.

Seems as if we're not the only migrants to Asheville over the last five years (and there's no shortage of reasons why). via @SandyMaxey on Twitter From Forbes.

"Bother me tomorrow, today I buy no sorrows.

Doo, doot, doo, lookin' out my back door..."

(I love the AutoStitch app on the iPhone, btw).

Afternoon bike ride to Azalea Park and back up (a very busy) Tunnel Road into Beverly Hills.

Busted my ass on steep corner of E. Hawthorne Drive going downhill (near 1 mile mark).

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