Our coffee table broke. This isn't too surprising as it was never much of a table, one of those things held together with hex keys that now and then I tightened back up to not wobble. But something happened a couple weeks ago and one of the legs broke clean through, so that it couldn't be used as a table anymore.
After a short while as living room clutter and then a short while as clutter in the garage I realized a role for it. With the legs taken off it fits very neatly underneath the sofa, filling up about two-thirds of the frontage that Athena had used to squeeze underneath and start biting the lining. With the help of a couple empty cardboard boxes I could slide material underneath that keeps her from squeezing under and that she hasn't got the dexterity or strength to move out of the way.
What we'd really like is to have the space underneath used as storage, if anything, but until we can find under-sofa boxes the right dimensions this will do something. It makes our bunny cross.
We were done with Kings Island, but there was a C[ something ]ti institution we had to visit, especially because our last trip (in 2019) was constrained so that we couldn't have gone there. That would be ...
That's right, Jungle Jim's, home of the Kings Island monorail. There's also stretches of track long enough that a train could plausibly run, but this isn't it.
It's a great, overgrown attraction, but it's also an actual supermarket too.
Haven't even got in yet and we've seen a monorail and a Rhinestone Rhino. You know it's going to be something else.
And a point of historic interest: the stones in the building were granite paving stones from C-town's public landing, the Ohio River dock people knew as the entrance to the city. Normally I'd have focused on the plaque to make it easier reading but given the stones are the attration, there we go, giving them attention. Jungle Jim's bought the stones and used them for the building.
And now here we are, seeing the cheeses of various nations: Germany, Ireland-and-Australia, England, and Gouda.
Did I mention Jungle Jim's had pinball? We had heard it had pinball when we last visited, like a decade before, but we hadn't been able to find it. This time ... we found it. Two games, and we can't swear there aren't more we failed to see.
The wall art behind Jurassic Park is curious because it's not taken from any specific pinball, but it is informed by what pinball machines looked like in the 70s.
Photograph from the inside looking out, so you see what the plastic doors look like affixed to a normal structure. Though it's obvious how the trick works it's still very effective and there's a feeling like you're stepping through a magic portal as the port-a-potty structures train you to expect a small enclosed volume and going into a corridor feels like a violation of the rules.
One minor point of weird publicity is Jungle Jim's bathrooms. Besides the one for photographing that I bet small kids make terrible mistakes on there's the ``portable restrooms'' that are, in fact, the doors to real, spacious, and clean bathrooms that have actually won awards.
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bunnyhugger getting Detroit Rock City to rock.
Moving on. Here's some of the candy shelves and say, do you see what's caught my eye there?
Yes, it's Elvis, an animatronic salvaged from the old days of Chuck E Cheese, and doing his show every five minutes, without any hints of The King catching fire. Also there's one of the penny press machines to the side.
Trivia: The word ``reverie'' first appears in English in the mid-14th century meaning ``wildness, frolicking, revelry'', the word derived from the Old French reverie (``revelry, wantonness, wildness''), from rever, meaning ``to revel, to rave''. Meanwhile ``rever'' first appears in the early 15th century meaning ``merrymaking, boisterous partying'', derived from the verb revel, ``to make merry'', from the Old French reveler (``to make merry''), from the Latin rebellâre, ``to rebel, to make war''. Despite the similarity in their initial meanings, and their sounds, they are not related. Source: Semantic Antics: How and Why Words Change Meaning, Sol Steinmetz. Steinmetz doesn't speculate but I wouldn't be surprised if reveler didn't get some currency from being mistaken for reverie.
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