12-19-2015, 10:35 AM
Well, another road trip coming up Monday and Tuesday. It's mostly a Christmas shopping trip, but I plan on checking out a new pawn shop that just opened, Badlands Pawn. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.badlandspawn.com">http://www.badlandspawn.com</a><!-- m --> For those who don't know, a pawn shop is a place where you can get a cash loan by trading in valuable products as collateral. This could be a big screen HDTV or jewelry. Once you paid back your loan, you can get your items back. If you fail to pay back, or decide just to sell to the store, the items will be sold on the shelves of that pawn shop.
This particular pawn shop, however, is "an experience". It has a on-site rock radio station, a deli, a tatoo parlor, a gun range and gun store, and the place doubles as a concert venue. My first impression is that it's either a very fancy tourist trap, or a concert venue that masquerades as a pawn shop. The owner of the shop has been pushing this to no end since he announced it on Dec 26th of last year. Yeah, they built a massive pawn-concert-venue-thing in under a year. Amazing. But will the inside be just as amazing? I will find out on Monday.
There are some items I have been wanting to sell. One of them is my old Galaxy Tab 2, which my RCA Maven Pro replaced as my daily tablet. I plan on getting it appraised since it's name brand. I probably won't get much, but running Android 4.2 and being a dual core tablet, it's still capable of many games and general web browsing. I'm on the fence with Lilly, the Mac Mini. It's getting hard to find a place for her, but I now remember how I wanted to set her up. It's going to be cumbersome though as I lack a wireless keyboard for her, and I would have to switch to a DVI input for use. But, Mac OSX still has features that Windows lacks, such as MacinTalk voices which come in handy for my YTP videos.
You know... selling Lilly is a bad idea. It's hard to part with something as valuable as a Mac Mini.
This particular pawn shop, however, is "an experience". It has a on-site rock radio station, a deli, a tatoo parlor, a gun range and gun store, and the place doubles as a concert venue. My first impression is that it's either a very fancy tourist trap, or a concert venue that masquerades as a pawn shop. The owner of the shop has been pushing this to no end since he announced it on Dec 26th of last year. Yeah, they built a massive pawn-concert-venue-thing in under a year. Amazing. But will the inside be just as amazing? I will find out on Monday.
There are some items I have been wanting to sell. One of them is my old Galaxy Tab 2, which my RCA Maven Pro replaced as my daily tablet. I plan on getting it appraised since it's name brand. I probably won't get much, but running Android 4.2 and being a dual core tablet, it's still capable of many games and general web browsing. I'm on the fence with Lilly, the Mac Mini. It's getting hard to find a place for her, but I now remember how I wanted to set her up. It's going to be cumbersome though as I lack a wireless keyboard for her, and I would have to switch to a DVI input for use. But, Mac OSX still has features that Windows lacks, such as MacinTalk voices which come in handy for my YTP videos.

You know... selling Lilly is a bad idea. It's hard to part with something as valuable as a Mac Mini.
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