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I've shared with a few folks, but more should know. Good news on the employment front: my boss has renewed my contract for another fiscal year. I messaged him my relief at hearing that; he asked, ``You had doubts?'' Well, sure. But I explained it as not wanting to count my chickens before they're hatched and he gave me a thumb up to that. Anyway it's left me as secure as I can be ahead of the reorganization I think I mentioned already.
Next on the photo roll is our day trip to Cedar Point, on Juneteenth, a day that wasn't nearly as un-crowded as we had expected. With benefit of hindsight, and the ability to check on ride queue data, turns out we should have gone on Father's Day instead, when the waits were shorter and also we could have stayed until the park closed since the next day was a holiday and I could sleep in. Lesson for next year.
Establishing shot. Exterior, Cedar Point, day. Row 34 of the parking lot, mm, that's a poor lie.
We barely got into the park and were distracted looking at the birdies!
Not sure we've seen red-winged black birds at Cedar Point before, so we spent some time looking at them from every angle.
Mine Ride, it looks like not open at the moment --- why else is a ride operator sitting at the entrance? --- and I don't remember whether the daisies(?) painted all over the wall are new this year.
Certainly new was this Junkyard Jamboree, which was in use as part of the Frontier Festival or something as someone lead kids in music or at least making sounds by tapping and plucking the stuff on the walls here.
Well hello there, obvious horse-transformation traps outside the new restaurant by the Town Hall Museum! What are you doing here?
We spent a little time looking for ice cream --- the stand they used to have back here had turned into a cocktails place --- and this sure looks like a place you could get ice cream if it weren't still wrapped up in plastic from being delivered there. Also, notice the swings behind there are set up; our previous visit they were still being assembled.
Goat is very sad at having never been fed, ever, not once in their poor life. Are you not moved by this terrible plight?
(Goats, munching) Yes, it's terrible how we have never had a morsel of food to sustain us, and our parents going back (swallowing) ten generations have never been fed either.
Couple of swans hanging around the barnyard pool.
And here's Millennium Force! The roller coaster flies over and to an extent chops up the Frontier Trail.
Here's just a couple sparrows, one of which seemed to be feeding the other. I assume the fed one is a fledgeling having a last couple home-cooked meals.
Trivia: On 18 December 2000 the Saturn probe Cassini passed the outer moon of Jupiter named Himalia, photographing the small body in the hopes of understanding something of its size, rotation and composition. At a range of 4.4 million kilometers, the photographs made the moon out to be about seven pixels across, with a resolution of about 25 kilometers per pixel. Source: Mission To Saturn: Cassini and the Huygens Probe, David M Harland. The Galileo probe, in orbit of Jupiter, did not study Himalia. (Wikipedia notes that the New Horizons probe to Pluto also got a couple pictures of the moon as it flew past in 2007, at a range of eight million kilometers. It remains one of the largest bodies within the orbit of Neptune to have no high-quality imagery. )
Currently Reading: The Total Package: The Evolution and Secret Meaning of Boxes, Bottles, Cans, and Tubes, Thomas Hine.
