It's a Thursday, or a Friday depending on your point of view. So you know what that means: me listing stuff from my humor blog of the past week. I think you'll like it even if you don't know anything about the comic strip Real Life Adventures or why you'd have a feeling about it if it ended. (It did not ended. It was just having a giggle.)
- MiSTed: Altered Destiny, Part 5
- Maybe I could tell Best Buy they have the right amount of garlicky aftertaste?
- Statistics Saturday: Your Art Instruction Book
- I don't know whether _Real Life Adventures_ is ending
- Turns out _Real Life Adventures_ just wanted that comics-blogger boost
- What's Going On In The Phantom (weekdays)? Why does Mozz care when Kit Jr decided to come home? July - September 2023
- Finally, my spreadsheets don't have to use the old-fashioned 3D format with cardboard red/blue glasses
- MiSTed: Altered Destiny, Part 6
And now to photos and the winding-down of our full day at California's Great America:
Back to the launch station on Gold Striker, with a nice look at one of its banked turns behind us.
Looking back up Gold Striker's lift hill as we ran back for another ride.
The building on the left is the gift shop, which you don't have to enter to leave the ride (of course; you never do), but does try and be nice and present.
Looking back along the queue again; you can see a train returning from the first big drop there.
Bye!
We thought we should get to the carousel for a last ride, and got in under the wire. Note the seahorse mount on the right, painted black where every other Chance fiberglass replica I've seen was blue.
And here the lower deck shows off the chariot, with Columbia and the American Eagle. And to their side, cats.
Oh no, it's a park employee committing some kind of mischief with the entrance queue!
It's closed! There's no joining us upstairs!
While waiting for our ride on the upper deck I got some lovely pictures of the evening sun over the park. Here, it's behind Gold Striker's tunnel.
And from the upper carousel I got this photo out on the reflecting pool and, past it, the entrance. In the good light, this time.
Secret selfie! If you can spot me in here. Anyway this is mostly ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger in beautiful light on the upper level of the carousel, on the fountain side.
Trivia: The word ``soy'' comes to us from a Japanese version of the Chinese expression for ``salted beans''. Source: Food in History, Reay Tannahill. I was a bit wary of passing that along from a book 50 years old, especially since every interesting etymology story is wrong, but Etymology Online at least agrees with the gist. Though it gets from Japanese to English through an assist by the Dutch.
Currently Reading: Crosley: Two Brothers and a Business Empire That Transformed the Nation, Rusty McClure with David Stern and Michael A Banks.
