Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Sunshine update. I write this Thursday night, not knowing what Friday will bring. I'm putting this behind a cut again for people who need time to cope with pet health issues, although this is all about getting an appointment for the specialist she needs.

( The story of getting an appointment. )

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Here, have a handful of Michigan's Adventure pictures that mostly establish things looking roughly normal.

Corkscrew train returning to the station, seen from inside the station. We nearly always get a back-seat spot on this ride. It's easier to take the two corkscrews from the back of the train. There's also usually less of a line for it.

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Lakeside Gliders, a flying scooters ride put in back in 2013. It's a nice ride. You in the scooter can turn the sail up front and change which way you're facing, in a range from pointing down to pointing up.

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The Beer Garden was put in at the same time as the Gliders. And was a shock: a place to drink alcohol at a park as low-key family-oriented as Michigan's Adventure? I guess it's working for them, although it was closed the day we visited. It replaced an upcharge-attraction go-kart ride.

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Trivia: 778.3 seconds elapsed between Apollo 15's entry into the Earth's atmosphere and splashdown, the fastest entry in the Apollo program. Source: Apollo By The Numbers: A Statistical Reference, Richard W Orloff. NASA SP-4029. (The collapsed parachute --- it landed on only two --- contributed to the hurry.)

Currently Reading: Lost Popeye, Volume 8: Where There's A Will There's A Relative. Tom Sims, Bela Zaboly. Editor Stephanie Noell. Well, that's sure a story that ended up going in four different directions without ever hitting a plot, and then stopping. No piece of it was bad, understand, but it was a bunch of Ranch Hand Gags and not any kind of story.