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It's Thursday or Friday, depending. Time for pictures, this the first batch from Story Land.

Storage! Always precious, at amusement parks. Story Land, delightfully, just offers shelving space so people can bring in what they need and store it free of charge. It's so very nice it almost makes me not notice the fairy tale reference has unwanted implications.

Tim, the animatronic tree who explains to kids what to do if they get lost. He also invites folks to write their names on little paper leaves and hang them on his branches. I'd put mine up by the raccoon (top, right wall, center) while bunny_hugger put hers by the pen-wielding squirrel (bottom, right wall).

Well, this won't turn out badly for any of the animatronics involved.

A comic foreground around the Alice in Wonderland area and the mad-teacups ride, naturally enough.

This chicken has some projects of her own that don't necessarily involve the fairy tale you're thinking of, thank you.

Humor blog Friends page etc etc RSS feed alternative missed this past week:

• Cold Comforts, this week's big piece, because I have one. Not a comfort.
• A Question I’m Not Able To Answer that kept getting asked this one dream for some reason.
• They Did Round Up From The ’95 Cents’, I Know That in which I'm suspicious of the Powerball Lottery.
• And Then What Meets The Eye, something startling across the street, next to the house we didn't buy.
• Something’s Got To Be Done About Your Sequel, in which I had a startling revelation in my dreams.
• Statistics Saturday: The Years 1972 – 2015 Ordered By Length, a silly yet accurate ting.
• Nothing Is Happening In Apartment 3-G: Medical Professionals May Be Brought In, as the comic strip somehow ran out of stuff to have not happen.
• What Causes People To Sometimes Read About Canada, last week's major piece, about boredom.

Trivia: A gram of americium oxide --- first offered for sale by the US Atomic Energy Commission in March 1962 at $1,500 --- provides enough material for over six thousand smoke detectors. Source: Molecules At An Exhibition: The Science of Everyday Life, John Emsley.

Currently Reading: Roads To Infinity: The Mathematics Of Truth And Proof, John Stillwell.