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Recovering, grumpily, after that 19-hour sleep that did do me a lot of good. When bunnyhugger got up she wanted to know why Meijer's hadn't filled my Paxlovid prescription. I had assumed they were getting a supply from another store and figured to give to later in the afternoon (when I'd assume everything got transferred around locally). She pressed me that this was way too long a wait, and I called the pharmacy and learned there was some problem with the prescription. They wouldn't say what. bunnyhugger, working from her experience, supposed this was the doctor's office not providing adequate instructions on how to take the medicine. Our doctor's office tends to just suppose that, like ``take per the box says'' or ``take per the schedule we worked out'' is enough and our local Meijer's tends to see that as ``not nearly enough instruction''.

And, yes, part of the point of separating doctor from pharmacist is to have an independent set of eyes looking at medicines and possible interactions and whether the instructions make sense. And you kind of want a pharmacist who's going to be hard on ``can we trust the patient has the information needed to take this right?'' But then, ``take like the box says'' ought to be enough. And, more, my doctor's office, which is like three minutes down the road from Meijer's, should know by now that this pharmacy is going to be the stickler and shouldn't be letting sloppy instructions through.

Anyway, the Meijer pharmacist called my doctor's office and got the on-call physician and straightened out whatever the issue was. (I am only assuming it was insufficiently precise dosage instructions.) bunnyhugger went to the store and got the medicine and I've taken my first round as I write this and plausibly the second by the time you read it. We'll see how long I spend asleep after this.

I know you're disappointed not seeing Dutch Wonderland pictures. Let me try and make up for it with some here:

Cute little kiddie ride (it is a kids park, mind) of bears orbiting a beehive. That's nice seeing.

Array of heraldic-ish shields decorating the bathrooms. I don't know if they're referencing anything particular; I haven't played enough Crusader Kings to recognize particular shields well.

Hey, want a Dutch Wonderland Driver's License? I was a little tempted, must admit; you don't get custom-printed souvenir nonsense like this anymore.

Exploration Island was new to us since our 2010 visit. What does this slightly three-dimensional Duke see? Well ...

A gondola ride, an antique autos ride, and the monorail all in one picture! I don't think there's a spot where all three are atop each other but they do come close.

As Dutch Wonderland is in Pennsylvania yes, it's required to have a Turnpike ride.

Trivia: The medical applications of sugar and spices is reflected, by the end of the 13th century, the terms ``spicers'', ``pepperers'', ``apothecaries'', and ``spicer-apothecaries'' selling the preparations that, mixed with sugar and spices, became bearable to swallow. Source: Sweets: A History of Temptation, TIm Richardson.

Currently Reading: Inspired Enterprise: How NASA, the Smithsonian, and the Aerospace Community Helped Launch Star Trek, Glen E Swanson.

So, I'm sick. It's Covid-19, somehow. bunny_hugger too.

How did we get it? No really obvious answer. The thing out of the ordinary for us within the plausible infection window is going to that show at the Wharton, but the facility is lots of big open air spaces and it wasn't crowded. There was one party near us, down a row and to the right, but that's all. Day after that we went to pinball which is more plausible, as it's more crowded and we had longer contact with people. And then Sunday we went to bunny_hugger's parents and ---

Oh yeah. They have it too. There's a possibility that they actually gave it to us, by the vector of some of the people who were in their house all week installing new energy-efficient appliances. But that's a crisis because of their advanced age and rickety health. bunny_hugger and I can lie down and feel miserable a while. They have a rough enough time breathing at the best of times.

My temperature has risen as high as 98.1 degrees Fahrenheit, which I recognize is not classically regarded as a ``fever'' but I promise you, for me that's high.

Anyway last night I went to nap about 6 pm and when my alarm went off at 9 pm thought no, I can't possibly, and went back to sleep more, and I finally felt up to being awake about 1 pm today so that's the state I'm in. More on this as it comes to pass.

Trivia: The earliest known example of a living tea plant to make it to Europe arrived in 1863, for Linnaeus's study. Others he sought were lost to storms or were eaten by rats or were not tea at all. Source: Tea: Addiction, Exploitation, Empire, Roy Moxham.

Currently Reading: The Book on the Bookshelf, Henry Petroski.

Without papyrus, what you're writing on is a dead sheep. And if you think of the price of a head of lettuce and the price of a leather jacket, you're understanding the difference between a sheet of papyrus and writing on a dead sheep. So every page of a medieval book is as expensive as that much of a leather jacket. And a medieval book hand written costs as much as a house.

And so to have a library is to be not just rich but mega rich. So only the wealthiest cities contain anybody who has a library. The great library of the University of Paris, the library from Europe's perspective, has 600 books.

There's definitely more than 600 books in this room. Every kiosk at an airport selling Dan Brown novels has more than 600 books. This is nothing.

And at the same time as that, in the Middle East, sultans have libraries of over a thousand books or 5,000 books. There are libraries in Sub-Saharan Africa with thousands of books.* There are libraries in China with thousands of books. Because they in China have cheap paper and rice paper. The Middle East has papyrus.

Europe, and only Europe, is writing on a leather jacket.

Time for the weekly recap of my humor blog, by listing titles and nothing to tempt you into actually reading stuff. Well, the titles of the pairwise bracket contests give you a good idea whether that one's going to be of interest, I suppose.

• MiSTed: FX Down To Mobius, Part 8: A Call To Arms
• March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Folksy Expressions vs Being The Drummer
• Statistics Saturday: Some Popular Math Number Days
• March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Ides vs Allergy Relief
• March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Regular Daily Exercise vs Pig Latin
• What's Going On In Judge Parker? Who arrested Randy Parker and what for? December 2025 - March 2026
• March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Tea Kettles vs Secret Compartments
• MiSTed: FX Down To Mobius, Part 9: The Squadron Assembles

It's a full day of pictures at Dutch Wonderland! Hope you like.

The maker's plate, as promised for the carousel Dutch Wonderland has. Maximum speed of five and one-half rotations per minute which would be a great ride. I think it was running at an ordinary four.

Some of the carousel horses as seen from the inside. Also oh, caught a picture of a kid looking happy for the ride.

The park has a couple of animated puppet shows, like this one showing a quilting bee among Pennsylvania Dutch women.

The new roller coaster: Merlin's Mayhem. Mayhem is the dragon.

Merlin is the guy in the video screen here, doing the safety spiel while explaining the premise, which is that Mayhem has gone missing and you might be able to spot him from the ride. (If you can I missed it.)

Couple of pictures of Mayhem growing up (there's also one of him hatching) and causing cute pudgy dragon trouble.

The loading station, startlingly, blocks you off from the ride, the doors opening only when the train is ready to load. It's done up in a Tudor Or Something style, and is much darker than you'd think from this picture (you can infer the sensitivity and duration of the exposure from the girl's hands blurring), so it really does kind of look like you're off in some medieval castle and then suddenly there's a roller coaster through the doors.

Joust is another of their roller coasters and fortunately we rode it last time, because it was out of operation the day we visited.

Here's the lift hill of Kingdom Coaster (formerly Sky Princess), and a drop for their old-school log flume.

Train freshly dispatched. While Kingdom Coaster is in the main a wooden coaster, they've replaced part of the track with metal box and, for some reason, done it on the segment leading from the station to the lift hill, the least rattling and stressful part of the ride. Maybe they wanted to test the material out without risking anything.

Here's Kingdom Coaster, seen from the front. It's a logo that says, ``we were on deadline''.

Kingdom Coaster is next to Joust and here's the inactive coaster from the one we rode.

Trivia: When first distilled in the mid-1600s the drink was known as ``kill-devil'', but by 1651 was also called ``rumbullion'', from southern English slang meaning ``a brawl or violet commotion'', before being shortened to ``run''. Source: A History of the World in Six Glasses, Tom Standage. Englishman Richard Ligon described it as ``infinitely strong, but not very pleasant in taste''.

Currently Reading: The Book on the Bookshelf, Henry Petroski.

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Hey folks, no comic this Friday as we’re getting our tax stuff organized to get turned into out CPA. Also, I’m an idiot and was so busy this last year, I forgot to set aside money for our tax preparer. It’s normally around $700 for the bill, so I’ll need to take on some more $150 commissions, trying to keep them to simple ideas with a single character. If you’re looking for a commission like that, please DM me here. If anyone just wants to donate to the tax fund, please feel free to use this link: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/pablowapsi

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Our fish population has grown! Not by anything our fish have particularly done, though. bunnyhugger keeps an eye on people in the area looking to re-home goldfish they can't keep, and it's finally paid off. Someone who couldn't keep two plain old ordinary goldfish anymore put them up for adoption and bunnyhugger leapt at the chance. The person then asked if we could also take two fantailed goldfish and absolutely we can; we haven't had a fantail properly in getting near a decade.

So returning from a university meeting that bunnyhugger hadn't realized was called off, she diverted to meet some laconic guy who handed her a pretty hefty plastic container half-full of water and fish. Asked if we should return the container he just said no, so, I guess we have one of those containers that looks like people use to put oatmeal or breakfast cereals in? This could be the seed of a new kitchen organization system we don't actually use.

The fish we set in one of our tanks, the one with the fish we thought least likely to be so big as to swallow the newbies whole. The new fish are very small and goldfish will eat most anything that doesn't occlude their mouths. bunnyhugger was horrified today when she couldn't find the two non-fantails, although when I went in with a flashlight I was able to spot one. (The other, being a more silver-grey, would be difficult to see in the turbid water stirred up by her moving the water filters around.) So we believe they most likely survived all right and, with luck, will be going out to the nice fresh water of our outdoor pond soon. That pond's been filled to capacity thanks to a lot of recent heavy weather (see previous entries) so we just have to wait for it to warm up enough. Maybe clean it too.

Last time you'll recall we got into Dutch Wonderland and got a picture with Duke the Dragon. What comes next? Establishing shots, obviously, but of what?

As it turned out the characters were going in after the morning session(?), off Duke went to the behind-the-stage areas.

No! No, Duke, don't go headless! What do you think this is, furry cons anymore?!

One of the behind-the-scenes buildings has a bunch of fake windows and paints of various characters, like here, with Duke, Merlin (bottom left), and a new dragon we could come to know as Mayhem.

Oh also the Easter Bunny? They've started doing an ``Eggcellent Celebration'' around Eastern, with Tuft the Easter Bunny.

They also have a Christmas event with Santa Claus. The knight down below is Sir Brandon, if I'm reading their page right, and the princess is Princess Brooke.

And here ... ah, an antique carousel! ... Well, not so much. Wikipedia says theirs is a Chance carousel that they installed the distant past of 1999, although the serial number on the plaque is 81-2865 which to me makes it sound like they got it after nearly twenty years of use. No way to know.

Trivia: The United Kingdom lost more than 1,525 warships over the course of World War II. Source: To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World, Arthur Herman.

Currently Reading: The Book on the Bookshelf, Henry Petroski. Weird to be reading a book about books sufficiently old (original publication 1999) that it doesn't mention and apologize for Melvil Dewey being like six bastards stacked on top of each other.

Sunday we had the time and chance to visit bunnyhugger's parents. Not for any special occasion, past that we hadn't seen them in a while and the next obvious time to visit, early April, will also have us busy with egg-dyeing. So it was a good chance to visit and talk with them and we were totally ready to bring board games except. You know how I mentioned the weather Friday was extremely windy to the point of being dangerous driving? The weather Sunday as extremely windy to the point of driving being annoying, but not actively hazardous. But they were warning about thunderstorms rolling in over the evening and our choices would be either to leave early enough we missed them or late enough that they passed. Given that I had to be up at 7 am, leaving early seemed the less bad course.

Still, there would be time for some pleasant ordinary stuff, like finding out just what had gone wrong with the iPad bunnyhugger's mother was using to read electronic books. (The system had logged her out and she didn't know how to tell that.) And they have a new induction stove, paid for by some federal program for energy efficiency that also saw them get a heat pump for the house. The heat pump we didn't see so much of except that the house was at 74 degrees which, even granting that the outside was at 70 degrees, seems like a lot. But I'll sometimes set my car that high while driving, if it's cold out, so I'm hardly a thermal innocent.

One side effect of the new stove is that they were very anxious to explain just how it would work should I make tea (which, somehow, it ends up I didn't). It turns out to be that you turn the dial, and use the induction-friendly tea kettle, which isn't really different from the old process. I think they're just anxious; they said they hadn't made anything with it yet, although they'd only got the new stove/oven two days before.

The other side effect is they offered us first dibs on all their old, induction-hostile, cookware, which, sure, we can use some new pots and pans. Also one of those big spaghetti pots with the built-in strainer which is going to change everything. Mostly pasta, and in small ways.

Her father, having sworn off weird impulsive eBay purchasing obsessions, has what are allegedly foghorns. When I got the chance to confirm I heard this right it turned out there was controversy about whether he had a legitimate foghorn. He demonstrated and it sounded, really, more like scooting the stool backwards in shop class, but I guess there are circumstances that might be a useful noise?

We set out so very early, and missed all but light sprinklings of rain getting home, when we discovered bunnyhugger had left her favorite travel mug with her parents. It'll be safe.

So on in to Dutch Wonderland. Hey, remember when I said I was going to be sharing fewer photographs so I could pick the better and more interesting ones instead of sharing five views of the same Tilt-a-Whirl ride sign? Me neither.

You enter the park through the castle building and on the side is this event space, where we saw what looked like the mascot performers doing a pep rally.

Right? You'd only be doing a Simon Says sort of thing to get everyone in synch at the start of a walkaround shift, right?

Duke the Dragon is the mascot we're most interested in, of course, but they have a knight and a princess and royals and all and, most recently, Merlin.

Clock tower as we enter. Note that it had the time correct.

And here's Duke, getting a picture with some kid! This is three parks in a row we've seen the mascots for!

So we got a picture with Duke and learned that actually, he was going in so somehow what we saw in the event room was the end of their shift? But they were taking spot photos while that lasted.

Trivia: Vanguard I had the highest apogee of any International Geophysical Year satellite. Source: Project Vanguard: The NASA History, Constance McLaughlin Green, Milton Lomask. NASA SP-4202.

Currently Reading: The Book on the Bookshelf, Henry Petroski.

PS: What's Going On In Judge Parker? Who arrested Randy Parker and what for? December 2025 - March 2026 in one of the last two comic strip plot recaps still touching the long-ago distant past year of 2025.

Oh my GOD can it be spring yet, I am SO TIRED OF WINTER. There is a tiny tiny tiny pink nubbin of rhubarb in the garden. No asparagus yet. I cannot wait to get the dopamine hit of seeing my summer clothes for the first time in months.

The NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest is of course a delight (Sharon D. Clarke deserves a knighthood and Ncuti Gatwa wears clothes, and few clothes, to perfection); velveteenrabbi and D's Pesach class is as excellent as one might expect; somewhere on this desk is an embroidery needle and I am convinced the gherkin is going to stab herself with it. Wednesday is actually largely unscheduled and I need only survive the conference Thursday, which requires me to leave the house at godawful o'clock.

I am looking forward to the three-hour train ride and the Dessa concert so much. And then I get a weekend in my favorite city! I have been promised brunch and a museum and rainbow cookies and bagels. (Promised by myself and I intend to follow through in every particular.)

This past Friday we planned to go again to Grand Rapids and another RLM tournament. Also coming in? Severe winds, with warnings that they were going to cause fallen branches and power outages and that travel would be very difficult. With the Active Advisory warning to not drive unless absolutely necessary I decided, you know, I don't need to drive an hour-plus to play the Pokemon pinball game again that much. We may have missed an exciting night; apparently, RLM Amusement had a partial power loss and could only operate about half the normal roster of games. As fans of things that carry on under adverse conditions we're sorry to have missed that.

But with an evening suddenly free bunnyhugger had a great idea. MSU's Wharton Center has had the touring company of Kimberly Akimbo all week, and we couldn't find a time to attend; why not this? Yes, it's still driving that's not absolutely necessary, but three miles is manageable where sixty would not be. Kimberly Akimbo had got our attention for the show's logo, derived from the logo Six Flags Great Adventure used in the 70s-80s, and I've heard a couple songs from it in the normal rotation on the Broadway channel. With the added information that part of it is a teen's wish to get to the Great Adventure drive-through safari? How could we resist?

Also it turns out you can just buy tickets to a show day-of. I mean, we wouldn't try this with The Lion King (coming in a couple months) or Wicked (which we forgot to ever get to last year) but for a show about the nostalgia of growing up in North Jersey to the point that her birthday cake is a Fudgie the Whale? That you can just roll up to.

We liked the show, in the main. The first act introducing all the characters and their particular weirdness was the strongest part. The piece not obvious from the show title or credits is that Kimberly has that rapid-aging disease so while she's turning 16 she has the body of a 72-year-old and the one strangest thing? Nobody mentions or compares it to that Robin Williams movie where he plays the 10-year-old-with-a-40-year-old's-body. You maybe forgot that, but the movie (Jack) came out in 1996 and the musical's set in 1999. I'd still think it'd be an inevitable reference.

The premise is Kimberly and her barely-functional parents are still settling in after having ditched Kimberly's aunt Debra after the trouble in Lodi (a North Jersey township). The aunt, of course, finds them, rampaging through like a felonious Auntie Mame and pressing Kimberly and her friends into an ``only slightly illegal'' scam. Two things there seemed peculiar to me; first, that the song and reprise for it haven't been on heavy rotation on the Broadway channel, and second that it's not either less or more of the story.

Like, the scam is set up in a couple scenes early in act two, and it's carried out off-stage; I'd have expected either more action in the scam or pushing it farther in the background to avoid tying Kimberly too closely to Debra. In the second act we get the revelation of just what happened that the family fled Lodi, and it's zany in a slightly edgey web comic way, and I'm not sure that Debra the character recovers from it. But, then, the whole story is kind of zany and when it does have a heavy emotional beat the contrast does help that beat land. It's gotten a lot of critical acclaim so it's at least registering well with some people.

We enjoyed it despite the ways we'd comment on it for an hour if you gave us the chance. It also reminded us how we really like going to shows and there's a really good venue for them not quite down the street but still, literally in walking distance for us. We should go to them more.

So our next day in the Most Extreme Mid-Atlantic Parks Tour? Dutch Wonderland, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Let's watch.

Big unexpected discovery? That right next door to the park was the Carton Network Hotel. Why? Who knows. My best guess was Cartoon Network trying out the branded-hotel thing at a low-profile park where if it failed nobody would notice. This would be as close as we got to the place; they ended the Cartoon Network Hotel branding of the park with the end of the 2025 season.

Here we approach Dutch Wonderland from the side; the park opened on the Lincoln Highway in 1962 and didn't really figure it would need quite so much parking on the side. The horizontal bar with the 12 FT marker is the monorail track.

And here's the entrance. I had assumed the park started out as a Pennsylvania-Dutch-heritage-themed place that grew into fairy-tale castle by degrees but turns out no, it was always a Pennsylvania-Dutch-and-fairy-tale-castle place.

Here's the front entrance, like a tiny Disneyland you can just drive to from central Jersey.

And the castle has a moat! Totally a moat!

I didn't say it was a lot of moat, but they have a moat!

Trivia: In 1257 England's King Henry III attempted minting a gold coin, which was short-lived; England would not have a viable gold coin until 1344. Source: Gold and Spices: The Rise of Commerce in the Middle Ages, Jean Favier. A ``gold penny'', of face value 20 pence, although it was unpopular and since its bullion value was more than 20 pence all but a few examples have been melted down.

Currently Reading: The Book on the Bookshelf, Henry Petroski.

And with today's pictures I close out Six Flags America; tomorrow, pictures start ... oh, let's see if anyone can remember that far back. Got your guesses in for what was next on our tour?

Back on the carousel. Here's some of the exotically-colored fiberglass tigers.

My last ride was on a fairly normal-colored tiger.

bunnyhugger enjoying a camel ride. Notice she's got our souvenir cup.

Horse that's brown and horse of a different color.

And your pink-purple elephant.

Got to The Flying Carousel, which was well-run. Also you can see in the background Ye Olde Clock Tower with two different, incorrect, times on two faces.

Late afternoon picture of ... well, the lockers are off-screen to the left. The big coaster in the background on the left is Roar, and on the right you can see The Wild One and Firebird.

And then hey wait a minute! We didn't know we could see a mascot here! Also that Six Flags America had a mascot besides the Looney Tunes characters! So, we got to see Freedom The Eagle.

Look at that, friendly as c_eagle here!

I would have sworn I got a picture of Freedom hugging bunnyhugger but maybe we were too shy for that.

And, alas, we had to get going. Here's the light streaming out over the reentry gate.

As you exit the park you get one more reminder that they have the Looney Tunes license. And with this, we left Six Flags America, and would not see it again.

Trivia: Gemini VIII's Agena satellite, the goal of the rendezvous and docking mission, was qualified for flight the 4th of March, 1966, after four days of a final test series including 22 firings at simulated altitudes of between 83,800 and 114,300 meters. The same day, the Augmented Target Docking Adaptor satellite --- designed as a backup in case Agena could not get to actually working --- was qualified; it would fly when Gemini IX's Agena blew up on launch. Source: On The Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini, Barton C Hacker, James M Grimwood. NASA SP-4203.

Currently Reading: The Book on the Bookshelf, Henry Petroski.

I've known minoanmiss online for decades, and got to meet her in person twice. She turned fifty in January, and two weeks ago she had a fatal seizure. Complicated family stuff meant delaying saying anything in public.

MM had an infectious smile and took joy in sharing art, music, and food. She always had stickers to give to children she encountered when out and about, she cooked meals for her local food bank, and she spread drawings and poetry online and in tangible form. I have many postcards, holiday cards, and magnets with her work, and I've enjoyed many of her fruitcakes and confections. In a last act of giving, her organs gave life to three other people.

Due to an abusive past she struggled to see her own value sometimes. But she also saw the many friends who gathered around her and the unknown people she helped in the world, and I hope that that helped her get through rough times. There was a non-religious service on Friday (which I attended on Zoom) and an in-person memorial gathering today in Boston, and it stands out how many people from different circles were together in those places. There's going to be a virtual memorial on April 12; details will be shared later on the announcement list (signup link).

She was doing what she loved -- cooking -- when it happened, way too early. I miss her.

• Brushed hair


• Braided hair


• Ate Breakfast, also caught up on comics and even read a bit of Dreamwidth finally (I miss y'all, it's another symptom of the same Problem that is my brain right now.)


• Unloaded dishwasher, reloaded dishwasher


• Brought the load of laundry that's been in the dryer for three days upstairs finally (thanks Rey for basketing it, sorry to have left it)


• Brought a bunch of laundry downstairs, started it (load two is just in the washer now, and load one in the dryer)


• Switched my stuffies from their hamper into a steralite bin, eventually this will turn into like...one of those ottomans that opens up and you can store blankets (or stuffed animals) in but then it has a surface instead of being an amorphous blob sticking out of the top of a hamper, bonus, was able to use the hamper for my spare quilts/heavy blankets, double bonus, went through the stuffies a little and have some I can maybe give away.


• Folded most of the laundry from that old load, while putting it away, successfully went through underwear drawer and pulled out the "good enough to keep but I'm not going to wear it regularly" stuff to put in the "save for Pinewoods" box
  
  (At Pinewoods I would like to have approximately three pairs of underwear a day. If I do something absolutely batshit crazy this year, that will change, but I want to have the option to be able to wear clean underwear always.)


• Also socks, pulled out a handful of pairs I don't like so I stop wearing them by accident and being all :/ about it, also pulled out all the pairs that I know have big holes (they're currently due for the trash, but I may put some into my scraps bag instead)


• Got stuck in a serious yak shaving rabbit hole but I think I have finally managed to put the additional music I wanted onto my phone, and also I have taken off last year's photos, which is important because now my phone should run smoother? Anyways, that took forever but now I can listen to music while I do additional chores? Seems fake. I'm into it!


• I also reset the "accessories" boxen, which technically go with socks --long stockings, tights, kilt hose and accessories, suspenders and belts, scarves/pashminas. It's been a while, so that was good.


• I'm now sitting down to eat lunch. Laundry load two is on my bed upstairs to put away, load three is in the dryer, four in the washer. (I'm aiming for like...six? It wouldn't be so high, but a) I have been slipping on the "own more than one set of sheets so that you don't get trapped with an unmade bed by having all your sheets dirty at once" and so I need to catch up there *and* there's been some sort of funky smell in my t-shirts boxen for a couple months and I'm not sure what's up with that, but I think step one is probably just wash _all_ my t-shirts.
  
  On the plus side, that latter problem doesn't seem to be anywhere in my dresser except my shirts, so that's a good sign? I guess? I mean, mostly it just means there's probably not, like, a dead mouse behind my dresser or something (a thing I would not be able to rationally deal with)).

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While I had thoughts about the show, it's a little more convenient for me to get through the rest of the Six Flags America pictures before posting them. Also I want to organize my thoughts some. So, sorry bunny_hugger, but there'll be narrative soon.

A sign for The Wild One declaring that, so far as the park was concerned, they considered it to be the same coaster that opened in 1917.

View from the exit path from the ride, looking back at the station and particularly the operator's booth.

Like many legacy Six Flags parks they have a Looney Tunes section. We rode the Coyote-and-Road-Runner roller coaster in there but this time took a look around with pictures.

Miniature train ride with the Looney Tune you first think of as a train person ... Forghorn Leghorn.

Yosemite Sam's Hollywood Flight School makes sense because ... there was probably some cartoon where Sam was a Red Baron-esque figure? I'm guessing? That sounds like something they might have done in the late 50s or early 60s when the studio was kind of burned out.

Now I know what this looks like, but this isn't all folks, not even of my Looney Tunes section pictures.

Stroller parking's advertised by that one baby from that cartoon. Finster? Something?

Not sure what this building was, but we had the feeling it predated Six Flags's takeover of the park. There's a bunch of signs added to the top that suggest midway fun.

They also had Bugs Bunny's House here and I was curious what might be in there.

Inside there's moulded plastic shelves of canned carrots.

bunny_hugger enters to confirm what I saw in Bugs's home.

And here's the other side of the shelter. You can see the mailbox on top there.

Trivia: After Julius Caesar's murder the Romans, trying to follow the new leap-day-every-fourth-year, would run two common years and then a leap year, bringing the calendar very out of date quickly; however, we do not know with certainty just which years were erroneous leap years. Source: Marking Time: The Epic Quest to Invent the Perfect Calendar, Duncan Steel. See, the Romans counted inclusively, so that, like, ``the fourth year from 2026'' would count 2026 as the first year, and so 2029 would be ``the fourth'' and how did these people conquer Europe? Europe must have been unbelievably easy to conquer is all I can figure.

Currently Reading: The Book on the Bookshelf, Henry Petroski. So I know the past was a different country and all that but for centuries after the creation of books in their modern form factor --- hard covers, identically-sized pages, bound spines --- the spines were kept on the insides of bookshelves? I'm sorry, old timey folks, you were just wrong about this one.

Happy Saturday!

I'm going to be doing a little maintenance today. It will likely cause a tiny interruption of service (specifically for www.dreamwidth.org) on the order of 2-3 minutes while some settings propagate. If you're on a journal page, that should still work throughout!

If it doesn't work, the rollback plan is pretty quick, I'm just toggling a setting on how traffic gets to the site. I'll update this post if something goes wrong, but don't anticipate any interruption to be longer than 10 minutes even in a rollback situation.