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I got four new tires. My wallet's much lighter, and the car corners much better. Seriously, I don't have to slow down for corners... unless I want to look first. But I still felt like putting my foot on the gas coming out of the turn, because that's what you do, even though I didn't slow down going in. So I very often found myself driving very fast today. Amazing what a new set of rubber will do for your gas mileage.
Jul. 9th, 2009
I made an appointment to get new tires put on my car. Rather than making plans to drop the car off, and pick it up, and then have to worry about getting to work, I just took it up to Port Washington, and wandered around with my camera for a couple of hours. Port is a very nice looking town. They've really done a lot for it in the last ten or fifteen years. I went up the hill to St. Mary's and the Light Station, then down the hill, over to the marina, halfway out the breakwater, back across the marina, down Grand Avenue a ways, past the old courthouse, back almost to the marina, and then up the bike trail. I think I walked about three miles.
After lunch, I took my Koss noise reducing headphones back. After a discussion with someone there, we decided that the lack of noise reduction is probably not a result of a defect, since two different pairs gave me the same problem. I traded mine in on a set of noise blocking earbuds (like earplugs with speakers in them). These should work fine, since they're just earplugs with speakers in them.
Then I went to the courthouse to get a(nother) copy of my birth certificate.
Then I went down to the lakefront to see the circus parade grounds. They do a circus parade like in the old days, when the circus would come to town, only much, much bigger. Everything comes over on a train from Circus World Museum in Baraboo, and then they open up the grounds for a few days, before the parade. Mostly you just see the antique wagons. They don't seem to have the horses on display. And they have a small circus set up. I think I walked about two miles.
On my way around town, I found a few other places to shoot, mostly old churches. Then I went out to find the Schoonmaker Reef. This is a National Historic Landmark (one of 40 in Wisconsin) that is historic on the basis of it being fossilized reef, and among the first such stuff discovered in the world. I've been wanting to find it for several month, and finally did (after one failed attempt). I got pics, but they don't really show anything.
After supper, Cyn and I went to Wayne's drive in, where Rods & Relics has a meet every thursday night. They had some cool cars.
And the weather was perfect. Sunny and seventies.
After lunch, I took my Koss noise reducing headphones back. After a discussion with someone there, we decided that the lack of noise reduction is probably not a result of a defect, since two different pairs gave me the same problem. I traded mine in on a set of noise blocking earbuds (like earplugs with speakers in them). These should work fine, since they're just earplugs with speakers in them.
Then I went to the courthouse to get a(nother) copy of my birth certificate.
Then I went down to the lakefront to see the circus parade grounds. They do a circus parade like in the old days, when the circus would come to town, only much, much bigger. Everything comes over on a train from Circus World Museum in Baraboo, and then they open up the grounds for a few days, before the parade. Mostly you just see the antique wagons. They don't seem to have the horses on display. And they have a small circus set up. I think I walked about two miles.
On my way around town, I found a few other places to shoot, mostly old churches. Then I went out to find the Schoonmaker Reef. This is a National Historic Landmark (one of 40 in Wisconsin) that is historic on the basis of it being fossilized reef, and among the first such stuff discovered in the world. I've been wanting to find it for several month, and finally did (after one failed attempt). I got pics, but they don't really show anything.
After supper, Cyn and I went to Wayne's drive in, where Rods & Relics has a meet every thursday night. They had some cool cars.
And the weather was perfect. Sunny and seventies.