I was uninspired in the morning and it felt like the day off might be a waste. After doing some routine Web stuff and catching up on email, I finally determined I would go out and do a few things including playing "vulture" at a Ritz Camera store that is closing and taking a photo walk. Here's what transpired:
- Went to the bank and dropped off deposit.
- Went to the Post Office and dropped off mail.
- Realized it's the Ritz Camera 20 miles away that is closing, not at a nearby mall!
- Drove to Hinckley Lake for a photo walk (brought heavy camera bag).
- Walked a bit and saw some beautiful flowers — no camera… it's in the other bag, at home!
- Trails muddy so only walked a bit longer, then on the paved trail a way.
- Turned around and went to the Hinckley Lake shop.
- Tee shirts on sale: $10, nice! None my size.
- Nice spring/fall weather-resistant jackets 1/2-price! Not my size.
- {sigh}
- Drove home.
- Had lunch: Amy's frozen Thai veggies. Good
- Loaded up Styrofoam® blocks for recycling; put camera in bag.
- Headed to Heinen's in Brecksville for recycling. Bought drink and donut. Mmmm.
- Headed out on earthen walking trail in Brecksville Reservation of Cleveland Metroparks, along Chippewa Creek.
- Brown, barren. Nice rocks, river views, bird calls. Good walking. Few good photo ops.
- After a decent walk, turned back and shot a few floral images.
- Headed home* for shower.
- Checked photos, cooked dinner for She and me.
- Met new neighbors! Seem nice.
- Went out for ice cream and groceries.
- Day turned out better than it started; no emergency calls from work. Server project lookin' good!
- Finish blog entry then … {yawn} off to bed.
- Good Night.
* NOTE: On the return trip home I took the Honda Insight to the gasoline station for the first time since picking it up. The odometer read 397 miles and I put 8.7 gallons of Shell gasoline in the tank. Since we don't know exactly how much gas the car started with or at what odometer reading, we can't be sure about our hand-calculated results but that comes to ~45 MPG overall since I started driving it. The car's internal calculator was claiming 47 MPG and I'm beginning to believe it's pretty accurate. I am quite pleased. By the way… the tank holds only a little more than 10 gallons of fuel and getting 400 miles out of a single tank of gas ain't too shabby.
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