Those economic vultures stole our dreams and told us tales

I didn't get the job, of course. It was foolish of me to suppose I'd ever get a job again.

What I did get, among fish, was one in today. An important one, Magnum, our oldest and largest fish and the last survivor of our original stock. If I'm not mistaken he's the one that one year refused to come in at all, and that I had to grab out of the almost-frozen pond with my bare hands, like an actual coati might. (In the cold weather they move more sluggishly, experiencing time more slowly.) This time around it was just a matter of waiting for him to move into one of the net traps.

bunny_hugger also got another, new trap. I'm worried that our older net traps have gotten old enough they're not closing quite right. The net traps work by having a nice easy funnel in that the fish can't back out of, but if the net is loose enough the way out won't be closed enough. Our traps have served well, but they are getting a bit loose. Well, the new one arrived today and I set it in the pond. It's huge; I hope it does something to lure fish in and not let them out again. November has finally arrived and it's going to be chilly soon. In fact, later this week we're forecast to have a day not get above freezing, the first time this season. Not looking forward to that, but it happens.

There are something like a dozen fish left in the pond.

Here's the something like four pictures left from visiting Michigan's Adventure on Closing Day. I told you I didn't take many pictures.

Another peek at Camp Snoopy, this one from Zach's Zoomer. One of the toy boat rides there's this figure of Snoopy and the Beagle Scouts in a canoe.

The end of the day already? Yes; you can see Zach's Zoomer closed off, both at the regular entrances and the hilariously unnecessary Fast Lane entrance where the attendant sits.

Mad Mouse very slowly working out its queue, as we get to the parkling lot.

And looking down the rest of the park, including the log flume, the (dismantled) Flying Trapeze, and in the distance the Shivering Timbers roller coaster.

Trivia: Benjamin Silliman, the first professor of chemistry at Yale, began selling bottled soda water in 1807 in New Haven, Connecticut. He had learned of the drink on a visit to Europe in 1805 for books and apparatus, and was struck by the popularity of the new bottled beverage made by Jacob Schweppe and by Nicholas Paul. Source: A History of the World in Six Glasses, Tom Standage. (He'd started making it for his friends and was overwhelmed by the popularity.)

Currently Reading: Circling The Globe: Stories of Meridians, Parallels, and the International Date Line, Avraham Ariel, Nora Ariel Berger.