The truck has new shoes. As you recall, I left the truck at Discount Tire overnight last Sunday, to deal with it on Monday. That meant that all 4 tires needed replaced. Well, at least I knew it was coming...the truck had those tires on it when we bought it and they weren't in the best shape then, and I was told the last time I had them rotated that they would all need to be replaced soon. I've known they were on the way out for a while but I've been delaying as long as I could. Which was until now. So that came to around $1400 altogether, ouch.

Thursday this week was Zimmer Biomet night at the Wagon Wheel Theatre for their production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat." A show that I love, but it has been updated at some point and I don't love that part. For some reason, someone chose to update the narrator as a tour guide at a museum for a group of middle school age kids, and the story is all a big VR presentation to them, so what you have is the show with a dozen kids with their phones out milling around on stage pretty much all the time. I seriously could have done without that. I literally felt like shouting 'get those kids off the stage' a few times. But regardless, I enjoyed the show although I'd rank it below the production I saw at Loy Norrix High School back in the 80s. And, the tickets were free. ZB is a big sponsor of the show so the night before opening (final dress rehearsal, I guess) was ZB night where any ZB employees got free tickets. Pretty cool, that. 

Softball was back to our regular ways on Tuesday. We lost to Pathways 22-8, but at least we scored against them this time. And, due to a bunch of re-scheduling that has had to happen league-wide, it was officially a practice game. Won't count in the standings except as a playoff position tiebreaker, if necessary. So we had a couple guys play different positions than where they normally would, specifically pitching. And it did not go particularly well... 

Odd bike ride on Saturday morning. It was the annual Dunes Day ride (I never go that far, though) and I was planning to ride in the 30-40 mile group, but when I got up in the morning the fog was so thick I actually thought it was smoke from the Canadian wildfires. They've been giving advisories to stay indoors lately because the smoke amount has been so high here, and I'd heard that it was supposed to be even worse on Saturday, so I wasn't sure there would even be a ride if it wasn't safe to be exerting yourself outside. I rode to the starting point but when I got there by 6:45 it was deserted. So I wasn't sure if the ride was still on. But nobody was there, so I just rode back home and went back to bed. Turns out, the smoke was pretty much all fog, the ride was still on, and the starting time was 6:30 and not 7:00 as had been on the website. Missed it, oh well.