Too much free time

Yesterday morning we decided to drive to Madison. I wanted to take my camera to a repair shop there, and then Cindy suggested we visit libraries to take photos for her library project. When I was looking up the location of the camera shop, I decided to read the Yelp reviews, and someone said they don't do the repairs, they just send the cameras out to the manufacturers. That won't work for me because mine is too old, so that plan was scrapped, but we still went to the libraries.

We visited eight out of ten in the city, including in nearby Monona where Cindy lived as a child. We missed a couple that we could have gotten if we'd started earlier in the day, but it's not like we won't be going back through the area.

The weather was amazing - sunny, and temps in the upper 70's. I wish we'd been able to spend more time out in it. I wanted to walk around downtown with my camera after the libraries closed at 5:00, but it turned out Cindy's feet were hurting. The rest of the week will be in the 30s and 40s.

I still need to figure out how to get the camera fixed. There are a lot of repair shops in Chicago, so I need to figure out where and when. I've got less than four weeks before we go on vacation.

Friday we had wind. The wind speed was 30 to 40 mph for much of the day. The weather station across the street says the wind speed hit 50 once, and gusted to more than 60 a couple of times - 68 mph it says. I don't remember it ever being like this. There are trees down here and there.



We were working from home, and my connection was slow all day. We went out for dinner, and when we got home the internet was out. There were reports of power outages, and there were more of them today, for some reason. This morning was perfectly calm.

Everyone has been watching the forecast all week because it was calling for over a foot of snow this weekend. We were on the 8 inch line, with up to two feet in northern Wisconsin. But now the forecast for our neighborhood says we'll get a couple inches of snow overnight, then a couple inches of rain tomorrow, and over an inch of snow on Monday. And it will be windy.

It's a little annoying to have to go back to winter after some springlike weather last weekend, but I didn't really get a chance to be out in it, so it still doesn't really feel like Spring was happening.