Carrollton, GA

0) I flew to Atlanta this morning for this math conference that starts tomorrow, in Carrollton, at the University of West Georgia, 50 miles west of Atlanta.

1) Western Georgia has lots of churches with pointy steeples.

2) Dinner at the Maple Street Mansion, not far from the University campus. Chipotle chicken sandwich.

3) Pulled over by two local police cruisers—they thought my brake lights were out. In fact, my headlights weren't even on. I was in the midst of bafflement with the mysterious transmission on the Suburu Outback that Hertz rented to me. It's not manual transmission, yet seems the stick shift seems to require nudging to shift into a higher gear. Is this what "tiptronic" means?