flight 8 in N2407N, 1.9 hours, take off and landing

Today was more take off and landing practices down at Wastonville (WVI). I came fully prepared this time, with two plastic bags in my pocket, and Mark brought some, too :). We did a left downwind departure and got handed off directly to NoCal Approach. I was able to recognize 280, 85, and Stevens Creek from the air. Next time I should try to find my house :). Air was pretty calm until we got to the coast area, where it got bumpy all of a sudden. Good thing it got calm again after we get close to WVI. Landing in bumpy air would have been a lot more stressful. WVI is an uncontrolled airport, and I found the radio calls a huge distraction to me. Mark ended up handling half (or more) of the calls. It's also hard to have a clear mental picture of where everyone is when there's more than a couple planes in the area. I was getting a bit better at controlling the plane while listening/talking to on the radio, but there were times when I checked the altimeter and found out I was more than 100ft off where I though I was. My landing kept improving. I did 4 in total. The first couple bounced a little but the last one was quite nice. WVI's runway is longer and wider, which helped, too. Extending my sight further down the runway before touching down, and flaring, became more natural. I was also significantly less tense. My last landing was a full stop (all earlier ones being touch-and-go's), we then taxied back and did a 360 at the hold area. That was a first time me. It's to check for planes in the patter before taking the runway at an uncontrolled airport. We then took off and headed back to PAO. There was near 40kt of headwind on the way back and Mark tried to slow the plane down to get zero ground speed. The wind wasn't quite strong enough for that but he got pretty close. We got cleared for a straight in approach. For some reason long final approaches throw me off. Last time we did this I ended up high, and I did so this time, too, and we did a go-around. Again we got an extended downwind to almost Moffet Field, so another long final approach. I had trouble adjusting altitude again. I managed to land with a little bounce, but far less nice than I did in WVI. This is really interesting. A longer final means more time to adjust which intuitively should be a good thing. I don't know why it doesn't work for me that way.