This article about the flooding at the U of Iowa hit me hard:

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An estimated 2,000 volunteer sandbaggers waged a valiant effort Friday and Saturday to protect the campus, including the Main Library and the Lindquist Center, which houses the university's computer system.

U of I Librarian Nancy Baker supervised what she called "a triage operation" at the Main Library as volunteers tried to rescue the most valuable of the half-million volumes in the basement.

"We got what we felt was the most critical (materials) out of the basement," Baker said. "We couldn't move everything."

She echoed Mason: "Now we just wait."

There's a visceral "books! Noooo!" running through my head.

I went to UI... for like, a year. Still those pictures are freaking me out. I spent a lot of time around that river.

Yes, I saw where the river was in relation to the library on the news yesterday. Not. Good.

And they had students in town! (I guess we do now too - summer school starts tomorrow.)

Go Emmett!!

Happy Father's Day Buffista Dads!

I wish people would learn that even though a video game calls for four quarters you still have to put them in one at a time.

Laga, I'm trying to imagine how *else* you would do that, and I'm coming up blank.

they jam them in the slot side-by-side and they get stuck and the people don't say anything so more people come and force their quaters in behind until there's a big log-jam of quarters and eventually someone tells me the machine ate their quarters. I just fished four dollars out of a coin slot with a key.

Either the coin slot is too wide or they are slapping them in too quickly. I'm betting on the former.

Delayed cross posting is a symptom of having a 100-post "read new" buffer.

Oh, good grief, Laga.

Daniel is funny.

I'm having a terrible case of lack of motivation. Who stole my motivation? I need it back now!

I have 2 1/2 things crossed off the list for today. The list is long, but motivation is with VW's.