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We’re trying to buy a house in Champaign / Urbana IL, since Holly’s going to start her doctoral program there this fall. We haven’t actually sold our house in Iowa yet, so we can’t really proceed. But we’ve found a couple of places we really like in Champaign. Interestingly, we like them for almost totally different [ READ MORE ]
On a happier note: Haha, take that, haters! Ah, I just couldn’t leave the bitter angry stuff at the top of the ol’ blog page. [ READ MORE ]
This doesn’t count deliberate reposts. This, I’m gonna repost everywhere. Just ‘cuz. [ READ MORE ]
This is a photoset from a counter-protest against those Westboro Baptist jerkwads. The Chtulhu sign and the flyer about figs are both incredibly great. [ READ MORE ]
Here is a nice brief pictorial overview of the 2008 floods in Iowa City. The parts you saw on CNN were probably Cedar Rapids, which is located nearby but is on the Cedar River, not the Iowa River like we are. The flooding involved several different waterways. [ READ MORE ]
Blechh! Our hot water heater has thoroughly destroyed itself — we wandered downstairs this evening to find the basement pervaded with a smell that was, um, alarming, and after hunting around for quite some time (at first I thought it smelled like an electrical fire for some reason) we figured out that the cold [ READ MORE ]
I keep forgetting to do this. But, in response to popular outcry, here is the recipe for Three Dolla Pie: >In a medium bowl, beat together >> 1 tbsp lemon zest (1 lemon’s worth) >> 1/2 C lemon juice (2 lemons’ worth) >> 1 14-oz can sweetened condensed milk >> 2 or 3 drops yellow food coloring >…until it is [ READ MORE ]