From earthquakes to hurricanes
I made it back to Columbus Saturday night just in time to hear that the OSU football team crapped out again on the national stage. Good thing we are only playing against other crappy Big Ten teams for the rest of the season...
I also made it back in time for Hurricane Ike to arrive in Ohio. Ike left his rain behind in the South but still threw enough wind at us yesterday to knock out power to the entire city. Unfortunately, our electricity provider had sent most of its response teams to Texas to help with the damage from Ike, so they have to recall all those guys before we will get power restored. At this point they're saying about a week, though they hope to revise that over the next day or two. Which means I will be on campus, which is functioning like normal, a lot more this week than I had planned. Luckily I have something like 6,500 pages of documents and 300 newspaper articles from my trip to catalog and organize, in addition to writing next week's lectures, writing up a grant proposal and a presentation proposal, and who knows what else, so I certainly won't be bored.
We were thinking about having a "last weekend before school starts" party this weekend where everybody helps us get through the Endless Setlist on Rock Band, but we'll have to see if AEP's crews have made it back to Ohio by then. Alas, Harmonix hasn't managed to include an "unplugged" setting in Rock Band yet. Maybe in Rock Band 2. Click click click click...
But we are also toying with the idea of having a big barbecue tonight to cook all the meat that is going to go bad over the next couple days. So if anybody in the area wants to join us, gimme a call.
I also made it back in time for Hurricane Ike to arrive in Ohio. Ike left his rain behind in the South but still threw enough wind at us yesterday to knock out power to the entire city. Unfortunately, our electricity provider had sent most of its response teams to Texas to help with the damage from Ike, so they have to recall all those guys before we will get power restored. At this point they're saying about a week, though they hope to revise that over the next day or two. Which means I will be on campus, which is functioning like normal, a lot more this week than I had planned. Luckily I have something like 6,500 pages of documents and 300 newspaper articles from my trip to catalog and organize, in addition to writing next week's lectures, writing up a grant proposal and a presentation proposal, and who knows what else, so I certainly won't be bored.
We were thinking about having a "last weekend before school starts" party this weekend where everybody helps us get through the Endless Setlist on Rock Band, but we'll have to see if AEP's crews have made it back to Ohio by then. Alas, Harmonix hasn't managed to include an "unplugged" setting in Rock Band yet. Maybe in Rock Band 2. Click click click click...
But we are also toying with the idea of having a big barbecue tonight to cook all the meat that is going to go bad over the next couple days. So if anybody in the area wants to join us, gimme a call.