07 July 2008

I'm heading in to work here in just a little bit. I work in a psychology lab at the University of Iowa where I run experiments on little kids. (Yes, that is supposed to sound sinister - insert an evil cackle.) In reality, I get to play with little kids all day in games that are designed to test something about their cognitive ability. It's extremely fascinating to see how children and parents act and interact.

After I get home from work, I hope to post some more honeymoon pictures and a honeymoon story. We'll see how that goes. I also need to post pictures from Nate's immediate-family-only birthday party and post pictures of his birthday present. Last, I need to post some pictures of firecrackers from the fourth. I didn't get any gorgeous colorful fireworks pictures because a) I forgot the connector for my tripod to my camera and b) I couldn't get my camera to focus. I think I need to figure out where the heck I put my manual and read up.

We went to a wedding on the fifth, and on the way to the reception we drove around downtown Cedar Rapids which has been devastated by the floods (some people are calling them the Floods of 2008). I took some pictures of all the trash (insulation, drywall, wood, belongings, large appliances) that is sitting on the side of the road waiting pick-up. The streetlights still aren't working down there and most of the downtown businesses have water-sucky-up machines hooked via their windows into their building. It's really quite humbling to see all the damage. We are so lucky that we did not buy a house in downtown Cedar Rapids like we were originally thinking - we'd have lost nearly everything.

Okay. I better run before I'm viciously late. I hope you all have wonderful days and please continue to leave me comments so I know that people are reading. I'll write anyway, but it helps justify to Aaron the expense of running this site if he knows that people actually read it. ;)