Building and Rebuilding

So my last idea was a mediocre success. I had someone respond to my request for requests. AND I will be granting his request and writing on the recent midwest floods that affected both my hometown of Waterloo and my current town of Iowa City. Also I am going to announce my further future plans of this epic blog masterpiece, Movie Reviews. I have recently seen two new movies. The Incredible Hulk, AND Get Smart, so expect those reviews shortly.

ONTO THE FLOOD

So first things first, I kept making Halo flood references throughout flood week as jokes. No one got them. Dissapointing.

For me the flood didn't mean much besides not having to work for a full week, yet getting paid for both of my jobs. Which taught me in some ways how I deal with my free-time when it is unadulterated. But that is a topic of a later blog. Otherwise it was just kind of neat to have experienced first-hand a record setting event. Nothing like this has EVER happened before and I can say I was there. As my blog readers know, I'm all about having good stories to tell other people or my kids in the future. The thing is, my story will never be as good as any of the many people who were taken away from their homes or lost their belongings. They're story is one to really write about. My parents had to redo their basement. No big. My buddy's parent's were evacuated. Kinda big. Some people lost their house. That's big. So I am not even going to pretend like I have a good story to tell. I sat at home, drank, and played ps3 and got paid while tons of others were figuring out how to start their lives over. Support the flood clean up in any way you can. I've seen our campus, a fair amount is underwater, much of it in brand new buildings. I work at the University of Iowa Foundation's Telefund, the team that handles the majority of charitbale giving to the university. Visit http://www.givetoiowa.org/floodfund and see how you can help. I assure you it all will go to a good place.