I guess I spoke too soon...

Steg had posted in his blog a map of what the earth would look like if flooded, and I reported that Barrington looked ok.

Of course, that same morning, yesterday, we got tons of rain.

I took pictures. It's pretty!

( And I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I blot out from off the face of the earth. (Gen 7:4) )

13 days

There is a Penn tradition of counting down the days until you go to Israel, and posting a quote for everyone to guess where it's from, and then the first person to guess correctly gets bonus points.

Alas, no one reads the upenn.hillel newsgroup anymore, so I'll try it here.

"White, college-educated women born in the mid-'50s who are still single at 30 have only a 20 percent chance of marrying. By the age of 35 the odds drop to 5 percent. Forty-year-olds are more likely to be killed by a terrorist: they have a minuscule 2.6 percent probability of tying the knot."