Take the Long Way Home

I've been meaning to blog several things, but just haven't had the motivation. The flooding has pretty much zapped whatever was left of my ambition. Kudos to KCRG and the CR Gazette though for turning news sources that I often chastise into awesome online sources during the floods.

For something with an equal mix of silliness and depression, I created this Google map of how we had to traverse one of the very few (and possibly only) routes between my current town and my hometown today.

Click on the link near the bottom to be able to see the points of interest better.


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Iowa, where's that?

Unfortunately, I bet that's a phrase a bunch of golf fans were uttering today.

In case you don't follow golf whatsoever (I admit, for the most part I don't either), Zach Johnson surprised a bunch of people by winning the Masters today - the golf equivalent of the Super Bowl.

Zach is a native Iowan, who grew up in the Cedar Rapids area. It turns out he is related to some good friends of our family as well. I have met and talked with him at several Hawkeye tailgates, so I have always rooted for him to do well. It's very cool to have him win such a huge tournament. Now, I hope he enjoys the media whirlwind as people try to figure out how someone from this state in the middle of nowhere can manage to play golf, and beat the invincible Tiger Woods.

Congratulations Zach.