Sleepy Monday Morning Rambly Bits

[gnomi]

-- I hate Daylight Saving Time. Let me be clear on this. And I want my hour back.

-- On Friday, I had an inconveniently-timed doctor's appointment (is there any other type on Friday if you're a Shabbat observer?), so I worked from home. Got lots accomplished, both workwise and preparing-for-Shabbat-wise.

-- Walked to shul on Shabbat in drizzle. Walked from shul to the friends' house at which we were having lunch in significant downpour. Got ride back home after Shabbat from very sweet friend because significant downpour had become torrential downpour. It was sunny yesterday and in the 30s, and today it's bright and sunny and in the 20s. Ah, New England. How I love your weather oddities.

-- And, oh, look! A flood warning for the Charles River and other rivers in the area due to the aforementioned torrential downpour. Oh, goody. With luck, this time the Muddy River won't flood into Kenmore Station.

-- Off to a Sheva Berachot tonight. Yay for people getting married!

-- Because it came up in conversation *again* this weekend: Weekly World News report: 12 U.S. SENATORS ARE SPACE ALIENS! (transcription).

Comments

[madfilkentist]

I miss Weekly World News. It was more fun than The Onion.

Kenmore station may not have gotten flooded, but I got this rather alarming email this morning:

Saturday evening the heavy rains caused a pipe to burst in Pusey Library resulting in extensive water damage. HCL Operations and the Library Collections Emergency Team (LCET) responded and were assisted by staff from Houghton, the Office of the Librarian, the custodial clean-up crew, and moving vendor to move collections out of danger, clean and dry affected areas, and begin treating damaged materials.The area most affected was the back stacks of the Harvard Theatre Collection on P1 and the Houghton Library manuscript level on P2.
 
Finding space to lay out the extensive number of materials, many of which are oversized, proved a particular challenge. Emergency staging for drying materials has been set up in the Pusey corridor, Harvard University Archives, Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton's Edison and Newman Room, and Lamont Library. **Level 1 of Pusey Library and all adjacent reading rooms will be closed to the public until mid-week to allow materials to dry.**

[badgerthorazine.livejournal.com]

eek!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Oh, yikes. I hope not too much was lost.

[caryabend.livejournal.com]

HCL Operations?

I guess you'd need one of those if you're going to preserve on acid-free paper.

I'm just glad we don't have to deal with an HFSO₃ department.

[madfilkentist]

I certainly hope HCL doesn't let its books anywhere near HCl.