Quick Thoughts 6/14

Yikes, it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything.  Here’s a dose of “Quick Thoughts” to get you caught up.

• School’s out for summer, so that means Holly is home now during the week.  It also means that there is less traffic on the road during my morning commute.
• We went to see The DaVinci Code last weekend.  It was decent; definitely better than what the critics are saying, but to me it’s kind of like an M. Night Shyamalan movie.  Once you know the plot, it’s just not as powerful.  I’d give the movie a solid B though.
• We had over three inches of rain at our house over the weekend.  Looks like it’s going to be over 90 degrees this coming weekend.  That should make the corn grow.
• After a bye week, we have another softball game tonight.  The bye came at the right time, because I tweaked my hamstring the week before.  Hopefully it’s all healed up now.  We’ll find out tonight.
• Is it football season yet?
• I watched an episode of Mega Disasters last night about the New Madrid fault in Missouri.  I remember hearing in elementary school about the major earthquake that happened here in the early 1800’s, but really I’d totally forgotten about it.  There were three earthquakes of at least magnitude 8.0 in a three month span there.  The shocks from them were felt on the east coast and caused church bells to ring in Boston!  These earthquakes caused geysers of sand to erupt, formed new lakes, and caused the Mississippi River to flow backwards for a time.  They think that this fault has a major quake every 300–500 years, and it’s been about 200 years since the last major one.  The cities of Memphis and St. Louis would be hit the hardest, and they said if the same quakes that hit in 1811 and 1812 were to happen today, it would be the worst disaster in the history of the United States.  That’s pretty scary stuff, especially when you consider that most people don’t even know there’s a threat of earthquakes there.