glub

The major flooding a few days ago must have been worse than I thought. On Friday I found out a whole bottom shelf of books and papers I didn't know were still damp. Some are worse than others. All of them got at least a little wet; some have pages stuck together; some have mold. My Yale Banner is semi-OK, but a lot of pages are stuck together. My Annotated Alice is in bad shape: the bottom is totally green.

It must have happened either overnight or when I was at work. The water was gone by the time I got there, but there must have been at least an inch of water there to reach the books. Argh, this place.

I took them all out, opened them, took the dust covers off the hardbacks, and I left the lights and air conditioning on since Friday night. Is there anything else I can do with water-damaged books?

"Your life" is close, but doesn't count

Off I go to see the Goo Goo Dolls concert. Yes, I am dorky and/or old. Sing with me! "And I'll do anything you ever dreamed to be complete / little pieces of the nothing that fall." What does that mean? Those lyrics make no sense. I don't care, I like them.

I noticed something a few years ago: it seems most Goo Goo Dolls songs have the word "lies" in the lyrics. Is this true, or is confirmation bias getting the best of me? I actually looked at the liner notes to Dizzy Up the Girl. Turns out 7 of the 13 songs have the word "lie" or "lies" somewhere in them. More than half! Of the songs written by John Rzeznik, it's 6 out of 9.

What about the new stuff, like the one in the Transformers movie?

I wander through fiction to look for the truth
buried beneath all the lies

Well, that didn't take long. Man, that guy likes to sing about lies.