I was out at Lake Griffy yesterday hiking and (re)discovered "The Cabin in the Woods"--a small one-room cabin in the middle of the woods built on private property that butts up against the nature preserve. They have a few guestbooks in the cabin that say the cabin was built as a respite for weary hikers. It's always a fun place to visit. The sides of the walls are all covered in old pages of the local newspaper The Herald-Times and this time I noticed a clipping that was very interesting--the headline was something like "Bloomington in 2000!"--and it was predications about what Bloomington would turn into in 30 years (the article was written sometime in the mid-60's)--it mostly talked about how IU would be the main thing increasing Bloomington's population, thus they would need to step up to the plate and create some major initiatives for aiding "town/gown" relationships... It's always interesting to see prophecies come true. But even more interesting to think about what Bloomington has indeed become...

Riley took this picture of the "Omega Complex" when they first built the parking garage on 7th and Walnut and right after this building was finished. It was a main attraction for those of us who hung around Secret Sailor. Earlier this week, a drunken IU wrestler jumped off the third story of this parking garage to evade the police and ended up in intensive care after hitting an electrical box on the way down.