FEB-B-1

SECOND HALF OF FEBRUARY BEGINS WITH U. FLORIDA VISITNG PROFESSORSHIP IN GAINESVILLE.

THEN SNOWED IN BY RECORD-CLASS MARYLAND BLIZZARD

  1. Index to Feb-B-series
  2. Trying to fly to a Visiting Professorship in UF, Gainesville, through the security hassles of the “heightened security” alert warnings for this pre-war and post Ramadan period, with the unconfirmed hope of seeing Donald. 
  3. The long winter weekend in snowy Derwood between Valentine’s Day and President’s Day (George Washington’s Birthday) with a return to running against all odds. 
  4. A holiday weekend snowstorm of historic proportions has me cooped up in spectacular Derwood drifts;  I venture out to shovel out and to try snowshoeing as I do domestic chores and past due chronicling.
  5. I’m still homebound!  I have tried shoveling out again and another round of snowshoeing, while doing minimal household chores. 
  6. The announcement of the adventure trek into Lingshed presentation at REI, with a good deal of persistence over the hardships of a hostile environment demonstrated just by showing up!
  7. The full day out of the house as I wade through the snowdrifts with Jack and take crowded Metro in to his NSF meeting, and my all-day catch-up at GW,  with the evening program at REI, talking about Lingshed to a group of wannabes;  then a triumphant follow-up to the enigma of the design-flawed snowshoe bindings:  I snowshoe down the driveway to the mailbox, then through my  Derwood woods through the deep drifts and around the streams!
  8. Further integration of the Malawi travel plans and coordination of the students and advisors in arrivals and departures.
  9. Holed up again in Derwood Hermitage as rain replaces snow in a bleak weekend of snowmelt and continuing to dig out of the homestead.
  10. Breakthroughs and shut-ins: another wintry period of holed-up home-bound work with some special news of progress from an awaited call, while awaiting a visitor.

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