It has been a very busy two weeks for me, with almost all my waking hours spent caring for people as well as driving around in my Orangemobile. I hope that all the people I care for were actually benefited by my work. I met lots of neighbors and musicians who are part of my parents' world up in Massachusetts. My only regret is that I did not get to work on clutter reduction in my parents' house. I can always do some of it back here in my apartment.

On my spring trips up to the Northeast, I am always impressed by the time lag in flowers and leaves. This has been an unusually cold April. That groundhog was a damned liar when he pretended not to see his shadow so that we would think that warm weather would come early. As a result, when I arrived in Massachusetts, the trees were still leafless, though some colorful early flowers were out. By the time I left, there were more buds and tree flowers but the temperature was still cool. As I drove south, it was as if I drove from early spring to almost full summer. Last night, lightning flashed over the New Jersey Turnpike at my stopover hotel. Here in Metro DC, summer is just about here, complete with moist breezes and the whine of air conditioners.

Fortunately, I don't have to go back to the day job just yet. I can rest up for a couple of days before returning to the organic roma tomatoes, bruschetta, and beef jerky. But now my show of architectural art is only a month away and I have two more pieces I want to do. So it's back to that drawing board. And what did I miss the most while I was on the road? Calculus, of course! Now I can finish that set of derivative problems I was working on, and move on to the next chapter.

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