Launch -1

After an amazing blizzard and an anxious day of worrying about blood pressure and pulse that climbed way too high, we were relieved to have the doctor clear us for take off Tuesday. It was a struggle getting to campus Sunday at 7:30 am because a tremendous gail of a wind was ripping across the prairie straight from the icy circles of hell and leaving the university's convocation center in a sea of freezing milk. Lots of proud folk came out, however, to celebrate the graduation of 435 students, all of whose names got read with the usual Self professional precision. Then it turns out the BP issue was the patient's fault for substituting a new medicine for an old one, rather than adding it to the old. So as the wind chill heads to twelve below, we're packing!