A Conversation with Elizabeth
1999
Snow and hearts

From:          LMixson
To:            Elizabeth
Sent:          Thursday, January 14, 1999 9:57 AM
Subject:       Snow and hearts
 
Yea, shoveling snow is pretty hard work and when the couch potatoes get out once or twice a year and do such strenuous work they have heart attacks.  As you said you hear about it every year when you hear how many people die in a major storm there is always a few who do so while shoveling.
 
I know what you mean about the lake and how it changes color.  When we lived on the lake I always enjoyed it for it was different every day.
 
You had asked about the ATF web site I put together but it is only on their internal intranet and requires passwords to get to.  The documents are field agent reports (kinda like police reports) about arsons, bombings, gangs, etc. so they contain "sensitive" information.  It is quite interesting to do searches and find what they have on various gangs, people places.  As you could imagine the Unibomber[1] had quite a list.
 
Yes I've hiked a fair amount of the Appalachian Trail (or AT as it is often referred to) in Virginia.  The AT runs along the Skyline drive which we go to every year.  Most of the hikes we do are side trails that either start from the AT or connect to the AT.  My brother hiked on it for three months starting in Georgia and going to Vermont following the progression of spring north.  His journal makes interesting reading.[2] 
 
We are getting freezing rain this morning but the roads were OK so I was able to get to work without any problem.  Cars left out are getting coated with ice.  I parked in the parking garage so I won't have to chip off the ice when I go home.  Not much else going on.
 
Larry

[1] The Unibomber, as Ted Kaczynski was known before they caught him, had sixteen bombings from 1978-1995.
[2] In 2022 David asked me to type up his Appalachian trail journal and I agreed. I scanned into the computer the journal pages, then bringing them up on the screen, typed each page into a Word document while David sat next to me correcting and interpreting his handwriting. We probably spent 40 hours over the next few weeks before it was completed.

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