Re: For the stalkers....

On 6/22/25 14:48, Tom Elam wrote:

On 5/27/2025 1:03 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2025-05-27 06:43, -hh wrote:

On 5/23/25 13:31, Alan wrote:

On 2025-05-23 10:00, -hh wrote:

On 5/23/25 02:15, Alan wrote:

Well, let's be honest.
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For the stalker.
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I've been far too sick with a cold to prep the car for this weekend, so I'll not be racing.

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Hope you'll start to feel better soon.  I'm currently recovering from some medical stuff too, so I also won't be doing stuff like that for another few weeks.  But maybe in the meantime, we'll have a chance to start to firm up some travel plans to Germany/Austria.

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Then I hope for a speedy recovery for both of us.
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I'm well into my third week feeling miserable, but fingers crossed: I think I'm feeling a little better over the last 24 hours or so.

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Hope that that has improved over the past 3-4 days.

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I'd say it's improved some, but I think I'll take myself in to a walk- in clinic and check to see if anything more can/should be done.
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A little checking suggests I should really have started getting it looked at after 10 days, and I'm now close to a month with this.
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I think I'm progressing pretty well; probably ~80%.  Doc said last week to expect it to take 1-2 weeks, so its looking like I'm on schedule.  Of course, recovery isn't the fast "bounce back" like it was when we were young and bulletproof, but that's to be expected.

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Ah, too true.
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On the plus side, a two medication regimen now seems to have my BP down to normal.
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Made a little bit of progress on the DEU/AUS planning; seems that hotels in Vienna are much higher than I was expecting for whatever reason. Finalizing the itinerary is a bit of a challenge at the moment because Deuchbahn doesn't publish the train schedule more than six months in advance...but otherwise looking most likely at a nonstop flight to Munich (one of the advantages of living near a *real* International Airport).

 Albeit rated as the worst airport in the country on a regular basis.

Yet unlike Indianapolis, it is still a major international hub.
And sure, runway repaving did cause delays until completed earlier this month, but most of the challenges have really been from ATC labor shortages from the FAA, which really boils down to a question of political willingness to offer a locality-appropriate salary.
In any event, international flights are generally granted priority over domestic, so flying to/from Europe/etc is rarely a scheduling issue, especially when one's on a nonstop instead of a continuing flight.
-hh