First geocache stop of the trip.

Draining Ushnab and his family in Grinnell for dinner this evening

Just what the title says.

Today is the day I get Windstream/Kinetic installed again and officially replace Mediacom (again) as my ISP. The cats were fighting through the bedroom window this morning at 3 AM so I got up to start final changes now. Already have a new OTA TV antenna installed and working, and a new Eero device ready to go, time to kick that in too.

But a chest x-ray is needed. ☹️

Lord, I hope this works.

Trying this one more time.

Still dealing with COVID here, but trying to get a little something accomplished.

Fever has finally broken but this latest phase has nearly everything leaving a horrible metallic aftertaste in my mouth..so bad last night I could not sleep.

Got home about 20 hours ago after a brutal 36 hours of travel. Went straight to the doctor and tested positive for COVID and influenza A, me with a fever of 102°. Once home, I went straight to bed. Feeling a little better this morning, but still everything aches and my fever is down to about 101°.

The last straw in this travel nightmare was that we were unable to land in Cedar Rapids as planned because of a thunderstorm and had to divert to Des Moines, where they performed maintenance on the plane and then refueled and got us back to Cedar Rapids about an hour and a half later than planned.