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August_West said:
Sorry guys. I told you this would take a few days anyway but thought I’d have more energy.

So , the scotch and codeine didn’t kill me , :) ( I haven’t taken any anyway) but unfortunately this Covid has turned on me a bit.
After my car ride yesterday I was really wiped when I got to the house in innellan yesterday evening, and it seems by blood oxygen level has been running at 92, 93 if I’m lucky. Just been sleeping a lot . I’ll be fine, I just don’t want it to go lower and I am really sluggish . I don’t run a fever really at all now, or anything else, it seems to have just shifted to my chest. If it doesn’t improve tomorrow, I’m gonna have to go to NHS to be safe.

Whatever variant this is, is a ton more butt kicking than what I had in December.

I’ll be back
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'I’ll be back...'

ur dang right you'll be back.
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just a little sumthin, sumthin, me and the boys over in customer service worked up as a get well greeting for ya. you know, to remind you of home, where the heart is. and the meats.
 
August_West said:
Sorry guys. I told you this would take a few days anyway but thought I’d have more energy.

So , the scotch and codeine didn’t kill me , :) ( I haven’t taken any anyway) but unfortunately this Covid has turned on me a bit.
After my car ride yesterday I was really wiped when I got to the house in innellan yesterday evening, and it seems by blood oxygen level has been running at 92, 93 if I’m lucky. Just been sleeping a lot . I’ll be fine, I just don’t want it to go lower and I am really sluggish . I don’t run a fever really at all now, or anything else, it seems to have just shifted to my chest. If it doesn’t improve tomorrow, I’m gonna have to go to NHS to be safe.

Whatever variant this is, is a ton more butt kicking than what I had in December.

I’ll be back
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Do they have any mucinex type products at Boots? NHS might be able to get you Paxlovid, no idea how UK is at prescribing it. Butt kicking is just as likely to be from you attempting to actually do things while sick. Get rest. How is your GF doing with it? Better than you hopefully.
 
HuskyHawk said:
Do they have any mucinex type products at Boots? NHS might be able to get you Paxlovid, no idea how UK is at prescribing it. Butt kicking is just as likely to be from you attempting to actually do things while sick. Get rest. How is your GF doing with it? Better than you hopefully.
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GF doing much better. Most important thing . I’m slightly improving too . Hit 95 on blood ox today for quite a bit. That’s the right direction.

So we are going to start in Edinburgh but to whet our appetites since you guys already know a bunch we will read ahead to yesterday to a social media post my now sister-in law made. I’ll deconstruct the rest tgat is wrong with that in due time.

I think you can imagine my reaction.

“I honestly couldn’t have dreamed up a day more magical than this. Everything truly exceeded our expectations. Thank you to all the vendors for making this day possible. And to all our friends and family that made the arduous trek across the Atlantic to be there for us on our wedding day. I had this crazy vision in January 2021, and there were moments I didn’t think we could actually pull it off, but it all came together beautifully! Best day of our lives ❤️“


If I could breathe I would’ve rode a bicycle to skye and throttled her.
 
August_West said:
GF doing much better. Most important thing . I’m slightly improving too . Hit 95 on blood ox today for quite a bit. That’s the right direction.

So we are going to start in Edinburgh but to whet our appetites since you guys already know a bunch we will read ahead to yesterday to a social media post my now sister-in law made. I’ll deconstruct the rest tgat is wrong with that in due time.

I think you can imagine my reaction.

“I honestly couldn’t have dreamed up a day more magical than this. Everything truly exceeded our expectations. Thank you to all the vendors for making this day possible. And to all our friends and family that made the arduous trek across the Atlantic to be there for us on our wedding day. I had this crazy vision in January 2021, and there were moments I didn’t think we could actually pull it off, but it all came together beautifully! Best day of our lives ❤️“


If I could breathe I would’ve rode a bicycle to skye and throttled her.
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Does she not know you all had a nightmarish trip and got Covid?

If she does know and still sent that message you guys need to throw her off a cliff or at least cut her out of your lives.
 
superjohn said:
Does she not know you all had a nightmarish trip and got Covid?

If she does know and still sent that message you guys need to throw her off a cliff or at least cut her out of your lives.
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Of course she does, her father her step father her mother her sister her two step brothers and their 7 combined kids all have Covid. ALL had cancelled flights too . Her 22 British aunts uncles and cousins, 17 positive and they are still testing. SHE has Covid. And made that post.
 
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Bonus points if you can find a giant wooden mallet and reenact the scene from Midsommar.:confused:
 
August_West said:
GF doing much better. Most important thing . I’m slightly improving too . Hit 95 on blood ox today for quite a bit. That’s the right direction.

So we are going to start in Edinburgh but to whet our appetites since you guys already know a bunch we will read ahead to yesterday to a social media post my now sister-in law made. I’ll deconstruct the rest tgat is wrong with that in due time.

I think you can imagine my reaction.

“I honestly couldn’t have dreamed up a day more magical than this. Everything truly exceeded our expectations. Thank you to all the vendors for making this day possible. And to all our friends and family that made the arduous trek across the Atlantic to be there for us on our wedding day. I had this crazy vision in January 2021, and there were moments I didn’t think we could actually pull it off, but it all came together beautifully! Best day of our lives ❤️“


If I could breathe I would’ve rode a bicycle to skye and throttled her.
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Yah but she probably got a lot of likes on Instagram sooooo…
 
husky429 said:
God help you. Instagram weddings are the worst and it feels like every couple I know wants to get married now that things are open after Covid. And no one can just have a normal wedding at a local venue or their house. It needs to be am event FOR THE AGES. I have turned down something like 12 wedding invites in the past year. Bali, Mexico, LA... I am not spending 1000s to go to your wedding. We didn't even go to my sister-in-laws wedding in Mexico this spring. If you want me to go on vacation with you, then pay for it.

I think I can say it here since my wife doesn't check the yard for the first time: i hate her sister. That woman is vain, narcissistic and an absolute beeyotch.
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There are so many directions I want to go with this reply, but my first thought was the destination bachelor party I was invited to last week.

My friend’s brother sent a page-long FOR THE AGES email and the BP is a long weekend in Costa Rica late August or early September.

My first thought was “f no” and then I felt guilty for thinking that, but then I came to my senses and thought I’m already taking off work and paying $800+ for lodging/gas/gift to attend the wedding in Maine, so declining a $1000s trip that would force me to take more time off from work took away that guilt.

Granted, I’m not a big BP guy anyways even though I had one (afternoon Yankees game > steakhouse > bar hang, approx 12 hours). chef’s kiss
 
I know this is me just being an old guy, but I don't get the amount of money folks are supposed to spend to celebrate a "pre-wedding" with friends. I just don't understand thinking it's polite or reasonable to make friends think they owe you being willing to spend a few thousand bucks for a long weekend in addition to the time and money they will spend on your wedding.

I went out for a few beers the night before my wedding with my two best friends and the brother who was of drinking age. The only other bachelor parties I went to were all one night affairs not requiring an overnight. I don't get why those aren't sufficient.

But to each their own.
 
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Hey Adrien! said:
There are so many directions I want to go with this reply, but my first thought was the destination bachelor party I was invited to last week.

My friend’s brother sent a page-long FOR THE AGES email and the BP is a long weekend in Costa Rica late August or early September.

My first thought was “f no” and then I felt guilty for thinking that, but then I came to my senses and thought I’m already taking off work and paying $800+ for lodging/gas/gift to attend the wedding in Maine, so declining a $1000s trip that would force me to take more time off from work took away that guilt.

Granted, I’m not a big BP guy anyways even though I had one (afternoon Yankees game > steakhouse > bar hang, approx 12 hours). chef’s kiss
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Yeah hard pass on any “traditional” BP’s for me. My BP was taking the boys upland bird hunting (many first time wing shooters) and then into NYC for dinner/drinks. Nobody had to go into their pocket I took care of the whole deal.
 
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So Edinburgh…..

We managed to get about 3 hours sleep in that fleabag Ramada in London, no AC etc…

It was doing us no good and we were awake so we decided to head over to Kings Cross which was about 12 miles ( a 90 minute Uber, seriously) from the Ramada. We got to kings cross at 945 and bought tickets for the 11am train to Edinburgh. We were booked the next 4 days in the Scotsman hotel in Edinburgh which is a world class hotel, certainly things were going to get better. The trains were all pretty much sold out to Edinburgh because of the gdamn 150th British Open. No way to by assigned seats or anything. All sold out, so we bought two general tickets and then ran like hell when the gate came up on board to make sure pregnant GF had a seat. We did and the train left on time and even got into Edinburgh 6 minutes early.
 
The Scotsman is one of the best pieces of real estate in Edinburgh. On the old town side of north bridge and at the corner of the beginning of the royal mile.
Waverly station directly across market on other side which is a convenient cut through to new town and princes st. You really can’t be in a better spot in Edinburgh. It was so convenient that we were able to get off train, walk out market st exit and the alternate market st lift to Scotsman was 50 feet away.

We go and check in and they tell us that for some reason we had a different room for Thursday than we did for Friday -Sun but that they fixed it and didn’t want us to have to move and they got it all sorted.

We get into our suite and dear lord was I happy.
A fireplace!
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Comped drams!
 

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We had a very pleasant night in that room.
Went to breakfast the next morning and got back and our keys didn’t work.

No problem . Went to front desk and they apologized and said it was a mixup because the aforementioned 2 different rooms . Tgey apologized , rekeyed us, and assured us that it was again all sorted.

Now it was time to head down to princes to buy some clothes for GF to replace what was missing with our missing bag and for me to make my first boots mission for paramol :) …….
 
….. so we take a long leisurely stroll down princes, almost all the way to the end of princes street gardens. GF stops in a few shops and picks up some clothes , we are about to head into boots for my score and a nice lunch when my phone rings…..

It’s the Scotsman , we must return immediately to vacate our room, there has been a mistake and the party who booked the room for the weekend is now there and would like us to remove our belongings…..

We were almost probably 2 miles from hotel at that point, plus after they assured us TWICE that was our room for entire stay we unpacked and hung all out clothes including formals.

I was pissed , but not as pissed as I would be when we got back!…..
 
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We get back to hotel and they apologize a million times but I was yelling “ you told us twice it was sorted” They maintained they made mistakes but couldn’t do anything about it.

So we had to go into room and pack up. Which we did.

And then arrived at our new room for next 3 days…….

Here is the view…
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August_West said:
An incredible balcony view!
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I can’t help but notice the scaffolding on the building to the right. Just back from Italy (plenty of hellish travel experiences as well) where it seemed like half the things we were there to see we’re covered in scaffolding or closed for restoration or renovation. I get it. Things need maintenance. But it’s high season coming off two years of COVID. You had time for that before the hordes arrived.
 
ConnEd said:
I can’t help but notice the scaffolding on the building to the right. Just back from Italy (plenty of hellish travel experiences as well) where it seemed like half the things we were there to see we’re covered in scaffolding or closed for restoration or renovation. I get it. Things need maintenance. But it’s high season coming off two years of COVID. You had time for that before the hordes arrived.
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That’s north bridge
 
LOL. We stayed at the Scotsman our stay there and I loved it. But for having to convince my wife that no, we didn’t need to get a cab from the train station to the hotel when the back door to the hotel was closer to the train station exit than the cab stand was.

But I have never been told I’d have to abandon a hotel room where I wasn’t warned of that when we checked in. I would have had a local lawyer meeting me in the hotel lobby before I got back there from my shopping.
 
August_West said:
We get back to hotel and they apologize a million times but I was yelling “ you told us twice it was sorted” They maintained they made mistakes but couldn’t do anything about it.

So we had to go into room and pack up. Which we did.

And then arrived at our new room for next 3 days…….

Here is the view…
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It's a never ending tale of woe. I hope you made it to Cadenhead's and loaded up.
 
August_West said:
We get back to hotel and they apologize a million times but I was yelling “ you told us twice it was sorted” They maintained they made mistakes but couldn’t do anything about it.

So we had to go into room and pack up. Which we did.

And then arrived at our new room for next 3 days…….

Here is the view…
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I now am emoting sympathy. Wow.

The trouble with Scotland is...it's full of Scots.
 
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I don't know if this has been going on or Adubs story has just highlighted it for me but this is now 1 of umpteen horror stories I've heard since this thread was started. All going to/from Europe.

This totally isn't stressing me out for my trip to France in September.
 
'London's Heathrow Airport recently took the extraordinary step of asking airlines to stop selling tickets for outbound travel this summer.'

These airports are the world's worst for delays and cancellations this summer

yup, it's all crapistan out there.

see the USA, in your chevrolet,
America is asking you to call.

drive your chevrolet, thru the USA
America's the greatest land of all!
 
businesslawyer said:
LOL. We stayed at the Scotsman our stay there and I loved it. But for having to convince my wife that no, we didn’t need to get a cab from the train station to the hotel when the back door to the hotel was closer to the train station exit than the cab stand was.

But I have never been told I’d have to abandon a hotel room where I wasn’t warned of that when we checked in. I would have had a local lawyer meeting me in the hotel lobby before I got back there from my shopping.
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'I would have had a local lawyer meeting me in the hotel lobby before I got back there from my shopping.'

and do what? bark? scream aboot chuman rights? demand an investigation?
let's take a look at an overseas story where the aggrieved sent in a beagle, dressed to the nines, to press their case....


like Indiana always sez 'let's get the heck outta here.'
pro tip from the world traveller. he's been there, actually everywhere, and knows firsthand what the correct move always is. leave. quickly.
 
nashusky109 said:
I don't know if this has been going on or Adubs story has just highlighted it for me but this is now 1 of umpteen horror stories I've heard since this thread was started. All going to/from Europe.

This totally isn't stressing me out for my trip to France in September.
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If you're landing in Paris, DeGaulle was a sheetshow even before the pandemic in 2019. It's like customer service people working there get bonuses for providing as little assistance as possible.
 
storrsroars said:
If you're landing in Paris, DeGaulle was a sheetshow even before the pandemic in 2019. It's like customer service people working there get bonuses for providing as little assistance as possible.
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Confirmed. Suggest @nashusky109 leave very early on departure from Paris. In 2018 I think we waited 1.5 hours to check bags.
 
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