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loose discussion of travel, diving, driving, gear, and most certainly watches.

This is episode 169 and we thank you for listening.

James, you jet-lagged or getting used to being jet lagged again?

I am man I couldn't tell you how out of sorts I am like yes I'm very jet-lagged I

came back to you know we don't swear on the show so I came back to, you know, we don't swear on the show, so I came back to a very complicated scenario

here in terms of workload and podcast turn around and stuff like that for Hodinke.

But yeah, I was in Germany for three three and a half days with Lika it was an incredible trip from a like what I learned and saw and everything but yeah really out of shape when it comes to when it comes to traveling and and you know I've avoided

dealing with a lot of the

intricacies of COVID tests and things.

Yeah, like I had my first COVID test just before this.

Yeah.

And then I had another one in Germany, had to get a PCR there,

PCR is there, at least the one that I paid for, which due to a scheduling error was like I needed the 20 minute one.

Oh. So, you know, it was like $200 or whatever, like who cares about the money, but they don't go through the back of the nose

they go down to the back of the throat oh and and due to you know maybe getting an hour

and a half's worth of sleep and the rest of it I wasn't feeling really hot kind of nauseous and I definitely

almost barfed on the poor lady.

She was not a fan of mind by the time we finished that interaction but luckily you know negative as you would assume or at least hopefully assume yeah well yeah I mean this trip was incredible so it was kind of assigned around the

Oscar Barnack awards which is Oscar Barnack developed the first like a camera

before that they were kind of in microscopic lens design and things like that and

he took that design and made a essentially a camera you could put in your pocket

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