texas isnt the outlier in the transfer portal. if you attract the best high school recruits, they remain top targets for other schools even if they havent proven out in your roster.
Theres a nightjet/euronight train service connect many major destinations if you want to avoid flights and simultaneously save on time. like the venice or zurich service to vienna is basically 8pm to 8am and the cabins are pristine.
If you're already doing monastery beer nerd, swing by Stift Engelszell further down the Danube right on the DE-AT border. For a long time it was the 7th trappist brewery in the world, and the only one outside of Belgium except Koningshoeven. Technically it's no longer trappist because the monastery had just dissolved, but a family bought the facility and is still making the same beers there. Further into Austria near Linz you could rent a Caterham sports car in Saxenegg and poot around. It's the only place in the continent to do that.
If you want some scary numbers, about 100k annual deaths are from hospital-acquired infections (ānosocomial infectionsā) and some 250k overall are caused by medical interventions itself eg unintentional errors (āiatrogenesisā)
fuck people who let their cats roam the neighborhood and traipse into other peoples property. if my dogs dont roam around in your yard, why is your cat in mine? (and absolutely pissing the hell out of my dog)
How much do you suppose you dote on your kids compared to the entire population? Iād say im 90th percentile, and the wife at 85th due to her being more disciplinarian at times.