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Winter is here - first day below freezing!

Current subject of indecision: whether to spend New Year's in the U.S. or not.

Some things to do in the U.S.:

• See my family
• Visit my dentist (Yay!) - I just don't really trust the dentist(s) I've tried/found in Germany.
• Do some airplane flying. I'd really like to try doing some glider flying in Temecula and get some experience flying gliders with an English-speaking instructor. Do they even fly in the winter in California? Seems like they would.
• Do my biennial flight review? This is an evaluation done by a flight instructor that's needed to keep my pilot's license valid. To do the BFR I would also need to do some practice flight beforehand.
• Visit SpaceX to see a former colleague and check out the job prospects.
• Eat at In-N-Out
• Visit four in San Diego
• Visit friends in San Francisco?
• Hot springs trip for New Year's?
• Generally relax in a place whether the weather is comfortable and everything is easy and familiar.
• ?

Reason to come back to Germany on Dec 30:

• Get an early start on the year in .de
• Not leave the dog at the pet-sitter for too long (although the petsitter herself isn't coming back to Hannover - with Bella - until Jan 6)

Complicated nearly-last-minute travel arrangements are a special kind of hell I regularly inflict upon myself.