From jop at astro.columbia.edu  Sat Nov 18 17:18:54 2023
From: jop at astro.columbia.edu (Joe Patterson)
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2023 17:18:54 -0500
Subject: (cba:news) travails from New York
Message-ID: <7b082e9e-2e93-4a2d-b96c-675058650fbc@astro.columbia.edu>

Hi CBAers,

I think I wrote to you all about my June accident: an epileptic seizure 
(first one in twenty years) while driving a car.  I hardly knew what 
planet I was on for 1-2 weeks... but then a few weeks later, fell on my 
driveway and broke 11 ribs plus my collarbone.  Another month in the 
hospital and another 1-2 months of physical therapy.

But now I'm able to walk a mile a day, and am starting to catch up on 
all the lovely CBA data you guys have been sending.  For V1674 Her, in 
particular, one of my students has nearly completed the analysis, and 
shown that the star has continued the large trends shown in 2021 and 
2022.  A first for these magnetic novae!

I was sorry to miss the Boston AAVSO.  I didn't quite trust my 
walking... and NY State takes your driver's license away for a year if 
they learn about a seizure-related accident.

In general, the suitably bright IPs with favorable sky positions (get 
all the info from Koji Mukai's list) are the targets of choice now.  But 
I'll be more specific in a week.

Thanks so much for YOUR fidelity to the stars, even when I've been so 
silent!!

joe
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