Today is the first day of the conference I am attending in Vienna, though I will not be at the conference center itself. I have some internal meetings during the day and a client meeting at night. That will be the typical daily schedule of meetings from breakfast through 5pm then dinner from 7-10 at night. Sleep for 4-5 hours, wake up early for email checks and schedule changes, and go again! It's not too many days, so it can be fun to be manic for a 1/2 of a week. As I somehow agreed to Lebanese food for lunch, I had to add in a good steak dinner for tonight. A fun aside on the photo with a table full of dress gloves. I owned a pair of hunter green (labelled as racing green, which they are not) peccary gloves for all of a week and one wear before I lost them. I somehow found them in a bag I had with me on this trip! That now gives me 5 pairs of dress gloves, way more than this Southern Californian needs. Thankfully, when I replaced the lost gloves, I did not replicate the color thereby allowing their find to add to the breadth of available colors. This results in one pair of lined lamb Napa gloves and four pairs of unlined peccary gloves. If you ever go for peccary, I urge you to get them unlined. One of the characteristics that makes these gloves great is their incredible feel. Adding a lining negates that feeling except when putting them on. Today’s conference outfit centers on a dark-blue Peter Millar suit, a textured white French-cuff shirt, and a mottled burgundy grenadine tie. Brown leather accessories add warmth, while a charcoal overcoat and gray fedora give the outdoor layers a classic finish. • Suit — SJ-002, SL-011 (Peter Millar): A dark-blue Peter Millar suit pairing a jacket with tiny lighter-blue boxes and subtly textured herringbone trousers. The two-button jacket, notched lapels, and restrained blue palette establish a business-formal foundation without looking flat. • Shirt — DS-054 (Brisk): A pearl-white cotton dobby shirt with comfort-stretch finishing, a classic straight collar, and French cuffs. Its subtle woven texture adds interest beneath the suit while keeping the shirt a quiet backdrop for the burgundy tie.

I’m still hospitalized on day 12. As you can probably well imagine I look horrible. This is a picture from a much younger me when I was the Front Office Manager at a historic hotel. I have grown in my traditional dress since then, but I’ve always been keen towards it. As far as health, I am hoping to be discharged to an inpatient rehabilitation facility for intense PT/OT this week. I was initially denied by the facility because the facility did not believe I would be well enough to be discharged home in the desired timeframe. I’ve made quite a bit of progress in the hospital, so we are going to resubmit again tomorrow to see what happens. Neck injuries and recovery is definitely not for the weak.

Ebay coat=60 Men’s wearhouse hat=30 Clearance dillards suit=110 Amazon tie=10 Goodwill shirt=5 dollars Total cost=205

Casual OOTD to the mall Light brown herringbone wool tweed jacket Boss blue-white striped cotton skirt Eton grey wool flannel trousers custom-made beige wool socks brown leather belt Volterra brown leather loafers DC Whole OOTD secondhand for less than 50 € total

Dillards suit=200 Amazon shirt=20 Walmart tie=10 Total cost=230