Another day of drudgery, 75 day ordeal concludes

So once again yesterday my wellness level seemed to be on a flat line with only a few ticks in a more positive direction.  My symptoms include occasional violent flemish coughing, sinuses that despite not much  nasal drip feel packed and inflamed, almost like when you get water up your nose, and consistent body/muscle pain where areas of my body almost tingle while a persistent feeling of weakness remains.   It’s just a whole lot of suck.  I am crossing my fingers that this breaks by the weekend so I can step back into the realm of psuedo normalcy.

So yesterday was the legal conclusion of an ordeal that began on Christmas Eve when I received a call on my cell phone from a Yellowstone Park Ranger regarding my 5 minute drone flight in the park in September.  I had a 90 second video online of the flight and for some reason the ranger office was very bored deciding to surf YouTube to retroactively cite park visitors for violating the park drone restrictions, something I had no idea about.  Well this has been the lynch pin of much anger, frustration, and confusion since the initial call.  The culmination of it coming yesterday when I had to appear via phone in a Wyoming federal court.  The penalty was a total fine of just over $750 which was actually discounted from what was originally proposed, a result of my statement about the circumstances surrounding the incident.

I have a very long blog entry documenting the ordeal in the works that I have kept out of public view until my court appearance was in the books so there is no reason for me to go into great detail here.  Let’s just say I feel wronged.