Closes #62 Upon taking the lead, oracle verifies it can no longer connec...

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I did a search of the codebase and it looks like most of those Thread.sleeps() are isolated to the OracleIT but it's in many places. If you don't mind, I'd still like to create a ticket for that and tackle it there since it's in many places unrelated to the guts of this pull request.