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It's All in the Phrasing
Irish and I are sitting in the car in shopping center parking lot eating lunch. I have today off work so we took the car in because one of the tires has a slooooow leak. They found the cause and can fix it for not too much money but can't get us into the shop for another hour, so we went to grab some lunch ( Read more... ) -
Vaccine Pt. 2
People age 80 and up can now register for the vaccine. (I don't know when they'll begin receiving it - this news is a couple days old - but at least we have a start.) -
Vaccine
I want it! I'm nowhere near the top of the list - the top of the list are healthcare workers and other people who are at risk of getting the virus in the day-to-day jobs, as they should be - but I'd love to have even a tentative timeline. I went looking and this is what I found on the official in.gov covid site: "The timeline for additional phases ( Read more... ) -
80 Years
My dad would've been 80 today. He was hoping he might live to see 70 but was only 66 when he died. I don't think it's a surprise that he died younger than he would've like since he was in ill health for 50 years of his life (he had ankylosing spondylitis) and when he came down with the pneumonia that killed him, he was in a weakened state, having ( Read more... ) -
Best GBBO Quote
Not a quote from the Great British Bake Off but a quote about it: "Noel Fielding comes across as the strangely heartwarming result of a thought experiment that asked 'What if A.A. Milne wrote The Vampire Lestat?'". That made me grin from ear to ear because I hadn't thought of it that way before but it sounds right. (It's from a tongue-in-cheek ( Read more... ) -
Happy Birthday curiouswombat!
I hope it's a very happy birthday and that you have a great upcoming year. -
Silly but Amusing
I'm expecting a couple deliveries in the mail. One is a few varieties of black licorice that I ordered for a Christmas treat, which the USPS tracker says was supposed to be here today. Black licorice is one of my favorite things and for the most part, I only have it twice a year anymore because even the sugar-free kinds will raise blood sugar ( ( Read more... ) -
Here Comes the Sun!
I always get excited about the Winter Solstice - not so much because it's the beginning of winter - though most years I love winter - but because it means the days are getting longer again. As I get older, I dislike driving home from work in the dark more and more. I don't have difficulty seeing, I just don't like it. Since I work until 6:00 p.m. ( Read more... ) -
Snow!
When I looked out the window first thing this morning, I saw no snow. When I came downstairs and looked out the window I saw that there was snow on the street but not on the grass. Thirty minutes later, there was a light dusting of snow everywhere. It was snowing consistently but so lightly that I didn't even see it coming down (though that's ( Read more... )