If there is an underlying problem with the AZ vaccine effecting enough people, then you wind up undermining all of the vaccines and the whole process.

Let's keep it real, folks. We don't need any shampoo.

@mik said in The whole fam damily: Just got a text - The Princess has her vaccine appointment! EXCELLENT!

@mark said in A progression: Excellent work, Brenda! Love the before and after of the rocker. Thanks, Mark! I find the before and after so amusing. The chair started out so darn ugly, like a face only a mother could love, or an ugly duckling. It really begged the question of why I had hung on to this ugly thing for almost 35 years, dragging it all around the country with every move we made. It was just ridiculous that I had done that, so I guess I felt I had to justify all that nonsense. It was meant to just be a learning experience, because I have a LOT to learn, but then I got bold. I decided to really try to make it look decent. Lo and behold ... now I really like it! Hubby was shocked as well. LOLOL It was a good thing he liked it, because I spent too much on this thing. For example, I used horsehair stuffing! That stuff is not cheap, and people pay extra to have that used in a furniture restoration project, but it's supposed to be really good quality, and it's historically appropriate for the age of the chair. Although it takes a bit of extra work, it's absolutely true that it makes a comfy seat, as hubby attests. I even got leather for the final seat cover. What was I thinking?! That was a total risk for a n00b to do! But I had this image in my head of how it should look based on a photo from t3h interwebs. It even showed the funky nailhead trim design with the two-nail upward return at each corner of the seat base. I fell in love with that, and I knew I had to try. Thank goodness for YouTube. I found a video of how to do the leather seat, and watched it about 8 times. Voila! Done! It looks like a darn miracle to me, not perfect at all, but still a miracle that it turned out at all. I'm just so surprised by the whole thing. It makes me smile every day. I put it across the room from where I work, so I can look at those adorable trim nails that are completely responsible for this whole ridiculous thing. The bottom edge of the seat frame is curved upward on each side, so those nails look like they're smiling right back at me.

My sole excursion as an undergrad into the world of the School of Music, was a year long music history course (grad level, and I have no idea how I wrangled my way into it, other than I needed the credits, but not the coursework). Louise Dixon was in that class with me (she just retired last year). [image: 1615562301115-screen-shot-2021-03-12-at-9.16.06-am.png] And Sue has aged very little in 30 years, just like the rest of us, amirite?

I still think the J&J (and maybe Novavax) should be available through PCP. There’s no need for special storage for either. There are a lot of seniors still unvaccinated because they don’t have internet or understand it well. Telling them to call their doctor? That they will understand...My dad got his because he walked into the pharmacy next door to pick up his daily paper and they said “Dave, did you get your vaccination yet? No? Come back at 3:00 and bring Adrienne.” These mega centers can only process a certain number of people a day. Even Javits is only capable of 12,000 if everything is perfect. If you had 1000 PCPs pick up and administer 40 vaccines per day, you have almost quadrupled the output.

@lufins-dad said in Haven’t done that in a while...: @jon-nyc a spray can wasn’t going to fix [image: 1615515981080-587b5ead-3575-4f38-971a-080b646f2714.jpeg] You can plug that.

I'd love to see Bob Menery do something with that.

@klaus said in SD Cards: Why bother with backups? We all die soon anyway. Are you kidding me?? All my family and friends will be fighting over access and biographers will be screaming over access and Hollywood screenwriters will want all that content. Proof of my existence is how I have been spending my whole life! Others may not be so interested now but just wait until I die. Boy will they be sorry, the least I can do is forgive them by having my stuff available.

"Tastes a bit nutty." Austin Powers

Ugh that is a nightmare. So sad.

@lufins-dad said in There needs to be a "speech bubble" above the dog.: The dog is too busy digesting the last goat that wanted to play. I hadn't even considered that. That's great.

I’ve tried a number of free online courses from the best institutions in America. Never got through any of them, it was too easy to fall behind. Takes more initiative than I have. Everyone should start with a free one, and there are multitudes. You get a better sense of what it is like. May the odds be in your favor.

I knew it was going to be a great tale from the very beginning, when Macintyre describes how Gordievsky went back to his (temporary) apartment, and found that all the locks had been engaged. He never did that, only locking two of them. He knew, right then, that someone had been in his apartment. “The first lock on the front door opened easily, and then the second. But the door would not budge. The third lock on the door, an old-fashioned dead bolt dating back to the construction of the apartment block, had been locked. But Gordievsky never used the third lock. Indeed, he had never had the key. That must mean that someone with a skeleton key had been inside, and on leaving had mistakenly triple-locked the door. That someone must have been the KGB. "The fears of the previous week crystallized in a freezing rush, with the chilling, paralyzing recognition that his apartment had been entered, searched, and probably bugged. He was under suspicion. Someone had betrayed him. The KGB was watching him. The spy was being spied upon by his fellow spies.”

Good thing it wasn’t a Cheetah!

I prefer The Fatal Conceit.

@george-k said in One year ago today.: @jon-nyc said in One year ago today.: When did the US record its first death? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/1st-coronavirus-death-u-s-officials-say-n1145931 Trust NBC to get it wrong. https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/22/840836618/1st-known-u-s-covid-19-death-was-on-feb-6-a-post-mortem-test-reveals

I'm still trying to figure out how 97% is half-full.

@lufins-dad said in 'Empty' COVID vaccines at VA Kroger. How can this happen?: Here's a better account. Fewer than 10 AND the needles were empty. The technician thought they had been filled and they weren't. Which is still bizarre. Were the plungers pulled? If so, then they were full of air... I guess that's okay if not injected into a vein or artery? https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/krogers-in-virginia-accidently-gave-out-empty-covid-19-shots Shot is IM, so no problem. I didn't watch too close, but seems to me the Pfizer is mixed before pulling it into the syringe. Maybe a mix-up that way?

You go to Google when the person is unknown For example, there is no need to Google Norman Rockwell