How Do You Feel Today? v4

[Menolly]

B'sha Tovah!
May all things happen in their proper time.

[sgt.null]

Still working six days a week.

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Last week before I'm on leave. Thank gods.

--A

[deer of the dawn]

Upses and downses. Friday we had two COVID positive students and we closed school 3 days early. Over the weekend it became apparent that we can't at all be sure we're going to be able to fly out of Nigeria because the transportation minister is a whiny, posturing toddler who uses the word "reciprocal" to mean "tit-for-tat". Stag of the Dawn became ill enough that he took a COVID test (negative, thank God).

Today, my granddaughter was born!!!!!! 9 lbs, 2 oz. Then a PTA WhatsApp group I'm in for school blew up with ridiculous drama. I had been led to believe that these were adults I was dealing with, not a bunch of aging Mean Girls. And Stag decided he probably has malaria, not just a cold.

All in all, granddaughter wins, everything else can go hang.

[Menolly]

Mazal Tov on the birth of your grand daughter, deer!

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LOL, well,l congrats I guess.

What with Thursday being a public holiday, only 2 more official working days after today before being on leave. Can't wait...

--A

[Menolly]

Last time sharing the play I was in. Here's the upload to YouTube. Both the audio and video seems much improved.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=awwYyVos2ZI&feature=share

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Weekend. Leave. Long(ish) holiday shortly to take effect. So that's good.

On the not so good front, the GF's grandfather died last night, been expecting it for a while now, so not unprepared at least, but sad for her nonetheless of course.

--A

[Menolly]

Last day of school until after winter break. I'm at an elementary school today, so...

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Ah, holidays.

--A

[Menolly]

*cross posted*

An idea for my musical friends. If you're not on Facebook, you can email Tony at tony.mavimusic@gmail.com if interested in participating. If you are on Facebook, look for this post in the Play Music on the Porch Day group.

[Menolly]

hmm...
Serious question:
Which comes first at midnight on January 1st? New Year's wishes or Rabbit thrice?

Never mind.
New Year's wishes, or Jumanji this year, at midnight. Rabbit thrice when one awakens later in the day.

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How time flies...I've gone from enjoying my time off to being annoyed that I have to go back to work at the end of this week.

Damnit...

--A

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Well, back at work. (In a sense anyway, still working from home of course.)

Meh. At least it's Friday.

--A

[SoulBiter]

Finally about over the dredges of the flu that we got at my house. It was the flu just a particularly nasty version.

The CDC say:

But this version of H3N2 has changes that help it escape the antibodies the body makes in response to vaccines.

Outside of that a good friend of ours of many years died this week. ALS then double pneumonia. He just couldn't fight it all off. Super nice guy and incredibly smart. He was a mechanical engineer who worked on secret projects for the govt for most of his career. He was never able to tell us where he went because the govt took steps to ensure he never knew where he was when he worked these projects. But he had a great retirement where he gave back to the community for many years but also enjoyed his hobbies of Ski'ing, scuba diving, hiking, riding his Harley. He was in his mid 80's so he did live a nice long life and one that mattered. Although he will be missed I have to say, I find more joy in the way he lived his life than sorrow in his passing.

Sorry for the long ramble. I hope everyone is doing well.

[Skyweir]

So sorry to read of your loss that’s always a tough pill to swallow. Hugs

Congratulations Deer on the birth of your beautiful grandchild!! 9lbs very good size! Welcome to grand parenthood ~ I’m a huge fan and absolutely adore having grandies

My life has been busy ~ my family have moved states to be closer to a relative who’s got a nasty rare terminal brain cancer. She’s doing as well as can be expected ~ she’s just sooo young.

Life, right?

Had a wonderful xmas with family~ hope you all did too

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Sorry to hear SB, but certainly a life lived to its fullest.

Welcome back Sky, Happy Moving.

--A

[SoulBiter]

Good to hear from you Sky! Sorry to hear about your relative but also happy to hear that you all are here for her. I would not want to face something like that alone.

[Menolly]

Questions for friends in healthcare. I received an email last night from Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, where my doctors for breast cancer and leukemia are located, saying immunocompromised patients should now get four shots: if Pfizer the first two should be three weeks apart from each other, the third 28 days later, and now a fourth 5 months later. It sounds as though the third is now supposed to be a full dose, rather than a booster.

I had followed the previous advice of two full doses three weeks apart and a booster five months later, with the booster being last August.

I'm coming up on five months since the booster. Do I need to get a full dose to adjust for the dosage and timing of the third dose not currently meeting the timeline? Should I consider the mix and match approach and get Moderna, since the previous three were all Pfizer?

And, has anyone else heard that immunocompromised patients should get a fourth dose? I know Israel has been doing such, but this is the first I heard, here. I don't even know if fourth doses are being offered anywhere, yet.

[Spiral Jacobs]

It feels weird that my last/previous post on this forum was in August 2013.