It’s an ill wind, etc.
Yesterday a real window-rattler blew through, stripping all the brown needles from the pines and scattering them along our driveway and into the cul-de-sac. Also, and too, the back yard.
Then overnight, we got a little drizzle, followed by a soupçon of — wait for it — actual snow this morning.
Little accumulation is expected, but our widget said we’d gotten 0.06 inch by 8:15 a.m. (which became 0.22 inch by 4:15 p.m.), so ’ray for us, amirite? Something to blog about other than genocide, sedition, and creeping idiocy, against which a vaccine there is not.
Speaking of which, Herself got the latest Bug shot on Tuesday and it knocked her flat on her teensy little keister. Spent most of Wednesday in the bed and lost all interest in the delicious meals prepared thrice daily by Your Humble Narrator.
Yesterday she began shambling around and about a bit and today she seems much more like Herself (haw), though her appetite remains AWOL; breakfast was coffee and a bite of whole-wheat toast with butter and jam.
I haven’t gotten stuck yet. My last shot was almost exactly a year ago, at one of the local senior centers, and I suppose I should go get myself the latest and greatest, though it apparently targets the variant before the one that is currently dominant.
But goddamnit it, I like my food. And blogging from the bed is unsatisfactory.
On that topic, no word from the Happiness Engineers about the overwrought comments window, which seems to have magically downsized itself overnight to the version I saw over at Better Burque.
I suspect that some of our WordPress issues might be resolved if I were to abandon the Classic Editor for the Block Editor, but I consider this a last resort.
A theme change might help — as I’ve mentioned before, this one, Kubrick, has been “retired.” But I like its simplicity and several test drives have failed to turn up any suitable replacement that doesn’t somehow start inching me into that goldurned, consarned, dadblasted Block Editor, like some old fart tottering into assisted living with Big Nurse on his six.
Not yet, goddamnit. Not yet.
Mad Blog Media 
It seems to be working better. Two clicks, or more, are now NOT required to get the cursor to show up. I’m so happy!
’Tis th’ wee victories we cherish so.
Tell Herself that I feel her pain.
I also got jabbed on Tuesday.
According to the documentation, I received a squirt of Moderan Spikevax XBB.1.5. Not that I was given a choice. My attention was devoted towards making sure that the public health nurse didn’t fish in the Sharps Container for a spike to use (“This one looks clean!”) or head into the back to find a 000-gauge epidural horse needle or fill the syringe up with a big bubble of air. Sure, those nurses all look smiley and friendly. Tell that to Lucy Letby.
Sounds like I dodged the Symptoms Bullet that struck Herself and that you dread. I was chilled on Wednesday. (New Flash: It was COLD on Wednesday.) My arm began feeling sore around the syringe’s landing zone on Thursday. I felt cranky and irascible, so essentially there was no noticeable difference.
Glad to hear you dodged the worst of it. One of Herself’s colleagues says he’s had the shots and The Bug and thought the latter was easier to deal with.
I suppose it depends upon what flavor of Bug you get. I know a few people didn’t find it a day at the beach.
Herself got the sore arm too, like big-time. Took her shot down to the Lab, so Dog only knows what they put into it. What happens if she turns Orange on me, starts burning books and otherwise acting the fool?
Only room for one fool in this house, yo. Someone has to play it straight so the bills get paid.
There’s sore arm and then there’s lie-in-bed-and-gnaw-off-your-sore-arm. Sounds like Herself and her colleague experienced the latter. The latest strain of greeblie is called Eris EG.5, which is supposed to be one bad mudderfugger and spreads faster than a Vivek Ramaswamy misconception.
I, too, was wondering what I got shot up with. The label said Moderna, but it could have been dollar store Moderna for all I know. With my good kharma, I probably got some stuff that was slurped up from the drain trap down in the morgue.
My non-Mafiosi Sicilian friend has invited me to hear Dr Anthony Fauci talk. Supposedly their grandparents were friends back in Agrigento, which means that if I wear a suit and tie, I won’t get mistaken for the service staff. (“Hey! What are you doing out here?! There’s dishes piling up back there!”)
Frankly, I don’t know what I’d say to the guy after I shake his hand. “…um…you stood toe-to-toe against the Orange Menace without blinking. Let me buy YOU a drink.”
Me ‘n’ my Honey each got Covid vax #7 along with a side of flu shot. No after-effects.
Just a data point (or two, actually).
I’ve never done a flu shot; Herself has, but it’s never gone after her like this last Bug shot did. She went to the gym today and we kitted up for a short run afterward and she’s still a step or two behind.
Just to broaden the array of shot effects spectrum, I got the flu and COVID ones together and my arm was inflamed and sore for about three days. When I got the RSV by itself a week later, I had no irritation. My bride of almost 54 years had exactly the opposite responses. As have several friends of ours. Go figure!!
I got the flu shot three weeks ago no problemo.
On Wednesday did the RSV, Pneumovax, and latest Covid iteration. Thursday sore arm and a bit of lethargy, ain’t quite feelin’ right but no major side effects. Got lucky this time but my arm is still tender. Don’t like Mad Dog Manchin but he is the best of the Republicans looking to run this trolley cart.
Man, you went for the whole combo platter, hey? Khal, one of our regulars, did flu, RSV and Bug all at the same time and as I recall his experience was not quite as nice as a free beer and a backrub.
I had the triple pack about a month ago, flu, RSV, and the Pfizer covid. Bit of a sore arm the next day, but no biggie otherwise. (Of course I was, and still am, dealing with the aftereffects of a “minor” bike mishap that’s kept me on two feet (sort of anyway) since Sept. 2nd. Don’t ask, I’ve told the story to every nurse and doctor in the hospital and it still sounds stupid to me)
Ooo, one of those “minor” bike mishaps. I hate those. Also, the “minor” running mishaps.
I don’t think I’ve ever had a mishap in the pool, unless you count peeing in ’em when I was a sprout. An old velo-comrade, swimmer, and sage often says of the aging process and its effects on athletes, “We all end up in the pool.” Hope it’s not one that I peed in.
I got the Covid, flu, and some sorta respiratory virus shots all at once and the next day I thought I had been hit by a bus. Was rough. And then I got two and a half weeks worth of Covid anyway. Where is the justice?
Was headed down Zia today on a short ride and got to where the road was closed from a crash. Someone had hopped their car onto the center mall at high speed and hit a very large block of sandstone. One of those blocks meant to stop a full size car. The block was now in the middle of the oncoming lane and the car, or what was left of it, looked like it had been through a crushing machine. Large chunks everywhere. Well, whoever intercoursed that penguin won’t be driving that car any more. Assuming the drive is in better shape than the car.
Where on Zia was that Khal. I was checking out google maps navigating along seeing if the blocks you indicate were displayed, but I didn’t see any.
West Zia just SW of La Senda street, which is just SW of Yucca. If you google map it, you will see that just past Yucca the median widens and you see these pretty big sandstone blocks in the median. The driver apparently thought the car was tougher than those blocks.
Yeah, I see blocks. I suppose I should be surprised that many folks believe that the density of a big hollow vehicle will exceed that of a solid object of smaller size, but then I recall our political reality. Perhaps the thought should be considered to artistically deck out the crashed vehicle and set it out in the center median. It would act as a lesser barrier and a reminder of the consequences of misguided mass and velocity.
A while back we had some asshat lose it while westbound on Comanche, between Tramway and Juan Tabo. Four-lane, median-divided, 35-mph stroad that the motorheads like to use as a drag strip, generally while headed east.
This fool managed to rocket over the median, cross both eastbound lanes, and blast through a block wall before taking off a corner of someone’s house.
Mind you, this was just past a middle school and a community center.
If the driver survived the cops must have been sorely tempted to put him down.
“We’re gonna see this guy again. I say he ‘committed suicide.’ Anyone got a throwaway gun on ’em?”
I wonder if the side affects issue may be the Moderna / Pfizer differences. My first covid vaccines were the Moderna flavor and I had noticeable side affects on each of them. My last covid booster was the Pfizer flavor and there were little to no effects. But after reading all your reports, I’m scare’t now.
Here’s hoping that Herself and everyone else that stumbles around this wordpress miasma gets over their vaccination ailments.
Shawn, you may be onto something about the flavor of the vaccine. My 7 shots were Pfizer, and the only possible after-effect I noticed was a very unusual dizzy-bonk less than 48 hours after #1, about 50+ miles into a ride.
All my shots have been Pfizer and the aftereffects have been minimal. A bit of soreness at the injection site and a couple extended naps is all. Herself has always gone Moderna and had a rougher go of it.
Here in N TX we have had 2 nights below freezing already and it’s barely a week into November, then we go right into needing the AC, and everybody is getting messed up. So far I haven’t been offered anything resembling a booster this year in spite of being on Medicare since September and spending a week in rehab after 3 days in hospital because of a fall. But given the number of times they stuck me with insulin after they stopped my blood sugar meds there’s no telling if they snuck a booster in without asking.
Patrick-This is the only way I can reach you. I was a past subscriber to your blog then something went awry and my subscription ended. I tried using the Subscribe link on your web site but apparently it’s not working, and your blog doesn’t even wind up in my spam folder which is where I thought I might find it. Suggestions?
Hey, Pedro … well, sheeyit, that’s a new one on me. We’ve been having comments issues on and off, but this is the first I’ve heard about subscriptions going walkabout. Lemme nose around, see if I can sniff out the rat.
Any other subscribers out there having issues? Sound off, please.
• Meanwhile: Pete, I just checked my list of subscribers and you’re still on it, so maybe it’s an email issue?