MazeDancer has come up with some more outstanding stickers for peeps who have been vaccinated.
Pretty sure you will recognize some of these guys!
Totally open thread, since we have been abandoned again.
This is worse than the people who leave their kids to play at the playground on their own, don’t you think?
What’s going on with you guys? Personal or political, you decide.
CliosFanBoy
Pet pics!!!
Old School
Can’t wait to get my sticker!
Oh, and I guess the vaccine too.
Baud
@CliosFanBoy:
The last two aren’t pets. (I don’t think.)
Van Buren
It hasn’t snowed in 7 hours. I’d say Spring must be just around the corner.
brendancalling
Snowed a lot yesterday, started snowing again a moment ago.
I am deep in the weeds of my portfolio to get certified to teach in Vermont. It’s difficult to say the least. The fact that my mentor at my host school phoned it in all year—using covid as an overarching rationale, which is kind of legitimate—has made this a much more difficult process. I didn’t get to do (or even observe) a lot of the stuff I’m writing about.
John Revolta
My dog’s breath smells like dog food.
Old Dan and Little Ann
I have to rapidly type in information at 4:00 to schedule an appointment. Name, address, email, etc. Then about 8 bubble questions. I tried for the first time yesterday and it took about 3 minutes. I accidentally clicked a bubble saying that I was under 18. By the time I went back and fixed it and clicked submit the date was already booked. I am trying again in 10 minutes. Now I know what to expect. I have my email copied and ready to paste!
Barbara
I have no present hope of being vaccinated. I am not even trying. It annoys me a lot that people find justification to jump the line. Also, if anyone were to ask me how to correct inegalitarian vaccine distribution, you could start by putting current Medicaid eligibility at the top of the priority list, after age. People with Medicaid are more likely to be working in the service economy, and to live in harder hit zip codes. It’s a lot easier than asking them 21 questions about their health and income.
Elie
My hubby and I got one shot and are due next Weds for the second of the Pfizer. We were very lucky and happened on the opportunity through a friend’s word of mouth. We are both over 70 but relatively healthy.
My sister who is 68, lives in Chicago and is quite fragile has had no luck. I spend hours hunting down appointments for her but so far, no luck. Yes, things are very weird given the lack of supply and uneven distribution of that supply. I have faith however, that the team in place will sort it all out over the next two to three weeks but it is anxiety provoking. I just tell my sister to stay home and she does, gets her groceries delivered, etc. Friends drop off stuff and do her laundry, etc. She is lonely though, and there isn’t much to do about it except phone and zoom.
WaterGirl
@Barbara: There is no perfect system, and what we have started out as a total mishmash with no federal recommendations and no global system.
Personally, I think anyone who has a legitimate opportunity should jump at the chance to be vaccinated. And by legitimate, I mean anything other than buying an appointment or misrepresenting who you are.
CaseyL
I can’t choose between Tikka, Kamala, and Joe.
WaterGirl
Around here, I was happy to see the vaccine opened up to essential workers, who started getting vaccinations this week. The Biden administration is starting to turn this train wreck around already, which is pretty impressive in just 2 weeks.
WaterGirl
@CaseyL: I know! Don’t tell Henry, but I am hearing the siren call of Champ.
I presume you guys all know that to get your stickers, you post about your shot in the I Got the Shot! thread in the sidebar.
Josie (also)
When I was five and my brother four we went hiking with the slightly older (7) neighbor. Mom packed us a lunch and wished us well. Not just playing in the park for us!
Brachiator
I am hoping that increased distribution of vaccine makes it easier to ultimately get a jab. I have signed up, but that seems to go nowhere.
WaterGirl
What about that article about RICO and the insurrection on the pervious thread… if you have read the article, what do you think.
I can’t believe PopeHat is trying to throw cold water on that already. :-) Seems like RICO is how they could get some of the organizers who may have been too smart to show up on Jan 6. Also a good way to get House/Senate elected officials and staff who may have been involved, also.
Cheryl from Maryland
My 97 year old mother in law just got her first shot in VA. My husband who has renal failure will maybe get vaccinated at the end of spring at the rate MoCo MD is getting vaccines (7,000 a week for a county of over 1 million). I figure at 63 and no health issues I might get vaccinated by the end of this year if I am lucky.
WaterGirl
@Josie (also): I know! My sisters and I got turned loose after breakfast and had to be home by dark. Even when we were little, like 6 or 7!
WaterGirl
@Cheryl from Maryland: Something I read today said the vaccine should be available to everyone, regardless of rating, by April.
trollhattan
Registered with the county and my healthcare network won’t yet let me register, because reasons.
Told work “thanks, but no thanks” to coming back 1-2 days/week, not until I have the vaccine (both shots). Then we can talk about whether it even makes sense then. Teambuilding shememebuilding, I don’t even want to use the elevator.
Tom Levenson
Champ and Tikka represent.
Tikka really is two doses of everything.
gene108
@brendancalling:
I got laid off in January, and I’m thinking of switching to teaching.
How do you find it?
Roger Moore
@WaterGirl:
It’s amazing how much better things go when the people in charge actually care about solving problems rather than denying them and avoiding work. It’s almost as if there are real benefits to electing competent and energetic people!
mali muso
Anyone who is in Virginia and is in one of the currently eligible categories, let me know if you’re looking for a site. The mass vaccination clinic were I’m volunteering is accepting all Virginians. Appointments book up fast, but there does seem to be availability.
WaterGirl
@Tom Levenson: Champ and Tikka insisted on being on the stickers, and they told me that “Dad” had already said yes.
trollhattan
@WaterGirl:
Seems…plausible, presuming we can continue raising the vaccination rate. IIRC Fauci said 2M/day would be a good target.
Once “regular folk” start getting the shot we can build that herd immunity into our day-to-day lives, so the sooner the better in my book. Many of the special-needs high-priority populations aren’t out in public anyway.
WaterGirl
@Roger Moore: Absolutely, but a ship this big? I am kind of amazed that we can see any impact this fast.
FlyingToaster
@Josie (also): @WaterGirl: I was a city kid, and Jewish, so we had to have either a bike or buddy system to leave our yard. WarriorTeen finally started taking walks on her own when she got a phone. And she and her nearby classmates are all intensely aware of where our local fascists live.
cope
Partly in celebration of having both shots building chemical weapons in our bodies, we had our first carry out food in a year last night. Pizza and Italian beef from Rosati’s curbside. Left overs for lunch today and there’s still pizza left. What a joy. Baby steps…
Benw
Boiler guy installed a new igniter but it had a bad gasket so we’re back to no heat or hot water for another 24 hours. Luckily we have good insulation and a foot of snow on the roof so the house has been staying in the 50s the last 48 hours.
WaterGirl
@FlyingToaster: I was a city kid, too! Our “territory” was about two miles in any direction.
WaterGirl
@Benw: In the 50s is pretty damn cold inside the house. I did that a couple of times for a couple of days in the middle of winter, and I would not want to do it again.
WaterGirl
@cope: Be careful, you’re not completely protected yet.
Signed,
Mom
NotMax
@WaterGirl
Nobody much cared where I went so long as it was out.
;)
FlyingToaster
@WaterGirl: I don’t imagine that you were a Jew in the Bible Belt, which was why my parents were, um, paranoid.
My dad’s synogogue was still getting picketed by Westover Baptist before Covid.
Ken
@Josie (also): I can’t find it now, but there was an article that looked at three (perhaps four) generations who had grown up in the same house, and how far the kids typically went from the house when they were playing. Sixty years ago, they were wandering miles away. That contracted over the generations, until the current generation barely gets out of the yard.
thruppence
My 90 year old mom is out getting her first shot now. Big relief. She is not as isolated as she should be and loves to go out to play bridge with her friends.
gene108
I get my first vaccine dose tomorrow. NJ’s distributing the vaccine through multiple providers, and each has their own scheduling system.
I got an appointment with one provider in July 5. I heard back from another last week to schedule for this week.
The grocery stores, and drug stores are no longer taking appointments due to be fully booked.
I guess, on the plus side, I did not have to stay on hold for hours or have websites crash on me. Checking where appointments are available was relatively pain free, except for appointments not coming open.
Roger Moore
@WaterGirl:
The key motif for the past 4 years has been bureaucrats fighting to keep the government working in the face of incompetence and hostility from their political leadership. That we still have a government that is remotely functional is a tribute to their hard work. It shouldn’t be a surprise they can get a lot done when the people at the top start supporting them as much as possible rather than fighting them.
It’s also important to remember that this is just the one area that’s showing dramatic improvement, and that’s because it’s the area that’s getting the most attention. Other parts of the government aren’t turning around so fast.
guachi
Did you guys see the trolling Pelosi did of McCarthy by referring to him as “McCarthy (Q-CA)” in a press release?
Starboard Tack
TPM has a series on how people are adapting post Trump. For me, before the inaugaration, I was very focused on what the crazies, from Trump on down, were saying. Now, I’m finding that unless I really focus, the words don’t make any sense. I see their lips move and I hear sound, but it’s mostly just duck farts. Hail Satan! What a joy! How you doin’?
NotMax
Major weather change ongoing. Winds howling outside to beat the band, weather sites saying currently 40 mph but feels and sounds more.
Ken
SPOKESPERSON: “Just a typo.”
PRESS: “How about the subsequent 30 times your office has done it?”
SPOKESPERSON: “Cut-and-paste.”
WaterGirl
@Roger Moore: Looks like the FCC is hitting the ground running.
gene108
@WaterGirl:
They know the SPLC was able to shutdown some white supremacist leaders, in the late 80’s and early 90’s, by suing them in civil court and proving their speech led to violent acts.
I’m not sure how that’d work for a criminal prosecution
hueyplong
@guachi: Also called him Qevin at least once.
Sparkedcat
@WaterGirl: I and my childhood friends had to be home when the streetlights came on.
Baud
@guachi:
Q and R are right next to each other in the alphabet. Honest mistake.
JCJ
@Van Buren:
Three guys are killed in a car crash. They get to heaven, St Peter says before you get in you have to answer a question: What is Easter?
The first guys says: That is once a year, you get a cake with candles and some presents.
He does not get in.
The second guy says: That is in the winter, you get a tree and decorate it, and a guy in a red suit brings you presents.
He does not get in
The third guy says: That is when Jesus was crucified, buried, and on the third day he rose from the grave. Then he looked around and saw his shadow and went back in the grave and there were six more weeks of winter
Anotherlurker
I’m going for my first shot in an or so. I had an appointment on Feb. 10 but I was offered today’s appointment thru an email from my Contra Costa County health dept., so I took it.
raven
Dose two one week from today. It will be 29 days between but by all accounts that’s cool.
H.E.Wolf
Thank you, WaterGirl, for expediting the fix to the commenting box!
My dad, who lived in NYC from age 7 to college, was allowed by his parents to use public transit to visit the 1939-40 New York World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows, when he was 11 and 12. He had a youth pass and spent a lot of time there… particularly, he said, in the Food Court. :)
I can recall the giddy freedom of biking along the (non-bike-friendly) local streets with my best friend on their family’s tandem bicycle, when we were 14 or thereabouts… and the utterly mind-blowing freedom, a few years later in a smaller city, of riding along the bike paths (!!!) to get to my part-time job.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
My quad tendon repair (previously scheduled for today) got put off until next week so I can go to a cardiologist tomorrow and get cleared. Apparently there’s a difference between my pre-op EKG and one I did in 2019.
Yay me, I guess. The internist told me that it could be as simple as a different placement of an electrode. It could also indicate a heart attack that happened without me noticing.
LongHairedWeirdo
Apropos of nothing in particular, I got a great giggle out of a name for a vaccination I’d heard (maybe here – I don’t get out *that* much). See, at one point, Geraldo Rivera, the fellow who brought us the opening of Al Capone’s vault, suggested that the vaccines should be named after Trump, like the polio vaccine was named after Salk. I thought that was as stupid as anything said on Fox, because Salk actually helped make the vaccine available, while Trump sat on his lardass telling lies, and accomplishing nothing. (Remember, Pfizer got the first vaccine *without* any federal help, only the (presumably needless) promise of sales if it was effective… that’s right, the only part of Operation Warp Speed that was as expected was how it was fictional.)
So, much better than calling it the “trump”, I saw one person report being asked by a student if they were looking forward to getting the “Fauci ouchie”. Two birds with one stone! I love it!
SiubhanDuinne
@guachi:
@Ken:
I think she also called him “McQarthy,” but maybe that was someone else.
Benw
@WaterGirl: yeah, especially with the kids doing remote learning! We have a couple space heaters for under their desks in the morning, but it’s chilly! I’m happy it’s not going down into the 40s!
WaterGirl
@Baud: But not on the keyboard!
WaterGirl
@H.E.Wolf:
I have done nothing but watch and wait to see if Firefox would come out with an update that would resolve the issue. Are you on Firefox 85.0, or have they come out with an update?
Low Key Swagger
We had a little dilemma… wife works in the health related field but has no patient contact and in fact works from home. But Vandy contacted her right after they vaccinated all of the nurses and support staff, offered her the vaccine. She wanted to wait and let other essential people get it, but I told her that if they were offering, get it. She had her second shot two weeks ago. I think we did the right thing.
narya
Dose 2 on Friday . . . we’ll see if there are side effects other than eventual antibodies! What I want to see is a list for people who are currently not “eligible” (here in IL) but who can drop everything and get to a site by the end of the day, so that no doses are wasted. I have a friend who isn’t currently eligible, and likely won’t be for a couple of months, but who could easily do that. I’m also seeing a ton of effort to get it out to communities that have been hit the hardest.
Ruckus
@Roger Moore:
Blasphemy!!!!!
WaterGirl
@Benw: At least you have more bodies in the house. :-)
Doing lots of baking?
WaterGirl
@Low Key Swagger:
I think you did, too.
randy khan
@WaterGirl:
It seems like plain old conspiracy would be enough for the organizers, and maybe for the traitors among our elected officials and staff. You don’t need to get fancy.
Roger Moore
@H.E.Wolf:
When I was in elementary school, I was allowed, even encouraged, to bicycle to the community pool about 2 miles away for swimming lessons. When I got a bit older, I was allowed to bicycle to the next city over (about 10 miles each way) to shop in the shopping mall. Much of the route was along a US highway, so it was not comfortable back road riding.
Aleta
@Roger Moore: “Other parts of the government aren’t turning around so fast.”
Roger Moore
@Low Key Swagger:
I was allowed to get my vaccination because I work for a healthcare provider. Like your wife, I have no patient contact, though I at least am coming in to work and could potentially encounter a patient. I have few qualms about getting vaccinated. For one thing, my employer insisted that I keep coming to work as an essential worker even when everything was shut down. For another, at least at the time I got my first dose, the limit on vaccinations seemed to be on the distribution side rather than production, so it made sense for anyone who was being offered a dose to get it.
WaterGirl
@Aleta: Arghh! That’s maddening.
Scout211
This seems like good news for California.
https://www.kcra.com/article/gov-newsom-covid-19-response-vaccine-distribution-feb-3/35407602
Baud
@WaterGirl: Shhhh.
raven
@Low Key Swagger: Absolutely, I’m not happy that Georgia is not offering it to teachers yet and I’d give mine to one if I could but I can’t.
Major Major Major Major
Hey I know that cat!
Roger Moore
@Aleta:
Yep. Just as bureaucrats who support the basic Democratic view of the government being competent and helpful resisted Trump, bureaucrats who support Trump’s view of the government being used to punish Those People are resisting Biden.
CatFacts
Yay! Second day in a row I can post in Visual mode on Firefox 85.0.
Back to lurking, because I don’t really have anything else to add and work is time-consuming right now.
randy khan
I want the vaccine as soon as I can get it, but do not begrudge the people ahead of me in line. I’m relatively safe, with little contact with anyone other than my wife (who generally has even less contact with other people than me), not too old, and generally healthy. I’ll wait my turn, and jump on it as soon as I’m allowed.
On other topics, after 2+ days of snow (but not too much), we have warmer weather (which actually started before the snow ended yesterday), so it’s melting fast. Almost perfect, really.
Amir Khalid
@H.E.Wolf:
I don’t think there’s been aby Firefox update since 85.0. here’s been no new “Firefox is updated” notification, and I’m still having to comment in text mode, which I hate.
MomSense
@brendancalling:
If you have any questions you think a high school student may be able to help with, I’ll relay them to my 11th grader.
Benw
@WaterGirl: trying to get my teenager to make us a cheesecake!
hueyplong
@randy khan: I’m in the same situation as randy khan, only minus the snow. We’ll wait our turn.
Ruckus
@Aleta:
When did this story run? Sound like it was after he was sworn in as president.
FTFNYT calls him Mr. Biden.
Leto
@Aleta: Loathe to say it, but Biden should take a page out of Reagan’s playbook and just disband the ICE union, ala the air traffic controllers. Fire’em all. Out of control agency.
Mallard Filmore
@WaterGirl:
I keep the thermostat at 63, and need 2 sweaters, a parka, and an electric arthritis heating pad draped over my legs to keep warm … plus a cat to sleep on the pad.
Just One More Canuck
@CaseyL: Tikka will cut you if you don’t choose him
The Moar You Know
@Aleta: There is an easy remedy to this, and St. Ronaldus Reagan did show us the way.
Fire them all, decertify the union and start over.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
raven
@FlyingToaster: Ever see this pic I snapped at an Anti-Phelps rally in Savannah?
Starboard Tack
@narya:
I got my second Pfizer last evening. Much more side effect than the first. Slight fever. Occasional chills. Very sore arm. A little stiff. Chest and nasal congestion. A little nausea. Also headache but I have a headache disorder and I think the stress is aggravating. O2 sat is good so probably not COVID. I made a lot of comfort food yesterday but I don’t have much appetite. Maybe tomorrow. No regrets.
raven
@Mallard Filmore: I bought some insulated sweatpants that work great!
evap
My neighbor volunteered at a vaccination site and got a vaccine at the end of her shift, although she is not eligible in the current phase. Apparently, they offer any shots leftover at the end of the day to volunteers. And since she received one shot, they booked her an appointment for the second shot three weeks later. So I have signed up to work at a site in a couple of weeks. No guarantee that I will get a shot, but it’s highly likely. Plus, you know, I’ll be helping get people vaccinated, not a bad thing. It’s all day and I am lucky that I am able to clear my calendar for a day.
WaterGirl
@Major Major Major Major: Samwise returned his permission slip with your signature on it. :-)
citizen dave
Monday my state lowered age to 65 for vaccine. Signed my wife up, Feb 3, 10:10 a.m. She drives over, comes back fairly quickly. Appt. is for March 3, NOT Feb 3. I could have sworn it was FEB. Damn these two months having the same dates on the same days. Another month for her; I’m still waiting for eligibility.
Vaccine site they usually have around 20 shots leftover at the end of the day when they call people who signed up on that list (we both have) to come over and get a shot.
Great stickers!
WaterGirl
@Roger Moore: Maybe they out themselves early and often.
They may be guaranteed a job, but not necessarily one they like, in a location they like, doing anything they like.
cope
@WaterGirl: MOM…
The Rosati’s guy put the order in the back of my car where I had already opened the tailgate. He and I were both masked. This is the same way I pick up groceries and I feel pretty confident that transmission via surfaces is a pretty low risk situation. But yeah, we talked it over quite a bit before deciding to place the order. My wife is at considerably more risk than I and she always gets the last word. Unfortunately, to that end, the pizza was pepperoni free.
trollhattan
@Amir Khalid:
FF 85.0 Win 10 was acting odd for me last weekend–wouldn’t let me enter text in visual tab for comment replies; acted normally with straight comments–but today seems to function normally.
Still does that thing with lists, though.
Thing 1
Soft return thing 2
Soft return thing 3
Soft return thing 4 has paragraph spacing
Progress.
Roger Moore
@The Moar You Know:
I think it would be hard to get rid of the union, but ISTR there are serious questions about whether Cuccinelli was properly appointed to his acting role. Proving that he wasn’t would invalidate all the official actions he took while purporting to be acting deputy secretary including signing the union contract. If you could prove it by challenging some other action he took illegitimately, the union wouldn’t even be a party to the case and would have a hard time fighting it.
WaterGirl
@Leto:
Yes! Though someone smarter than I am will chime in to say why that is a terrible idea.
Major Major Major Major
@Ruckus:
It’s their style guide, they called Mr. Trump Mr. Trump too https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/08/reader-center/why-does-nyt-call-president-mr-trump.html
Major Major Major Major
@WaterGirl: If it was legible it wasn’t my signature…
Quiltingfool
My Dad got his first Pfizer shot today! He had signed up a couple of days ago, thought it might be a week or so. They called him today, asked if he could come down and of course he jumped on that! He said the process was very efficient, took no time at all. Let me tell you they must have been awesome for my Dad to be impressed; he’s pretty picky and somewhat cranky, lol. I’m impressed, because this is in Missouri – maybe things are looking up!
WaterGirl
@Major Major Major Major: Seeing as Samwise is a most trustworthy cat, I did not check closely.
Yutsano
@Aleta: Biden can dissolve ICE as an agency and let CBP take those functions back. Maybe the union would like to have no employees to work with.
WaterGirl
@Quiltingfool: No one is adding their shot information to the original thread in the sidebar. I may have to award stickers here and make this the second official vaccine sticker thread.
WaterGirl
@Yutsano: That sounds like a clever idea. From what I’ve seen so far, Biden does not plan to be hamstrung by the previous administration.
satby
@cope: My son owns a Rosati’s in Chicago. Food service has to abide by all the normal health department guidelines plus now covid safety guidelines. Getting take-out is pretty much as safe as it always was.
Remember, covid isn’t the only disease out there.
cope
Late to the conversation about childhood boundaries because I was busy wasting two hours of my life watching Liverpool lose a second home game in a row.
By seventh or eighth grade, my mom would drive me and my two buddies to a bus station at Glenview Naval Air Station (now a mall or something) where the bus would take us to the northern most L station in Evanston and we would head into the big, bad city to go to home Cub’s games. It was a dollar to get into the bleachers. Oh yeah, and something about onions on our belts.
Locally, our boundaries were pretty much drawn by how far we could get on our bikes.
Roger Moore
@Yutsano:
Unfortunately, I don’t think CBP is a whole lot better on the issue than ICE is. We need to completely revamp our whole immigration system.
cope
@satby: Thank you for the reassurance.
randy khan
@Ruckus:
It’s the NY Times house style. Everyone who has a title gets it the first time, then after that you’re Mr. or Ms., although in recent years I think I’ve seen the Times defer to people who use terms other than Mr. or Ms. (And it may be that Dr. keeps getting used after the first reference.) They did the same thing with Trump, and you can see it in the story on the 77 days of subversion in Monday’s Times – the first reference is President Donald J. Trump, and the second one is “Mr. Trump.”
zhena gogolia
@cope:
I wouldn’t hesitate to do that. And I’m pretty strict!
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Hey, that was my Dad’s age then too! I know he went to the World’s Fair, but I don’t know if he went alone. At least he never said anything about going alone. The main thing I remember him telling me about that experience was that he saw a demonstration of hot dogs being made, and never ate a hot dog again.
sab
@Major Major Major Major: The gray one?
Major Major Major Major
@WaterGirl: Fair! I’m sure I just signed it and forgot.
H.E.Wolf
I’m using Firefox 84, which broke right along with 85… and is now back to normal.
I firmly believe that giving the gimlet eye to malfunctioning software is… somewhat helpful. :) So thank you!
satby
@WaterGirl: All due respect to Maze’s graphic skills, but not all of us are interested in posting to a special thread about getting a shot. The vaccination was it’s own reward.
H.E.Wolf
My dad remembered a series of little doors in a wall, each one containing a little food sample. He was on Cloud Nine. :)
satby
@WaterGirl: It’s a terrible idea because Democrats aren’t union busters. Normal termination procedures for not following official directives is the right way to do it.
H.E.Wolf
Postscript to WaterGirl: … and now, commenting is acting wacky again. I’ll just stay over here real quietly and wait for the galactic flux to quit doing whatever it’s doing. :)
Geoboy
@Leto: I’m not loath to see ICE totally disbanded. If you let them get away with defying the President then you’ve lost control. Plus firing everybody who’s going “You’re not the boss of me” sends a wonderful message to anyone else who is looking at them as role models. My guess is that President Biden already has people working on this, and they’re working on how to do it intelligently.
JoyceH
If we’re talking ‘back in MY day’, I remember in the summer we’d just fling out of the house on our bikes and get back in time for dinner. When I was an adult and looked at the height of the trees we used to climb, it made my blood run cold. We also played on construction sites, and had a hideaway under the broadcasting booth at the high school football field – you reached the little nook under the booth by climbing a chain.
That was small town Midwest. A friend grew up in New York City and recalls taking the subway on her own to her ballet class when she was seven.
karen marie
@Roger Moore: I just looked at google maps and learned that the walk I used to make when I was in fourth through sixth grade, from the library back to my home, is almost four miles. That seems a bit insane but I loved that walk. In the early ’60s it was quiet country roads. Not any more!
They’ve put a huge addition on the library since the ’60s but, thankfully, they arranged it so that from the front it still looks like the original building. I loved that place.
Gravenstone
Loving the Tika side eye.
WaterGirl
@satby: It’s not a mandate! :-)
It’s nice for some folks to share their joy and relief at getting the shot, or to feel hopeful from seeing the mounting numbers of people who are getting theirs.
Low Key Swagger
One of my most vivid memories of childhood was my buddies and I going to a bridge over the “wash”, as we called it, they supported train traffic. The bridge had these panels in side and we had a great time placing rocks on the tracks, then hiding in one of the bins. The train would barrel through at high speed, crush the rocks into a powdery dust, which would of course cover us head to toe. I guess we got bored smashing pennies. When you jumped into the bin, the actual train was about two feet away. Talk about loud. And scary. I don’t recommend it, of course.
WaterGirl
@JoyceH: My two sisters and I were climbing on the roof of the local Five and Dime store the had burned the night before. I still remember the holes in the roof and the smell of the embers that were still burning.
It was only a couple of blocks away from our house, but the nice policemen who found us doing that didn’t quite see it as the adventure we did. :-)
So my sisters (7.5 and 10) told the police that I had gone up there (I was 5) and they were just there to get me down.
I do not remember what happened after that, so either we returned home to a (figurative) raging firestorm with my parents or somehow they never found out.
satby
@WaterGirl: of course. Just addressing why some of us may not be commenting there.
WaterGirl
@karen marie: That triggers a library memory for me. Our first library was just a block or two away (we lived in the business district about the local tavern owned by my parents) and it must have been like a second floor walkup because you walked up this really tall and skinny staircase to get to the library. I still remember the smell.
As some point when I was maybe 8 or 9, they built a new modern library several blocks and it never felt the same.
narya
@Starboard Tack: I got Moderna–and my largest side effect showed up a week later. Arm was sore the first two days, but on day 7 it was swollen, hot, & red. Better by the next morning, though remnants of the rash lasted another day or two. We’ll see . . .
satby
@narya: I’ve seen suggestions that people take a Benadryl before the second shot to ramp down a reaction like that. Seems a long time for an allergic reaction to manifest though.
Roger Moore
@WaterGirl:
The local library was replaced when I was growing up. It was part of replacing a whole bunch of older city buildings with a nice, new civic center. In addition to replacements for our old city hall and public library, we also got a new senior center and a new recreation center. It was a big deal in my household because my mother was chair of the library board at the time and was heavily involved, first in the bond measure to fund it and then in the design and construction process.
Joy in FL
Those stickers are all great : )
Zelma
@H.E.Wolf:
Horn and Hardhart Automats! Treasured memory of my childhood. I can’t remember if you put a quarter in the slot and out came a tuna sandwich or whether you paid at a cashier. They had them in NYC and Philly and I don’t know where else. Precursor of the vending machine but the food was fresh made, more or less.
Barbara
@Low Key Swagger:
So long as “support staff” included medical residents. Which it didn’t at Stanford until they raised holy hell.
Roger Moore
@Zelma:
The format varied by time and place. Horn and Hardart started as a conventional cafeteria. They eventually invented the idea of the automat, but not all of their locations switched. IIRC- and it’s been a while since I read about this- all of their Philadelphia locations and their less busy New York locations stayed as traditional cafeterias. It was only the busiest New York locations that switched.
NotMax
@Zelma
Coins in slots. Cashier in the ornate cage was there to exchange bills for coins.
karen marie
@WaterGirl: Yes, that first library is special. I’ve been fortunate to have had several special libraries in my life. I loved the Boston Public Library – so big! Their research department was a marvel. I used it a lot pre/early internet to get spellings of technical/scientific words that would come up in the legal transcripts I was doing. I could call up and say “it sounds like X and it sort of means Y, what’s that word.” The person would go away for three or four minutes and come back with the correct word. I wish I’d spent any time physically exploring the library farther than the fiction section.
My last Massachusetts library was in Fall River. That’s another nice, old library with lots and lots of old books. I loved just wandering through the rows, pulling out books printed in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s and just smelling their smells and admiring the fonts. They don’t make them like that any more!
The libraries here in Arizona are all relatively new, with vanishingly few old books. Of course, with the internet too, there’s no need to go in except to pick up and drop off, so the opportunity to just go in and sniff pages is lost.
Starboard Tack
@WaterGirl:
I remember that smell. Dust and old paper and dried out glue and just a whiff of mildew. The library was in the old town hall and the narrow staircase to the second floor creaked so much everyone in the building knew when someone was going up or down.
FlyingToaster (Tablet)
@raven: ???
WaterGirl
@karen marie: I tended bar for a year after grad school when my mom was terminally ill, and I called the library more than once to settle a disagreement between two patrons at the bar.
Another Scott
@WaterGirl: Firefox does release “nightly” builds which include fixes and new features. People who are curious could install one of them and see if it helps the issue. They also have “beta” and “developer” channels.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/
I just checked here with 84.0.1 (64-bit on Winders) and see both the Visual and Text tabs in the comment box. It’s installing 85.0 (64-bit). That seems fine too.
I am running UBlock Origin as my ad-blocker, but turning it off and doing a forced refresh doesn’t seem to break it. The Visual Tab is there for new comments and for replies.
Dunno.
HTH a little.
Cheers,
Scott.
(Posted using Chrome.)
J R in WV
@NotMax:
I remember very well the day my dad and I went for a long walk in the woods that surrounded our early sub-urban home, in a not yet built out area.
After we walked around for quite a while all over the hillside, he asked me if I knew which way was back towards our house, and I pointed toward the house.
After that I was allowed to wander in the woods, alone or with other kids who lived in the tiny neighborhood. It was pretty swell — this was in the mid-to-late 1950s.