I'm sorry askye.

I found out one of my cousins at the Christmas gathering last week tested positive. On the upside she's already tested negative, so hopefully she wasn't too contagious by the time we saw her, and Mom and I were wearing masks whenever an immunocompromised cousin-in-law was near. (Said cousin-in-law is my biggest worry, as she stayed in the same house.) We're keeping an eye out for symptoms this next week though.

i did not anticipate it being closed north of Los Angeles!!

Yeah, the Grapevine closes when there is snow. The 101 will be a lot slower. You can try going up I15 to Kramer Junction and then taking 58 across to Bakersfield, but things can also get pretty dicey around Tehachapi. Not a lot of good ways north when I5 closes there.

You can get pretty far North on 395, but it puts you on the Eastern side of the Sierra Nevadas and eventually you'll be in some pretty bad weather in the mountains.

I have a uti. And I'm pissed at M's mom. It took a long time to go to walk in clinic and drop off prescriptions and M was hungry so we got fast food . M's mom wasn't here and we assumed she would have eaten.

But we get in and she realizes we have food and whines about where hers is and she didn't eat because she's broke and how was she supposed to eat anything.

Except we have tons of food. We have eggs from his sister's chickens. She could have had a pb & j or grilled cheese or tuna salad sandwich or chicken salad or tomato sandwich and that s just sandwiches. But no she whines and guilts Matthew to give up half his lunch. She would never do the same for him

If people are interested in a NYE Zoom from 10-midnightish ET I will be on and the link is here:

Topic: NYE Time: Dec 31, 2021 10:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting [link]

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Hey, anyone who's self-employed and had Covid in 2021 can claim Covid-19 Sick and Family Leave tax credits when they file their 2021 taxes: [link] . (I was poking through my end-of-year tax stuff and had totally forgotten about it.)

That may not apply to any Buffista other than me, but just in case, I thought I'd mention it.

404 error at that link, Steph.

Try these: [link] and [link]

eta: looks like the issue with Steph's link is a period at the end of the URL. Without it, I get the page okay: [link]

I still like the IRS links better. :-)

Timelies all!

Ugh. I went back to work yesterday(even though we didn't go to Florida, I still took the days I requested) and found we were quite short staffed. One person was on leave, another was out for a doctor's visit and a third was home awaiting results of a COVID test. That left me and the post-bac to process all the samples until the late-shift person came in at noon. It was pretty rough.

Today was worse. I got to the lab, found nobody there and called my supervisor(who had taken the day off) only to find that the post-bac called in sick, the person who was out yesterday for a doctor's visit was also out sick, and the person who was waiting on test results was still home waiting. That left me as the only person processing samples until the late-shift person got there. (There was one other person in the lab, but she doesn't process samples) Not a fun day.

looks like the issue with Steph's link is a period at the end of the URL.

Ooops, fixed my link. Thanks, dcp!

I'm so sorry, askye.

Sheryl, that sounds like some no-good, very bad days.

My return flights are both delayed. My regional flight is awaiting maintenance to clear the plane because of a bird strike. If we actually depart as rescheduled, I should still be able to make my connection. I'll be getting home even later than planned, but all I really need to do tomorrow is get to the pharmacy before it closes and get groceries.

On a plane now awaiting paperwork!