I have a tea kettle (it looks like a striped cat!), but I can always heat water in one of the smaller pots I have. I bless the gas stove - it's self-igniting, which I'm hoping means it'll work in the event of a power failure. I do keep matches, since I occasionally burn candles and in the event the stove doesn't light itself.

In other news, the Atlantic City casino formerly owned by the formerly president was imploded this morning.

Well, how about that. I may need to look for video at some point.

As a general point of information for emergency preparation, camp stoves that burn alcohol are safe to use indoors. They do not burn very hot but they will boil water and heat up cans of whatever. In fact, when DH and I lived in the apartment with no stove that was all we cooked on for months and it was fine. Denatured alcohol is the preferred fuel but you can use isopropyl or vodka if that's what you have/can easily find to stash in your emergency kit.

I saw some clips from President Biden's town hall. There was one brief section where an eight-year-old girl asks about being vaccinated ... and he gave it his best grandfather advice. He told her she'd be all right and that her mother (who was there with her) would be all right and said all the reassuring things he'd probably say to his own grandchildren. sniff ....

I bless the gas stove - it's self-igniting, which I'm hoping means it'll work in the event of a power failure. I do keep matches, since I occasionally burn candles and in the event the stove doesn't light itself.

Our stove is electric (which I don't care about, because I grew up with an electric stove and, to be totally honest, gas stoves kinda scare me), but in the event of a power outage that coincides with the need to boil something/brew coffee, we have a camp stove in the attic.

I got the vaccine!! I’m volunteering today at a vaccine clinic and wasn’t sure if I would but I did!!! For that it was worth getting up at 430am. Coming back again tomorrow. Crossing my fingers I don’t get COVID from talking to all the people today but sooo glad.

Woo hoo, vaccine!

Yay, vaccine!

I've signed up ... I shouldn't be last on the list but the city's trying to get people in the less affluent areas vaccinated first. Of course, with my move last summer, I ended up in THE affluent area, so that bumps me down a bit.

I'm sorry that didn't work out to your advantage, Toddson, but I'm glad to hear the city is looking out for the less affluent. Hope you don't have to wait too long.

Yay, meara!!!

I'm having a "would not wish anyone dead, but would read certain obituaries with great interest" response to the news of Limbaugh's death.

Is it wrong to feel it would have been fine for him to have suffered painfully a while longer, so long as he wasn't well enough to be on the air? That is where I am with Trump. I don't want him to die. I want him to suffer, preferably in prison.