Congratulations, JenP!

My mom and dad finally got appointments here in PA, but they have to drive an hour and a half to York to get them. I'm assuming I won't get jabbed until summer, at least.

Pharmacy locations are still prioritizing essential workers and senior citizens here, but the state sites are accepting anyone with a qualifying comorbidity (which is a pretty long list).

Yeah, we have a pretty broad swath of qualification now here in MA, but still very few appointments available.

As we know, moving is the absolute worst,

Ahem! Disagree.

Laura, did I miss where you all are moving to? Is this your second move in only a few years or am I mid-remembering?

Yay house JenP!

Yay vaccine Jess!

MD is also still at 65+. An elderly lady in the neighborhood that I see out walking quite a bit went into PA to get one and she is in her 70s or 80s, so not sure what the issue was with getting one here.

Oh, Laura, I forgot to wish you a generous offer on the house! Moving can be funny - our last one was between buildings, about a hundred feet, and we amused the hell out of the neighbors by running back and forth with a garden wagon, a handtruck and a furniture dolly - may yours be as easy as possible. How long have you been there?

(Do I really want to do this again in a year and a half? Yes, yes I do, but Jim had better follow through on his oath to clean out the office closet.)

Washington is 65 and over/50 and over if you're in a multigenerational household (grandparents living with grandchildren).

And it's so very frustrating because they keep pushing the dates for the later tiers back. When they first put out the tentative schedule, it looked like Dylan and I would get ours in March (adults with pre-existing conditions), and Alex might get his in June or July (healthy, will be 17 by then). Now they're saying spring/summer for our tier, which I interpret as June, and as for Alex, who knows? Thanksgiving? Christmas? Meanwhile, my BIL and SIL in Oklahoma, who are in basically the same health/age/occupation classes as Dylan and I, get their first shots this week.

And I don't know why, since I've been handling this thing pretty well for the last year, but this has me ready to snap. I want to go scream at Governor Inslee, because we're supposed to be a well-run state with a solid public health system, and then at Joe Biden because now that the grown-ups are back in charge I thought it wouldn't be so much every state for itself anymore, and given all that, WHY is Oklahoma MONTHS ahead of Washington?!

Phew. At least ranting is cathartic.

I hear that, Susan. We have a Republican governor who has been a fancy consultant and a literal HEALTH CARE EXECUTIVE, and we're still floundering and have no good systems? This is the shit that he is supposed to be good at.

I've tried signing up - and am on a wait list for MedStar - but DC is prioritizing other sections of the city. I moved into the "rich" ward, so now I have to wait. I'm 68 with underlying conditions, but living in the wrong place (at least for vaccination). And, of course, the website to sign up crashes just about every day. sigh ....

I moved over the summer and it was harrowing. I'm still finding things missing, broken, etc. I'm glad I moved my great-grandmother's silver myself, or that would have surely been taken.

And in re Dorito Tacos - our top person, some time ago, said she'd had her first one and, when she finished, cried because it was gone ... until she realized she had a second one in the bag.

Definitely, Susan. I am really hoping Washington can get our shit together and speed this up because we feel behind! And I’m sure some of it is supply issues but still!