The advice was to celebrate with ice cream and then go home in case of side effects.

That's good advice.

That's really just good life advice.

Hey Gud! Good to see you! And good luck with vaccine road tripping!!

Askye get the vaccine!! I’m hoping my sister and BIL can also get shots soon and that the fact that many folks in SC don’t want it will help them get it sooner, even if that’s not good for herd immunity.

Last Friday, I decided to try working from home (I've been coming in to the office just about every day). My boss has been pushing for it, since I missed some days due to the civil disturbances and Inauguration in January (streets and public transit were completely shut down). Our tech support people set me up ... or so I thought. I set up a table and desk chair, set up my internet and tried logging on to the office network. I got on email and sent a message to my boss that I was on, but then couldn't get to the network files. We had a program that was supposed to give me access to the network, but it wouldn't accept my login. I made repeated attempts with no luck. Then we had a staff Zoom call and it kept kicking me off, so I missed most of it. Then I couldn't access office email. I used my personal email to get in touch with the woman who handles our interactions with tech support and she gave me a phone number to call. I called, chose the option to have them call back and it disconnected me before I entered my phone number. I called back and, after five or ten minutes, it disconnected me again. I called again and was on hold between 20 and 30 minutes and was getting a low battery warning from my phone, so I hung up.

Never did get anything accomplished. Came in Monday and had office emails from tech support; spoke to someone who checked and - ta da! - my credentials to get on the network had not been set up properly. He wanted me to check it from home (again) and asked when I planned to try again ... and I said never, which kind of left him at a loss.

The woman who deals with them is less than happy with them (aside from my issues). We had a bunch of computers go bad - one person's battery EXPLODED, others had battery issues (my boss's computer had a bulge and was overheating, so they told him to unplug it and put it somewhere non-flammable). Meanwhile, we had a bunch of new computers ordered (since we're completely out of spares); they arrived and told the person they could get them set up remotely ... then, when she asked about having the new computers delivered to people who needed them scheduling the set-up, they announced they had to come in to the office to do the set-up in person. oy

That sounds terrible, Toddson.

I JUST got my vaccine appointment. I have no qualms about using my diabeetus to get the vaccine. They JUST opened up the poor people site (the only one you can go to on foot or on the bus or in a Lyft....) to my zip code and by the time I got my insuance information straighten around, it had gone from about 30 appointments available to about 8. I was lucky to slide in.

The advice was to celebrate with ice cream and then go home in case of side effects.

This is, like, universally applicable advice.

I saw something where a person got an appointment and went to the site; it was being run by One Medical (?) - not sure exactly what it is, but it seems to be a private healthcare operation that there have been issues with. Well, the person got there for their appointment and was told that they'd have to sign up for a One Medical membership - at $199 - and when they refused, had their appointment cancelled and they were sent away.

Hey, Gud! Glad to hear from you. Good luck with the vaccinations.

Toddson, that is horrifying.

Did it strike anyone how weird that golden statue of Trump was at CPAC? He rather famously has such strong support from the evangelical right and there is a golden idol at CPAC? Have these people never been to Sunday school? Something about the sheer irony makes me think of this:

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I've seen some things suggesting it's actually a Big Boy statue painted gold (fake gold) with the "patriotic" elements added. And there have been a LOT of comments about the Golden Calf.

In the One Medical story, I did a search and it seems that they're no longer getting a vaccine allocation because there were charges that they were giving priority to executives of the company and their friends, families, etc., to receive it. (I'd been sort of aware of them, having seen one of their facilities and hearing reports that they were not accepting some insurance, but I'd never paid much attention to them.)