I managed to qualify due to my age, being fat and having comorbidity issues. I'll take what I can.

In good news, it seems that last year one child died of the flu ... which is bad, but the year before there were 200. Wonder why that is ....

My Roomba won't go over the black patches on the rug in the den because it thinks they are cliffs it can fall off,

Ha! That's super funny. And, I mean, it makes sense, but... still funny.

Noon worked well for me for a while. I didn't mind the overly cutesy stuff, and I think we ask know most of what they suggest, but reminders are good. I did like the easy categorizing of food type: I did eat more healthily and/or recognized when I wasn't.

Washington is still "arrrrrrrrgh, when?" for me; Jim is looking at end of next month. The island is doing better than the county: a quarter of the population is over 65, and as of the weekend 78% of that cohort had received at least one shot. This weekend the community pharmacy opened up to teachers and child care providers - "We have 90 first-dose slots!" Five minutes later: "And they're gone." Our teachers went back a week ago, and it's a different world - on top of all the precautions, the high school alone has 200 fewer students on the rolls (parents lost jobs and the family moved off-island, they're in private schools/switched to full-time homeschooling, or they've dropped out).

I replaced my shoes - including, in a fit of optimism, my sandals - and after doing a side-by-side comparison? I am hard on my footwear.

I don't have a Roomba, but another variety [link] and neither the dog or cats pay any attention to it. Mostly I like it for when I am up north because of the volume of pine needles and pet hair on the carpets. I don't have as much carpet here, but I still use it, just not as much.

According to my employer, my county now considers me eligible for working in the "Industrial Sector", which I am perfectly happy to take advantage of so I guess I will be trying to get an appointment now. I'm not going to make that another full-time job, though.

Now I have to get an appointment to renew my driver's license and get the Real ID. The DMV has an online page to schedule appointments (no walk-ins); they go live at 3:00 or 3:30 each Tuesday and book appointments for the week. No scheduling any further ahead, no appointments made by phone ... and, so far, no appointment for me. And, yet, it's better than the city's vaccine scheduling site.

I saw a statistics infographic not too long ago that for whatever population it was reporting on, flu hospitalizations had dropped from 174,000+ in 2019 to about 1,400 in the past year. Which really underscores that masks and social distancing do work, though Covid-19 being both more virulent and more dangerous than the flu means we need the vaccinations too.

And, in other news, it turns out that Aesop was right.

Shaking hands may be a thing of the past. It would be a good plan to continue many of the habits established in the past year as permanent changes. Mindfulness on hand washing, more delivery and pickup shopping, masks in crowded venues or traveling. This will not be our last pandemic.

That is delightful, Toddson

I am paralyzed with indecision about lunch. Do I want a burger or a steak sandwich?