Yeah, the SF vaccine site is pretty good. With Walgreens, I was seeing appointment slots being added in the evening.

I didn't trust the "availability" checkbox at first because it was giving me nothing after checking periodically for a couple of days, but I rec it now because it's the easiest to sit on and refresh.

Ooh, City College--good to know!

I go on campus one afternoon a week and I'm due to today, but I have to take a Covid test first because I just got back from a trip to my uncle's "cabin" at Tahoe. Even though it was just Matilda and me and the only people were spoke to the entire time were masked checkout clerks behind Plexiglass screens, and even though I've had Covid and have had both my vax shots. I mean, I'll do it if I have to; I'm just not sure what the point is besides giving whoever administers it the extra practice.

Looks like the Hobby Lobby-sponsored Museum of the Bible paid a lot of money for fake Dead Sea Scrolls fragments:

Sweet karmic justice for their general crappitude, and also yay that it turns out that they didn't just poach a bunch of priceless historical artifacts after all. It's a lovely story all the way around!

The DH gets his second shot this coming week, and we plan on our first meal out in over a year for a couple of weeks after that. We rarely go out to dinner, but we do go out for brunch at a diner each Saturday and Sunday and have done so for the last 27 years. In all the places we’ve lived, we find an awesome funky joint and become regulars.

JFC another reorg, I am back to reporting to the same person I was in September again. I am really glad I had my camera off for this meeting. Well, no one got laid off this round, so that's a good thing

Your job really loves a reorg, -t! I thought mine did, but you really have us beat.

Go to this page, and click the link for your state:

So in MA it's generally been impossible to get an appointment at any normal time, so the word on the street is to pick a different state that has appointments available, which gets you into the signup system. You can do that part in advance, so you are ready at 12:05 or 6:05 to click the search button. I do not understand how this helps! But the local vax mavens swear by it.

Ugh, -t, that would be infuriating. I mean, yay for the no-layoffs part, but otherwise just irritation.

The DH gets his second shot this coming week, and we plan on our first meal out in over a year for a couple of weeks after that. We rarely go out to dinner, but we do go out for brunch at a diner each Saturday and Sunday and have done so for the last 27 years. In all the places we’ve lived, we find an awesome funky joint and become regulars.

How exciting! Myself, I can't wait to go anywhere that is not within walking distance. I haven't wanted to take transit since shelter-in-place went into effect and, aside from getting my Christmas tree this past December, I haven't been outside the city limits since January 2020.

So in MA it's generally been impossible to get an appointment at any normal time, so the word on the street is to pick a different state that has appointments available, which gets you into the signup system. You can do that part in advance, so you are ready at 12:05 or 6:05 to click the search button. I do not understand how this helps! But the local vax mavens swear by it.

That actually makes sense to me. Any time you can avoid yet another page before actually seeing whether anything is available is a win.

Timelies all!

My parents are heading north, and staying with us this weekend. I have to vacuum stuff and wash the slipcovers tonight. sigh...

At one point our VP said something along the lines of "There's no secret plan we are hiding from you, this is what we think will work so we are trying it" so now I am pretty sure there is a secret plan they are hiding from us. Or maybe just from me. Although having lunch helped a bit with that.

Logging on briefly from spring break in the Catskills (where we had a very loud windy snowstorm this morning - this region is lovely but also BAD AT SPRING) to say that Serious Eats' 2 minute mayo recipe is, as far as I can tell, foolproof. I have NEVER had it go wrong.

Good luck with the vaccine appointments!

So in MA it's generally been impossible to get an appointment at any normal time, so the word on the street is to pick a different state that has appointments available, which gets you into the signup system. You can do that part in advance, so you are ready at 12:05 or 6:05 to click the search button. I do not understand how this helps! But the local vax mavens swear by it.

This is basically what I did for NY - pick any location with available appointments, go through the signup process where you enter all your personal info, and then you can "edit" your appointment to a location that's not 400 miles away.