In regard to an earlier comment about visitations - less so in the current job, but in a previous one, they'd talk about having "visitations" with people in Congress (their staff usually). And it always kind of flummoxed me ... I'd assumed a visitation would involve a dove, holy light and something a bit more sacred than talking about building roads and such.

Timelies all!

I'm sorry for your and Maria's loss, Sophia.

I'm sorry, askye.

Aww, kittens.

Vax report: feeling sort of achy and chilled but it’s hard to distinguish from a “this has been a WEEK” Friday eve. And let me tell you it has been a week.

Already got results: boobs are normal! Not that I thought they weren’t but good to check!

That's good, brenda!

Vax report: I feel like I have a virus: chills, aches, headache, mild nausea/loss of appetite, mild dizziness, sore arm.

None of these symptoms are strong enough that they would make me go to the doctor, were I actually sick. I would feel like I should hydrate, take it easy, and take Tylenol, so I am.

The onset was a little slower for me than I expected. Arm hurt first, yesterday. Tummy felt gross after supper last night. Had the chills off and on, but they went away.

This morning, I only had the sore arm. I thought maybe I'd escaped with almost nothing.

Symptoms started coming on at about noon today, my time (I had the 2nd Moderna shot at 3:00pm EDT, yesterday). I ended up sleeping from about 3 to 7pm, so I'll be up all night.

I've felt much worse.

Yay for your boobs, meara.

Yay for your boobs, meara.

So say we all!

My friend got her CARE package with the Tiara. She's excited to wear it to (outside) brunch this Sunday.

I'm so old that I remember when you used an lower-case L for a 1.

I learned to type on a huge institutional manual typewriter in the early 1980s and I remember that it was lacking a "1" and a "0" key. It was interesting because I already had an Apple II series computer at home which had both of those keys, so I was developing two versions of the muscle memory needed to type.

I learned to type on a computer in the early 80s. When I was in HS 1968-1972 there were two tracks, vocational or college. If you were not going to college you would get the typing classes if you were female, and things like shop if you were male. (so not joking) If you were going to college you took languages and didn't learn to type because, duh, you would have a secretary for that or something. So I didn't learn to type until I took Mavis Beacon teaches typing on my apple clone computer circa 1980. (might have been on the trash 80, don't remember) My boys were speedy typists when they were still in single digit ages!

When I was in school they fixed that issue so everyone had to take the beginning of everything. So I had typing, home ec, art, shop and computers. I somehow got out of taking typing in high school because I typed the entire school paper. I also knew how to type because I was obsessed with my moms typing textbook and or acted all the time. I typed everything. I am still unsure how I got out of that class, because I thought it was a state requirement