Texas governor Abbott has COVID. Mind you, he's had the vaccine and is receiving monoclonal antibodies, but still: Karma!

Unfortunately I expect he'll write it off as no big deal. Here's hoping for a terrible reaction to treatment.

If we're real lucky, he infected Paxton.

Dana, that would be lovely!

I have my vaccination card in my wallet. This being SC no one has asked to see it or any proof I'm vaccinated.

I haven't heard an update on my cousin in a bit, except the rehab place he is at had 2 cases of covid and was under quarantine but that should be ended by now. His ex wife had her sentencing and for getting a DUI with property damage and driving on a suspended (or maybe revoked license) while on probation for those same charges she got- 6months with time served so she'll be out in mid Oct, right around when the temporary guardianship runs out. So that will have to be dealt with again. When she gets out she will be on probation and have to go to AA 2x a week and go to a DUI class, not sure how the AA will work if the pandemic.

Various family members and I think she will get another DUI in less than 6 months of being released and will just get the same turn around of a short sentence and probation.

Matilda came home from the second day of school and I had to learn about 17 new names because she was sassing everybody (especially boys), making jokes, talking to the teachers, connecting faces to Zoom classes last year, smack talking in basketball and working really hard to pronounce everybody's name properly (not always easy in San Francisco where we don't have a lot of Bob and Linda).

And I realized that she's going to be one of those social glue people at this school.

I was reminded of the first SAIEW and somebody wondering online if we should have some icebreakers. And Cybervixen said, "We don't need no stinking icebreakers! I am the icebreaker!"

I just ordered a plastic sleeve for my vax card, so thanks for the reminder. I also have it backed up to the cloud. The only people (aside from those personally concerned about my health) who have wanted to know about my vax status are my employers. My university arranged for me to get my shot and, in a flash of competency rarely seen in large organizations, shared those records (with my permission) with the section of the university tracking vax status. So it’s been surprisingly friction free on my end.

I’m pleasantly surprised by my university’s response to COVID overall. It’s private and extremely well funded, so it doesn’t have to deal with a state legislature before making choices. There are higher ups who can say, “We don’t know,” which isn’t always the case. They’re flexible where it makes sense to be. They’ve come down hard on well connected students who think that means they don’t have to follow the rules. They’ll throw money at problems that money will solve. As evil overlords go, they’re doing all right.

The hospital asked me to bring a copy of my vax card, but then noone asked for it. They did ask me whether I was vaxxed, and they did a rapid Covid test (negative) prior to a little local anesthesia slice and snip thing I have tomorrow. It was negative, which I expected.

That sounds awesome for Matilda! Yay.

Good to hear Matilda is making the most of HS life. I hope they have a nice safe year. They have a MUCH better chance of that in your school district than the ones in Florida. They are having a predictably horrible show of it so far.

Sounds like Matilda is really doing great.

I'm kinda hungry, but I think its best to wait until my wife is out of the house to get some lunch. I already screwed up and made her angry because she went to the store and asked me what I wanted to get for dinner and I couldn't think of anything. It's really hard for me to switch from work and respond without making a mistake. I think she wanted me to grill something for dinner and I didn't pick up that I needed to respond by suggested something to grill. Sometimes I'm just stupid.