Good morning! Happy Bill of Rights Day 📜 !

Also work from home day for me, so that’s good as it’s fun to be reminded of the routine that once was. Out for the morning walk, then I’ll head back inside and get down to work. Nice not having to shower o get cleaned up before work. Breaks up the week, saves time otherwise lost from commuting back to work.

Partly cloudy and 29 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ Calm wind. Things will start to thaw out at around 9 am. 🌡️

A little cool but a pretty nice morning. 😀 That said, I don’t think the sunny skies are expected to stick around all day. I wish we had the weather they are talking about for tomorrow — temperatures in the sixties and sunny. That said, the long range doesn’t look bad for next week. I’m out for my morning walk now, 🚶‍♀️ then it’s working from home. Just this one day — it was something we did as part of the Holiday Spirit Week. 🤶 The old days of remote work are history, 👩‍💻 it’s all about the muzzle 😷 and working in the office again.

So far I feel okay from the COVID-vaccine and TDAP booster I got last night, 💉 although I’ve been really hitting the water both today and last night hard, hoping that I won’t get dehydrated and feel like shit by mid-day today — usually it’s about 24 hours after the vaccine that in my experience I start to feel really awful. But I guess a few hours feeling sick is better then getting the COVID.

I walked down to CVS last night, and got my shot. 👩‍⚕️ It was a bit of a wait, there was a ton of people there, but I had my 7 pm reservation and I was out of there by 7:40 or so, including my 15 minute observation period. It was fine, good to have, as I really don’t want to get the COVID. My phone was close to dead, as I didn’t charge it at work but I found a podcast to listen to and with the screen dimmed, passed my time, glancing over at that weird rack of bibles and religious books they had for sale, 📚 next to the place where you wait for your shot. I guess if the vaccination kills you, there is always time to find religion.

On Monday, when I had it off, they installed new computers in my office. 💻 They have beautiful new monitors, with web cams which are perfect for Zoom meetings. Now I mostly use my laptop these days for work, except when I need a file off the server or to final proof something in Word, but I usually keep a cable in the office to hook my laptop to the keyboard and monitor. The new monitors are 1920x1080p so they don’t have the scaling artifacts — fuxiness that the old ones did with my laptop. I am as a happy as a pig in shit 🐷 with those news screens.

I got the Coleman Lantern Globe 🏮 mom ordered for me on Amazon. It was $11 including tax, something I’ll have to remember. This way I’ll have a back up lantern to use for camping, as those globes breaking seems to be a fairly common occurrence. I know people are moving away from propane lanterns, but they sure are convenient with 20 lb tanks — reliable light that never gets over discharged.