It had gotten silly that now that I work for a cloud network services company that the blog was sitting on my home DSL. I’m probably going to cancel the DSL and rely solely on Starlink for home internet. Starlink does not come with a public-facing IPV4 address, and its IPV6 implementation only appears to work for 10 minutes at a time. This means that even though I have Starlink, the blog is still being served by the same 768kbit/s DSL uplink that it’s been on for the last decade. A decade ago, your own internet was slow enough you…
The husband is also a trial participant in the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine trial, and he got his booster after I got mine. The night he said, “I don’t feel good.” The next day he woke up and declared his whole body hurt. “Even my toes hurt!” His head was pounding. “I think,” he decided, “that my body has had a good enough reaction to this,” and took some Aleve. He spent the whole day horizontal except for the three work meetings that he dragged himself to his computer to attend. He wrapped himself in a blanket in front of the…
I hurried out of the Woodland Park City Market and jumped into the car. “Nobody,” I exclaimed in exasperation, “is in a hurry up here! It took me forever to check out!” Fast forward nearly 10 years. I think I’m getting accustomed to the slower pace of mountain living. Berck asked if I had errands to run in town because he needed some Rust-Oleum for the rally car. I had just gotten my monthly envelope of Kroger coupons, and they were proverbially burning a proverbial hole in my proverbial pocket. So off went on the 15 minute drive to City…
I received my third Novavax injection two days ago. The last couple times I’ve been at the Lynn Institute, the staff has had a hard time coaxing blood out of my arm for testing. The last time I was there, Angel tried and gave up, then Max tried, and then they went and got Bobbie, and Bobbie had success. So this time I was chugging fluids all day. I kept my coat on in the clinic too, to try to keep my arm warm. And Angel got lots of blood from me first try! Then the doctor (one I hadn’t…
A vaccine is a drug that is administered to get the body to activate its immune system against a certain disease. There are many different kinds of vaccines. Some are made by killing the virus and then injecting it into you. Others may be a weaker form of the virus. Some may just be pieces of the virus, not the whole thing. Once these are injected into you, your body is fooled into thinking that you are infected and your immune system attacks and destroys it. Your immune system now remembers that, and should you get infected with the real thing, your…