World Fantasy Con 2021 reported today (and sent email to its members, which is how I first heard about it) that they "received a report of a positive COVID result that was likely contracted during the convention."

First off: it's not me.

Second: I'm fully vaccinated, was tested before I went to Montreal, right as I arrived at YUL, and on the Sunday ( Read more... )

Although they now observe it on a convenient Monday or Friday, October 31 is Nevada Day, commemorating the state's admission to the Union. I still contend that this means that Nevada is the only state where Halloween is a state holiday.

( Celebrating Nevada Day )

No, not a COVID-19 booster shot: Neither Lisa nor I are old enough to be eligible under the current guidelines as I understand them, and even if we were, we wouldn't be eligible for a six-month booster until January by my reckoning. This was flu shot time. Yesterday afternoon, Lisa and I went to Walgreen's and got our flu shots. I normally don't ( Read more... )

We had thunderstorms on Thursday night/Friday morning that cleared the air considerably, and it's stayed clear through the weekend.

( Sunrise After the Storm )

I bought some shampoo today. This may sound commonplace, but I think it's the first time in about twenty years or more than I've done so. During that time, I have generally traveled enough that taking the remainder of the various unused shampoo and unopened bars of soap with me from the many hotels in which I've stayed has kept me in soap and ( Read more... )

Today it will have been two weeks since Lisa and I received our second Pfizer vaccine shots. In theory, that means we're free of needing masks in most situations. In practice, because there's no way I can trust that any other maskless person is immunized, I anticipate that we'll be still wearing our masks for a while now. Indeed, given the ( Read more... )

Friday wasn't a great day for either Lisa or I. We weren't actively sick, but besides our arms hurting badly, we were both deeply tired. I was able to log out from the Day Jobbe by Noon, whereupon I fell into bed and slept for about four hours, after which I was up for a few hours and then got a full night's sleep. Both Lisa and I are feeling ( Read more... )

Yesterday afternoon, Lisa and I headed for Reno/Sparks for our second Pfizer vaccine dose. I got away from work early (after only eight hours, rather than my more typical 9-10 hours), so we also took the many boxes of glass bottles we'd been accumulating so that we could dump them at the facility in Reno. We'd noticed on our last pass through there ( Read more... )