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From the “Welcome to Adulting Sucks (DMV Edition)!” Dept:
Today’s the day Nicholas and I assault the mighty mountain of bureaucracy known as the NC DMV and attempt to get his regular Class C driving licence at his appointment in North Raleigh this afternoon! Oh…joy. Welcome to “Adulting Sucks (DMV Edition)!” If you’ve not experienced the joys of getting a REAL ID from the DMV’s driving licence offices, you truly have not lived a full life! Sherman…set the Wayback Machine(tm) for a couple of…
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From the “Dad In His Happy Place” Dept:
Another Father’s Day has come upon us and I’d like to continue a new tradition of finding a random picture of Dad and giving you dear readers a glimpse into the story behind the photo. This one comes from our visit to Florida during Thanksgiving in 2008. The picture seems innocuous enough…two of the kid’s three living grandparents at the time and two of the kids beating on the drums outside the Harambe Wildlife Preserve…
From the “Now I Understand Why Dad Didn’t Smile!” Dept:
It’s been less than a week since Nicholas graduated from Enloe High School and he has gotten to experience many of the unbridled joys of adulting up close and personal this morning! There’s a reason they call this “the real world” and many more reasons why it occasionally sucks! We started out the day registering him for his automotive courses for the fall semester at Wake Technical Community College’s new Shangri-La for learning wrench turning…
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From the “Doing Heroic Things” Dept:
Katie and Nick got their first doses of Pfizer today and are well on their way to being vaccinated. All in all, it was pretty painless even without appointments with the only real hiccup being the registration volunteer who took three reminders about HIPAA and privacy before he took the hint. Another patient had entered the small space we were in but fortunately the vast majority of the protected health information (PHI) portion of the…
From the “Swine Birds!” Dept:
Oh, what a difference a year makes! Last year, we were able to find some measure of joy in the COVID-19 lockdown by following the adventures of Lord and Lady Robin who had taken up residence in their nest atop one of the pillars on the porch. Let’s just say that the local birds have hatched far more nefarious and diabolical actions this year…so much so that I can’t help but think of Inspector Clouseau.…
From the “Lest We Forget” Dept:
(Photo courtesy of Julia Williams) This Memorial Day is a bit of a milestone with Nicholas preparing to graduate from Enloe High School and it being just slightly more than five years ago that we got our date for Dad’s service at Arlington National Cemetery. It seems almost a lifetime ago that it was my turn to walk across the stage at the Ocean Centre in Daytona Beach as a graduate from Spruce Creek High…
From the “Sometimes The First Amendment Sucks” Dept:
Nicholas and I were rolling up to Enloe High School this morning when we noticed an interesting looking group of what appeared to be ultra-fundamentalist characters unloading a fair heap of anti-abortion posters from a truck just up the street from the conga line. Sure enough, as I’m pulling out of the traffic circle in front of the western building housing the main office, I can see a couple of them stationed on the sidewalk…
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From the “All Dressed Up And No Date” Dept:
The main reason I opted for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine was that it seemed to be much more predictable than the others in terms of side-effects induced when the second jab in the sequence irritates the immune system into creating many B and T-cells which will be the body’s long-term defence against infection. From a casual survey of other Pfizer recipients, it seemed that the worst period was generally 24-36 hours after the second injection.…
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From “Sometimes The Story Tells Itself” Dept:
The Petrol-Pocalypse(tm) has left the vast majority of petrol stations completely out of fuel thanks to the Russian criminal gang DarkSide taking down the Colonial Pipeline with ransomware that got behind their firewall and royally buggered their operations. The Colonial and Dixie Pipelines are the ones that supply the vast majority of petrol, diesel, and aviation kerosene from Houston TX to New Jersey and all points in between with the Colonial accounting for 45% of…
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From the “Time To Turn Those B and T Cells Loose!” Dept:
On this 108th anniversary of Grandma Williams’ birthday, it was finally time to get the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19 and start on the journey to getting a reasonable immunity against this bloody virus. Shot #1 was three weeks ago which I detailed in this BLOG post: https://www.sunfox.com/doing_the_news/2021/04/21/11221/ Today’s experience was pretty much the same as before…everyone was polite and efficient, the nurse listened to what her patient needed, and I got…
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