“Improve everything in order to achieve apotheosis.” -- M.C. Rockwell
Shot #2 done. I'm immortal again! County opened a whole bunch of new options for appointments since 3 weeks ago, so there was no line, things moved quickly, and I was done actually before my schedule appointment time. Oh yes, passed the guy with the Int'l Atomic Energy Agency cap on the way in.
DC, home of Mondrianesque for the masses and un-orthodox Byzantine Revival... right down the street from one another.
This past Thursday, I took advantage of the mid-70º weather to take a nice walk through Dyke Marsh, David's favorite swamp. Took a different trail than David usually takes. 'Twas lovely!
School reopenings, etc. have, of course, affected our household as well. Fluffy, our California Condor chick, is now back with his mentor and learning the arts of vulturing. Annabelle's chick, Matilda, is back from a prolonged lockdown at her Swiss boarding school. She and her mother are celebrating their reunion wearing the festive Tex/Mex hats characteristic of the species for such occasions. Stan has been nest-schooling Baby all along and has been unaffected.
Random tree. In other news, today and for the rest of the week, highs of 70ºF. Nice. Back into the mid 50's next week.
I'm so deliriously happy! I finally found a place for my rubber duckie in my bathroom!
The "immortal ginger" finally began to decline after 3 weeks in the vase. Its replacement, a Honeycomb Ginger, is perhaps even more exotic. Even stranger is that all these tropicals were purchased at our local chain grocery store, Harris-Teeter; I haven't seen anything like it in the more exclusive food emporia.
Got my first dose of the Pfizer. Took 30 min from the time I stepped in line to getting the jab, not bad considering the volume of people (c. 2 million population in an area where practically no one rejects getting the vax). Through the modern miracle of computers, I got an on-line notice to choose a date and time for shot #2 as soon as my first shot was logged in. Very well-organized and efficient, with the place brimming with all sorts of helpful people. There's a quiet game of one-upsmanship played by some, including me, in NoVa - usually involving college t-shirts or other signs of prestige worn in swarming public places (vaccination centers, Trader Joe's, etc.) I wore a Duke t-shirt, only to find the guy behind me wearing an International Atomic Energy Agency baseball cap. Curses, foiled again! (And I couldn't resist taking a photo of the lovely marble tiles in the men's room.)
