Everything went fine yesterday getting jabbed, aside from the $500 photon torpedo blast to my wallet. My self-employed health plan covers me if I get hit by a bus, attacked by a shark, or abducted by aliens, but it does not cover routine things like, you know, vaccines (1). High deductible plans are great right up until you actually need to use them. Then you discover the deductible is roughly the price of a used shuttlecraft.
As for the shots themselves, I ended up with COVID booster and flu shot in the left arm and shingles in the right, so both injection sites feel like I cranked out a few hundred high-rep sets of triceps extensions. My muscles are talking to me in a language that sounds like angry Klingon, and I have the usual mild joint aches and that foggy, headachy feeling I always get the day after a flu shot or booster. Nothing dramatic. Just the body doing its thing.
This is all par for the course with me. I plan for it every year. I know that my annual flu shot and whatever COVID booster is current will usually knock me down for a day or two. So I deliberately did not schedule anything challenging today. No workout, no big projects, no stress. Maybe a Florida Old Man Nap (tm) later or a Star Trek marathon, if the spirit moves me. A couple Tylenol, a few cups of coffee, and I will be ready for Quick Queries Friday.
So yes, I am a little sore, a little tired, and a lot poorer. But overall I am doing fine. Carry on.
Also, I've noticed lately how ChatGPT is doing little things to avoid copyright problems, like you've got characters you can obviously tell are Kirk and Spock, but they don't look like the actors anymore. They used to. GPT used to make screenshots that would look like them. Maybe they lost a deal with Paramount or something. And it's not Star Trek, it's 5tar Trek LOL.
I just did a domain name search for 5tartrek.com, and it's available if any of you want to grab it. If you want copyright/trademark problems, LOL.
Sami Shamma
@Reply 6 months ago
Feel better soon
Thomas Gonder
@Reply 6 months ago
Those shingles shots are very expensive (everywhere), and you need two of them supposedly. Even my full insurance doesn't cover them, or varicela (chicken pox) for the kid. Some years, if it's not free, I've got to pay less than US$ 1.00 for a flu shot.
Thomas Gonder
@Reply 6 months ago
I've had brain for for a week now, trying to find just the perfect VBA SQL string as a form's source (I don't use the whole table). Not too big, not too small but just right. That's your nappy time story from me for today.
Dave Clark
@Reply 6 months ago
Hey Richard, You are a way riskier person that I am! I've gotten the Covid and Flue shots together on a Friday so I could do the movie marathon like you describe. With the reaction I had to the shingles initial shot and then worse with the booster combined with the Covid/Flue shots I probably would have gotten shot out of a torpedo tube like Mr. Spock. Feel Better!
Thomas Gonder
@Reply 6 months ago
From my law studies many, many years ago, you would have to do a lot more to establish a copyright, patent or trademark than just order a domain name. Unless things have changed, which I doubt given how slow legal issues progress.
However, I did read that some country is CONSIDERING a law that allows you to control the use of your image and voice; it's meant to battle the harm done by derrogatory AI productions of a person without their consent. Now, all we need is Chuck Norris to growl at Congress to pass a similar law. Although, I don't see many derrogatory AI stuff involving Chuck Norris. I wonder why? (Alright, someone here had to do a Chuck Norris ass kickin' comment.)
Michael Olgren
@Reply 6 months ago
Thomas And what about the Chuck Norris jokes? Did you know that Chuck stays still when he does push-ups? He moves the Earth!
Ken Wykoff
@Reply 6 months ago
I sure hope you feel better soon. never got all three at one time. COVID and the flu were enough for me. Was out for three days. Shingles: I received two shots, four weeks apart. Definitely not fun, but better safe than sorry later. Take care!
Thanks, Ken. I feel great today. Yesterday, I was a little out of it. I felt a bit run down, like all my joints ached, and my arms were sore, but today I'm back to normal.
Ken Wykoff
@Reply 6 months ago
Glad to hear that. That soreness in the arms is the worst part of it all.
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