COVID Clear
Now after questioning the first series accuracy, I also decided I didn’t trust this one either. In an overabundance of caution, a belt and suspenders kind of thing, I bought a kit at Walgreen’s yesterday evening. I used it this morning and I guess I am no longer contagious. Yippee!
This is going to hang around for the foreseeable future if it is anything like the first time I got COVID last September 30th. That time I didn’t test negative until a week before Christmas. It wasn’t until 12 weeks had gone by. So, perhaps I have another 8 weeks to go before I’m clean. FYI, that’s the first week in September…
I’m going to blame it on COVID. I did a lot of sleeping. Yesterday I started to feel a little better and managed a one-mile walk. Today I made it over to the DMV to get a title, a lien-free title, for the ’24 Miata. Now I need to start working on getting Bucky all registered and titled. And get the clutch issue fixed so it can not only be legally driven but also be fun to drive.
Yesterday I edited the Jumbo Road Trip Wrap-up. It seems when I mentioned all the states I passed through, I totally forgot about the one Canadian province I went through. The other correction was on how much the sixty-one-day trip cost. I at first figured it was over twenty thousand dollars. Boy, was I wrong. Somehow when I added up all the cash-out figures, I came up with $10,400. I just added an extra decimal point; it was actually $1,040. And I combed through both months credit card bills, eliminating the normal living stuff that hits the card, and the grand total turned out to be a touch over $7,900. That’s not nothing, but I think it was well worth it.
I don’t know what’s worse, coming to a complete stop after 2 months on the road or testing positive for COVID the day after.
Somewhere along the line the Miata picked up a star crack in the windshield; it is not in my line of sight, but I want someone to fill it in. I have to go to the DMV to get the official title without a lein for the car too. I also have to start work on Bucky the Miata, it too needs a title, a registration, the clutch disc changed, and maybe figure out why the shifter is not vertical.
I need some work too. I’ve still got the infected, failed root canal that needs fixing. Then there’s that COVID thing; last time it took like 6 weeks before I was virus-free. And that’s just barely enough time to get to Switzerland to visit Sally.
One thing at a time, I’ve got a DMV appointment on Monday where I’ll get the 2024 Miata title taken care of. I’m going to bring the the 2001’s title stuff with me too and see if I can get 2 for the price of 1.
Almost Literally…
On Friday we walked up to the Sky Lakes Medical Center and got our second booster shot. And like last October’s first booster it knocked me for a loop while only striking a glancing blow on Donna. I spent most of Saturday napping and gobbling Tylenol.
Today I felt pretty good and I’m sure, just like last time, the booster shot will be a distant memory by Monday. We did get out this afternoon and do a little yard work. While Donna mowed, I put the awning up on the front porch, then whippersnipped the edges.
Afterwards we rewarded ourselves with a top down Miata drive and a stop at the neighborhood bodega for an ice cream sandwich.
A couple weeks ago while NFL football on a Sunday I saw a local commercial for something called Conquer Covid in Klamath. I know after places around the country and the world are offering prizes as inducement to get vaccinated against COVID-19, but didn’t realize they were doing it here too. So I signed both Donna and I up to be in the contest.
I have no idea when the contest started and there are weekly drawings for the “smaller” prizes and a Grand Prize of a new Dodge Ram or Durango at the end. We both were vaccinated back in March, so who knows how many weekly drawings we have missed out on. Unless of course the weekly drawing is for just those entered during that week, and in that case, we didn’t win a prize.
I guess there is always a chance on the grand prize or one of the 3 runner up prizes, a hot tub, a Disneyland family vacation and $3k. Of course who knows when the contest ends because, like the start date, there is no mention of it in the rules. If they are waiting until every one in the county gets a shot, they are never going to have to give away the “big” prizes, right now the county is at 55% for one dose and 49% fully vaccinated.
My favorite aspect of this contest is a little link at the bottom of the main page:
I’m not vaccinated and want to enter.
In the beginning of this pandemic with everyone stuck at home, people were heavily using streaming services to watch movies and TV as a way to pass the time indoors. For some, pandemic themed movies are what they wanted and those started shooting to the top of the most watched lists. Contagion, 28 Days Later, 12 Monkeys, and Outbreak all had a nice little resurgence. I was not interested, COVID was scary enough by itself and I wasn’t getting promised that guaranteed feel good Hollywood ending that they had.
As shelter in place, stay way from people, don’t go far recommendations persisted, a lot of days started to seem a lot like all the others. Almost like being stuck in a time loop and being doomed to repeat the same day over and over again. Seeing that I’m a sucker for time travel movies, this was the stuff I could watch.
I went back and rewatched Edge of Tomorrow. I also love Sci-Fi so this one is a favorite movie for me, and what’s not to love, Tom Cruise gets killed a dozens of times. Back in 2019 Netflix produced a little show called Russian Doll that used this Live, Die, Repeat1 trope as well. I watched it then and have recently rewatched it.
Because I just remembered it, today I went back and watched again something from another favorite of mine, The X-Files. Specifically Season 6’s Episode 14 entitled Monday, that involves Scully and Mulder2 and a bank robbery with the same we die and come back on the same day plot line.
In July Hulu premiered a new movie called Palm Springs with this theme as well, but puts a slight comic spin on it. It starred Adam Samberg and Cristin Milioti, but J.K. Simmons almost steals the show for me from the “guest star” role. It got a lot of well deserved buzz and I enjoyed it so much I watched it twice, about a month apart. Not to be left out of the temporal anomaly band wagon, Amazon Prime premiered The Map of Tiny Perfect Things just last month. This one is a sort of teen romantic comedy and it works. And for my money has the tidiest resolve of any of these things.
Speaking of rom-com time loop movies, this brings us around to the gold standard of this genre, Groundhog Day. Although I have seen this 1993 movie starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell movie a few times already, I think it is time to schedule a rewatch before too long. But first I’m off to Google “time loop movies” to see if I’m missing any hidden gems.