Time for the annual kitty physical and rabies shot. Normally, this would be in preparation for boarding Mei while we’re away on Spring Break… but we live in different times now.
Mei is Displeased
Status: Distracted
My version of Distracted Driving: trying to get a better look at the icy tips of the tree branches shining in the morning sun.
Status: Annoyed
You know what’s worse than a neighbor whose car alarm just won’t stop? When it’s their home security system instead.
Dose Number One
Thanks to what’s known as a Closed Point Of Dispensing, I was able to receive the first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine this morning, via my employer.
I’m grateful for the opportunity to be vaccinated… but there are so many others much more at risk than myself who should, by all rights, be getting this protection before me. My husband, an “essential worker” in the shipping industry, has been working as usual throughout the pandemic, and he’s unlikely to get vaccinated for weeks or months yet.
I’m scheduled to receive my second dose in four weeks, at which point I should only have a 6% chance of contracting and exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19.
(My birth control pill only had a 3% chance of failure back in 2011, though. Just sayin’.)
Birdwatching
I was working from home yesterday when a movement outside the window caught my attention. This little guy looked to be eating something on the Japanese maple by the office window.
According to my bird identification app, he’s likely a Tufted Titmouse — and it was already flagged as a “favorite,” so I’ve identified one at least once before.
Perhaps I should put a feeder or a birdhouse in the Japanese maple… I hadn’t thought of that before.