Done Since 2021-02-28

"Interesting" week. Not bad, really, just a little weird. Thursday, the 20-box shipment of Stuff from Mom's apartment arrived. (It was a week earlier than their initial estimate. Just as well, given what will be going on next week.) I think a couple of items might have been mis-delivered, though it's a little hard to tell from the spreadsheet. And one particularly nice abstract painting turned out to be much bigger than it looked on the wall in Mom's apartment. There's a lot of nostalgia in those boxes; it's going to be a strange couple of weeks while I sort them out.

Friday we took Colleen up to Oak Harbor to get her first vaccine shot.

Island Drug's setup is inconvenient and stupid compared to Whidbey General -- you check in by text, and wait in your car until they tell you to come in. At which point you stand in line, potentially in the rain, with no social distancing that I could detect. Fortunately, after waiting in the car about 40 minutes, I went up to the guy at the door (there were actually two lines, for first and second dose) and asked what to do given the fact that Colleen uses a mobility scooter. He looked at the crowd inside, told me to re-park in front (between the two handicapped slots) and sent a pharmacist out to give her the shot through the passenger-side window. (This only worked because they had us fill out the paperwork, including scans of insurance cards and ID, in advance.) I intend to take try it next time, too.

Given the fact that it was essentially a drive-by shot, there was no place to wait for 15 minutes afterward to see whether Colleen would turn green with purple spots. But 15 minutes was just enough time to be passing the hospital on the drive home. So it worked. (And Colleen stayed her usual color, though she probably wouldn't have objected to purple spots.)

The high-order link this week is to my Curmudgeon post about a particularly nasty (and widespread -- over 30,000 sites) Microsoft Exchange Server exploit.

( Notes & links, as usual )