Jabs, Tech and Rain

This week I received my Covid-19 vaccination. I received the letter on Tuesday, went immediately on-line and booked a slot for Thursday morning in Grimsby. Following the booking I then received a text message from the local surgery offering a jab and then on Wednesday evening I also had a phone call from the surgery. It would have been far easier to walk into Market Rasen but as it happened it was a sunny day on Thursday and so I drove there in the Porsche. The centre was a small clinic and pharmacy and they only had room for one person at a time. I was met in the car park and they were expecting me. I was escorted into the building, went through the usual checks had the vaccination and was back out in under ten minutes. I now have the Oxford-AstraZeneca version in my blood stream. It was fast and efficient so no complaints from me. My arm did feel bruised and the following day I was very lethargic even resorting to a 30 minute snooze in the afternoon but I was back to normal by Saturday. Another 3 weeks and I will be 76% bullet proof. My second jab isn’t until 26th April.

I’ve also taken the plunge, after much preparation, and converted my Intel NUC PC from Linux to Windows 10. I tolerated Linux for nearly three years but when I learned I had to rebuild Linux to upgrade from version18 to 21 I decided to install Windows 10. It has all gone very smoothly so far however I still have a lot of software left to install and have to find new ways of, for example, editing photos.

In the meantime the weather has been very wet with very little sunshine or warmth. As you will have seen in my last post the garden alongside the drive was exceedingly boggy and that has become even wetter. It is the most waterlogged I have ever seen it in the last seven years. I haven’t started to build an Arc but maybe I should get some wood in.