Went to Walgreen's to try to get a covid booster today. [View all]

They used to accept walk-ins, but no luck this time; they told me that they expect to have the new formulation available next week, and to check back. I wonder. With Bobby Brainworm having blown up the CDC, will we ever get a covid vaccine again? And when we get sick will they even let us have Paxlovid?

This Walgreen's is only a block from the Annunciation school and church, which I drove by- not to gawk, but it's on my way home. Still lots of people, flowers and memorials and media, and blue and green ribbons tied around trees and utility poles for surrounding blocks. The shooting has already disappeared from national media, as always happens, but it's still a big deal here. We see photos of the murdered kids everywhere.

And I found out today that a good friend is in a hospital 200 miles from home with MRSA pneumonia, which is some nasty shit. He'll be OK but a slow recovery.

It's been this kind of day: