Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

Thanks thomas and Ron

Those feeling under the weather feel better soon due to The Shot

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 53˚F cloudy heading to the mid 70s
I HATE DST.
I have wired smoke detectors with back-up batteries so they get changed once a year instead of every 6 mo. Wait, we have not been on regular time for 6 months. ??
Mostly, I did not have a mailbox alert in the country and my mom does not have one. Which one do you have. Is it the same one I have here called "Mail Chime"? Lately it has been working about 90% of the time.

10% of the potatoes are up. If the sun comes out I'll weed the bed this afternoon.

 

[check]

good morning all. Thanks for reminder on DST, the funny thing is my new pc is off by an hour. I think it must be set for CST, need to figure out
how to change it.

Seem to be having some reaction to my 2nd Moderna. Chills during the night, woke up with sore arm. Feeling a bit achy, headache, and generally blah right now.
I am so with you, last night was miserable, woke up constantly, arm not so bad but sure have the fuzzy blahs too. But like Wingsrpd says, if that means it's working,
fine with me.

37 going up to 53, nice sunny day but red flag fire warnings are now up. Hard to understand when ground is still muddy...

what does boot time include? Do you count up until the time it asks for one's password? Or after the home page fully populates?
no question this SSD is way faster.

think I'm going back to bed after taking a couple more tylenol. Haven't had a headache like this in a while. Also trying to hydrate a little more.

Wow, Drew, so sorry to hear about your bad reaction to the second vaccine dose. My 23 year-old daughter is “vaccine hesitant” because her young friends are reporting bad side effects from the second dose. She says bad reactions are more of a problem with the younger crowd. Will have to check if that is true. She will have to get vaccinated for her Summer placement in this, her final year of her nursing programme.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 40F @ 6:00AM. Cloudy with occasional rain during the afternoon. High 58F. Winds SSE at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 90%.
Looks like maybe a half inch of rain overnight tonight, then more starting on Thursday through next weekend. We could sure use every drop.

Another round of time changes. I wish they'd just leave it alone.

Two more pallets of wood split, racked, and stacked yesterday. My back pockets were sure draggin' toward the end of the last one. But hope to get a couple more built up today, but it's up to the rain if they'll get filled.

Also need to work on the gate opener again. It wouldn't open the other day when I left to go to town and I had to disconnect it. Took a quick look yesterday and the battery is OK, and it works under manual control, so it looks like maybe one of the electric eyes is acting up.

Hope everyone enjoys the rest of the weekend!

 

[toppop52]

28 early, 53 now and headed to 62 and breezy.

We are only on standard time for four months, it just seems longer.
Well at least the clock in my truck is correct again.
I went to order some new batteries for my Chicago Electric sawzall and found out Harbor Freight stopped servicing them over three years ago, two months after I bought the saw. I guess you get what you pay for. I can re cell it with the innards from a Porter Cable battery, the cell layout is near identical, just have to reverse the leads. But that still leaves me with one battery. I was looking at Baur and Hercules but if I do I’ll buy all the batteries I think I’ll need to start with.
Buppies I’m glad you feel better.
Drew and everyone with vaccine reaction, get better quickly.
Thankfully I had extremely minor reactions the first dose and virtually nothing the second round. My arm didn’t even get sore after last week’s tetanus shot.
I’m gradually venturing out into the world. We have dinner with my daughter and family this week as well as one car club meeting, and the other club next week.
Got corned beef and cabbage on the stove. Have a good day.

 

[rswyan]

47 and sunny @ 11:30, but only headed to a high of 49F. Sounds very windy outside.

Saw squirrel on ground out at feeder which is empty already ... might toss a little more in there later this afternoon.

Squeak entertaining herself looking out window at critters.

Got Amazon order placed last night, due in on Mon/Tues ... also small Menards order at different store, which is now ready for pick up.

Menards has extended 11% Rebate through the 20th.

Need to feed fish, then probably watch some YouTubes while organizing paperwork/conserving energy.

Hope everyone has an enjoyable, productive, and safe day ...

 

[sodamo]

65°F and .43 inches rain. More coming.

No plans for the day. Feel back to normal.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[RoyJackson]

Chores done...going to watch "West Side Story"...

 

[txdon]

I read last week that this time around, the amount of stimulus we receive is somehow related to our actual need, so fourteen hundred a head isn't a sure thing for everyone.



I think one of the MedCram videos explained that "effectiveness" is measured in terms of severe illness. People that have been vaccinated are getting sick, but they're not being hospitalized, and they're not dying. The video also explained that vaccinated people can still transmit the virus, so the hand sanitizer, social distancing, and mask mandates will remain in place in spite of the 4th of July promises in the news.

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The stimulus goes down on income thresholds not on actual need. (Well, maybe in California but not Texas.)

The effectiveness of the vaccine does not have anything to do with hospitalization or severe illness but just "symptoms".


"Vaccine efficacy refers to how well it performs in a carefully controlled trial, whereas effectiveness describes its performance in the real world. A common mistake is to interpret a 95 percent efficacy to mean you have a 5 percent chance of getting sick even if you get vaccinated. That is not true at all. Efficacy is calculated based on trials that have an unvaccinated placebo control group, and at the end of the trial, they look at the number in the control group that ended up with symptomatic COVID to get the baseline infection rate. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, for instance, had 95 percent efficacy in its clinical trial. That number came from the fact that 162 people in the placebo group got symptomatic COVID, and eight people in the vaccinated group did; that is 170 cases total. Eight is approximately five percent of 170. That is essentially how efficacy is calculated. Most COVID vaccine clinical trials have reported efficacy in preventing any symptomatic disease, not necessarily severe disease; early data for the latter are promising, however."

Experts Answer the Biggest COVID Vaccine Questions

What does “95 percent effective” mean? Should you get vaccinated if you have had COVID? Is there a best vaccine?

www.scientificamerican.com

The Moderna Study:

https://www.modernatx.com/sites/default/files/mRNA-1273-P301-Protocol.pdf

"The clinical trials were not designed to test for asymptomatic infection . .."- AAMC

There is no proof that it does or does not prevent covid so the mask mandate has no facts to back it up, neither does the lifting of the mask mandate.

 

[Bird]

TNG said, "Looks like maybe a half inch of rain overnight."

But here in north Texas, I only got about .04" so far, last night or early this morning. We sure need some rain.