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If you’re over 50 and it’s been 4+ months since your COVID booster, it’s probably time to get your second booster.

In photos: Total Reported COVID deaths,   CDC

Yes, people are still dying from COVID.

What if soy milk is just regular milk introducing himself in Spanish?

After 8 calls to PG&E over 5 months, they fixed the rattling manhole cover outside of my daughter’s school. It’s the little things, right?

I feel like I’m putting a lot of energy out into the universe and not getting much in return.

The offending manhole cover

It now sits flat! Hurray!

My notes. Too many notes about too small of a problem!

3-18-22 follow-up:
On the Madera Parents Facebook group, my message about this got 45+ likes and 18 personal accolades. It seems more than just a few other people were bothered by this issue!

On Friday we opened a new credit card account. On Monday we got a phone call with the caller ID showing as being from the credit card, and they said the new account had been frozen and we’d have to send personal like a photo of a Social Security card. It was fairly believable but then the caller asked for “confirmation” of our email address. It became clear that they didn’t have it so we hung up. The credit card had not been frozen and the card was still on its way. I hadn’t ever seen that kind of fraud attempt! Stay alert my friends!

[update 3-24-22]. Oop. It was legit. We got 2 letters in the mail a few days later, one with the new card, and one saying “There’s a problem, call us.” Darn it, all the had to say on the initial call was “look on our website and call us back on the number you see there.”

We took Abigail to her first ballet today!

And we went out to a show for the first time in…….. . umm. since the beginning of the decade. To quote a friend, “it felt weirdly transgressive!”

The Joffrey Ballet at Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley. She really enjoyed it! It was a bit too loud for her in the middle but she left with a smile! She said that she didn’t feel like she was watching it, but that she was right there with the dancers!

That’s Abigail and Megan in the seat in front of me :-)

“The Sofa” by Itzik Galili was one of our favorite pieces. (Not my photo)

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This is for Gmail users. I use this to get a little more proof against spam. Turn on “Ask before displaying images”.


With it turned on, when you get an email from someone new, Gmail will ask if you want to view images from them. I find this to be a nice, little reminder to be alert against spam. For instance, when I get an email from my bank but the images aren’t being displayed, it’s probably because it’s not actually from my bank!

This also might decrease the spam you get in the future since spammers make a note of when people look at images in their emails as a sign that they are active email accounts.