Good morning!!!!

[Bird]

I should have made an appointment there. HEB here is still not opening up to 1-B. In Houston doctors are being offer $10,000 from patients wanting to be put on top of the list.

Yesterday I went to Horizon Medical Center's website: Horizon Medical Center

And then I clicked on "contact us": Contact Us - Horizon Medical Center

I went down to the place you can enter your name, phone number, email address and what you want to ask, which of course was when could we get the vaccine. And this morning a lady called and said for us to be there at 1 p.m. today. It was an interesting experience. I was told that today was their first day and I can believe that. The lady who called told me about a back door that was where we should go.

As I tend to do, I got there early and found that door locked, but a sign on the door indicating I was in the right place. Now a couple of other people also came to the same door, and then a lady inside came to the door and hollered that we had to wait until 1 p.m. Since we were getting a drizzle of rain, we went back the car to wait, then back to the door and at exactly 1 p.m. a lady opened the door and let ONE person in and locked the door again. After a few minutes she returned, and let Margaret and me in, leaving several outside.

A young lady took our ID and insurance cards to make copies, tried to take out temperature, but her instrument didn't work, so they passed on that. Then she gave us clipboards with 3 pages of information, and two pages of very short questions. They had folding chairs spaced out down the hall, so I filled out their little questionnaires and they returned our ID cards and put the copies they'd made on the clipboards and took them somewhere.

Then a nurse (at least I think she was a nurse) took us, one at a time into another big room with one of the chairs with built in armrests, asked me which arm I wanted it in, and gave me a vaccination. Later my wife mentioned it seeming like a small amount of vaccine and small needle; something I'd also noticed. And then she had each of us return to our seats in the hall for 15 minutes before leaving. Some of the paperwork they gave us mentioned the possibility of a reaction and told about all the preparations to handle such, if it happened, which of course it did not. We got the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine.

And they're supposed to call when it's time for the second injection.

 

[txdon]

Bird did you get your vaccine today? You may be the first on TBN in the second wave of vaccines. Let us know how the vaccine makes you feel. Did you get the Pfizer or the Moderna?

Edit: both posting at the same time. Thanks for the info. Are you getting side effects, glad you both did not get a adverse reaction.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Frustrating computer day, only got 1 dvd to convert to mp4, it keeps going to the end, closing, but leaving a corrupt file. I updated the software, same results. This is on DVD that worked already, but had no sound. I can play the DVDs fine.

Now have almost all my pictures from the 1980s properly labeled.

Cleaned out pellet stove for 1st time this season.

Ordered new Dell laptop from Costco.

 

[daugen]

I called my primary doc's office. They had no idea of when vaccine was available or how it would be handled.
Called county hospital, got exact same message, we know nothing.
They should know something....
All primary doc had to say was it won't be here.
Ok...that leaves the hospital and CVS.

 

[Engineer42]

I got mine last night. As a first responder we were notified yesterday morning of time and place. Short form to fill out, 1 page of questions. Drive up, never had to get out of vehicle. Got the Moderna version. Gave me a card to carry and info on the shot. Went over to a parking area to wait for 15 minutes to make sure of no adverse reaction, and done. All in all it took about an hour.

 

[txdon]

Later my wife mentioned it seeming like a small amount of vaccine and small needle; something I'd also noticed.

The Moderna dosage is .5ml. (That is 1/10 of a teaspoon which is a small amount)
found it on the vials in the pic.
More COVID-19 vaccine doses headed to Central Texas in third week of distribution | KXAN Austin

 

[txdon]

Bird,
My brother was able to get through to Denton County Public Health (after calling 108 times) to pre-register. He is scheduled to get his vaccine Monday.

 

[Popgadget]

My daughter got the Moderna, had some swelling and soreness and the following day at work, (ER Nurse) she broke out with hives. They thought that she might already have COVID, and sent her for a test, which fortunately was negative. Good news is that the hives cleared up and she seems fine.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Found a new dvd converter tool that someone recommended, and it’s working perfect.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 43F for the start, rain, brisk wind, .2 inch in rain gauge. Windy today, periods of rain, and high temp of 58F at midnight, and low temp of 37 at midnight. Started fire in insert this morning. Fed insert, vacuumed truck and put in weathertech floormat, and napped in afternoon, otherwise conserved energy. Getting used to new NWS radar page, animation of radar slower than molasses in winter No snow in forecast, almost 2 in tomorrow forecast.
Covid update: Cooke 2018 confirmed cases, 165 active cases, Montague 1157 confirmed cases, 47 active cases, Grayson 6544 confirmed cases, 308 active cases, local 17 active cases.
David interesting how the different dogs have different routines. glad maintenance task went well. Replacing hammers sounds like a lot of work.
Drew hope you can score some good apples
Roy hope you can score the front mount blower.
Eric you really don't get much more cold weather than we do in Texas, do you. Good to hear new Vaccine is coming put
Ron hope Dr appt goes well. nice red head
Roy Thanks for the link expected more French in the dialogue.
Billy bet cherry wood smelled good
Paul that is a big dog to have on your chest. Speaker looks great.
Bill thanks for the snow removal details. enjoy the conserving
RNG means not a through hardening job. Once you break through the hard surface, you have to watch out for the tool sucking into the work piece, which will happen all at once Hope town trip and blood work are good.
Thomas enjoy your puttering.
Rich love to heat the progress, understand about crowds.
Don can you handle letting the evil cedars slide for a few days?
Rich let us know if it is good.
Dennis sorry to hear about sound hop you work it out, How long to do a video?
Drew no N2 will not stop air pressure issues, truck had N2 from factory, have to go to dealer to air up tires. first year had to air up tires twice. Suv once in 1 year and no N2. You should have a display some where that will tell you individual tire pressure.
PJ your right always time for chili. Figure you had heard the talk about STC activities. hope snow/ice doesn't hurt your commute too much
Drew I would guess the set points are where you want the low pressure to go off. I leave mine at factory setting and monitor the tire pressure page as desired.
Bird, Don thanks for the vaccine site, on medical practice is listed for Cooke Co. and they are out.
Randy cute pic of Gracie
PJ glad you got out early!!
Ron never used it, I just use hand shears (Weiss)
RS not to mention the bathroom work, have fun. nice links
Bird thanks for the update, glad no side effects.
Dennis hope new laptop helps on MP4 creation.
Don glad your brother got registered.
Dennis good news on MP4 converter.

 

[sodamo]

Another good day mowing. Almost got it done, about half hour left. “Someboby” didn’t top off the diesel before heading out. When the low fuel light came on, decided it wise to head in. So far haven’t run out with the LS like I did with the Kioti and Case. Would like to maintain that record.

Rather than refueling and going back out, loaded Sophie and the pups into the truck and headed for Waimea to the local burger joint and DQ.

 

[daugen]

good morning all. Wet morning, light rain, high of 47 now and not going any higher.
Going to be freezing temps tonight, not good for folks returning from New Year's eve parties, assuming anyone is still
doing that this year. 9 out of 10 years I was an active fireman the Instalert would go off at 1-2am and we would be helping the
rescue squad with a bad wreck and auto extrication, or several times, pulling cars out of the canal when they didn't make the turns.
Alcohol and driving are bad enough, but at night, and with black ice around, pretty risky out there.

I would guess the set points are where you want the low pressure to go off. The manual says set it where it should be, then the system
will alarm if tire pressure gets 10 percent below that.
I think the alarm is closer to 15% than 10. I knew it wasn't just one tire since the car drove fine.

which reminds me of the lady who had a fifth wheel rv next to mine in NC, and a dented old Taurus whose right rear tire was always almost flat.
I mentioned it to her several times and finally her boyfriend put air in the tires. She was complaining that car didn't handle very well.
Well, yeah...

May the last day of 2020 leave us all with a smile on our faces.
One of those years where many think we made it...

 

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 27° with partly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 32° with partly cloudy skies. Dr. appointment went well yesterday. Good until next year. NO more BP meds needed. Diet helps. Off to do some grocery shopping this morning. Then get ready to cook my Turf and Surf New Years Eve meal.

Frank, thank for metal shear review. Picking one up this morning at HD. Hope it fits my Bosch 18 volt impact.

Drew, my car was showing low tire pressure Christmas Eve. Rear tires showed 27 psi when it should have been 35 psi. Adjusted all to the sticker on driver side door frame. Checked spare for proper pressure while I was doing checks. No more low pressure warnings.

David, DQ stop after a day of mowing. Perfect. :thumbsup:

Rich, good to hear you are progressing in recovery. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Tom and Bird, good to here they are having everyone wait 15 minutes after shots.

Buckeye, good you found software to work. I got a film/negative convertor a couple weeks ago. Got one container of slides done so far.

Everyone have a Happy News Year Eve.

Good Morning All.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning.
It’s 44 and not going up. Low tonight of 25. Raining now, supposed to quit afternoon. Like Drew said, perfect setup for black ice.

Yesterday went according to plan, speaker is finished, I’ll pack it up and ship it today.



A friend gave me a broken MIG welder, a little 120v one, I was able to fix it, so I went out and got a little bottle of gas for it. I used the big argon bottle on the TIG welder to test it, but bought argon/CO2 mix for the dedicated bottle.

After I get the speaker shipped, I plan to go get a standing rib roast for dinner tomorrow, hopefully I can find a nice one. Then I m gonna shift into coast mode.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the temperature is 24°F and going to a high of 25. Wind WNW 9 mph. 40% chance of flurries.

Got some seat time yesterday evening and plowed the two neighbours I usually do. I will go out this morning and clean out my own place.
I found out just how useless my stock work lights are yesterday, so I will be looking into LED lights for the Kioti today.

A dump and town run is in the cards for today.

I might make it to midnight tonight, but don't hold your breath.


Stay safe all

 

[Buppies]

54 I guess that is the high rain moves in later today

Prayers for all

 

[daugen]

Bill, have fun in the snow. High powered LED bar on roof not expensive but lights up the night.
Might also be able to retrofit brighter LED bulbs in stock lights. With FEL or snow plow on, lighting seems to get
blocked a lot, so lights on roof seem to get above all that. I had a roof bar and two extra rear work lights, add those to stock
light package and it was ok. I actually used them the most in bright sunshine to keep folks from running into me out on the road.

raining pretty good now. Just don't need the rain. Would love to send it to Ted or someone in drought zone.

nice looking speakers Paul. Good luck with shipping.

 

[Rich B1]

Good morning! 30 now, maybe 35 later. Got a light snow overnight, maybe more later. Wife said things are slick and told me not to be as adventurous outside today.

My muscles are feeling yesterday痴 adventures. I am sore today, but notice I am walking better.

Still reading the book I mentioned. Still fascinated with it. Reading actual words from people involved, newspaper editorials, dispatches, etc. fascinates me. Up to Lincoln and the early years of the Civil War.

Everyone stay safe out there

 

[Popgadget]

I found out just how useless my stock work lights are yesterday, so I will be looking into LED lights for the Kioti today.

I just ordered 3200 lumen LED work lights to replace the OEM 600 lumen halogens on my Kubota. They are Tigerlight and are direct, plug in replacements.
I got them from Larsen Lights, LED lights for your equipment !

 

[wngsprd]

47 going to 52 and lots of rain tonight/tomorrow.

Ron, those shears look interesting. I wish I had it when I was cutting sheet metal recently.

Pop, great job on the speaker. Just don't use the USPS for shipping. I'm still waiting on Dec 15 small box with medicine shipped from NJ...the last update on the tracking system was 9 days ago. Fortunately, the compounding pharmacy agreed to make another batch and ship UPS Air overnight to me yesterday...hoping to see it today.

Bird, glad you got the vaccine and no side effects.