Good morning!!!!

[rswyan]

Actually it does. The places with the most infections are mutating.

Just a little bit more on that.

Not only are the places with most infections mutating, but the more infections there are, the more opportunities there are for more unique mutations.

So the long-term focus really needs to be on reducing the size of (if not eliminating) the pool in which those mutations take place.

Smaller pool = less opportunities for mutations = less chance of the virus becoming more transmissible and/or more lethal ... or less amenable to being controlled/prevented/ameliorated by a vaccine.

It isn't enough to just vaccinate the US ... we have to vaccinate the entire world.

And the sooner the better.

 

[Dftodd]

Yes - while the overall effectiveness is actually lower than the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, it appears that J and J product is better at preventing cases from becoming severe, requiring hospitalization, leading to deaths, etc. It is less effective with the South African variant.

So you might get the virus and get symptoms but they should not be severe for most folks.



I'm sure that's welcome news.



How is she doing now ?

Better I hope.



Perhaps the J and J vaccine might be more well tolerated by her ?

I understand it is quite a bit different than the Pfizer or Moderna.

Shes doing better since I got her to take some excedrin migraine. Which I think the vaccine triggered one.

She's back to the land of the living. I bet someone will learn some new language though if they try to give her another dose of Moderna.

I'll be waiting for reports on the J&J vaccine before I get vaccinated.

The category I fall into is not due to be eligible for 3 more months. I could push it since I'm on an immuno-suppresant, but think there are people out there that need it worse then I do.

I've done a good job of avoiding the virus. Even with the amount of traveling I do for work. My wifes done a good job avoiding it as well, even with working with covid patients.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 34F for the start, clear light wind. Windy day, clear sky most of the day, high temp was 57F 7:30 check in time for colonoscopy, got home 11:30 with Chic-fil-a lunch. no biking today and no nap. Sinuses did not like dry O2, and spent good chunk of day trying to expel the gas and rehydrate. Got email while in procedure of available vaccine, responded when I got home, all vaccine gone
Covid update: Cooke 2761 confirmed cases, 118 active cases, Montague 1569 confirmed cases, 27 active cases, Grayson 9644 confirmed cases, 417 active cases, local 14 active cases.
Dennis sounds like you don't need the aux heat very often. Hope you are ready for the big snow
Roy isn't that too cold to snow?
Ron glad you having good time with aunt. vampire squirrel?
Bill hope you had a good trip
Drew They are proud of those guitars. have fun baking uncle Drew's funny muffins
Billy enjoy the hike
Buppies sorry about lost keys. Lost car fob one time, found it 4 months later next to GPS
Randy happy b-day to your niece and grandson
Rich blank slates are always the most dangerous! glad you are warm
Drew hair will likely revert back to it's before state soon. I do like my electric splitter
Thomas oh no, not a nap!
Mike last time I used cash was tonight at restaurant
Bird impressive sleep catch up. Glad you are doing better
Paul sorry about no progress on vaccine. Glad maintenance of shop going on. Thanks for motor start on generator info
RNG getting some nice rain rain I see. Glad bank draft done , what are those bearings for? Glad beans worked out. Hope you can get an equitable settlement
Ken good news on wife's neg Covid test, have fun starting the seeds
PJ sorry about the no clean up. Good news on Internet speeds.
Phil sounds like not so good weather, hope you are ready for big snow
Drew look good :licking:
Lou glad fridge delivered and in house no problems
David sorry you got fire ants
RS sorry about rhododendron, have nice day
Doug sounds like a nice day, It has been longer than a few weeks since my last R/C flight.
Rand hope weather does not cramp your style
Don glad they contacted you on second shot, bad new on Firewise leader, thanks for update on Eddie
Dennis prayers for your brother, tell him happy birthday
prayers for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/sister & family Covid, David(moss)/remodel/divorce, Ron/hearing/son/aunt, Phil/wife's eyes, Dennis/no Covid/older brother, Grev/wife's eye, and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[sodamo]

Little Fire Ant class was interesting. Looks like we’ll use a bait type treatment using Amdro and Tango. The LFAs have been in the neighborhood a few years, but the ones at cottage are 1st to be found on our property.

Coax adapters arrived in mail. Got them installed this afternoon and loaded Verizon sim into the MoFI. Had to make some setting changes. Get a very strong Band 13 signal, stronger than my AT&T band 12, but internet quality not nearly as got, long pings near 200 and speeds less than 10mbps. Will play with settings this weekend and maybe talk with tech support, but first glance definitely not enticing to upgrade.

Made a quick trip to HD to get items for the water heater electric.

 

[daugen]

good morning all. Another cold sunny day before the snow starts Sunday afternoon.
Now they are back up to 11 inches in the forecast.
I'm hoping Monday afternoon I can sneak out and got to local small bridge over Delaware and get some pictures of snow coming down over the River.

all my muffins turned out well this time. Have three plates of them wrapped up and will deliver this morning.
Mom, it's the Muffin Man!

David, I was pretty consistent in killing 90 percent of the fire ants, about ten percent of the time another hive would pop
up two days later about 5 feet away. Pretty sure that is due to existing underground passages.
I used as little of those chemicals as possible, but it's a war and those ants will win if you do nothing.
Just be careful with your pets and applying fire ant poison. Hopefully it tastes really bad to them.

Mostly, my five years is about up and I'm due in for colonoscopy too. Am going to investigate the mail in test.
I've had 'rhoids for a long time and I always wonder if the discomfort has now changed, something new?
My wife died from that so not ignoring pains in the behind was a real lesson for me.

one month into the new year already.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the temperature is -9°F and going up to 9. Wind N 3 mph. Sunny.
We are into a warming trend, by next Thursday we will see 32F.

Too cold to do anything outside, so I will stay in and conserve energy.


Stay safe all

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning all. A bit wild outside here, a strong easterly breeze is running across a collision of warm and cold air, making the clouds unsure if they want to drop snow or rain on us. That indecision made for a chilly time slipping and sliding across fields, though nothing better than having face slapped by sleet to work up an appetite for a good helping of porridge.

Good news is that the cormorant must have left a few fish behind the other day. Bad news is that I only know that because 2 of them were raiding the big pond this morning.

...It isn't enough to just vaccinate the US ... we have to vaccinate the entire world.

And the sooner the better.

Well said :thumbsup:

...and speeds less than 10mbps.

David, wow, are you suggesting the internet can actually run faster than 10mbps ? I can't imagine such dizzy speeds, my brain would surely explode if I didn't keep seeing all those soothing gravity challenged tiny balls spinning in a circle to calm me down, or all those opportunities to reflect on the day while waiting for "buffering" to finish. :laughing:

 

[ronjhall]

Hot coffee has been poured into cup. 1° with clear skies this morning. Heading 29° with cloudy skies. Got grocery shopping. Picked up 200 lbs of bird seed at Menards. Got it unloaded in put in storage containers. Sure like 20 lbs bags instead of 40 lbs. Spent rest of the relaxing in warm house. Little house cleaning today and reminiscing with my aunt. Front windowed room got to almost 90° yesterday afternoon. Opened door from there to Livingroom to give furnace a break.
Michigan Covid cases 608,612. Deaths 15,410. Oakland county cases 70,269. Deaths 1,889. Death per day for whole state have been less than 20. But they go back to death certificates and look to see if person had been tested positive for Covid within 4 weeks of dying. They are counted as a Covid death. Regardless how the person died. Those counts add over 100 to the death count some days.

Dftodd, glad your wife has recovered from shot. My aunt got first Pfizer shot Wednesday. Had a mild head ache. Was much better yesterday.

Buckeye, Happy Birthday to your brother. Hope hospital stay short.

Drew, that new snow blower should get a good workout.

Don, glad Eddie and Karen are doing better. Been following the thread. Glad your date is still good for second shot.

David, hope you get better number with some adjustment to Verizon connection.

RNG, do you have a after video?

Buppies, hope you find the keys.

Rich, a little chalk can fill that slate quickly.

Everyone stay healthy and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[RoyJackson]

Roy isn't that too cold to snow?

Really don't know if that's the case...

 

[daugen]

Buckeye, prayers for your brother and a speedy return home

 

[RoyJackson]

2021-01-30, 0601

-1 degrees right now...high today in the low teens. There's still a wind chill advisory, but it hasn't been much wind around these parts...nothing steady, at least.

Chores are a dump run and get some diesel. Should have got the diesel a few weeks ago but didn't.
After that...unless the wife wants to do something, just watch some flicks. I got the 1937 version of "Lost Horizon", so that's definitely on the list

 

[Thomas]

Mostly_gas sure hope today better than yesterday for you...kick back and relax.

 

[wngsprd]

18 heading to 40 then snow starts tonight.

Mostly, glad you're done with the colon for a while...Chick-fil-A...great recovery meal!

Eric, our clouds must have moved over your way...they've been pretty confused here this month, too.

Had an unplanned trip to the vet...took up all morning, but after lunch, cut a load of firewood that needs splitting this morning so I can empty the carry all wood box for another filling before the snow arrives. Two new chains and some oil to mix with gas arrived yesterday, but not the bar oil, which I will run out of today. I tried to order everything from the local hardware store (Ace Hardware) but their website must not carry a complete inventory since nothing I needed was showing, just the saws, chaps, helmets, etc. Yet the store had a great selection. I resharpened my chain, and it did great, so didn't use a new one yet.

David, surprised to hear fire ants are on your island. They haven't made it here, but are in southeastern Virginia where I go.

Prayers for those ailing and to keep all safe.

 

[Thomas]

BEF.
Hope your brother feeling better enjoying his birthday outside of the hospital.

 

[ronjhall]

Mostly, forgot all about after affects of a colonoscopy. My next one is not due until next year. Hope you are feeling better today.

 

[Thomas]

2F now mid teens for high sun cloud mix less windy today.

Least than 2 weeks gas gone 14 cents gallon...hmmm.
Outside chores done toast time.

Plans for today...Check game cams keep the wood furnace purring other than that :confused3:

Enjoy the day all.

 

[daugen]

Rufford Ford || Vehicles vs DEEP water compilation || #12 - YouTube
Eric, is this anywhere near you?
just posted on Youtube.

boys will always play in the mud puddle.
I love all the guys in their Defenders coming out to play in the water.
The Case Puma 240 coming through was my personal favorite.
Clearly a recurring event there as they have a water height indicator nearby. Two feet of water at least.
This is the dream scenario for anyone with a snorkel exhaust and a car/truck
designed to be hosed out. Not sure I'd want it. For all you know that water could be full of pcbs
from the downed transformer half a mile upstream.

Don't drown, turn around. There's usually another way.
Though if I were there with a new watertight Defender, I might slowly go through like the one guy
in the late model one, a proper landowner driving through the puddles.

 

[Bird]

Thats good to hear. Wife got her second Moderna shot yesterday.

First shot felt like she got a mule kick to the shoulder starting the day after the shot that lasted for three days.

Second shot produced the mule kick after a couple hours. Then came a fever, cold chills and sweats, upset tummy, vomiting, and the mother of all headaches.

She won't be getting the booster shot they are talking about for the Moderna vaccine.

This is the first I've heard of such a severe reaction. It would be my guess that you might not have the same reaction if you got the same medication, but I can certainly understand your reluctance.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 45F @ 3:30AM. Cloudy skies this morning will become partly cloudy this afternoon. High 58F. Winds light and variable.
Only 0.07" of rain yesterday, but the timing was perfect to catch one of the motorcycles moved out onto the driveway while I swapped out a pallet of firewood in the garage. The bike didn't melt, but now it needs a good cleaning. Today and tomorrow are both looking to be dry, but mostly cloudy. Then a couple more days of rain before sunshine reappears for the rest of the 10-day.

Seems like too many things waited until Friday this week to finally clear themselves up. The wired funds finally made it to France, so the bearings seem to have been shipped and the transmission I have apart on the welding table may finally get put back together. The local insurance agent got an authorization form to the insurance company and I was finally able to use my charge card again to pay for the homeowner's policy. After an hour and a half on hold, I got someone at the post office to tell me that the shotgun parts I ordered were being held for an adult signature at the local hardware store, which doubles as a hole-in-the-wall post office. And my buddy that's moving to Klamath Falls, Oregon wants to use the good weather window next week to run a heavy load of tools and motorcycles up there in the F250. That's half way to Portland, so today I'll pull the front differential out of the van so I can keep going (once the truck is unloaded) and drop it off at a reputable rebuilder to have a locker installed. When it rains, it pours. Not quite literally, though, as all the wet days we had this week totaled up to less than two inches.

Pretty sure I don't have any "after" video, Ron, but I haven't looked closely, either. Might not be a bad idea to shoot one, though, showing all the dead oaks and manzanitas and the solar power system I had to install because PG&E electricity is no longer reliable.:muttering:

I did get my Cologuard test sent off this week, and it was a lot more convenient than a colonoscopy. But the test isn't as reliable, either, and should the result be a positive, I'll still have to get inflated and probed.

One of the hummingbird feeders is MIA after this past week's wind, so I'll have a walk about today to see if I can find it. It's brightly colored, and didn't just disappear into thin air, but I'm sure the wind made a good try toward that end. I took a short walk yesterday looking for it, but that same rain shower cut it short.

Sort of a mixed bag for the J&J vaccine. It doesn't seem to be as effective, but that may have something to do with it having only been tested with one dose. But the real big deal is it doesn't require the liquid nitrogen temperatures to keep it from spoiling, which may greatly ease distribution. Youngsters with no connections (like most of us) will just have to keep our fingers crossed that the virus doesn't mutate it's way around the current crop of vaccines before we get jabbed, though.

And speaking of liquid nitrogen, what a tragedy so many died at the chicken processing plant because of a leak.

Back on the vaccine, I wonder if some of the discomfort after the shot might be due to lack of experience in the person handling the needle. Could a shortage of qualified personnel be the cause?

Hope everyone enjoys their weekend; I think I'll try and finish the rest of my forty winks...

 

[daugen]

looks like any fire company with chicken processors in their area using nitrogen
need to pre plan a haz mat response
bad day on the job