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The wife and I had Covid last Nov/Dec and it was pretty rough. Luckily not as bad as a lot of people. Just like a bad flu for a month. Then got the vaccine in March and it was like a mini version of Covid for like 36 hours.
 
Since my youngest daughter got her booster yesterday, I'm happy to report that all my children and their spouses have been boosted, and my three eldest grandchildren (the ones eligible) are fully vaccinated, since it's been two weeks since their second Pfizer shot.
 
I like listening to Christmas music every now and then at this time of year. However, my son-in-law is the family's Christmas guy. And now he's got my granddaughters into it. While he's been listening (in his car and at work) to the local station's holiday music since it started mid-November, his two older girls are practicing their own version of a Christmas performance (a couple of songs, complete with dance moves). 😉 😁
 
For a guy who claims that American football is his #1 sport, I have more futbol kits (jerseys) than football ones, and more futbol t-shirts than football ones (though the last is explained, in part, by the annual shirts my local supporters' group makes).
 
I sang in a Holiday Chorale at my former place of employment from the late 80s to 1999 (left Spring of 2000). Sang bass parts mostly (though really a baritone). One thing I miss about the old place. Great people I met over the years.
 
I've had three surgeries in my lifetime.
  1. Age 6 for a hernia. 🤕
  2. Age 17 for a badly broken collarbone (weeks after car wreck which nearly killed me)
  3. Age 44, emergency gall bladder surgery which required its removal. A gallstone had lodged in the bile duct.
 
Like Habspatrol, I'm a huge fan of Jack White's music, in all the various iterations we've heard it: White Stripes, Raconteurs, Dead Weather, soloist.
 
Covid has now struck my dad (March 2021) and my sister, husband and their middle son. All recovering/recovered.
Added to my brother-in-law and his daughter, and that's now six family members who became ill with it.
Feel fortunate, in a way, given I had a student who told me she missed last week. She and 15 of her family members got it despite the fact they were all vaccinated and boosted.

Updated 2/15: unfortunately, my son got Covid last week. He felt ill Monday night, woke up feeling slightly worse Tuesday, and tested positive. By Tuesday night/Wednesday morning he was in the ER getting some oxygen and medication (and a blood oxygen monitor) after complaining of shortness of breath. However he was doing better by Friday morning, and this morning he tested negative. Meanwhile, the decision to delay the EUA by both Pfizer and Moderna has my daughters furious. They were hoping to get their youngest ones vaccinated soon. Now that delay adds to their uncertainty.
 
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Every Tuesday and Thursday, my eldest daughter brings her youngest (age 4) to Pasadena for preschool (from West Hollywood, a 35-40 minute drive on good days/times). She drops the older two off at school on the other side of Pasadena, then on to preschool. Then after school, between 11:45 and 2:45 on those days, we get three hours of uninterrupted grandad/granddaughter play time. And boy do we play: she's always got in mind specific things she wants to do, including reading time.
My profile photo was on one of those days last month when she came over.
 
Decided (well, more coerced than decided) to give up drinking for Lent. Long story, but my last escapade in drunkenness nearly had me expelled from the home. Instead, I have this. Wish me luck.
 
Can't ice skate worth a lick. Every time I tried when I was younger, I could never get far without falling. The wife tried a few times after we got married (at the ice center here locally) but after awhile, she just gave up.
Yet somehow, that didn't stop me from learning to appreciate the brutal, beautiful game that is hockey. ;)
 
Ed H in Pasadena said:
I have six grandchildren. My eldest has three girls (8 1/2, 7 and 4 on November 8th). My second eldest has three boys (6 1/2, 4 and 23 months). Perfect symmetry ... for now. ;)
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My youngest daughter is expecting her first, a boy, on February 5th, 2025. If he's born on that day, it's the day my oldest grandson turns 10. Ruins the "perfect symmetry" mentioned above, though it'd be kinda cool to have two of my grandsons born on the same day ten years apart.
 
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