Author Archives: Sparky
Twisting the COVID knife
I previously reported the difficulty that I was encountering in my attempts to get the COVID vaccine. But what used to be merely annoying has now become cruel. On Friday I was, for the first time, offered a chance to book a vaccination appointment on the Publix site. But the nearest available appointment was in … Continue reading
The vaccination wildcard
I don’t know why it took me so long to recognize the obvious, but all of my tentative plans to travel north in April are moot until I get vaccinated. It is nearly impossible to get the vaccine here in Florida, as a resident of the state, and I think you can drop the “nearly” … Continue reading
Shutout #4
Today, for the fourth straight time, I was denied an appointment for the COVID-19 vaccine. I should mention that the shutout occurred on the Publix supermarket site, which, along with the Florida state site, seems to be the only source of vaccine right now. I think that is rather odd – why Publix? Why not … Continue reading
“The Cuban Affair” by Nelson DeMille
Copyright 2017 by Nelson DeMille. Published by Pocket Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, Inc., New York. I am having a hard time evaluating this book. This is my first Nelson DeMille novel and I have to say that I like his writing style. Very lively. The characters are interesting. The settings are places … Continue reading
WOW (softball edition)
We won our softball game today, 20-19 in extra innings. This victory was a minor miracle as we were outplayed and beaten badly for 5 innings . We were down 17-9 after 5. But we held them in the 6th, then scored 5 to make it 17-14. They added one in the 7th but we … Continue reading
2020 blog booklet
2020 was a disastrous year, but the booklet, as I realized as I was assembling it, is fairly upbeat, largely because of the wonderful 2-week cruise early in the year. Anyway, if you want the PDF you can get it here:
5% report
It is now January 18, which means we are about 5% of the way through 2021 and I have not posted to the blog. Why? Because there hasn’t been much of interest to report. Rusty and I hang out every day. He gets his 3 walks per day. I get my 3 meal per day … Continue reading
2020 wrapup
How to describe 2020? To borrow a phrase from Judith Viorst, it was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year. Highlights: A wonderful 2-week MSC cruise in the Caribbean A positive experience being a poll working in the 2020 general election Completion of shed construction (though some trim work remains) Lowlights: Jett’s death The … Continue reading
Damn
My second COVID-19 test was NEGATIVE. This is very disappointing as it strongly suggests that the first result was a false positive. I was really hoping for confirmation that I had, in fact, had an asymptomatic case and had developed antibodies without ever getting sick. Now I know that I either had the virus or … Continue reading
Patriots by proxy
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers won Super Bowl LV on Sunday by a score of 31-9, a huge surprise for most sports prognosticators. But three of the Tampa Bay touchdowns were passes from Tom Brady to Rob Gronkowski (2x) and Antonio Brown. All 3 are former New England Patriots. Anyone who has watched the Patriots for … Continue reading »