I Really Should Have Seen This One Coming

All of your regular reader* would know by now, if you'd bothered with the math (an option I never encourage taking, in almost any case), that I was due this week to get my second vaccine dose, Step 2 (of 3) on the road to getting Vaccine Bulletproof.** Step 3 of course is the wait-two-weeks-and-don't-do-anything step, so short of getting active COVID in that space, I'm going to be set, finally, to start seriously considering resuming the doorknob-licking and stranger-sniffing lifestyle this pandemic had so cruelly stolen from me.

This is going to be a shorter entry because, frankly, I don't feel that great. I got the shot yesterday morning, almost 36 hours ago now, and yeah, I'm feeling a bit logy. Low-grade headache, some muscle ache and a bit of queasiness. But the appetite remains, so you get all the hallmarks of sickness without the benefit of maybe losing a pound or two.

None of this should be construed as complaint. As poorly as I feel (and it isn't really that poorly overall, to be honest), like you, I know people who have had COVID or have had people close to them get it, in some cases fatally, so I'll take a sore arm and a low-grade yuck-tummy, ten times out of ten.

I even went crazy and bought tickets to my first public event in... I'd like to say since February of '20, but that's just when the official lockdown started. In order to be out doing stuff, I would have had to have made plans, with all the requisite texting and coordinating... I don't think I even did any family events for Christmas time in '19, so the isolation has been far in excess of any government-imposed restriction.

I guess in retrospect it's not all that surprising that I never got sick.

In late May I'm taking the kids (they'll all be men by then, we've got birthdays coming up) to a baseball game. The tickets are being sold in "pods" of up to four, just a few pods per section, with total capacity somewhere between 1/10 and 1/5 of actual capacity. We'll see if they release more between now and the day of the game, what with my state moving to pull away all the chocks of social restriction by June 15. But I've been the diligent mole-man long enough. Outdoor event, limited capacity, with distancing and masking rules in place... you have to try something sometime. I'm not really excited by the idea of a "return to normal," but a few extra options, that doesn't sound like the worst thing. I watched the Mortal Kombat movie on HBO Max last week. I'm clearly running out of things to do.

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*Not a typo. You know who you are.

**To 95% anyway, which are odds I will take. It sounds a lot better than the odds back when 1 in every 8 cases of COVID globally were in the US.