Some good news (103/365)

[white_hart]

The Guardian's COVID liveblog* yesterday reported that vaccinations were going to be opening up to the over-40s, and this morning I saw that the website has extended booking to over-45s. I haven't actually booked mine yet, because when I looked the closest was Banbury, and when I thought that actually, maybe Banbury was OK and went back it only had Northampton or Milton Keynes, but it seems like a positive sign anyway.

I also bunked off for two hours this afternoon for a lovely swim in the river; the sky was blue, and the air temperature was about 14, which is ridiculous given that it snowed yesterday, but there you are.

Because I felt guilty about bunking off, I decided I'd set up a spreadsheet to track my hours and reassure myself I'm not slacking. It appears that even with bunking off for two hours I worked 8 hours and 22 minutes today (I did start early, to compensate for taking time in the afternoon), so I'm probably not slacking really...

*Is there anything the Guardian won't liveblog?

Comments

[ankaret]

I have successfully booked myself a first vaccine appointment for Sunday afternoon. (Sunday morning and anything before 4 on Sunday disappeared as I was clicking from one page to the next, causing me to grab 4.15 and then have an annoying fight with Peter because I had just asked 'can you drive me to Stithians on Sunday afternoon?' and got an affirmative 'yes, I have no plans for Sunday' rather than checking that the precise time was okay with him. I love him dearly but his assumption that there is always time to dither about in any situation is often exhausting.)

[white_hart]

Hurrah! I am glad you have a booking. And yes, not one to dither over. When T booked his he had to wait for me to be out of meetings to consult about when I could drive him there and by that time the slot he'd been looking at had gone.

[ankaret]

Congratulations to T on coming joint second in the Mastermind semi final! He's obviously a very strong quizzer, it was just the luck of how the questions fell.

I was surprised and pleased that there were weekend slots available at all, but then the showground is enormous so they probably have half the volunteers in Cornwall there.

[white_hart]

Thank you! I think he felt that his specialist subject let him down - he had less time to prepare than he did for the first round, and some of the questions were definitely a bit random.