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I'm hardly the Hunchback of Notre Dome.


If you look at the Zillow pics of my house, you'll understand why I didn't get any Trick or Treaters. In fact, the guy who came last Tuesday to install the Anderson stormdoor said he has passed-by my house many times and thought my house was utility hut. THAT is why the previous owner didn't get any offers in two-and-a-half days and lowered the price $75K and I swooped in and grabbed it for the low price of $250K.

Sort of a "tiny home". Cool!

I had two batches of trick or treaters, the first was a gaggle of teens. Very polite, took one piece of candy each and thanked me for it. There were maybe eight of them, totally mixed racially, that makes me happy.
The later batch was older, fun but grabbed a ton of candy. I don't eat it so I was cool with it. Mostly they go to the "rich" densely populated areas. There was a lot of walking for not much candy around here...bunch of damned old curmudgeons cutting their lights out and hiding.

Just hit the 'send' button on a Small Business Innovation Research grant proposal. Y'all please pay your taxes, now!

Time for a tall gin and tonic.

My booster shot arm was really sore today. On the way home from work this afternoon, I felt like I had the chills and my entire mid-section internal organs feel achy and sore. I went to bed at 6:30 pm. It's now 11:45 pm and I feel great.

I guess it was the effects getting the COVID booster yesterday.

Going to read a little, then go back to bed...3:45 am comes early.

Ditto.

Took my booster last Saturday, the 30th, felt the same as you describe, and as experienced with the first two back in March.

I got my first shot in March and second in April and was fully vaxxed on Mother's Day.

I never exprienced in March or April what I did this time. This time is definately the worst I have felt after getting a COVID shot. Right now, I feel completely fine and normal. Yesterday afternoon, was a challenge.

I think you should be pleased with your body’s response Rick as to me that means your immune system was kicking itself into gear. I had dissimilar reactions. I have had all three Pfizer shots, for the first one and the third one my arm was slightly sore for half a day, and the second one no reaction at all. I don’t know how to read that.

I was actually hoping for some sort of reaction like you had but it never happened.

Ken, my experience was yours, to a “t.” I know this is a shock but I didn’t do my own research on the vaccine - I took the shots without even knowing what was in them.


I just assume that reactions vary and any chance of my interpreting them accurately are slim to none. I’ happy to gett them all, including the booster.

Shingles shot was worse.

So I will tell you something that I find curious. From my late teens until I was around 50 years old I would get the flu probably every three years or so. Reaching temperatures of about 102.5°. It became like clockwork, getting the influenza, suffer through it, and then recover. About 20 years ago I had an influenza that almost did me in. I had a fever of about 105.5 and I was sweating, I was burning up, I was shivering. As far as I knew I was dying.

Martha was about ready to call the ambulance but I told her no! And I sweated it out another day. Since then I have never caught influenza nor have I ever had an influenza vaccine since then. I don’t know what to say about that except perhaps my immune system might’ve been sent into overdrive. Those who know more than I do might want to weigh in on this assessment.

I've never had the chicken pox and have been vaccinated for the chicken pox. Do I need a shingles shot? I only got the chicken pox vaxx because I started the school district right after college. And you know how germy li'l kids are...