The Waiting Man

A slow return to work - 'essential' jobs only, so there's not much for me to do - 3 yesterday, only 1 today, but I received a 2nd payment from the Federal Government without having to jump through their online & phoneline hoops, so we're a bit more comfortable than I expected

Now that I'm fully vaccinated, it's kind of weird, kind of interesting to see & read all the news articles about how the various State & Federal mouthpieces are urging people to get vaccinated, with the Opposition party offering to pay $300 to every person who gets fully vaccinated "if they win the next election" - which is a cynical bit of PR for a couple of reasons... firstly because there's been no election called, secondly because by the time an election is called, vaccination rates will surely be high enough that such bribery will be unnecessary, thirdly because given the dishevelled condition of the Labor Party, it's pie-in-the-sky thinking that they're any chance of winning an *RSL club meat raffle, let alone a Federal election. Which hurts to admit, but the evidence is strong... Last week, on my favourite news satire show Mad As Hell they made a throwaway joke about Australia being a one-party democracy & while it's an unrealistically long bow to compare our current Prime Minister with any of the well-known Communist & Fascist dictators of the last 100 years, the premise is not entirely inaccurate

Still, it's an odd feeling for me to be so ahead of the curve on vaccination & to be a tiny fraction of the tiny 16% or so whose shots are complete. Given the relative painlessness of the process (the pain only really coming from trying to find somewhere to get vaccinated & arrange appointment times - not as easy as it sounds!!), it does make me wonder what everyone's waiting for... & even angrier at the anti-vax morons & the paranoid fantasies they peddle & perpetuate

* Returned Servicemen's League... Interestingly, this acronym got redlined by my PC's spellchecker & one of its replacement suggestions was 'SLR'. Tells you everything you need to know about the society of the software's country of origin...

Back to work today... 4 measures & inspections that were designated 'urgent', so I was allowed to go to the sites & do my thing - following stricter guidelines about contact & communication, of course. Then scaling & drawing plans here at home in the afternoon, scanning, e-mailing... it was almost like hard work, after 2 weeks of nothing!

Tomorrow, I'll drop the original plans at one of the retail stores, on my way to get my 2nd vaccine shot

I did a Covid19 test yesterday & the result finally came through this evening - about 12 hours after all the previous ones, so I had a little panic about it, but of course, I'm fine. I have to get another test on Monday, to satisfy a pedantic client who won't let anyone on site without a test result that's less than 48 hours old, so yesterday's won't count. Annoying really, as the line-up at the testing site yesterday was the longest I've ever seen there & took about 45 minutes to get through. On the other hand, I suppose it means that even the "it can't happen here" brigade are finally taking it seriously

As mentioned previously, the 2nd Pfizer shot can apparently be a bit rougher &, in one anecdotal case, much more interesting than the first one, so we'll see what kind of shape I wind up in tomorrow afternoon. I hope I get the hallucinations... it's been a looong time since I had any good LSD & a little vacation from reality would be most welcome

Maybe L-SP should drive...