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FWIW, the virus itself could lay you out for a lot longer than 3 days and has been known to cause lasting symptoms in a lot of people. Alll the vaccines have been proven to be 100% effective at preventing hospitalization and death. Get the shot as soon as you can.

I thought it was some store chain that I had never heard of. Never heard anyone abbreviate it like that.

What in the world is Wag's?

I saw this video today that explains it pretty well.

My co-worker finally found an opening to get his shot. He only has to drive 2 hours one-way...

One of my ex-coworkers said he knew a guy that made a pretty good living traveling around the country and working for different businesses by converting their old COBOL code into newer languages. One of my first projects at my current job was converting an entire system over from Access 97 to a Windows application built in VB.net.

The biggest issue is that it's simply not a language that is taught anymore. I know the local community college where I learned it no longer offers it. I checked NIU (which partners with our CC) and they have one single class on it.

I'm sure I've mentioned this before but I spent 16 years programming in COBOL. My last job was thrilled to find me because I knew the language and was under the age of 40. It's one of those things where it's not broken and it's been working just fine for the last 50 years, so a lot of companies don't want to spend the massive amount of time and money it would take to upgrade all their systems to something newer. The problem they are running into instead is that they average age of their programmers is usually 55+ and they can't find younger talent to take over when their current people inevitably start to retire.

At this point I'm going to wait until my HR gets something setup for all the employees at my workplace or they are readily available at CVS/Walgreens or whatever without having to schedule an appointment. I've been signed up with my local heath department since early February and every time I check CVS/Walgreens websites they say nothing is available within 25 miles.

Gotcha. I think I read your first post too fast.

Where is that 50,000 coming from? AFAIK, our current death toll is already over 500,000.

People like this... https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oklahoma-diner-coronavirus-shot_n_6052f9bec5b672d709819d38

That's like asking why there are so many different kinds of frozen pizza at the grocery store.

Plans are underway for me to get mine through my employer. They are working with the county heath department. No details yet but they just sent out an initial email yesterday to gauge interest among employees.

For my RV roof I've always used Dicor lap sealant and/or Eternabond tape.

This seems... not smart.

Meanwhile in my little town...

I also have 3 Samsung TVs and they have all been really good for me. I'd definitely recommend the brand to anyone.

I been using Samsung tablets for years. I loved my old one but it finally got to a point where I couldn't even update it or install any more apps on it because it simply ran out of space. It only had like 4GB. I didn't even have that many apps on it. It also wouldn't hold a charge for more than a day. It was like 10 years old though. My new one is a Samsung Galaxy Tab A7. I don't remember for sure how much storage I have on it. I think it might be 64GB. It works well for what I use it for which isn't all that much. Mostly web-browsing and maybe a game or 2.

I saw a version of these at HS bowling tournaments all the time. Except they just the box part. They didn't have the weird plastic cup looking things sticking out. Most people would decorate them with the school colors. Pretty cool actually.

That's a tough call. I blew the engine in a Pontiac Grand Prix about 10 years ago and had to get a new one put in. IIRC, cost me in the range of $4000. Luckily the car was paid off though. Drove it for a couple more years before I got a Hyundai Sonata that I put 150,000 miles on with no problems. I'd say stay away from Pontiac... ?

I have no idea. I would assume they are to their FT employees? My point was more along the line of it being extremely difficult to get employers to raise the wages of their employees for any reason at all. It's why the fight for 15 has been going on for like 10 years now. Could many of them pay their employees that much? Probably. It might mean they only make $2.5 billion instead of $2.6 billion though. Will they though? Not likely. At least not without being dragged kicking and screaming into it.

I've also noticed this year that Turbotax's "free" version isn't free if you have any sort of variation that makes your taxes not simple anymore. My foster brother had a bonus that he got a 1099-MSC for. Made it not free. Oldest daughter got a $19 payout from a retirement fund from when she worked at Little Caesar's. Made it not free. Youngest daughter added in expenses for college (mostly books). Made it not free. I'm thinking of having my youngest try out FreeTaxUSA instead. The state taxes we can do for free on the IL state website.

Just did this with my youngest who turned 19 last year. She's in a unique situation where she didn't start her first job until 2020. So she didn't get either one of the stimulus checks last year. And we also didn't get to claim her as a dependent for the stimulus either. It only applied to dependents 16 or younger. She's in college now and if we claim her as a dependent, she doesn't get the stimulus money added on to her refund. So we didn't claim her and let her file as single so she can get it.

Yahoo stories rely way too much on tiktok videos and how the entire internet is "shook" when watching them.