Yeah, but the pharmacies around me won’t do it for kids under 10, generally. A few do, but most won’t. And they won’t tell you they don’t unless you call and ask, I have scheduled appointments before online and provided their DOB, only to be turned away. And none of the ones convenient to us will. So we do all vax at their doctor’s office, their birthdays are in the fall anyway so it works out fine for the most part!
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Ah, I’ve gotten Mini Me vaccinated at Costco for both Covid and flu, but now that you mention it, it seems like maybe we did have a problem at CVS.
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Well my youngest is almost 24, and I’m pretty sure I gave up on flu shots with her when she was a teen. So this was 10+ years ago. And they didn’t alway have flumist.
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Supergeek son works cybersecurity (full-time remote), laid off with $25K severance. Two weeks later, he was offered 50% more than the previous job.
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I love a lot about this. How old?
14
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That’s beyond amazing.
Also, nerd.
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younger kid is sr in HS. Our state has a program that our HS is part of, granting direct admissions to a number of post HS options based on HS grades alone. Kid was granted admission at top tier, so all schools (has to formally apply to make real). Happy for my kid, but also many others who got news like it when they might not have otherwise considered much for post HS education. (so combo brag on the program itself)
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Its the little ones fourth birthday in a few days so we took her shopping for her first bike. She is really strong and can go super fast on the bike.
She made a beeline for the Frozen bike 
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Nice… similar to Mini Me’s which also lights up (fine) and plays a scratchy unpleasant rendition of “Let It Go” (not fine). She’s outgrowing it though… probably time for a new bike.
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Now-23 yo took the MCAT for the third time. The first two times she scored in the low-30s-percentile…this last time, she scored in the 75th percentile. Studying was her full time job and she really committed to it. Her goal is to attend the University of Minnesota medical school.
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exciting!
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Today, 21 yo informed us that she got first place at Minnesota NATS, a singing competition.
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Ooh, she also had a vocal solo at the college jazz band’s concert last night. ALL OR NOTHING AT ALL - Alter Atman and Jack Lawrence / arr. Nelson Riddle / transcribed and adapted by Jon Harpin. 6945814 - soloist
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“A lot of people tell you what they wish they could tell themselves.”
– PM, 20 years old
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Diarmuid sat through Mass! Woo!
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Mini T-2 is my favorite person to talk to.
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What in the hell? Did you forget I EXIST?!?!?!
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My oldest daughter Sara (travel expert like her dad) was quoted in the WSJ. Extract is below in case you can’t circumvent the WSJ firewall.
“For the last five years, the Lululemon City Adventurer has been the preferred travel companion of Sara Cooke, the Vancouver-based communications director of ToursByLocals which boasts more than 4,800 guides working in 178 countries. The multi-compartment bag is made from durable, water-repellent nylon, and features a padded pocket for a 16-inch laptop. Cooke finds the bag especially useful “when I don’t want to commit to a hard-sided suitcase, but want to bring more clothes with me that I can stuff in a daypack.” She also notes that it “has more organizational structure than you find in a typical duffle bag,” with its crescent shape, as well as both exterior and interior pockets and a luggage sleeve.”
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