covid changed quite a few things. currently sitting queued in my vehicle for a drive through vaccination clinic. noice. no such thing precovid.
better than sitting in a waiting room hearing everybody spread germs in my vicinity.
never heard of drive thru vaccinations. in the first year, went to a drive thru covid testing site. All my covid vaccinations have been at pharmacies, never crowded and typically not significantly sicker than general population.
The medical system I get my healthcare from did this before, but it was maybe 20 years ago.
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Itās November, why are you dressed like me?! I was very confused trying to remember posting this!
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I guess youāre a GoA star.
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during Covid got drive through vaccinations, literally wife and i in car on whatever side was by the window. no where to do that now
A canadian cell company is now offering satellite texting service, 10 bucks a month. Not just emergency either. Cool beans. I might have to upgrade my phone. Pixel 9 and newer, or iphone 14 and higher can do it.
Wut? Dahel? 
I didnāt eat any candy at all this Halloween
Of course, if previous years are any indication, someone will plunk down a large bowl of good leftovers about 30 feet from my desk. Right between me and the door.
We met this guy in Rio a few years back.
Exposure to wealth has the bad habit of messing people up over time.
People at work are apparently unaware that EU5 has been released, because they keep asking me to do stuff.
I was just thinking of bosses Iāve had and it is heavy on non-white-male-Americans. In order, ignoring contract work:
Irish, Puerto Rican, British (white male), Turk, white male American, woman, Indian, woman, white male American, woman, and white male American (but the same one as the previous WMA, so I donāt think he should be counted twice).
Iām not sure that Irish counts as a minority anymore, and I donāt think British ever did.
Including those, thatās 5 out of 11, or 45%.
White males make up 30% of the US population.
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Iāve been mostly in healthcare, which skews more female. I might miss one but my list of bosses is: white man, Indian woman (who got her US citizenship while she was my boss!), white man, white woman, white woman, white man, white man, white woman, Chinese-American woman.
Interestingā¦ you also have a close to 45% ratio
I missed one, an Asian American woman. She was the boss from hell and I think my mind was trying to do me a favor blocking her out there.
Irish- and British-ancestry, sure. But Irish and British are foreign.
That reminds me of a related random thought: In about 2 months, I should know if Iām an Irish citizen.
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Iām not sure what is the significance of foreign here. I really donāt think their foreign-ness makes them the equivalent of a minority such as African American or Latino.
Congrats on your new citizenship, if you get it. I hear there is a tax setup called the double Irish sandwich, enjoy. (Actually I think it is phased out now, too bad!)