I hope you all survived the weekend. Today is going to be the worst of the heat. So grab a large cup of water. Nice and full of ice. Keep drinking past when you think you need it. Keep drinking water until your pee is clear.

We’ll get through this, but dammit, it’s horrible. My apartment is East facing, so it doesn’t get the worst of the afternoon heat. But it was still rather unpleasant.

Anyway, the pandemic is still going on, so please wash your hands too, and get vaccinated as soon as you can.

I have had to wake up early all week, and I am zonked. So nothing to write, but please try to survive the heat.

It must stink to be on Point Roberts during the pandemic. Already so isolated with the border closed. And now potentially losing their grocery store. I hope they can figure something out.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now, and get vaccinated if you haven’t yet.

I am excited to see things opening up. I am not sure when I will start going to the movies, or eating indoors. But It’s coming.

So if you haven’t yet, please get vaccinated, and wash your hands right now.

Oh, yeah, I put those up on this website sometimes.

Good morning to the 70% of King County residents 16 years old and above who are vaccinated with either the Johnson and Johnson shot or the second of the 2-shot vaccines. It means that in 2 weeks we’ll have 70% of people with full immunity. So things like mask mandates can ease off.

I am proud to live in a county that was able to do that relatively quickly. It has been a real drag, this past year. But of course there remains a lot of work.

So, please, everyone else, get vaccinated if you can.

Good morning to the new terminal cranes only. It was too rainy to go out and have a look myself, but I love seeing the pictures. I hope it’s a boon to shipping in the region.

Also, probably unrelated, but has it seemed to anyone else that there are a lot of cargo ships hanging out in the Puget Sound? Is this actually happening, or just my imagination? The last time I can recall so many ships was the West Coast Longshoremen striking.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now, and get vaccinated if you haven’t already.

Jeez, just let the CHOP Art people have their event. Honestly, whatever you think of CHOP, or how it ended, celebrate the art. Or just let other people celebrate it. You actually have the ability to ignore it if you don’t like it.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now, and get vaccinated if you haven’t yet.

Oh shoot. I forgot to write this until now. Sorry.

Anyway, there’s still time to wash your hands right now and to get vaccinated if you haven’t yet.

– Is anyone else following the King County vaccine tracker on Twitter? I love seeing the updates.

– Anyone else excited about taking the bus to a trail? Has anyone done it in the past?

– Please wash your hands right now, and get vaccinated if you haven’t yet.

– Here are some interesting looking LGBTQ businesses that you can visit during Pride Month, or any other time.

Look, I think you should get vaccinated because it will stop or slow down a horrible disease. Because it makes you much much much less likely to pass that disease on to your friends and family, to your neighbors, and to a suffering world. But if a chance of winning the vaccine lottery is what gets the shot in your arm, it has the same effect. And who couldn’t use the money? So good luck on that front.

And you can win the wash your hands right now lottery. The prize is diseases dying in the sink, and going down the drain.

Darryl noted yesterday that Drinking Liberally is back. It is so great to be vaccinated. To touch other people. Hell, even not having to worry about the dingy bathroom is a blessing. It’s great to be back with people.

I also took the bus for the first time in over a year. And am back to work from work. The return to normal is happening so quickly. It’s great.

If you haven’t been vaccinated, you should. It’s free. The more people get vaccinated the better for everyone. Let’s stop this horrible virus.

Also, please wash your hands right now.

It’s 2 weeks after my second shot today. Hell yeah. We’re all touching each other’s eyes. Or whatever normal human contact is. I forget. But anyway, it’s pretty fantastic. I haven’t even rolled out of bed yet, but I feel a sense of liberation.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now, and get vaccinated if you haven’t yet.

I really like that Seattle is always changing. Like, you can definitely complain about Amazon and expensive housing. But there isn’t a mythical time when Seattle was better. There are real problems to fix, but I am glad that we’re doing it in a city with a $15 minimum wage, and a growing public transportation system.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now, and get vaccinated if you haven’t yet.