It's funny, when I was younger & browser bookmarks became a thing, my bookmarks were all about history & cosplay & sites on ghost stories & stuff like that.

These days my bookmarks are for stuff like my work benefits & retirement fund site & AARP fitness.

This is what aging looks like, yo'.

@Sleep_Is_For_Chumps OMG neither am I. You're not alone!

I contacted a mortgage group to see what it would take for me to get a house.

I want to find out if it's even possible.

@softwaremerc Yeah a great aunt got shingles & was suicidal from the pain. It's no joke.

@JustRed Yeah totally kicked my ass this time around. The first dose wasn't as bad.

But then I also had a C-19 bivalent booster along with the shingles. 0/10, do not recommend both at once!

So go ahead & get the vaccine. Get it. It's a few days of grumpiness & discomfort compared to getting shingles & having weeks or months of your nerves being on fire 24/7.

Shingles is a nightmare. A handful of folks in my family have had it and it was like torture. Two of them were elderly & believe the pain contributed to their deaths - not because shingles itself actually kills anyone, but because they were just in so much pain & so miserable they didn't want to live anymore.

So if anybody's thinking of getting the shingles shot & wondering what it's like, it's a bit rougher than other shots: it hurts more getting it, the spot aches for a while, & the side effects can lay people out for a few days.

Get it anyway. Seriously - get it anyway. It's nothing at all compared to actual shingles.

& no more vaccine symptoms either - no body pain, lungs are calmed down, feeling like a million bucks there. Even the tender spots around the shot sites don't hurt anymore.

Woke up feeling near 100% of subjective normal today. I think I actually got some reasonable sleep, holy what?

Several years old by now, interesting nonetheless: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133/

@Kurtroedeger #accidentalrenaissance

I'm pretty damned tired of American capitalism.

@Former5SportOfficial Hah yeah like if there were some machine one could put it in or something and... yeah actually I'd also love for someone else to do all the folding & stuff like that. Like a washing machine that could find the laundry & pick it up & do it all, completely automated...

@VelvetDuchess Absolutely.

@misterfive LOL yeah I've been saying it for about a week as well

Maybe I'll do laundry today. I don't know.

Glad to report that I'm feeling way better today.

The only lingering symptom from last week's vaccinations are a slightly tender upper arm & what seems to be a mild asthma flare-up.

Yes, rescue inhalers are on standby, always.

Hey you know those folks who holler about how "taxation is theft"?

Ever wonder what their thoughts are on the historic relationship between taxation and representation in the US?

Yeah, I don't either.