The Life and Times of Me

That's right, yesterday was the day, hence my not posting. It went well, and I had an uninterrupted sleep last night other than the space heater shutting off by itself at some point. It might've been off the entire night, but I'll check on that.





Anyways...as per my previous entry I did indeed receive my first shot yesterday. Somehow the local health director was able to squeeze us in at one of the hospitals even though the state has not entered the next phase. I think their extension of the current phase was bumped up or something. Thank you health director! I'm going to try and write him, as well as the others who made this happen. My building mates and I were asked to congregate at a local hospital along with some neighbor/friends from another building, and register as one large group. This included some staff members of Center for Independent Futures. We did not have to wait long at all. My temperature was taken by a robot, along with a staff member's temperature. Then we were asked to go sit down and given paperwork to fill out. He did this for me, and within a short time the 2 of us were called back to the area where shots were being administered. A COVID-19 screening was given to us, and then we received the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine. I was thinking it would be Moderna, but I'm told they're the same. Then he and I sat in a waiting area for about 15 minutes, and we were cleared to go home. All of us are scheduled to return on 9 March for our final doses. Then we will be fully vaccinated, woo-hoo!





This wasn't the hospital which I normally go to for anything, but they were organized and did a very nice job. But I'm told that this hospital is not currently equipped to handle patients with seizure disorders such as epilepsy. How true that actually is I don't know. But I'm so glad I got the first jab. My left arm is a bit sore and I experienced some tiredness, but other than that I'm feeling fine. Thanks as always for reading/commenting, and best of luck to those of you who have yet to receive your first or second vaccine doses.

Hi everyone. The title is pretty accurate. I'm going to attempt one of these again. Apple have updated their health app at least on the iPhone since the last of these that I did. Apparently more stuff has been included in their app and the stuff that was already there has been consolidated, but it remains accessible with their screen reader known as VoiceOver. If all goes well for this post, I will start doing them again regularly time permitting. I say that because my days as of late have been more or less taken up by socialization. But I've also forgotten what I called these posts before, so at some point I will backtrack and remedy that.





Having said all that, here is what I did today. Chicago is starting to see colder temperatures outside, but I have managed to get out a bit despite that and the socialization mentioned earlier in this entry. So today I walked a distance of .55 miles. That includes indoors and outdoors. Cheers for now and talk to ya tomorrow!

Yes indeed folks, you read that right. A message was just posted on an audio-description listserv to which I am subscribed, indicating that the event linked below can now be heard with audio description. https://is.gd/90iprZ . I have yet to listen all the way through. I was tuned in live when the event happened, but I'd like to listen to it with descriptions. I think this just proves a point which has undoubtedly been stated time and again. That is, Apple cares deeply about accessibility. Why would their products have all those great access features if the company actually felt differently about the matter? I haven't a clue, but what's become clear is that the author of this journal is a very satisfied Apple customer. Nope, I'm not gonna lie and say that the company is picture perfect because they're not and I think they fully recognize that. But they are clearly in the diversity game for good, and that is good news for the holidays and beyond! Having said all that, I firmly believe everybody has a choice in the matter of which technological solution or solutions to purchase.

Hey everyone. A bit on the early side again, but here are today's stats: .45 miles, 1119 steps and 0000 flights climbed. Please note that there will probably be no more logs until further notice due to me upgrading to iOS 13 tomorrow or the next day and figuring everything out. I might post again tomorrow evening, but no guarantees. There are some changes in iOS 13 that will require a bit of getting used to on my part, and I'm headed out of town this weekend again. But will try my best to post something. In the meantime, buckle up 'cause we're evidently in for a wild ride!

Hey everyone. I'm back at it with more stats. I walked 1.2 miles, 3458 steps, and climbed 4 flights. Unfortunately I also got bitten by a horsefly out back, but the good news is that I've been using the ointment that my dermatologist prescribed for me. My neighbor across the hall just had a look at the bite, and he says it looks better and that it might become a tad itchy.

Hi all. Today I walked .27 miles, 680 steps and no flights were climbed.

Happy birthday to one of my downstairs neighbors, and here are today's stats. .05 miles and 133 steps taken. That's a lot of work isn't it, lol!

Here are my stats for today: .15 miles and 371 steps. Not that active again today but there you go. Trying to work on it.

Here they are folks: .25 miles, 2 flights and 668 steps.

Greetings. I haven't forgotten about y'all, but just been busy mainly chatting with my neighbor across the hall like always. I did make it out to the Y again this morning with one of my tutors. I almost wasn't able to post one of these this week. Our wi-fi up here has been acting rather strange lately, and he and I've been using the wi-fi on the ground floor. But we thought it was time to give that up, and give that wi-fi back to whomever else needs it because they don't have other reliable wi-fi or whatever. But anyway, please see a prior entry of mine for the reason ours went totally out.





I've not got anything to highlight today, other than the entire Dreamwidth platform. There is a new mobile site for Dreamwidth which is apparently in the public beta stages. Believe it or not, I actually had a bit of time to test it out not long ago. I'm happy to report that it is very accessible using the 2 screen readers on my Mac. I briefly tested it out on my iPhone, and it's very good but there is no log-out button. At least this was the case last I checked. Perhaps that has since been rectified though. I'm gonna try and find some more time to test things out.





In other news...My next-door neighbors bought a house and are moving out. I'm getting a new neighbor, who is actually not that new to me because he tutored me for awhile here. Anyway, we're throwing the neighbors a going-away party next week. Hush, don't tell them! Lol they aren't even on here so don't worry about it. I am going to miss my daily interactions with them, but they won't be going that far and we will still keep in contact with them. Apartment life is hard with 3 little kids, or so I've been told. It'll be good to have one of my former tutors living here in the building though with his children. Think that's going to have to do it for this time. Be back soon. Gotta go nuke some supper.