A Little Catch-Up

Finally went through and caught up on my friends list, though I didn't make any comments. As always, I loved hearing how everyone's been doing and seeing photos.

We're doing well - fully vaccinated and actually seeing some friends and family now. We've been to the movies once and out to eat several times. My oldest niece and her husband and kids will finally be coming up for 4th of July week for the first time in 2 years. (Last year they couldn't because of covid and the year before, my niece was 9 months pregnant. Her second daughter, who I haven't met yet, was born July 16, 2019.) We're all excited!

I did go back to the office in mid-March, then on May 11, my supervisor emailed us that she'd gotten permission for our team to continue working from home until August 14, then it'll be revisited. Of course I jumped at that, so now I'm only in the office if I need to do something in South Bend or Mishawaka right after work. We're supposed to give her business reasons why we should keep working from home so she can make her argument for us. I know it's not near August yet, but I want to get my reasons to her next week. I really want to be able to continue working from home. There are five of us on my team, which is called Word Processing. Basically we do document production, make things looks good - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat.... We work in three separate offices in two states (I've never met two of my co-workers) and work for attorneys, paralegals, and legal administrative assistants in 20 offices across the country. Everything we do is remote, something I never really thought about until we began working from home and nothing about my job or how I do it changed. After I went back, it seemed silly to drive 20 miles one way to work just so I could work remotely. All my team members think the same way. Whether it'll happen or not remains to be seen, but I'm going to make an argument for it. One of my team members works out of the Chicago office and they still haven't reopened.

Finished my Wiseguy rewatch and my Star Trek rewatch, except for the Kelvin universe movies and am looking forward to watching those soon. I'm already getting the urge to start over, but I also want to rewatch Buffy, Xena, and Highlander, so maybe not yet!

We've taken a few day trips on Saturdays or Sundays, so I'll probably post a handful of photos later. I wanted to drive over to New Buffalo this Saturday or Sunday but it's been cloudy and rainy for days and is supposed to continue into next week, so maybe not. That's pretty much it!

Vaccine Pt. 5

I've been pretty vocal here about how I thought Indiana was handling vaccines (not well) but they really stepped it up since the last time I posted about it, so I wanted to be vocal about that too. It wasn't too long after we got ours that they opened vaccinations to everyone age 55+, then it didn't seem like very long after that and there was enough for everyone age 16+. Now it's open to age 12+ and appointments are easy to get. In fact, I think I've seen drive-up vaccination clinics, no appointment necessary. At this point, I think if someone isn't vaccinated, they either don't want it, are just procrastinating for some reason, or can't get it for medical reasons. So go Indiana! You did a good job after all!