Yes, Friends, have YOU had YOUR spring COVID jab yet? It's a wonderful feeling afterwards, isn't it, and you feel at least, like, a billion years younger, more probably!!! Like this local man whose overweight body was literally "looming" all over this morning's Onion News - check out their popular "From the Archives" column on page 94 !!!!!
Poor Brady!!!!!
However, my wife Lois and I know exactly how Brady feels, reading his story here in partly-picturesque Liphook, Hampshire this morning, to put it mildly!!!
my wife Lois and me - a recent picture
We have our annual spring COVID jab ourselves this morning, not at the doctor's surgery, but at the local pharmacy, which is much better - no queuing!!!!!
What madness!! Although after the jab we both feel a bit rubbish. Eventually we decide to spend the afternoon in bed.
[You do that anyway, Colin, don't you - be honest!!! - Ed]
Lois and I stop by at the local pharmacy to get our spring COVID jabs
But getting our jabs at the pharmacy seems to be the way to go. So much better than those awful queues; the long lines of 'old codgers' and in the years before that, queuing up at the County Fire Station with all the other poor sods - what a madness it all was!!!
[That's enough madness!!!! - Ed]
flashback to the COVID jabs of yesteryear - what madness!!!!
It's a bit of a medical day all round today, which isn't my favourite kind of day, to put it mildly. I know I've got to take my annual blood test at the surgery early tomorrow morning, and they've also given me a urine test kit, although without any instructions. There are, like, a billion instructional clips on YouTube, more probably, but none of them seem to match the kit I've been given, which is weird.
What madness (again) !!!! So just before closing time, Lois and I drive round there to the surgery and ask for an instruction leaflet. However, when I get it home, I find that it's only helpful up to a point - just pictures, which is mad! Why can't they write more than a few words of description as well? Would it really strain their powers of imagination so very much?!!!
(above) flashback to last week, when I collect my mystery urine test kit from the surgery,
and (below) yesterday, when we got round to asking for an instruction leaflet
What a crazy world we live in !!!!
At least my appointment tomorrow for my blood test will be with a real live woman, and I can ask her questions if necessary, which will be nice!
But how long before it'll be robots who do all these things, and the UK's nurses will have been all laid off? Not so very far in the future, according to the second programme in artist Grayson Perry's fascinating new series on the AI revolution, to put it mildly!!!
Tonight, Perry is focusing on the tech billionaires and CEOs and what kind of people they are, and there's an interesting interview with some of his female staff and colleagues, and with tech world journalist Kara Swisher (crazy name, crazy gal !!!!!).
Grayson asks Swisher what she thinks of the current political shenanigans of the "tech bro's", Elon Musk and the like.
Perry asks her it it's really that cold-hearted, and Swisher says that's the only kind of heart they have.
Then Perry asks her what she thinks of the tech bros' protestations that they really care about the social impact of the products that they're rolling out now.
Do people like Musk really understand ordinary people, Perry asks, and Swisher has no doubts about the answer to this one!
"Most of them have private planes, " she says. "They go from the plane to the car, to the helicopter, to the compound. They don't interact with normal people, and so their lives become very... I call it a "cashmere prison' ", she adds.
Fascinating stuff, isn't it!!!!
Will this do?
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzz!!!!!!!
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