A Little Bit of This and That to Catch Up Today

DH spent a miserable day at the shop yesterday, and came home dragging. He barely had energy to sit at the kitchen table and have some soup, then forced himself down to the computer to do a few things before allowing himself to go to bed and to sleep. I suspect he finally got a full night's sleep, since I haven't heard "peep" from him yet, and I'm running late. 

I offered to switch days with DH, but he didn't want 
to work three days in a row. He normally would be 
off on Saturday, but Chickie has this coming 
Saturday off for a vacation day. 

I had offered to switch days with him - I'd work his Thursday and he could work my Friday. He decided he didn't want to do that because he "didn't want to work three days in a row". A rather silly reason, all told, but that was his excuse. Chickie has this Saturday and next Saturday off (a very rare occurrence since I usually don't allow Saturday vacation time at all). She'll still end up about three days short for her allowed vacation days, but that's the way the schedules worked this year. At least we managed to get almost all of her vacation time allocated. 

I think I'll try to get the Moderna booster shot since I got 
the J&J standard vaccination in March. I'm able to get 
anything I want since it's been more than six months
since my initial vaccination. 

Covid booster shots are now available and I guess I'd better make an appointment to get mine. I want to get the Moderna vaccine, since I had the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in early March. Apparently the Moderna gives a slightly increased resistance for J&J people, and I'll take all of the extra voodoo I can get. 

It will be fun to be involved in a writing challenge 
again. I got my toes wet earlier this year with a 
small group on Dreamwidth, but Idol is a bit larger 
and has been held more regularly. Usually it operates 
more on a "Survivor" format with people voted 
off and lots of behind the scenes politics (something 
I abhor). This is Idol Light - nobody gets voted 
off the "island". Much more my style. 

I spent some time yesterday cleaning up and editing my contribution for LJ Idol Light. I still need to refine what I wrote - I do much better with drabbles than with longer texts - and I'm still unsure about my choice of theme. I want to submit it on Saturday, so I'll try and finish the deep edit today and try to do a fresh read-over tomorrow. It is nice to be writing more consistently again, even if it is not in the Tolkien universe. 

Both "Dune" and "No Time to Die" have 
an 84 rating on Rotten Tomatoes. (Candyman 
also has an 84 rating, but I have no interest 
in seeing that film). I might be able to talk 
DH into seeing "No Time to Die", but doubt 
I'll have any luck talking him into seeing 
"Dune". I think I should see it on the big 
screen at least once. Sand Worms, baby!!! 

I want to see Dune. I know it's just part one of two, and that the real meat (sand worms) don't really come into play until Part 2, but I still want to see it. I don't have time to see a movie this week, but maybe next week or the week after I can catch the first showing of the morning on one of my days off. I have my photo shoot with Rodney scheduled next Wednesday, so that trashes that "free" time, but I'll try to work it in. I'm almost 100% sure DH won't want to see the movie, but I'll double-check with him over the weekend. 

That's all the news and gossip for today. I'm running a bit late, so I need to get this up and catch up on DW and LJ. Have an excellent Thursday and I'll be back tomorrow before I head out for my swim.