I'm going to miss these nights and mornings

[susandennis]

I love sleeping in winter sooooo much. I love snuggling under the comforter to go to sleep but waking up and enjoying the warmth of the bed is just as delicious. Biggie's a massive part of this equation. Every night now, he curls up into a ball making sure he's snuggled into the bowl of my spoon.

In August and probably July and maybe June, it will be hot and horrible. Wouldn't be wonderful if we could somehow box up a couple of these nights and open the box in August, just once?

I am really itching to get to Goodwill. My shopping list is getting longer and I feel like I'm missing on so many deals plus, my donation bag is getting full again. King County and Seattle is still lists "level of community transmission" as high and it's not quite three weeks from the peak. So I will wait. Maybe Monday.

Today will be another stay in day. I keep trying to do my tax returns but so few of the documents I need are ready. A couple of banks will be ready on the 31st, some more on Feb. 15. And I think some on Feb. 28 but I may be wrong about that last one. But, I know, today, I got squat.

So today I think I'll make cookies.

Yesterday I watched TickTock Boom (Netflix). I am not a movie person. Really at all. But this one got me. Snared me within minutes and kept me to the end.*

I also watched the first of season 2 of Goliath (Amazon Prime). It's a little better lit so far so I'll stick with it, probably.

*As this takes place in the early 90's and is about Broadway, there is an AIDS sub plot that had me sobbing.

BUT, literally minutes after I finished watching the movie, I saw the announcement from Moderna that they have dosed the first participant in phase 1 trials of an HIV vaccination.
It's the tail wagging the dog but this is at least one good thing that COVID has brought us.

Comments

[stainsteelrat.livejournal.com]

I keep hearing good things about tick, tick... BOOM!, must get around to watching it.

[days-unfolding.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is wonderful about the HIV vaccination. I hope that it works!

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

One of the weird truisms about war (and the Covid virus has been treated as a war) is how much medicine and society advance. The very visible recent version of this after Iraq and Afghanistan blade legs. People with artificial legs are a normal now and regeneration is advancing so that your favorite science fiction story about regrowing limbs is just around the corner. The list is endless from the Crimean War and earlier.
Same with Covid and the bio sciences. Pump enough billions of money into anything and focus the world on it, things will happen. I'm so glad HIV is on the front end but that is only the tip of the iceberg. Autodocs will be injecting us with fixits for nearly everything soon. Like Dick Tracy's wrist radio, we'll be looking back at the SciFi books saying, 'yep, they got it right.'

[susandennis]

now i wish they'd find a way to have january nights in august!

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

the guy with the Yellow Glasses slew the giant and then ...let me see if I can mix my metaphors...he went down in flames (on Jeopardy). Where I live it's exactly the same - I LOVE sleeping in the winter and it gets so bloody hot here in the summer (Yes, I do have a/c....). I am already distressed that the nights are getting shorter.

My brother was a hemophiliac and died of complications from AIDS. A vaccination would be a miracle.

[mollywheezy.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry about your brother. And yes, an AIDS vaccination would definitely be a miracle! When I worked in a hospital, there were several babies born with AIDS because their mothers were drug addicts. So sad. :(

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

At the end of his life he was taking upwards of 100 pills a day. He was one of the patients who took HIV. It killed his liver and that's what killed him.

[mollywheezy.livejournal.com]

Your poor brother! That's so hard! :( One of my distant cousins had hemophilia but he was one of the lucky ones who did not get AIDS.

[msconduct.livejournal.com]

How amazing that an AIDS vax is in the works. At last! I can't remember now whether you've watched the British It's A Sin? It catches the beginning of AIDS in the UK so well, even if it's a gruelling watch.

[msconduct.livejournal.com]

I should add: by the same guy who wrote Years and Years.

[sleepybadger.livejournal.com]

I don't love the cold but I totally agree with how amazing it is to snuggle up in a cozy bed when it's chilly.

[dadi.livejournal.com]

I felt so so happy when I read about the HIV vaccine. I have lost several friends in the 80ies from that horrible disease and still wonder how I was spared, as I had a very promiscuous and bisexual lifestyle back then.

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

I've been waiting for an HIV vaccination for 40+ years!

Thanks for bringing this to my attention!