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    Getting my 1st Covid vaccination Tuesday

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    17 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

     

    So if vials get punctured then vaccine remains, as 6 hrs approaches they either go in an arm or go in the trash.  Ideally it's minimal, but at mass vaccine events to speed things along they may have one crew of people drawing doses into vaccines and another crew vaccinating, so if they get "no shows" they get shots in syringes that either go in an arm ASAP, or go to waste.

     

     

    Here locally they recommend that you show up at the mass vaccination site one hour before closing. If they have shots left, you will get one, regardless of age, co-morbidities, etc. Of course, it is possible that there are no shots left - that is your risk. My daughter (who is 20) git her first shot last Saturday. She actually ran the 10 miles from our home to the vaccination site (she is training for a half-marathon).

    Getting my 1st Covid vaccination Tuesday

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    Moderna. First shot at the end of January (Texas priority 1B), no aftereffects at all. Second shot at the end of February; no fever, but some muscle pain, not only at the injection site. Played it up a bit, to avoid yard work for the weekend. Then wifey asked if I, instead of doing yard work, could help her a bit with her NIH grant. So, instead of 4-6 hours yard work, I spent 12+ hours proofreading, editing, and making diagrams.

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    Share some music thread

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    Covers of the Beatles' "Help". Bananarama's version does not offer anything new, except that they look good in the video. The most memorable fact (IMHO) is that one of the backing vocalists is Jennifer Saunders of "Absolutely Fabulous" fame.

     

     

    Deep Purple make it "heavy", using the Vanilla Fudge approach - slow it down, add some organ.

     

     

    Cathy Berberian's baroque version

     

     

    And finally, Australian singer John Farnham, with the Elton John approach.

     

     

    What Team Do FA's Not Want to Go To ?

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    1 hour ago, ROCBillsBeliever said:

     

    Funny thing about Cincy, @YoloinOhio, my wife keeps talking about going there, but it's because she loves zoos and Kiwi birds, and I guess Cincy has a zoo with one... Not sure NFL players care a whole heck of a lot about Kiwi birds, so... I guess... Priorities 🤷‍♂️

     

    You better not tell her that Franklin Park Zoo also has Kiwis (their first chick recently hatched). Otherwise, you might end up in Boston.

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    What’s your earliest memory of the Buffalo Bills?

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    In September 1990, I came to Rochester as as a postdoc. On Mondays, all the other people in the lab and my "boss" were talking about "the Bills". I decided to give it a shot and started to watch a few Bills games, and I found the game of American football utterly confusing. More into the 1990/91 season, the rules and the game itself became more obvious to me. Thus, there is no precise date I can put on my earliest memory, but I can still remember how disappointed and sad I was after Super Bowl XXV.    

    Fast forward, my son, who was born in Rochester in 1999, is now an avid Bills fan, although we moved to Texas when he was just 4.

    Share some music thread

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    From more than 50 years ago: No guitars, but strings and very primitive synthesizers (pre-Moog) - way ahead of their time, including the lyrics.

    Sorry, no video - they only lasted for one LP.

     

     

     

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    Backyard Birding

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    I put up a suet feeder and a tube feeder with black oil sunflower seeds shortly before Christmas. So far, I could identify 15 species visiting the feeders. However, only the pine siskins and house finches visit the feeders themselves regularly; sometimes, a cardinal or a red-winged blackbird will make an attempt. Most of the other species will just survey the ground under the feeders to pick up seeds that fell to the ground. Among the rarer visitors there are a curved-billed thrasher and a spotted towhee.

    A few weeks ago the feeders attracted a bird that was not attracted to our offerings, but to the birds which were feeding - a Cooper's hawk. These accipiters are extremely agile (they have shorter wings than other hawks), and its moves were impressive. However, our regular visitors fled into a nearby rosebush, and the hawk could not get to them.

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    Bills prospect LSU LB/S Jacoby Stevens

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    1 hour ago, Bill from NYC said:

    In 2020, in the games against Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, he recorded 10 tackles, 11 assists, and .05 sacks.  His team however allowed a combined 137 points in those 3 games.

    I'm not sure what to make (if anything) of these stats, and if I still had the LSU/Bama game on tape I would watch it to offer an opinion.

     

    What are .05 sacks? He was 1 of 20 guys involved? 🙂

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    Name This Person

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    3 hours ago, I am the egg man said:

    With Bills fever over, might as well point out who this is:

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    Believe it or not.....Brian Daboll

     

    That was a really difficult one. Maybe this is a bit easier...

     

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