Tank birthday, 55+ years

mmw64 · Feb 7, 2021

Paul B said:
I still can't get my wife a Covid shot and this staying up all night is getting old. :confused:
There are so many people trying, all Geezers that the web sites just crash and freeze.
It's frustrating. :oops:

I even have my Son N Law trying because it works better the younger you are.
I can't decide if I will keep my tank going or take it down after it's 50th birthday in a few weeks. That was always my goal. Now at my age and my wife's age and condition, I have more important things to care about.

I worry if I get sick my wife can't live alone for even a day so I am planning on what to do in such a case. Not that I think I am croaking or anything but I doubt I am immune like my tank. :rolleyes:

I try to keep myself like my tank, plenty of exercise, fresh sea food and a lot of hiding places. :)

When I look at Reef2Reef I always check to see if you have posted anything new. I would truly miss you and your humor. I do understand you reasoning as I too have considered how I would carry on if my love of 57 years couldn't help with the many things I need help with. I don't know if I am considered a Geezer or a Geezette, but I'm old either way.

Paul B · Feb 7, 2021

Geezette, it is a wonderful feeling to have someone as long as I have my wife. I met her when she was 12 and we never lived together at that time. That wasn't done then. My wife was helping her Mom who was also a widow like my Mom was and our Moms became best friends. We lived walking distance from each other, I was going out with my wife's older cousin BECAUSE SHE WAS 12 and I am not a (It will be bleeped)

After a few years, when she got older, we started going out and have been together since then so about 50 years.
I am 6 years older. When I was in Nam she sent me letters and packages, that her Mother or mine paid for and it was very expensive.

I don't know what I would do without her and don't want to find out. Now she requires more of my help and I am happy to provide it as that is what Soul Mates do. I am sure she would do it for me. :)

Crabby48 · Feb 7, 2021

Even awhile and need to check in. Hope you get tour wife the shot.

How long of a life do mandarins have? Your pair must be approaching geezer status.

runcis · Feb 8, 2021

Crabby48 said:
Even awhile and need to check in. Hope you get tour wife the shot.

How long of a life do mandarins have? Your pair must be approaching geezer status.

not just mandarins. Flame clownfish (amphiprion ephippium) are supergeezers.

Paul B · Feb 8, 2021

YYYYYYyyyaaaaaaAaaaAAaa I was up all night and I just now, at 8:30 am I got her the first shot appointment and it's only about 20 minutes away from our house. I can't believe I got it.

The rollout of this vaccine must have been done by chip monks. Very stupid chip monks.
You go to a site and after jumping through all sorts of hoops, you put in a Zip code and 99% of the time it says "There are no appointments at this time"

But many times, it probably accidentally comes up "18 appoints available in the area you selected"
Then you click on that, pick the day (that they give you) then pick the time (that they give you)

Then you get all excited and it reads NO APPOINTMENTS AT THAT LOCATION.

They you start all over with a different pharmacy. You get the same run around there and you try a state run site.

"State and Run" shouldn't even be a thing because if the state "runs" it, it doesn't run.
Twice they had 2,000 people go to Jones beach in the middle of winter which is like a 50 mile long beach with the waves crashing near your car. Those people got there....... and ......they cancelled it. No explanation, just go home, nothing to see here.

State run sites were probably developed by people who believe in quarantining with medication :rolleyes: .

Eagle_Steve · Feb 8, 2021

Paul B said:
YYYYYYyyyaaaaaaAaaaAAaa I was up all night and I just now, at 8:30 am I got her the first shot appointment and it's only about 20 minutes away from our house. I can't believe I got it.

The rollout of this vaccine must have been done by chip monks. Very stupid chip monks.
You go to a site and after jumping through all sorts of hoops, you put in a Zip code and 99% of the time it says "There are no appointments at this time"

But many times, it probably accidentally comes up "18 appoints available in the area you selected"
Then you click on that, pick the day (that they give you) then pick the time (that they give you)

Then you get all excited and it reads NO APPOINTMENTS AT THAT LOCATION.

They you start all over with a different pharmacy. You get the same run around there and you try a state run site.

"State and Run" shouldn't even be a thing because if the state "runs" it, it doesn't run.
Twice they had 2,000 people go to Jones beach in the middle of winter which is like a 50 mile long beach with the waves crashing near your car. Those people got there....... and ......they cancelled it. No explanation, just go home, nothing to see here.

State run sites were probably developed by people who believe in quarantining with medication :rolleyes: .

Happy to hear you got her an appt for the vaccine. Hope all goes well with it.

Paul B · Feb 8, 2021

Crabby, I can only get 8 or 10 years out of a mandarin. Maybe other people can keep them longer, I don't know. That is if they don't jump out of course because they like to do that especially when they are in spawning condition as I lost a couple like that and recently I lost both my ruby red dragonettes while spawning. I think they just get all excited. :p

I don't think clownfish have a lifespan and may live forever unless they get run over by a school bus, not one of those little van school buses but a real, full sized one with a morbidly obese driver. ;Meh

Paul B · Feb 8, 2021

Eagle_Steve said:
Happy to hear you got her an appt for the vaccine. Hope all goes well with it.

Yes, now I am working on her second dose, but this is a big step because her immune system is all screwed up already.

Eagle_Steve · Feb 8, 2021

Paul B said:
Yes, now I am working on her second dose, but this is a big step because her immune system is all screwed up already.

Dang. That is messed up having to set up the second one also. Here, when the first one is setup, they also lock in the date for the second one.

Paul B · Feb 8, 2021

Here to, if you get it through CVS like I got mine. The only places giving it here are CVS and Walgreens so I was switching back and forth to see if I could get any one. Walgreens came through and they don't let you book the second dose at the same time.

I can't even try to book it until she gets the first dose. I don't know why but it is stupid like everything else associated with this roll out.

mijan · Feb 8, 2021

Paul, glad to see you got your wife the appointment.
It is interesting that in 1947 there was a smallpox outbreak in NYC and 6.35 million people got inoculated with 5 million of those receiving their shot in the first 2 weeks. Now they probably had a lot more of the vaccine for smallpox then as compared to what is on hand for Covid right now but even if they had enough do you think they could inoculate 5 million people that quickly today.
I think we both know the answer to that.

-Mike

Paul B · Feb 8, 2021

I know Mike. To me it is not the amount of vaccine they can make. I realize they can only make so much and they are private companies with a limited amount of space and employees who can make the stuff. This stuff was designed very fast and I think they did a great job.

It's the morons who figure out how people get the stuff. They are only now giving it to Geezers which is the right thing to do. They first made it people 75 and older. Thats great. But before they even started, they added people 65 and older. Now you have millions of Geezers, many of whom don't own a computer having to get someone to stay up all night, every night to try to get the vaccine.

It is stupid and I hate stupidity. Only Americans should be getting this in America and all Americans have a social security number that is on file with the Govt. They find you right away if you owe taxes.

Social Security numbers are given out sequentially as you are eligible or born. ( we didn't have Social Security before 1935)
They could give out the shot depending on your SS number. Everyone with a # between this one and that one is eligible this week, and those people can have someone go online, during the daytime and register for the shot. But not millions at the same time.

When almost all those people are done, use the next numbers until everyone is inoculated.
Of course many of those people will be sick and miss their appointment and have to be slotted in during that phase of numbers.

It was wise to have first responders, doctors, Supermodels and people in nursing homes get it first.

I am sure many people won't get the shot. I don't know how that will work because when I was a kid, I couldn't go to school unless I got a Polio shot and they gave it out in school.
It was actually a law to get it and there were no riots that I remember. We don't have Polio now for that reason.

I don't think we should force people to take it but they may be restricted to certain places like schools, restaurants, Govt. offices etc. I don't know. I will be vaccinated so I really don't care if other people don't get it. I just hope the stuff works and I don't grow two heads. But if I do, I will put a bag over the uglier one. :oops:

mijan · Feb 8, 2021

I will be passing on the Covid shots for now. I am 56 in relatively good health and do not overly worry about Covid. There are many more people at greater risk that should get it first and they do not need me taking a place that should go to a senior or someone with underlying conditions.
I do not think I'm a geezer yet but I'm well on my way but I remember getting vaccines in high school. I needed a diphtheria booster so they had everyone go to the gym and we got into the correct line for whatever shot we needed and they ran us through like on an assembly line. They didn't even use needles just an air gun like device that blasted the vaccine right through your skin. My arm was sore for a week. LOL

Paul B · Feb 8, 2021

Mijan, I remember just before I went to Viet Nam. WE lined up in front of this long hallway. All along inside the hall way on both sides were small rooms or cubicles with a person in each one holding one of those guns you mentioned. There were maybe 8 little cubicles. As we walked through with no shirts on they would "shoot" 6 different vaccines into each arm at a time.

We got about 40 shots that day. Talk about sore arms. We were all bleeding down our arms at the other end.
I still have my shot record. I got shots for Parrot fever, diphtheria, Plague and probably male pattern baldness (which didn't work) :confused:

Jekyl · Feb 8, 2021

The army was protecting the supermodels from you.

Paul B · Feb 8, 2021

They protected me very good. There were no Supermodels or any females in the Army then that I ever saw. Certainly not in Nam. Maybe they were here in the states doing something. I never saw any.

Paul B · Feb 8, 2021

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