And flu shot done

Got this year's flu shot done on Thursday. I've been having it for the last 20 years, so until this year I was on a 56k modem that needed a landline, just with the occasional refresh of the wiring to make sure it was still working. I'm still getting it as a belt and braces thing alongside this year's shiny new 4G but I can't want to get my next armful of mRNA and my update from the 4G model to 5G.

The healthcare assistant said the jab hadn't been as bad for her this year, and I'm finding the same. I always get a tender arm and tiredness for a few days afterwards, but while I can tell that I've had a jab it's quite a bit less tender than usual. Still glad I had yesterday off, though - as usual, I  could have dragged myself into work, but would have preferred not to. But even in the Before Time - I often had flu in years when I hadn't been vaccinated, and flu is not just a bad cold. There was the year I had flu three times (there's a reason why the jab has 3 or 4 strains in it), there was the year it took everyone at work weeks to recover and it was often followed by an opportunistic bacterial infection, there was the year I nearly couldn't get on a plane to make it home to see a dying family member, and I'll take the tender arm and tiredness for a few days, thank you very much.

Book review: Allie Brosh, 1) Hyperbole and a Half, 2) Solutions and Other Problems.

Allie Brosh has written two books (so far), which I'm reviewing together. I love them. They're somewhat hyperbolic versions of stories originating from her real life, told in the form of comics. Most of them are funny, some of them are not, and a few give a deep insight into the mechanisms of a mind grappling with nightmares.

Allie Brosh - Hyperbole and a Half

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Allie Brosh - Solutions and other problems

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