Tonight I thought that I would ease back into blogging with a descriptive post of general interest that would not require much creativity. At the end of the day I am so tired though, and I wanted to dictate instead of type, so I went in descending circles trying to figure that out. I swear it used to be in my Accessibility settings, but I could not find it. After several fruitless google searches with results like, Click on the microphone icon at the upper right except there wasn’t one, I decided to pout for a while. With the result that twenty minutes after starting to blog I hadn’t gotten past the title.

Now it’s much closer to the time that Tanglewood may drop their classical schedule for this summer, something that is supposed to happen on April 8, so I’m thinking that might happen at midnight Tanglewood time–a much nicer albeit more obscure moniker than Eastern Daylight Time–and if it does I certainly need to be done with my blog because I want to buy a bunch of tickets and then book some flights. So now I am more distracted and less likely to concentrate on generating a salient blog post.

This sort of thing happens a lot. I am really careful to minimize time on small devices. I don’t even like small devices. I block computer ads and mute TV ads when I can’t fast forward through them. I don’t subscribe to Facebook or Instagram or Twitter or even Reddit. I still read books, lots of books, and I don’t have trouble concentrating on books, at least not in a quiet reading environment. Maybe that last is the key.

It’s pretty quiet in my house right now, though, so let me try a little harder to describe the item of general interest, quickly, so I can get back to refreshing tanglewood.org.

Today our younger son got vaccinated at a vaccination center in Oakland. He showed his appointment-confirming QR code to the gatekeeper and was directed to join a stop/go line of hundreds of cars, snaking through a convoluted path in the parking lot of the Oakland Coliseum, a major league sports stadium. He was in that path for about an hour. At the end, the path separated into 18 lanes, each containing ten vaccination stations. Each lane would be emptied at the same time, after which ten more cars pull up to the ten stations so their drivers can be vaccinated. Our son was confident the time in the vaccination lane was less than five minutes for the ten cars.

So this center vaccinated 18 lanes * 10 drivers per lane, or 180 drivers, every five minutes, which would be 180 * 12 or 2160 people per hour. I do not know how many hours the center is open, but if it’s eight hours, that would be over 17,000 people per day. It’s not the only vaccination center in the Bay Area either.

Oh, and I should mention, the entire operation was managed by the National Guard.

Finally the US has found something we are good at doing: getting lots of people vaccinated. Our son was able to get his appointment through the website Vaccine Fairy. He discovered it yesterday and got a shot today. He even got the J&J vaccine, meaning the trip was One and Done.

Now is the time to re-structure this post, give it a story arc, and circle back to the beginning at the end, but I’m not going to do that. I’m going to go rest my fingers while I wait for the BSO to keep their promise. I put a toe into the blog pool today at least, so maybe I will immerse myself a little more soon.