Tornado Alley (PROG)

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2nd shot is good and would have been surprised if you had had any serious side-effect at all. You being male and relatively healthy, et al.

I paused on 05/04 because it rang a bell. Though here we would put it as 04/05 (with year coming next, day before month makes more sense to me. It makes for a smooth day/month/year. Month/day/year feels disjointed. Jerky). Anyway my 2nd appt with my new neurologist is on the same date here. At least was, but since i couldn't get the day he asked for on a heart tracker recording thing until May 6-7 i've called and changed the appt. to May 11.

"I'm getting my second shot soon. Or should I call it an extrication of an invigoration? Either way, the needle's going in.... 05/04
And I haven't lost any sleep aside from the normal day to day.
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After all this new investigation is over then i'll think about getting my first covid shot. Had the flu shot which i hadn't had for some forty years until starting it again about 7 years ago. And never had any adverse reaction to any shots ever so don't expect any with the covid vaccine.

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LOL, To remind myself why the date of one battle won while a bigger one later was lost is celebrated and not surprisingly more in America than in Mexico.

Cinco de Mayo (pronounced ['si?ko? ðe? 'ma??o?] in Mexico, Spanish for "Fifth of May") is an annual celebration held on May 5. The date is observed to commemorate the Mexican Army's victory over the French Empire at the Battle of Puebla, on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza.[1][2] The victory of the smaller Mexican force against a larger French force was a boost to morale for the Mexicans. Zaragoza died months after the battle due to illness. A year after the battle, a larger French force defeated the Mexican army at the Second Battle of Puebla, and Mexico City soon fell to the invaders.

More popularly celebrated in the United States than in Mexico,[3][4][5][6][7] the date has become associated with the celebration of Mexican-American culture. These celebrations began in California, where they have been observed annually since 1863. The day gained nationwide popularity in the 1980s thanks especially to advertising campaigns by beer and wine companies. Today, Cinco de Mayo generates beer sales on par with the Super Bowl.[8] In Mexico, the commemoration of the battle continues to be mostly ceremonial, such as through military parades or battle reenactments. The city of Puebla marks the event with an arts festival, a festival of local cuisine, and re-enactments of the battle.

Cinco de Mayo is sometimes mistaken for Mexico's Independence Day—the most important national holiday in Mexico—which is celebrated on September 16, commemorating the Cry of Dolores, which, in 1810, initiated the war of Mexican independence from Spain.[1][9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinco_de_Mayo

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To the song. If you posted it before i missed it. On impulse i was tempted to make The Pretender a troll as Da Kine 17, like you know a real pretender (or severely deluded, actually maybe more likely), but then soon figured, no, had to be the common guy. dreams of house and family and maybe more.

This song is about a man who gives up his dreams and lives a life of routine monotony in order to accumulate money. He is the pretender.
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/jackson-browne/the-pretender

I like it. Still would like to think the one who treats reality with respect, so has a job, even if only to survive (luckier and even better if he loves his work), and is lucky enough to have been able to buy a house, still has unfulfilled dreams.

Life changes. It helps to see even seemingly the most negative experience, after a time, in a positive light. I know. So can look back and say: though that was the saddest and baddest time it was the right thing to happen. And am glad it did. If it hadn't i wouldn't be in a better place today.