COVID vaccine: otherwise unclaimed doses

A friend just pointed me at this site that matches people who want to be vaccinated with otherwise-unclaimed doses, and avoids the problem of people queuing outside in the cold for those doses.

They ask for your zip code*, date of birth, what industry you work in, and whether you have any of several medical conditions. The FAQ says I might hear from them, but only if I am in a group that is eligible for vaccination, and nobody who is higher priority, lives near me, and has signed up and is available.

The site is called Dr. B. Probably nothing will come of this, but it's free, and I see no reason not to sign up.

*Yes, it's US-only.

spices!

My Penzey's order arrived today.

We now have lots of cardamom pods, rosemary, thyme, and powdered ginger, all of which we have been using a lot of. We have replaced the bay leaves and the (ground) allspice, both of which had lost flavor with age.

I also had them send a small jar of crystallized ginger, which I use slowly but had just finished the previous jar of when I placed this order.

Ajwain, the item we selected specifically because it's something cattitude had never cooked with (and wasn't sure what was) is apparently the little seeds that some south Asian restaurants have bowls of near the door, to freshen your breath with after meals.

Another package, with a small jar of powdered mustard, is also on its way.

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I had a pleasant, if somewhat sleepy, video call/chat with rysmiel this evening. As they said, we are keeping each other up on news/our lives pretty well in email, so this was more about wanting to see each other's faces, and hear each other's voices, than about having specific things to tell each other.

(We did this through gmail, using cattitude's laptop, and it worked fine once I told Firefox to allow pop-ups.)