The UK went a different way on vaccinations.  They chose to inoculate as many people as possible rather than first immunize an individual with both shots, as the U.S. is doing for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.  The point is that you do gain, perhaps, 10 points in protection with both shots.  However, even one makes a big difference in affecting the community, and, further, this delay for the second injection seems to be essentially okay.  The graphic to the right from the New York Times . By now anyone who regularly reads this blog knows that I live in a seniors' community called 15 Craigside.  Today, I will clear my desktop by transferring these food photos into this posting. On Wednesday I had an international St. Pat's meal.  My green life began the day by walking on the Ala Wai Golf Course.  Did well, and my pulse rate remained below 100 pulses/minute because a group ahead of us played reasonably slowly. I might mention that I've seen hundreds of pigeons over the yea

Super Bowl Sunday is a wonderful day for me.  No politics, ignore the pandemic and be somewhat pious.  So I will start with  comedy .  Sure, that was an atheist, but it was funny. So let me balance this near blasphemy with the most popular religious song in history.  According to this source , it is Amazing Grace , by John Newton.  Absolutely beautiful.  Watch it. But the voice sounded female?  I searched and found this John Newton film, one hour and twenty minutes long, called, The True Story of Amazing Grace  ( the whole movie ).  I checked Rotten Tomatoes, and there was only one film called Amazing Grace , and reviewers only gave it a 26 rating.  Benedict Cumberbatch and Albert Finney star, and TTSOAG did not have them.  Plus, AG was almost two hour long. So went to Wikipedia , and found out that John Newton was born nearly 300 years ago in London, first worked on slave ships, and himself became a slave, of Princess Peye of the Sherbro People ( now Sierra Leone in Africa ).  Newto