Always a debate, I always get one…knock wood, I never get the flu.  They are usually covered by insurance, but some places only take some insurance.  They are at a lot of locations, and what have you got to lose?

According to doctors, you cannot get the flu from a flu shot…for adults, at least, I think it’s a good idea.  Kids?  That’s your call.  This year the H1N1 is combined with the normal flu shot.  That was new to me.  Still gonna do it though!

I’ve seen shots available through VNA (visiting nurses association) CVS stores, Rite Aid stores, Walgreens and Tops.

Here’s to a healthy winter!

Speaking of Winter, do you get the feeling its going to be a rough one?  I don’t know, it just seems like summer was extra nice, but the squirrels started building nests in my yard early, and burying nuts earlier than usual.  I think we will be well into winter by Christmas instead of the January storms we normally get.  Hope I’m wrong…..

When Monday is a holiday, I’m completely messed up.  I have a headache, I can’t put two words together and it’s Tuesday not Monday.  Ugh, back to bed and start over maybe?

The long weekend was nice in that I got some long awaited chores done and feel like I accomplished a lot.

Back to working out today.  Screwed my knee up jogging in Ohio.  That’s what I get for running downhill.  It took 7 full days to heal!  I’m gonna try running tonight.

With the unveiling of the new iPhone this week, my thoughts wandered to how far things have come technologically just in my lifetime.

As a struggling radio guy in Northern Michigan back in my 20s, I’d DJ weddings and occasional parties to make ends meet. I would lug two huge speakers, stands, an amp, CDs, a huge stack of vinyl records, a mass of cords and adapters, a couple of turntables (exactly as pictured), two CD players, my mixing board and headphones to each event. It took about an hour to set up, another hour to tear down, and I shared the front seat of my Chevette with at least one of those huge speakers. At the end of the evening I was pretty tired, but a couple of hundred dollars richer for my troubles, so it all worked out.

Today, all those cases of records and CDs I lugged from event to event can be replaced by one iPod, and the size of the speakers I need today would be half the size they used to be back in the day, but putting out much fuller, more realistic sound.

An iPhone can download just about any song I would want in seconds, so if I were to go back to deejaying, I could handle just about any request on-the-fly. How amazing is that? My 20 year old self would be shocked, awed, and so very covetous of this technology!

Random Thoughts

–Brian