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 I've got a lot of these. Kind of fascinating subject matter, in that it's always the same thing but ever-changing. Now what does that remind me of? At any rate, although not freezing this morning it is windy and cold. But sunny. That helps. I have one very important little trip to make this morning, and then in for the day. I couldn't do it last week because there was ice on the roads! I happened to read about something called "deltacron" this morning. It combines the Omicron protein coat with Delta genetics. Just what nobody needed. It just goes on and on, doesn't it? Still too early to tell whether it's going to be very prevalent or very dangerous or very infectious. It seems that Covid is here to stay, in one form or another. On that unhappy note, let's have some more sunflowers!

At this point, only a first rate fool would refuse to be vaccinated. And of fools we do have many.

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 Ahhh, morning and the dawning of another day, as an old commercial for some forgotten brand of coffee had it. Or maybe you can still buy that coffee. I've forgotten the brand. And it looks to be a fine day today. Not even freezing this morning. It will warm up nicely. I haven't decided what I'll do today. Plenty of time for that.

I'm having myself a damned good cup of coffee, nice and strong, the way I like it. 

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 Well, well, pretty mild weather continues for us, though how long that will last is anybody's guess. I'll enjoy it while it does last, that's for sure. Some rain chances coming up next week, but our rain chances tend to evaporate. It might be over 70 F tomorrow and that will feel good. 

I'd sure hate to live farther north. Lubbock is already cold enough.

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 Well, well, it was a tad bit chilly this morning but the sun shines and that is what counts. Warming. Not so bad as these northers go. I have read recently of another "variant of interest" with even more mutations than Omicron. 46 spike protein mutations, as I recall. And at that time, 12 infected. One must wait and see. These things will keep on coming. That's life.

The nightmare that began in November of 2016 has not gone away either. 

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 Chilling down again, with a norther today. Several in a row on the agenda but not such extreme cold, and DRY. That's fine. Last week's snow was quite enough. I do not appear to have had Omicron, or if I have it's been asymptomatic. Fully vaccinated and boostered, of course, since I'm not an idiot, but vaccinated people seem to be catching the stuff. Troubling are the reports that deer are being infected. A future transmission of a further mutated form of Covid, from deer or other wildlife to humans, could spell all sorts of trouble. Nothing I can do about it. What will be will be.

Crazy people don't bother me as much as they used to. I feel sorry for them.