Bill Roper's Journal

If Easter is a holiday that you celebrate, I hope you had a happy one. If not, I hope that you had a fine day anyway.

My dad spent 20 years in the Air Force. I grew up as a military brat.

Today (and last Tuesday, for that matter), I am reminded of the old aphorism: They know the price of everything and the value of nothing. IYKYK and if you don't, take it up on someone else's page. :)

In different news, I became one of the older people to get his first MMR shot today.

See, I had already had the measles and the mumps when the vaccines first became available. Heck, I had the measles when I was only six months old and they gave me a shot of gamma globulin.

And the immunity didn't take, apparently as a result of my age and that gamma globulin shot, so I got the measles again in my sophomore year of high school, spent two weeks in bed, and missed the state chess tournament. (I went the following year. We won. :) ) My siblings both got the vaccine that I didn't. *sigh*

When I visited the doctor most recently, I noted my entertaining history with measles and suggested that we run a titer to see if I had immunity. I did to both measles and mumps, but not to rubella, which I had never encountered. And I'm traveling out of the country shortly, even if only to Canada.

So I am now vaccinated against rubella.

Yay!

We celebrated Easter early today, as tomorrow I will be fasting for Monday's colonoscopy.

I grilled some nice steaks from the Christmas present that Jeff and Carol sent us, we baked some potatoes, and had salads, along with some homemade bread that Julie made for us. Then dessert was a lemon pound cake lamb cake that K made.

Ruby was very happy that I was outside grilling (even if going back and forth) and I threw the ball for her several times, which made the dog quite happy.

So did the trimmings from the steaks. :)