Thomas journals

 The Anti-Covid app is quite well-designed.  It stores the user's covid-vaccine status within a QR code that then is readily checked by any shop-owner or museum-clerk, et al.    But, how to get our pass vaccinale, as we received our vaccines in the US, where things are not so automated... First my note to some friends in France: Et maintenant, il faut déterminer le procès pour convertir nos cartes vaccinales américaines aux passes sanitaires numériques!  Nous avons pris, bien sûr, les trois doses Pfizer; mais le gouvernement des états-(des)uniens n’est pas si avancé que La Belle France. ..pas de code-QR, seulement les cartes (ou les photos des cartes) comme au 20ème siècle!  W e got the pass vaccinale at the https://pharmacies.pharmaciengiphar.com/nouvelle-aquitaine/lot-et-garonne/beauville/pharmacie-des-arcades-875 though the pharmacist was quite unsure about the process.   He mistakenly entered my last-vaccine year as 1921!   This was not ...

 We departed Chicago on the 20th, so as to arrive in Toulouse on the 21st, so as to arrive at our house-sitting place northwest of the city on the 22nd, 2/22/22, two two two two two, no matter what your cultural date-sequence is!   Husbanding of United frequent flyer points finally achieved business-class on their Polaris-branded plane. Indeed it was quite nice; but the main point was to be able to sleep on a flat bed, so I ate dinner then slept five hours, with earplugs and eyeshades.  Interestingly, my apple-watch noted that my blood-oxygen level was quite low during that sleep.  I wonder if that is typical?   Note to self: when you get business-class ticket, you get automatic entry to the business-class lounge in the airport.  That was not explained on the website, nor in my prior reading in various airline blogs.  We sat around OHare in a generic seating area for a couple of hours, actually not bad...but when we checked at the gate, the agent said ...