I've now been blogging about COVID-19 for about a year and a half. As a society, we've used that time to argue constantly, and totally...

This week, Texas got about two million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. Despite the pause in the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, local health departments have not paused efforts to improve distribution.

Earlier this week, I was charged with investigating lines at the vaccine hub at Fair Park in Dallas.

The editorial board here at 1 Scaianalysis Esplanade can only provide so many pick-me-ups.

I got my first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine today.

I believe HIPAA laws dictate, when the COVID-19 vaccine becomes widely available, your healthcare provider is required to provide a doctor or nurse to administer the vaccine and also an assistant to take a picture of you smiling reassuringly into the camera and possibly giving a thumbs up.

I may never have mentioned this before, but I was in a minor fender bender (or kerfluffle, if you will) about six years ago. Each December, an associate texts me to congratulate me on my "staying alive anniversary."

Doctors and nurses are too good to call us idiots. That's how we got the phrase, "COVID fatigue," so they can gently inform us that wearing a mask without your nose tucked in doesn't, technically, perform the functions of a "mask."

Loyal Scaiaholics will recall how my associates and I had plotted out an epic road trip to take in this year's Pendleton Round-Up in SuperOregon.

Loyal Scaiaholics will recall how I've covered the Palace Theater's stalwart light bulb vigorously. And by "vigorously," I mean, "once."

At the risk of editorializing, I think many of us would agree 2020 has been a borderline grind.

This week, the li'l munchkins of TCU are moving into their dorms. TCU has taken steps to try to slow the spread of COVID-19. They'll isolate students who test positive and set them up with care coordinators to set up virtual classwork.

This weekend, the 2020 MLB season is getting underway.

My apologies, everyone. I'm pretty sure I'm responsible for this whole COVID-19 situation. I didn't realize it until this week.

Loyal Scaiaholics will recall I honor the birth of our great nation, much like John Hancock and George Washington, by eatin' hot dogs.

Tonight, Fort Worth ISD will host a city-wide graduation celebration for the class of 2020. As a man who graduated in the elite top 75 percent of his high school class, I can understand the importance of a celebration like this.

Back in aught-five, I had settled into Hermiston, SuperOregon. Recent College Graduate Scaia was longing for a new adventure. Growing up in the heart of the Cincinnati-Dayton corridor and visiting family in New York and New England as a young'n, I was ready to get away from it all.

These "safer at home" and "shelter in place" and "don't leave the doggone house because the virus might not affect you, but it will affect the li'l ol' lady down the street if you breathe on her" orders have been wearing on all of us.

My assignment at work today included all the excitement of people in Dallas arguing with each other about COVID-19 and a review of election law! You know it's a productive day when you email the web guys a story that has a link to a PDF from the Texas attorney general's office.

Sure, you might think I have too much free time . But you might also be a fool. An associate had the good sense to shift away from her job in media. She opened up an arts and crafts shop on Fort Worth's burgeoning Near Southside. But she opened just before society was discontinued. She's still working but now does a lot of her work remotely. And I needed something to do while reviewing the hit movies of the 1980s as in the link above. JuJu Knits had started advertising kits