15 August 2021 Yesterday I got my second covid jab. The experience was significantly better than the first. The first time took 3 hours and was chaotic. This time I was in and out within 25 minutes, 15 of which were the mandatory waiting time at the end and at least 5 minutes were wondering where I had to go. I feel a bit urrgghhhh today but that might also involve the return to work after 3 weeks off. I deserve to moan and groan about nothingness. One issue with having a company phone is that I know what my week looks like already. I do not regularly check the phone. It has been a source of morbid curiousity to see how many e-mails there are and I have opened only 5. Mostly because they involved a hydrogen pump concept which is technically fascinating and programme-wise devastating. Also, I have a habit of checking e-mails on the sunday before I return to dampen the blow of the unexpected. I have always preferred hitting the ground running with understanding if it is going to be a terrible Monday or not. I never really action those e-mails until the Monday at least. So today has been spent with the radio and ebooks. BBC 6music have a cracking series of programmes on a Sunday so I can leave the radio going without worrying about hitting nonsense which jars and disrupts the slow day. I finished reading Arthur C Clarke's Childhoods End. It is a slightly hard to get into book but well worth the effort. I was probably not in the right mind for reading at the start though so it might be easier to get into than I think. I have phases where I read voraciously and where I avoid reading anything beyond web articles. All depends where the mind is I suppose. Slow Sundays are almost always conducive to reading at least a chapter though. Later on will involve a transition to Anonradio instead of 6music. Well 6music starts a thematic listener show but it tends to be light on the interesting, new and enlightening selections I get from Anonradio. All nice things to savour in the last hours of my leave period.