Rant #2,575: With a Little Luck

Hooray, hurrah, yesterday afternoon I reached the promised land.
 
I was finally able to obtain a coronavirus vaccine appointment for my mother.
 
It wasn’t easy, but I persevered and I won out.
 
Yes, it is like winning the lottery in a weird way.
 
I just went onto the official site for my county on Long Island, and went down the list of possible sites, just like I had done 1,000 times before.
 
And like I had done a thousand times before, I found a site with some dates that were listed as open.
 
I clicked on the one that I felt would be the least likely one that people would choose, and within a few minutes, I reached the goal line.
 
It wasn’t easy even when I was right into filling out the necessary information leading up to the appointment.
 
The birth date section was ridiculously set up, in particular for those of a certain age, like my mother.
 
You click onto it, and it comes up January 2021, but it does not give you calendar to go back nearly 90 years to my mother’s birth date, so I had to click the back button over a thousand times (89 x 12, figure it out) to get back to her exact month and day of birth.
 
I thought I would lose my date, but even though that took some time, I was able to do it, and after that, the rest was gravy.
 
So my mother has her vaccination date, it is relatively close to home, and by the end of this week, she will have her first shot, with the second to come later.
 
Yes, I persevered, but I also was lucky, and in things like this, luck wins out over perseverance.
 
Now I can move on to other things …
 
First up, of course, is the inauguration, which in most years is just a formality when a new president comes into office, but this year, because of all that is going on, has become a potboiler of major proportions.
 
No matter what, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will take their oaths as our new president and vice president, and that is the way it should be, should always be, and must always be.
 
This other nonsense—a stolen election, and the violence that ensued—should have never, ever happened, but the flames were fanned by our outgoing president, whether he realizes it or not.
 
And when you are dealing with crazy people who are full of gas anyway, just one flaming cinder thrown their way will explode into flames, and that is exactly what happened two weeks ago.
 
I hope that nothing happens today on the level of that horrid incident, and I wish the new president and vice president well … they are going to need it.
 
Say what you want about the outgoing president, but he did garner 74 million votes, and a lot of those who cast those votes are in an ultra “show me” existence right now—Biden and Harris are going to have to win many of those doubters over, and hopefully they can do that with a responsible slate that doesn’t slight anyone, yet also takes into accounts the fact that while the new president garnered the most votes in history, he also had a vote total against him that was the largest in history.
 
That is something to chew on, and I hope that the new president succeeds in his quest for unifying this country … and I think he can do it.
 
And yes, he is going to need a little luck, too in doing so.
 
There is nothing bad with perseverance aided by some luck.
 
I learned that yesterday, and I do wholeheartedly wish the new administration success … and a lot of luck too.