Same. Had shingles when I was 29. Now 18 years later I still have scars and occasional pain.
As soon as I hit 50 I'm getting the vaccine. Having large patches of skin blister and fall off is not something I want to repeat.

The progress is bonkers. In 1996 it would have taken my first modem almost 2 hours to download 11MB, which was already respectable speed for home dialup.
Today it takes 2 minutes to download 14GB.

I bought, read, and enjoyed Taking Wing many years ago, but I'm not qualified to judge any popular science books for accuracy, so I appreciate it when scientists like you can point the rest of us in the right direction.

It was fun, but all things end eventually.
I still like seeing my name in the strip's thank you page. I get to claim credit for contributing to 0.000000001% of your work. 😁

I'm a bit out of the way here in SA, but have met up with a couple of culturniks who made it this far South in the past.
I was tempted to see who was available when I visited the UK last year, but my schedule didn't really allow for it.

Yup only follow people you actually know, like those from an email list that was last seriously active a couple of decades ago. 😁
🚀 🧠 <- my attempt at a Mind emoji...

I went to Wikipedia to see if it said anything confirming this nice shark fact, and it did!
The source it cited for this information was you... 😄

The tree in question.

Follow up: more strong winds brought down more eggs and palm fronds, and for safety's sake I had to get all of the dead fronds removed from the palm tree. No more goose nest, but there are many others still in my neighbourhood.

Dolphins!
Enjoy your trip to Cape Town next month, as you can see we have dolphins. All bravely defending us from sharks (we have those too). 😁