Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California, now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert.

Night has fallen on the desert.

How's everybody doing out there?

On this night in the arid American West,

I'm kind of in a day's, so...

If you're looking for an episode of this radio show to dissuade you from recommending it to others, this is the one.

Because I'm about 24 hours into the second Pfizer vaccine shot.

And all I can think about is my old Zoom, all my old favorite songs.

Watching videos on my surface tablet. Thinking about favorite operating systems of the past

Bob Vista

I'm wondering if I should have taken the advice of a nice lady at the temporary worker agency many decades ago, which was get your XP certification.

Yeah. get your XP certification. I've been outside and it's all just a little confusing.

This one rock squirrel has been

doing something strange

with one of the solar lights

out under a Joshua tree.

I notice they treat you a little differently when you come for your second shot with a little more sympathy

because you're in a good mood you know it's done not one and done

but it's done and you are thinking about all the fun you're going to have

like i'm going to get in the truck and go to every state where everything's open.

I'm going to go to that modern American art museum that the Walton's built in some holler in Arkansas.

I'm gonna go take a long tour of the West Texas oil fields.

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