My COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Shot Experience

24 Hours After COVID-19 Vaccine Third Dose

I took my 2nd COVID-19 Vaccine in July, 2021. So, my booster shot was long overdue. I delayed it a bit to schedule it on the long Canada Family Day weekend, so I would have enough time to recover should I feel sick from the after effects.

Both my 1st and 2nd dose were administered at the Toronto City-run Metro Toronto Convention Centre immunization clinic. My 3rd experience was also seamless and I was done within 15 minutes, just like the previous ones. 

I felt nothing for the first 3-4 hours, but then started feeling the pain in my left arm. I took one 500 mg Tylenol as recommended by the nurse.

I woke up fine the next morning, except my left arm felt heavier and little bit sore, but it was not a big pain or sore muscle. The rest of the day felt fine and I kept myself busy doing my usual chores.

What I noticed around 23-24 hours after is that I started feeling weak and sick. I rested in bed for 20 minutes and then got up to go outside for a walk. Then my nephew showed up and we had coffee at Tim Hortons and headed to Ikea to browse some stuff.

I think keeping myself busy outside helped me to handle feeling sick better. After coming home, I took a cold shower and I felt a lot better. This was around 30 hours after the shot.

I planned to take another Tylenol before going to bed, but my arm soreness and pain was almost gone and I felt so much better that I decided not to take any more pain killers.

Some people had severe reactions after their 3rd dose and some people had none. Mine felt less severe than the 1st and 2nd dose and I think tomorrow I will feel even better than today. 

Best Personal Small Space Heater? Amazon Basics Small Space Personal Heater

Amazon Basics 500-Watt Ceramic Small Space Personal Mini Heater

I was looking for a way to cut electricity costs by reducing running my central heater. At night when it’s time to sleep, a small space room heater in the bedroom should be good enough to keep warm without running the full heater in the unit.

I was searching for the best portable small space heater for winter and found the Amazon Basics 500-Watt Ceramic Small Space heater.

It’s a basic heater with just an on and off switch. There is no thermostat, so it will keep running continuously as long as you do not shut it off. It’s only 6.3" (16 cm) in size, draws 500W electricity, and it works fairly well for its $26 CAD cheap price.

I was able to run only this small heater in my bedroom (turning off central heating) and had no issues being cold at night while sleeping. It kept running all night to keep me warm.

It has its noise, as it runs continuously, but it’s tolerable and doesn’t interfere with sleep or feel too noisy. I was surprised at the amount of heat it generates, being so small and portable.

Overall, I am happy with the product. If I had to, I could complain about it not having a thermostat and timer switch, but those would increase the cost as well.

I have made a video review of the Amazon Basics 500-Watt Small Space Mini Heater, which you can visit by following the link below:

Tiny Heater Gives Tons of Heat | Amazon Basics 500-Watt Ceramic Small Space Personal Mini Heater

Why I Bought My Surface 4 Intel Core i7 - 32GB Memory - 1TB SSD

Buying My New Laptop Microsoft Surface 4

I have been using my current laptop, an ASUS ZenBook Flip S UX370UA, for over 4 years. It still works and runs perfectly, but got notoriously slow for video editing. After researching a few other brands, I decided to go with Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 4.

Other brands that came close on my list are Lenovo and Dell, but I found it hard to pick one that offered 32 Gig RAM with an i7 processor and 1 TB space. Lenovo had one that came very close, but it was bulky and the price was not reasonable.

I was thinking of bumping up my RAM power to 32GB RAM from my old Asus Zenbook’s 16GB RAM. I chose 32GB RAM and a 15-inch screen, so it's slightly bigger than my Asus Zenbook’s 13.5 inch.

32GB of RAM costs $2849.99 (SALE saves CAD $300) before taxes. 16GB of RAM costs $2149.99 (SALE saves CAD $200) before taxes. These are Intel Core i7 processors. So, I paid $700 more just to get higher RAM and in the world of video editing this can make a big difference.

So far, everything has been going smooth with my new Surface 4. This is a sleek, skinny laptop that shows it is high end and performance-wise I can feel the difference in extra RAM power. I converted to Windows 11 from Windows 10 and it runs even better now.

My expectation is that my Surface 4 will serve me at least 5 years and anything beyond that is a bonus. What I have noticed is that these days computer and phone manufacturers make products in such a way that they don’t break but get so slow that it’s no longer usable – forcing consumers to buy new ones.

I am sharing my Surface 4 experience on my YouTube Channel here:

Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 | Tips, Tricks, & The Basics

First Class Lounge at Terminal 3 Cairo Airport | Egypt Travel Blog: Day 09 (Part 64) 08D19

Visiting Cairo Airport First Class Lounge at Terminal 3 – Egypt | Leaving Cairo Tonight

Egypt Travel Blog: 10 DAYS Egypt Explorer - Felucca Cruise & Red Sea

My Priority Pass app pointed me to the only lounge available at the Terminal 3 in the Cairo airport. Ironically, the name of the lounge was First Class Lounge, although later on I concluded this had to be one of my worst lounge experiences.

The First Class Lounge was small and not well lit. Right after entering, I noticed the run-down and disorganised conditions of the lounge. I decided to do a video first before getting some food and drink. 

The food section had almost nothing. I saw only some sweets, cookies, muffins, and breads. The refrigerator only had 2 types of soft drinks and water. There were 2 coffee machines, but I was pretty leery about drinking coffee out of these machines. I don’t think I had ever seen this type of barely adequate food and drink at any other lounge before.

The sitting area had some chairs, sofa chairs and 3-4 pieces of old long sofas. Nothing looked or felt like I was in a lounge.

I decided to check the restroom, although I had an idea that there was nothing good to expect there either. It was a very small washroom facility with almost no amenities. Some airports’ regular washrooms looked better than that.

I grabbed just a bottle of water and some sweets to kill some time. I had arrived at the last segment of my 10-day Egypt trip. You will be able to see the full trip on my Ahmed Dawn Instagram and Ahmed Dawn YouTube Channel.

I wish to put together my experiences in a book as well, which will soon be published. I will resume publishing travel posts once my next trip starts. Thanks for reading and see you soon.

Reached 5000 Subscribers – Special Thank You Post | Ahmed Dawn (A Dawn) YouTube Channel

A Dawn YouTube Channel Reached 5000 Subs

It feels like just yesterday when I had 60 or 70 subs. Then it passed 1000 one day and kept growing and growing. Today, I am taking a few moments to say thank you and that I’ve appreciated your support all along. It has been a great journey.

Since the beginning, I refused to think inside the box and stay put in one niche on this channel. I understand that creating videos on a variety of topics slows growth, but I never gave up despite 99% of YouTube Gurus constantly telling us to think inside the box, stay with one niche and grow.

I had accepted the outcome (that I would grow much slower for thinking outside the box) before deciding what sort of videos to publish. I would rather be happy and express myself by putting out any videos that interest me and help someone out there, rather than publish the same, niche-specific boring-subject videos day after day, month after month, year after year.

I am happy to tell you that I still got some great subscribers like you who are not afraid to see something new and different and think from a different perspective. I am certain I would have had triple or quadruple the number of subscribers I have today had I chose to stay on a single topic.

But numbers are not what I am after. My objective is to educate and entertain you with something new and different every time and not to let you predict what’s coming next. This is the journey I want to take and I’m not too worried about the destination.

Whether you are with me since Sub 1 or Sub 1000, I appreciate and thank you for supporting this channel and staying with me so far. And remember, always live for the journey, not the destination – the journey is the destination.