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  • I spent a good month pretty much going at it all hours of the day.

  • Um, you know, early in the mornings, late in the evenings, I had set up alerts on my phone where you know, they If something came open, you would get an alert and I had absolutely no success.

  • Ultimately, we had a friend of the family who was kind of doing good Samaritan work for people to get them appointments.

  • Mm, I said, Well, here's my information.

  • If you want to give it a try, I've had no success.

  • Maybe you can give it a shot.

  • I started to look at.

  • Think about ways like How can I can make this better for my relatives that we have been trying desperately for the past few weeks?

  • To get the vaccine slots, one of them Rite Aid.

  • You have to go to their website and put in like a zip code, and then you have to go through each store and click manually, like search for vaccines.

  • It'll say no appointments available.

  • Whatever.

  • You used a program called Auto Hotkey, which uses just this kind of like, you know, put any commands, mouse movement, keyboard strokes, etcetera.

  • So I just made a simple little thing that would just click search, Then go to the next door, then search, Then go to the next door.

  • Okay?

  • It's a great feeling to be able to help people like this.

  • So I personally have helped 115 people.

  • I started getting all these private messages saying, Benjamin, we need help.

  • Benjamin, I can't look at myself.

  • Benjamin, help me, please, Uh, even myself, with a modest amount of computer knowledge and ability.

  • I mean, I was I had to basically recruit a young lad to, you know, run the show because I couldn't get an appointment.

  • Yeah, well, um, I got I got the email, and I was amazed.

  • And and, quite frankly, I I was done and I thought What?

  • You're kidding me.

  • This is amazing.

  • He did it.

  • I was almost overcome with tears.

  • The world's been through a lot in the past year, you know?

  • And then all of a sudden, you're like, Oh, my gosh, I'm at the end of the tunnel.

  • Possibly.

  • This is a beautiful thing.

I spent a good month pretty much going at it all hours of the day.

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