I donated blood at a blood drive at my church today, and it went much better than my Halloween attempt. The guy doing the needle insertion popped it right into my vein, and I pumped out a pint in 5 minutes. As I was pumping blood, I heard the phlebotomist tell another guy, “Great start to the day — hard stick, got it on the first try.” I hit my 2-gallon mark today for Puget Sound Blood Center. I think if there hadn’t been so many botched needle insertions in my past, I’d be on about 4 gallons by now. Ah well. Let’s hope it goes this smoothly again next time.
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This Halloween, I tried to treat Puget Sound Blood Center to a pint of clean, pure O- blood, but the phlebotomist played a mean trick and didn’t get the needle in my vein right, so my blood stopped flowing midway through my donation. The same guy has messed up the needle insertion before, so he’s one vampire who won’t get another chance to drain my blood. Boo!
My dad is terrific, but he hasn’t been very supportive of the plans my mom and I have to grow vegetables in the flower box on the south side of our house. I suspect it may be because he doesn’t want to eat any of the vegetables that the flower box may produce. Anyway, it hasn’t concerned him much that the chipmunks and cottontails have been stripping our baby plants of all their leaves. So while he was at Scout camp this week, I purloined his circular saw, a staple gun, some wire mesh and scrap lumber and got to work. I never took wood shop in high school, so the end result was no masterpiece, but it has kept our little plants from being denuded so far.
It was too late for the first tub; we'll have to replant
Man, it just keeps snowing here. Our stake canceled all church meetings today because the roads are dangerous, so Meg and I took another walk around the neighborhood to see what snowy shenanigans were going on. The neighborhood kids had found the perfect spot for sledding in the park a couple blocks from our house, so Meg grabbed her old snowboard and we joined in the fun. The weather forecast is saying six more inches will fall by tomorrow, so it could be quite the adventure to get to work. I was used to riding my bike in the snow on my mission, but I haven’t tried it here yet. I’m not sure that I will.
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It’s finally winter in Seattle! It started snowing Saturday night, so Meg and I took a short walk around the neighborhood to see the sights. Here are a few pics of what we saw. The last picture is from my ride home last week — the Christmas ships were playing carols over their loudspeakers for the crowd at Ballard Locks.
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Actually, my birthday came right on time, I just took forever to blog about it. Thanks to everyone who called or sent a card. I felt very loved. Even the folks waiting for the Interurban had birthday wishes for me. 
Meg made some fabulous chocolate pots de crème in lieu of a cake for me. All in all, it was a pretty decent birthday.
Cheers!
A bird rests on a telephone wire 25 feet above the road after feasting on juicy bugs all morning. At precisely 9 a.m. the bird sees a bicyclist a mile away approaching at 15 mph, enjoying the level road and lack of wind. What time should the bird poop in order to hit the cyclist’s shoulder 5 feet above the ground?
I haven’t figured out the answer yet, but the bird got it right on.
Last month Meg and I decided to take a last-minute trip to San Francisco. We bought our plane tickets and reserved a hotel online on Friday night, and Saturday morning we were on our flight there. We didn’t have much time to plan what we wanted to do in our two days there, so we probably didn’t use our time as efficiently as we could have. But we did ride a trolley, visit Fishermen’s Wharf, watch sea lions fight for dock space, take a walk on Golden Gate bridge and visit Chinatown and Japantown. It was a pretty fun weekend.
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It’s been awhile since I posted anything, so I have a little catching up to do. A little more than a month ago Meg and I went to the UW-BYU football game to cheer for our respective alma maters. Both teams played really badly, which actually made the game much more exciting than it should have been. It’s hard to believe that since that game, BYU has been undefeated and UW hasn’t won a single game.
I’ve had some bad luck on my bike the past couple of weeks, and it seems that it has spread to my car.
I drove to work Friday because I had to leave my bike at the shop to get my rear tire retensioned after I got a flat on my way home Thursday. I dropped Meg off at her work so we could be at least somewhat environmentally conscious and then found a parking spot on the street near my work. Meg started feeling kind of sick during the day, so she took a bus to my work to get my keys from me and drive herself home. Continue reading ‘The bad luck spreads’
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