Friday: blood donation

Today I had a power red blood donation.  (They take more blood but then give me some of my fluids back.)  I drank so much water this morning!  (Within safe levels, of course.)  I got there a there a little early, but then realized I was the first donor of the morning.  So I waited around a bit but because I was a power red donation I got to sign in first.  My iron was fine!  That's always a worry.  I moved to the table and they looked at my arms.  Normally around this time they look, do a lot of tapping, hem and haw, and then choose an arm.  The needle sometimes has a hard time going in.  This time they took a quick look, tapped for a second, and said, "this one".  The needle went right in.  There's a little bag that needs to fill up with power red before they get started and apparently mine filled up much faster than normal.  Must have been all the water!!  The donation otherwise went well and was one of the best I've had.

I was glad that I had my blanket with me.  The cold fluids made me cold.  I made it through the canteen but started shivering on my way out.  I easily made it home, had a small lunch, and then napped in my warm blanket.

As expected, I didn't get much of my normal work done today.  But Fridays are my O:CtH day.  I had about 25 minutes so I decided to work on it and ignore the other stuff I should be doing.  Ben and I decided that we really didn't need all of our college text books anymore.  (Although Isaac noted that we should keep some so that we have books to use as solid things to put under things.)  I pulled out two boxes of my old notes and course packets and decided I didn't need most of them.  I kept two out, but in hindsight I think I'll get rid of them too.  I also pulled out a box of books.  (There are still at least six boxes left.)

But there were some sentimental items.  I found two copies of a Maple guide....Ben and I took the same class!  

I had both general physics final exams...graded in Dad's handwriting.  I'm proud of the essay for the check+++, but we'll also keep in mind that several points were removed throughout the rest of the test.

Oh, I missed the units.  Do you know how many times I've written that on someone's assignment?  Or told Isaac he always has to include them?

Ben and I also found Tornado in the cats' new toy.  Joshua picked it out and we haven't seen cats go it in of their own volition.