Tidbits from the first half of the week.

Somehow I lost my favorite MEC vest. I am so ticked off! :grr:

Yesterday was my latest blood donation. It was insanely busy there. Turned out that the Sikh Community had chosen yesterday for a large turnout. They had a tent setup outside with warm food for donors. After I donated I was offered a samosa. I turned it down in favor of cookies and juice.

Since a week before Halloween Yoshi has been afraid to go into the backyard while it is dark. We think it must have something to do with him getting scared from firecrackers. We used to have to take him out into the front yard and wait while he pees, but last night was the first night he ventures back out into the dark yard. 🙂

I had a good scare at work today. I plugged my Visor in to sync it, but as soon as I plugged it in, my computer reset itself (that happens every once in a while). Everything seemed fine at startup, but when I started Eudora, it complained that two folders were missing. These were container folders that housed mailboxes. Specifically the one housing my work and project related email was missing. I didn’t know what the other one was. After a couple frantic moments, I discovered that they had reappeared. A restart of Eudora and everything was hunky dorey. Scarey for a few moments though.

Today was my latest blood donation. As usual everything went smoothly for the donation. Getting to the donating was a different story. They have migrated to a new computer system in an attempt to speed up the process. There are a few kinks to iron out it would seem since the system froze up on the operator I was dealing with. Oh well. I can see that once it is perfected, the process will be quite quick.

Last night was a busy one for me. I left work, went home, ate some dinner with Sue, then headed over to the Canadian Blood Services to donate. This is something that I really feel good about. I can’t afford to donate a lot of money to differing charities, and I can’t afford to volunteer my time to different organizations.

However, I can spend less than an hour every couple of months to donate some blood that could be usaed someday to help save someone’s life. It makes me feel good that I can do this.

After donating Sue and I went to pick up her snazzy new glasses, then back home we went. I talked to Mike, and we finalized (almost) the plans for a Big White ski trip later this month.

Then I gave a shout to Coreman and gabbed on the horn with him for a while. We caught up on each other’s lives. It was good to talk to him, I haven’t done that in a while.

Anywho, that is all that is new in my life.