{"id":628,"date":"2006-08-28T20:53:47","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T01:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=628"},"modified":"2006-12-21T09:40:09","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T14:40:09","slug":"giving-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=628","title":{"rendered":"Giving Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a tough day but I&#8217;m finally back. I&#8217;d let my computer get too cluttered with applications that\u00c2\u00a0gummed up the RAM memory. I&#8217;ve got things running again but it&#8217;s been a long day of waiting\u00c2\u00a0as my computer seized up again and again. Thank goodness I got it running again because after a week&#8217;s silence India\u00c2\u00a0will be\u00c2\u00a0calling\u00c2\u00a0tomorrow to fix that long standing technical issue that has caused me no end of problems. Different problems!<\/p>\n<p>At least I did some\u00c2\u00a0useful things in between fighting my computer. As I mentioned earlier I read for <em><strong>Lighthouse for the blind<\/strong><\/em>. Its only my third time and today&#8217;s partner Gloria made me\u00c2\u00a0be the lead reader\u00c2\u00a0as we read local papers over the radio for folks who can&#8217;t read for themselves. Monday is always a thin day for articles because the Duluth Trib is so thin. After we left Gloria said she&#8217;d vote for me.<\/p>\n<p>My computer was still frozen when I returned so after fiddling with it uselessly I was grateful for a call from the <strong><em>Memorial Blood Bank<\/em><\/strong>. They told me they desperately needed A positive blood. I hate giving blood but escaping my technical problems was a relief. They told me I have four pints to go before I&#8217;m up to five gallons. That&#8217;s when my name will be\u00c2\u00a0added to\u00c2\u00a0their plaque\u00c2\u00a0of big time donors. I&#8217;m a piker by comparison with the rare folks who&#8217;ve given twenty gallons.<\/p>\n<p>I got some other chores done while waiting for my computer to heal itself. I called the <em><strong>Clerk of the House of Representatives<\/strong><\/em> for details on filling out my financial disclosure form. I couldn&#8217;t print anything out with the computer on the fritz but it looks like that difficulty will now be solved.<\/p>\n<p>And I might have something to report too. I&#8217;m having an insert printed for a fundraising letter. I went whole hog and ordered 5,000 copies even if I only send out 1,000 initially. As Mel said, there are a lot of people pulling for me. They just want to make sure I&#8217;m not a Don Quixote before they commit their time and money.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t blame them. That&#8217;s how I feel about giving blood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a tough day but I&#8217;m finally back. I&#8217;d let my computer get too cluttered with applications that\u00c2\u00a0gummed up the RAM memory. I&#8217;ve&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}