Felt Like This Needed To Be Re-upload In Case It Gets Taken Down.

Ralph Goings (American, 1928-2016), Double D, 2010. Oil on canvas, 10 1/16 x 8 1/8 in.

Don't leave a guy hanging!

A couple of weeks ago I donated platelets for the first time after years of donating whole blood and plasma.  Everything seemed to go just fine until today. I got call asking if I could donate platelets again and the the person leaving the message said, "No, wait there was a problem with the platelets, could you donate whole blood or plasma instead." 

That was it.  There was no explanation of what the "problem" was.  The woman just left me hanging.  Come on, you can't leave a message like that without explaining the nature of the "problem."

I shot the Blood Source an E-mail and got a quick response saying that my platelet count was in the normal range, but just too low for donating on their current machines.  Fine, in the future you could tell me that right up front instead of leaving me hanging.

Rasta Girl

While running the other night I met a woman with long dread locks that I've seen working out and at races throughout the year.  She keeps them pulled back with a bandanna.  She also seems to run to the beat of her own drummer, which is cool.  She had been kicking my ass, but on this occasion, I caught and passed her.  I figured she must have raced or run long the day before and was just doing a recovery  run.  Having lived in the Caribbean for 2 and 1/2 years, I was into the dreads.  When I passed her I wanted to say, "Hey, Natty Dread" but you never know how folks will react.

Anyway, we met when she caught up to where I was cooling down.  I told her about liking the locks and nearly calling her Natty Dread.  As she ran off in her tie-dyed Bob Marley T-shirt she said, "If you forget my name, Natty Dread will do."

You've got to like that attitude. 

The attempted coup.

Something to keep in mind. In 2000 Al Gore won 266 electoral votes, the highest ever for a losing presidential candidate. He lost Florida by 537 votes out of 6 million cast. Al Gore presided over the Electoral College certifying Bush Jr’s win with decorum and class. Trump is a treasonous crybaby. A fraud, a criminal and a conman. He doesn’t care about our country. He doesn’t love this country. He undermines our great democracy. He only cares about himself. TRE45SON. Trump destroyed the Republican Party. Someone should have taught him Reagan’s 11th Commandment. “Thou shall not speak ill of any fellow Republican”

Female Orgasms

I tend to agree with a comedian who once advised men not to be impressed with themselves if the woman they are having sex with has multiple orgasms.  It has more to do with her make up than anything you are doing to her.

I am inclined to agree.  At least it seems that some women are more inclined to have multiple orgasms than others.

What is your experience?

Meeting Isaiah

At last Wednesday’s hearing I met Isaiah Fowler for the first time, albeit only via introduction by his attorney Mark Reichel (www.reichelplesser.com). We were in court and there was no time to converse with the young man. It is difficult to get too much of a read on him, but he...