Yesterday, I gave blood for the first time. I’m glad I did it, though it certainly knocked me for a loop! It took me a few hours to “get right” again. For my troubles, though, I did get a snappy “vintage Red Cross ballcap”, which I like very much.

Haven’t given blood before? It’s really not that bad. There is a very slight pain when the needle goes in (“the old familiar sting” in NIN parlance), but other than that, you lie there and drink some orange juice and squeeze a ball in your hand. The people running the show in the travelling truck that visited us were very nice.