Thursday, November 27, 2008

Happy Thanksgiving


Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving. I wish I was snowboarding but we still don't have any snow :( Sorry for the lack of posts, I haven't been doing much but working. I am off to Ventura tomorrow to go diving for two days on the Peace Boat Yea.

Enjoy your Turkey and football and don't eat to many desserts. Thanks to Daniele, Diane, Ginger and Janet for cooking an amazing dinner tonight, It smells good I can't wait to eat.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Donating Blood


Last night I donated blood. I donate every 2 months. I have 0- which they love since it can be given to all blood types and I am also CMV- which they told me is very rare and is the only blood that can be donated to baby's. I like donating blood it gives me a sense of helping others in need. I recommenced if you have never donated go try it, it only takes about 45 minutes and at the end you get some cookies. Contact your local United Blood Service or Red Cross.

Danielle also donates on a regular schedule and last night she donated Platelets, it was the first time she had. She has an extremely hi platelet and is a perfect candidate, it's a long process it took about 2 hours but they gave here a movie to watch. Not sure about all the technical stuff but what they do is spin your blood as it comes out and they give back the red blood cells and keep the platelets. Your body will replenish your platelets in 24 hrs.

Most patients undergoing a bone marrow transplant, surgery, chemotherapy, radiation treatment or organ transplant need platelets in order to survive. In fact, doctors are finding that platelets play a vital role in more and more new therapies.

With just a five-day storage life, platelet donations are delivered quickly to the patients who need them. Platelet donors have the satisfaction of knowing that their donation will be saving a life within just a few days.

My brother John is in town doing some work for Porters, so I talked him into going and donating blood with us. He had donated in High school but not since. He did donated and must have been excited because he filled the bag really fast. Thanks John for donating keep it up.

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Mr. Fix-it



Danielle had class on Saturday, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to straighten up the garage and get the Christmas stuff out. The next three weekends are booked up, so I put the lights up on the house. All of the neighbors said I was making them look bad. We won't turn them on until Thanksgiving weekend, but I am glad that is out of the way. Today, I decided to tackle the task of replacing a tile (that the cats mysteriously broke) and cracked grout in the kitchen. I have never fixed tile or grout before - it was an interesting challenge. The main problem was trying to match our current grout with the colors at Home Depot. So far, so good!

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Scuba and Soccer

From Jason's Life

From Jason's Life

This week has been really busy. I was teaching Scuba Diving at the lake all weekend so there went my days off. And by the way I started getting a cold, I was really congested making equalizing my ears fun. The weather didn't cooperate which made for some ocean like conditions in Tahoe, it's good for the kids to learn. All 7 of my students got through the class which made it all worth the effort.

Monday was back to work at Porters.

Tuesday was Veterans day which Danielle had off so I took the day off to chill at home, I needed the rest it helped with my cold.

Wednesday back to work just another day at the office.

Thursday was Porters indoor soccer game in Incline We ended up loosing the game, I actually played my best game of the season but Kevin started in goal and when I took over it was 5-0. I played my heart out and stopped what seemed like 100 shots, they slipped one by 1 on 1 from about 5ft nothing I could do about that, the final score was 2-6. Better luck next week.

Friday, November 7, 2008

Porter's Takes Two in a Row in Indoor Soccer




Porter's Indoor Soccer Team is now 2-3 after last night's win. Next week we will attempt to hit the .500 mark. Danielle somehow managed to not foul at all. Amazing. I played goalie during the second half and only let three goals threw. The final score was 14-9. Indoor is very fast paced and physical - a good time for sure. Hopefully I will have good news to report next week!

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Get out and Vote.

Don't let this be you get out there and vote. You still have time. NOW you have 6 hours left.