What have you done today thread?

[Horse]

Plasma donation (instead of blood).

Bigger needle. System takes blood, separates plasma from everything else, then squirts the 'everything else back in.

They take up to 700cc of plasma. Each suck squeeze cycle extracts about 125cc of plasma.

[Mr. Dazzle]

How many donation credits do you get for that?

I've looked at doing it but they'd rather have my whole blood

[Horse]

How many donation credits do you get for that?

I've looked at doing it but they'd rather have my whole blood

No idea. And I still haven't heard what gifts there are for those credits. Or do you get priority if you need a transfusion 'refund'?

Hang on ...

Oooh!

Whole blood - 1 credit
Platelet (double donation) - 2 credits
Platelet (triple donation) - 3 credits
Plasma - 2 credits

Plasma donations allowed every 2 weeks

Blood.co.uk says:
Earliest donation date: Tuesday 16 April 2024
Donation type: Plasma
Donation credits: 61

75 - Emerald donor card, badge and certificate

[Mr. Dazzle]

Yeah I looked cause I saw there was an award for 1000 credits. I wondered if Methuselah was still about and donating or what

[ZRX61]

Came home with four 10ft 2x12's. Now constructing the worlds heaviest vehicle ramps. Could probably support a small warship.

[Horse]

Yeah I looked cause I saw there was an award for 1000 credits. I wondered if Methuselah was still about and donating or what

25 a year (we'll give you 1 session off)
100 = 4 years
1000 = 40 years

Achievable. But I'll hope for 75 Doubt I'll get the ceremony invitation.

It is generally regarded that James Harrison from Australia is the most prolific blood donor in the world. James donated blood (mostly plasma) 1,173 times from 1954 until 2018.

[Yorick]

Today I got new hearing aids. The old man bought a new pair last November, when he was taken into hospital the first thing they did was an MRI, a nurse took his hearing aids out and lost them. The HSE (Irish health service) agreed to pay for replacements but as he's now gone I got them instead. I paid an extra €1100 to upgrade but that got me a €4k pair.

Are you part Yorkshire?

[gremlin]

Cancelled my Unite the Union membership. Been a member since I was 16.

[ZRX61]

Got my combined ZRX11/ZX11/F350 insurance renewal notice...
$758 for the year.
I know $278 of that is the F350, so that means the bike portion is $480... Last year, the bikes were $396.

Bugger.

[mangocrazy]

Ventured into West Yorkshire (Huddersfield) to buy tribal size (170mm) guttering. They don't seem to have heard of it in Sarf Yorkshire. Perhaps it just rains more in WY. It made the journey home in the van mildly more entertaining as the 4 metre length wouldn't fit inside the van and had to be poked through the (open) passenger window. The guttering will be fixed to the garden wall and used to breed strawberries.

On the way back filled up at a Co-op petrol station that had the cheapest fuel I've seen for, well, ages. 141.9p per litre E10 and 148.9 per litre diesel.

Also bought two 30 litre bags of wood pellet cat litter from B&M, as the cat will be defecating either in the van or the house in France (in a litter tray, obvs) for the next month or so. Going into B&M is always a bit of an eye-opener.

[Count Steer]

A spot of 'fusion' cookery.

Well, knocked up a vat of my 'Cottage Bolognese' - basically my mix for Cottage/Shepherd's pie. I used to do a double amount and half was turned into a pie with mash+cheese on and half was eaten with spaghetti. Gave up with the pie and this will get served up with wholewheat spaghetti, tenderstem broccoli and roast/chargrilled Mediterranean veg. Made enough for 6 portions, some will go in the freezer.

(In the process realised, again, how pleased I am with the Lakeland 'santoku' knife I bought ages ago. Didn't cost the earth, nicely made and v versatile. ).

Took delivery of a boot bench and a priced Robert Welch 'toilet butler' - basically a free standing bog roll holder. Guaranteed for 25 years.

[Yambo]

A spot of 'fusion' cookery.

Well, knocked up a vat of my 'Cottage Bolognese' - basically my mix for Cottage/Shepherd's pie.

I often make an adobe hacienda pie. Similar idea.

[mangocrazy]

I also make batches of Ragu and Chilli con Carne that would make half a dozen meals and freeze the ones left over for when we need something quick and neither of us feel like cooking. With the Ragu I tend to set aside about one serving, put it in the food processor and blitz it, then add tomato puree and green pesto and use the resulting gloop as pizza base topping.

[Count Steer]

Should probably be in the cookery section but never mind - I discovered M&S frozen sofrito mix (it's basically very finely chopped veg) and a couple of desertspoons of that fried off at the beginning gets lots of things going and tends to cook down and thicken things up a bit.

I like 'adobe hacienda' pie.

[Mussels]

I ran for a train after a few beers, sod's law I got the right platform but the wrong train and the next quickest one is cancelled. I should still have ten minutes to make my connection but I hate leaving things late where trains are concerned, I wish the train company thought the same way after my delay repay claim this morning.

[Noggin]

Last full day in the uk. Lovely lunch, somewhat stressful dinner.

Hey ho, some family are best left at a distance!!

Up very early tomorrow as my SDad is driving me to Bournemouth to get a bus to Heathrow. As I’ll get there very early, my brother is coming to meet me for a coffee!!

That’ll be all the immediate family seen and some friends I’ve not seen for bloody years!

But next time I’m going to book a room in a relatively central place and tell that if they want to see me, that’s where I’ll be!

[ZRX61]

This evening..

What I meant do:
Check the PowerBall Lottery website to see if some rat bastard won tonight's $1.09Billion jackpot (they didn't, $1.23Billion for Saturday)

What I actually did:
Walked to the kitchen, grabbed a glass from the freezer & poured myself a generous shot of Costco Spiced Rum... THEN remembered what I meant to do..

[Noggin]

Got up stupid early. Arrived at Bournemouth bus station at 7:05. My coach was 7:30, but there was a National express coach there that said London, but a different number

Amazing how much stress it was!! I knew it wasn’t my bus and I had loads of time to get a coffee across the road and be back for my bus. But I was ridiculously happy when o walked back and the coach driver said “Gatwick?” Nope, Heathrow, he said oh that’s the next one on that stand

I do so hate travelling, well, more so hate travelling alone. Even when I know I have all the info and am in the right place, I stress so much until I have bum in seat!!


Oh, and the ‘ticket’ that I have on my phone has a charge for a seat reserved, but no seat number. So, to save hassle, I just took an empty seat (the front three have reserved signs on). Now I’m ‘chilling on the bus, I’ve gone into deleted mails and found the seat number!! (Not gonna move unless someone needs me to!!). But, wtf don’t they put the seat number on the ticket you have on the app? Stupid sods!!

[Taipan]

Got back from a couple of days away in Henley on Thames. Nice place but more traffic than central London! Flood alert was in full effect as The Isis was very swollen to say the least!

[gremlin]

Today I have decided that I now identify as being 6'3" tall. I was 5'9" but as of today I am a tall person.

I want you all to accept the new me and not to 'dead height' me by calling me of average height.