Achievement unlocked: 6 gallon donation!

An unexpected, pleasantly surprising double unit of platelets this morning meant I hit my 6-gallon donation mark one appointment earlier than expected. Yay! Red Cross west was busy for a Sunday morning, which is always good to see; more donors means, hopefully, fewer people dying or being miserable while alive, which I will never object to, ever, and if I do, anyone reading this and so inclined has permission to thwap me up side the head, virtually or in person. Met a pair of blood product transport volunteers while in the canteen after the donation was over, and as it turned out, they were a father- and son-in-law known to travel all over Wisconsin, Iowa and northern Illinois for that purpose. One hit 60 (yes, 6-0) gallons donated over the years, the other's currently at 105 (also not a typo) and going for the world record while he's still of age. I was boggled in impressed amazement. I still am.

Haven't done much with the latter handful of snowflake challenges, as I have no clue about a few and no brains for the others. The create a fanwork one is in sloooooow process, to happen eventually...

Unrelated to anything else, can the Chiefs please eliminate the dang Patriots next weekend? Seriously, I'm sick of seeing them win everything. Last year being the obvious exception, but since the Eagles just went out of contention...

snow sparkling on the tree branches - day 9

Commit an Act of Kindness. In your own space, share what you’ve done, talk about what you’ve done, or simply leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I did do this. I'm of the school of thought that holds that you keep random acts of kindness quiet, and that the more you talk about them, the closer they get to the performative appearance of kindness - wanting to be *seen* doing something, and applauded for it - as opposed to the genuine article. So I'm not saying what I did, other than to clarify that it wasn't the ongoing blood product donation thing; that one I'll yak about plenty. :)

Edited to add: This is, for the record, my own view on acts of kindness, and absolutely n-o-t intended to judge anyone else's intent. Your mileage and reasons may vary, I know it, and I realized after I'd posted the above that I should probably make that point clear. Yeeks!