In the US, it is an Individual Donor Assessment and applies to everyone. Everyone gets the same question tree, regardless of sexual orientation. If you have had a new partner in the last 3 months or have multiple partners that doesn't defer you, it sends you to the next tier of question: have you engaged in anal sex. Yes to anal with a new partner or multiple partners is the deferral. If you haven't had a new partner or multiple partners in the last 3 months, you will not be asked about anal sex. Canada went live with their individual donor assessment a year before the US and has noted a slight drop in donations in straight donors because they are now being deferred for high risk activity when they were previously missed.
Prep is listed under a medication deferral. First responders that take prep for protection from workplace exposure are deferred as well.
(I'm a blood banker)
My Clinical Microbiology teacher: I'm no longer allowed to teach you how to waft plates, but... if you happen to catch a whiff of ____ growing on a plate, you would smell ____. ::wink, wink::
15 minute drive to the store, better grab my knitting
This overlooks that 100% cotton jeans will break down when they are discarded (unlike polyester and nylon). A good pair of jeans can be mended and worn for many years instead of a new pair every year. Jeans can lead a very useful "after life" as insulation or be recycled into new fabric.
It also ignores the chemicals and energy required to turn beechwood and bamboo into wearable fabric.
I don't know what the solution is but natural fabrics aren't the enemy.
That is such a cool concept!
No, I was trying to use up some left overs. I tried again with fewer stitches and it gave me the fit I was after.
[knitting fails] Slouchy hat turns into a "mushroom"
Over blocked or missed my gauge, who knows but this was too much. It was frogged for it's sin.
I discovered that my most spectacular knitting fails have no picture evidence... The one that bums me out, I could have sworn I took a picture, a failed unicorn horn. I knit a unicorn horn to attach to a hoodie and wanted to have the spiral up the horn. I knit the horn, threaded yarn around through the stitches, and pulled it to create the 3D effect. The tip of the horn looked very NSFW.
TX had similar bullshit (nothing until 11) when I was there working overnights. It's my 8pm. I've been up keeping patients alive all night. Make my drink.
Gotcha! I've stuck with Samsung because they make a phone that will fit in the pathetic excuse that is women's pants pockets. My husband tried to get me to switch to the Pixel but it was too big.
My Samsung does it very easily with decent customization options in Gallery (and has for at least two phones). What phone are you using that can't? I agree the collage feature in Google photos is lame.
Well how do we know that any scale at all is right?
My lab has weights that get calibrated against a NIST standard annually. We use those weights to perform daily quality control that our scale is accurate (to +/- 0.01g). If the quality control fails then we recalibrate the scale.
Ezekiel's description is pretty wild: Ezekiel 10:12-21 Their entire bodies, including their backs, their hands and their wings, were completely full of eyes, as were their four wheels. I heard the wheels being called "the whirling wheels." Each of the cherubim had four faces: One face was that of a cherub, the second the face of a man, the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle. Then the cherubim rose upward. These were the living creatures I had seen by the Kebar River. When the cherubim moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the cherubim spread their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not leave their side. When the cherubim stood still, they also stood still; and when the cherubim rose, they rose with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in them. Then the glory of the LORD departed from over the threshold of the temple and stopped above the cherubim.While I watched, the cherubim spread their wings and rose from the ground, and as they went, the wheels went with them. They stopped at the entrance to the east gate of the LORD's house, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them. These were the living creatures I had seen beneath the God of Israel by the Kebar River, and I realized that they were cherubim. Each had four faces and four wings, and under their wings was what looked like the hands of a man.
For a while people were doing AI prompts for biblically accurate angels (sometimes mashed with other characters). I can only do so much with sugar cookie dough.
Jamie Lomax's Doodle series of patterns are a fun way to dip your toes in color work (stranded knitting). You pick a single sided cowl or a infinity loop knit in the round. The pattern comes with a bunch of little mini charts, most are worked two colors at a time, and you pick which ones you want to use and which order. Her website https://www.pacificknitco.com/ and she's on ravelry https://www.ravelry.com/designers/jamie-lomax
I have knit picks interchangeables. I have a mix of nickel plated and the colored wood (Caspian and Majestic). In some sizes, I have both. I like both for different projects. The nickel are slick and great for when I want my stitches to fly off the needles. The wood are "sticky" which is handy for when my yarn is slick as snot and slipping off the needles when I don't want it to.
I haven't tried any of the more expensive interchangeable brands because I'm so deep into the knit picks set, I don't want to start over.
If your taste skews in the direction of steampunk, then don't look at this book either 🫣. https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/sources/needles-and-artifice
Both of these designers are in my favorites! I'm from NM too and their designs remind me of home.
Beautiful work! The colors are 😍
Clearing out the project queue
Last night I cast on Wanderwillows. I bought the yarn 10 years ago 🫣😱. Confession is good for the soul. 🤣
Biblically Accurate Angel Sugar Cookie
Everyone is having fun with AI so I used my medium of choice.
[SOCKS] My most interesting sock project
Thesesocks are knit from the heel out, grafted together to make a tube, and then the toe and cuff are picked up and knit. No one believed me when they saw my project when I told them it was a sock. I felt the urge to sacrifice a chicken before grafting because I wasn't sure it was going to work.
I would say Go Hawks! But it is not that kind of a season this season... 🫣😭
Teaching kids to knit
My 7yo daughter I want to finger knit. Ok, I go downstairs to the craft room for the yarn I bought her. No, I need thick yarn. I think about that... probably right. We go downstairs and pick out some bulky yarn. Sit down to start and my 7yo son says he wants to finger knit too. I give him a choice of colors and go downstairs for more bulky yarn. Set up daughter's slip knot so she can start and ask son for the yarn I want to play like it's a magic rope. Turn back to daughter who is struggling. I quickly refresh my memory on how to finger knit and try to help. She says, I don't want to finger knit, I want to knit with needles. I collect the yarn and go back downstairs for her needles and yarn. I quickly refresh my memory on how to knit left handed (she's a lefty) and pull her into my lap to start knitting together. We do three stitches with the limerick I don't want to knit.
And that... Is why I'm rocking back and forth in the corner (jk).
Intrusive thoughts in the Blood Bank
I've always wondered WTF they were doing when they come up with that process?
[Baby+Toddler] Criss Cross boy/girl hats
I made these hats for my twins. They didn't get to wear them long because the stitch pattern didn't stretch much but the hats made for adorable newborn photos.
[HALLOWEEN] Double knit scarf
I scoured my ravelry account and the ONLY explicitly Halloween thing I've ever knit is this scarf whose progress was chronicled here. Lots of animal/character hats, but I don't think of them as Halloween-y.
[NEW TECHNIQUE!] This was a two-fer for me. My first sock and then 9 years later, my first darning.
the sock. I had been knitting for years and decided that no plain sock would do for my first.
[HOMEWARES] Bespoke washcloths for the kiddos
I know the new theme went up this morning but I forgot that these fit the homewares theme.
[FO] Double knit Halloween scarf
I finished the first one, on to the second one. The pattern is a mix of autumn and mountain charts by Jamie Lomax
Summer's bounty
Week by week, my dragon's hoard grows (there are another 6 quart jars of canned peaches not in the picture)
MyChart and EPIC need this for when the lab results unblind a double blind placebo controlled research study
The drug in question causes very well known and well documented test interference. Anyone should be able to put two and two together when they look at the lab results. Maybe, in this case, it's a good thing the lab is a box and fairies make the magic happen.
Me attempting to dilute my antisera to get a 1+ reaction at AHG but the SOP sucks so I'm having to figure out the dilution myself.
Watch and share Doctor Strange GIFs and Marvel Studios GIFs by Ricky Bobby on Gfycat
