• Location: Grendel's Coffee House, NE 8th & Burnside, Portland

Next I need to go to a "Naughty Nurses Blood Draw" (thank you, Heinlein)

Note: you will get teased if you go to a blood draw reading a Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel.

Nice teasing, mind you, but still teasing.

("They think we're blood suckers here," my phlebotomist faux-groused. "That's an old joke," I said, as I read The Deathless by kradical.)

My donation went well. Time for my post-donation meal: this time, it's the tuna salad sandwich at Grendel's. My change included the Alaska quarter. I didn't know it was even out yet.