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About gmcdavid

Retired IT professional with a wide range of interests. Married. Three sons, two with autistic-spectrum disorders and the third being transgender with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. From Chicago but now living in the Twin Cities metro, Minnesota. Episcopalian. Carleton College (BA 1972, physics) and Stanford University (MS 1974, Applied Physics; MS 1976 Statistics).

Something different

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So…I spend the day being frustrated and depressed, about work and colgaffneyis. What do I have to look forward to in the evening–my Irish language class. And I feel guilty about that because I have not been studying hard enough.

So…I make myself go to class. Afterwards I feel cheered and energized. I actually was able to participate intelligently and enjoy it. The day seems much better now.

Until I found Gaeltacht Minnesota I never thought a foreign language class could do that.

Apheresis

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Just finished another apheresis (platelet donation) session at the Minneapolis Red Cross. It is nice to be able to lie back and doze off for a couple hours, knowing that it is actually doing some good for the world.

As part of the procedure they took my blood pressure. It was 122/74. A pleasant surprise. I expected much worse after all the recent stress at work.