Yikes, Cash.

I had super low blood count before my surgery six year ago -- I had to have a transfusion before they sliced and diced, and I tell you what, that shit pumped me up. Of course, I was totally weak and it brought me up to more or less normal. Still, it was pretty amazing. Blood. Good shit.

Beau and I literally spent 8 hours today resolving DMV matters

I had to go into the DMV to renew my license this year, because it's been 10 years, but I made an appointment, and the whole thing took me less than 15 minutes.

Of course, I got lost on the way there and drove around for almost an extra half hour and then sat in traffic for 45 minutes on the way back.

Taking the test and doing the reg paperwork, that took us about 30-45 minutes. But then we had to get our cars checked out, go back and get plates, etc.

Madness.

One way or another, the DMV will make you pay.

I had one yuck experience there in Baltimore, and I had one where the person went above and beyond just because. I choose to remember the last one as the defining experience.

Le Nub, I am on the direct Leo/Virgo cusp (8/23, 8 pm CST.)

I have great hair, can be extroverted except when I am a hermit, analyze like the wind and can organize anything.

P-C...ooh, what a great present! I'm sure Seanan made it JUST FOR ME!

(Right?)

Sangria is chilling, boozy fruit to add to sangria is macerating, I need to figure out something geeky and slutty to wear, and all is a go for my party tomorrow!

YAY! I love parties!

In terms of the tranfusions - none proven except ones associationed with cancer treatment. The eyewitnesses mostly anonymous. Not fighting it - millions in legal costs, and poor chance of winning because of having agreeding to mediation. Menaing simple unfairness was not enough to get it overturned.

Still, it was pretty amazing. Blood. Good shit.

And people wonder why this whole vampire thing is alluring.

Personally, I think it's ridiculous to classify someone's own living blood as a controlled substance. If Lance had been attacking onlookers during the race and taking some of theirs it'd be another matter.

Personally, I think it's ridiculous to classify someone's own living blood as a controlled substance. If Lance had been attacking onlookers during the race and taking some of theirs it'd be another matter.

Though it would make the Tour more interesting to watch.

Floyd Landis nd others have called for legalization of blood doping. Is it really that different than all the crazy biomechanics based traing that goes on now? Or the athletes who train extensively at high altitudes to get an oxygen boost when they race at sea level? Another step along, sure, but not like taking steroids. And stamping it out pushes people to ever more dangerous substances.

Plus it's seriously kind of neat. Science!

I'm actually kind of inclined to agree, or at least I'm definitely not inclined to see blood doping as being in the same class as steroids and the like. If anything, it's kind of the flip side of saying, "hey, dumbass, don't go and give blood the morning of a big event!"

Sports (the whole sports world, really) have a really big and maybe unresolvable tension between the myth of "we must remain Pure! and Untainted! and Noble!" (thanks, asshole Baron Coubertin) and the fact that taking every advantage you can isn't just a huge incentive, it's actually a duty (and just as much a part of the whole wacky code). And doping regulation is a giant mess; the cycling sponsors and baseball stars and other such guys with money are endlessly coming up with new stuff that isn't caught by any of the tests, and meanwhile, kids on a competitive level nobody actually cares about get smacked down for their asthma inhalers. Sigh.