Summer Signs I'm Still Not Used To

So, my third summer down here, and I saw the first of the fireworks booths on the roadside today. It still makes me look twice to see fireworks sold casually by the roadside-they were illegal to sell to consumers where I grew up...only people with licenses could have them.

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I sit on the disaster/emergency preparedness committee at work.
(I'm complaining about blood donations again. You can skip this if you don't want to read my ranting about it.)

Currently, I'm working on getting some or all of us certified in CPR/First Aid, just in case something should happen, and because those of us in the field should have it if we're out with youth, and it's a job requirement for some people on staff. So I'm checking out the Red Cross website, to find out who to call about this, and come accross this PDF about preparing your business. I skim it over, figuring it might have some information of use to us at our next meeting. Under the Orange Alert section, there's something about offering to organize a blood drive.

(insert standard blood drive rant here)

you know...the one about my not being allowed to donate blood cause I fuck men who fuck other men...and most of the men I work with not being allowed to donate blood because they fuck other men. Screw monogamy here. Screw condoms, and all the safer sex information we've been talking about for years. But you know...those guys who bring home a different girl every night, those women who never ever use condoms with their partners...you know...it's okay for them to give blood cause well, they can't get HIV from heterosexual contact. Right?

Okay. This is a repetitive rant. I know these guidelines were up for review a few years ago, and that the prohibition against men who sleep with men was under debate but why hasn't it yet been lifted? Really...

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Does anyone who remembers me from my usenet days happen to have a copy of my chicken .sig somewhere? or remember precisely how I phrased it?