stroller (婴儿车, ベビーカー, 유모차)

One of the downsides of having a child (fortunately for our baby, outweighed by the upsides) is having to make all the buying decisions for another person who has no way of expressing their likes and dislikes but has an immense amount of needs at the early stages of life. Combine that with someone like me who doesn't like having to make purchasing decisions, and it's a bad combination of reluctance, apathy, and "why is this thing that looks and feels exactly like the other $200 more expensive?" It's true, I've never been one to shop around, haggle, try to get the latest technology like the new brand of iPhone, etc., I've just gotten whatever is the most popular or will get the job done. Like buying a Honda Accord 2013- it runs fine, it has large trunk space, it seats 5 people. 'Nuff said, and almost 170,000 miles later, I'm still enjoying its "tank-like" longevity, as the car shop I took it to for aligning the wheels told me the other day. Today, the first day of November, MJ and I went to go shop for something I've never shopped for before: stroller and a corresponding carseat. Apparently, they can come in a package as a "travel system" because carseats can fit on top of a stroller. We went to a warehouse to shop around with all of the strollers and personally get a feel for all of them, with the sales associate comparing the strollers to buying a car, with terms like "all-wheel drive" and "handling.' My approach is probably different than MJ's: I ask what will get the job done most efficiently with the least amount of hassle and highest likelihood of longevity. MJ's priority (and I'm not saying it's wrong)....is different. She does more research, looks into what others have said about the product, looks at Youtube videos of how other people evaluate the product, what the latest trends are.....when for me, it's like, it's just a baby car to drive the baby around. If it has 4 wheels and a seat, we can make it work. (At least we don't need to get oil changes and tire alignments for the stroller!) I get that this is just the start of a lot of decisions we have to make on behalf of the baby: where the baby sleeps, what clothes the baby wears, starting with the most basic step: The baby's name! The weight of responsibility is just now starting to creep in: not only do I have to supply money for the child (I'm doing OK on that front), I have to make decisions on what to do with that money to make the baby happy, not knowing any of her preferences or what she wants, just making educated decisions on what's best for her. This is a little daunting but the upside is the baby will not give mixed messages like certain adults might about wanting one thing but actually wanting a more expensive model, the baby will not know about the price tag (for now) and will just vote through her crying and/or laughing (hopefully more laughing or grunts of joy). Or maybe she will be a very low-maintenance baby like her dear old dad Bobby. (Please be like that, please, it's not easy being a non-picky person trying to satisfy a picky person! So much easier the other way around). I guess the thing with buying products is, it doesn't EXCITE me. I know it does for some, that's why they like doing it. I buy things to fulfill a need, to get it over with, because I am compelled by the government (health insurance), etc. I didn't even feel excitement buying my first car! It was just, "OK fine now I have the ability to drive myself to work." I can't even pick out a movie to watch on Netflix, I don't really get excited by anything anymore. I don't get excited going on Amazon prime and seeing 1000 choices of what to buy for a baby seat or a diaper changing station, for example, I would actually just prefer ONE (two, tops maybe) so I don't have to choose. Choosing doesn't excite me; buying something I need and checking it off my to-do list excites me. That's the illusion of choice being a good thing: sometimes we drown in choices, especially when we only need one of something (some people online are saying you need 2 strollers, one to travel with and one to wheel to the park. Some people even say to get 4 strollers over the life of the baby!) Sounds like the same people peddling Christmas gift-giving and Valentine candies to me: a pyramid scheme.

Fetal Heart Rate (胎心率, 胎児心拍数, 태아 심박수)

MJ and I have gone together to regular checkups during this pregnancy process, and I've always been impressed by how real it is to monitor the baby's heart rate, and how fast the baby's heart can beat, anywhere from 110 to 160 beats per minute is healthy. Our as yet unborn baby has stayed right within the 150 bpm, which is right around normal. I'm a pretty callous person all things considered, I don't give hugs, I don't gush emotionally about happy moments or cry tears of happiness at the end of Sleepless in Seattle when Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan finally meet at the top of the Empire State Building, but even I can feel something when the stethoscope (or whatever they call it to put on mom's belly to monitor baby's heartbeat) detects a steady heartbeat. It's the first proof of life in a child after the weird ultrasound at 6 weeks showing a tiny something in the uterus, and the heart beat just makes everything feel real, that the baby is coming and the clock has started on when we get to meet her. I will also miss putting my hand on MJ's belly feeling for baby's kicks and movement; it began with very subtle little ripples on my hand, to now I can guess where the baby's head and foot are based on how hard certain areas of MJ's belly feel. It's kind of like in science class at a young age and knowing a chick might hatch out of one of those eggs any day (or kind like the Jurassica park scene of a dinosaur breaking through the huge dino egg shell) where you know something's inside and just incubating until the day they're ready to come out. Maybe this is how Daenyrus Targaryen felt in the first season of Game of Thrones carrying around her dragon eggs, knowing the potential of how powerful they can be. MJ and I just missed having a dragon baby in the year of the dragon but are having a snake (baby dragon) baby! They say babies grow up really fast, but I'm already feeling that the pregnancy is going by so fast! This is the one and only time the baby will be attached to MJ (it's easier for me to say not having to carry her around) but even this time of nausea, tightness, and feeling heavy all the time for MJ may seem like a pleasant memory and "the good ol' days" later on, especially when baby starts to cry. I always wonder, is baby not crying in the womb? Is baby feeling anything, is the brain already starting to pick up on language and voices? I guess they feel pretty comfortable in the womb, otherwise they wouldn't be crying so much when they get forcibly pulled out of there when they're ready to join the world. I did notice them before, but the imminent arrival of our baby is making me focus much more on other people's babies: I see them in strollers outside, being walked around at Costco, even at a football game! I saw a newborn that must have been tops 2-3 weeks old at the Illinois- USC football game recently. Guess some mothers really want their children to attend their first football game early and often! I notice some mothers carrying them facing forward, some facing backward, and most of the kids look.....peaceful. Cherubic. Angelic. Healthy. I also have a couple who had their child very early and spent 2 months in the NICU, but turned out OK and recently went home! That would be anxiety-inducing for me; so far I haven't yet started to feel the burden of all parents worrying about their children every minute of the day for the rest of their lives, partly because baby is resting safely and soundly in MJ's womb, but I'm sure that will start very soon. But it's a good anxiety; I hope to be anxious about baby for a very very long time, not just their fetal heart rate but their real heart rate, their growth pattern, their first steps, their first words, their first football game (not for awhile). This is real; it's happening, and I'm very happy to be there for her, unlike Khal Drogo who died prematurely and left Daneyrus Targaryen to be a single mother of dragons. I'll be there.

Warehouse (仓库, 倉庫, 창고)

The best lunch deal in America. The language capital of the world. Calvin Klein "rack." The depository of new books to read standing up. I never anticipated that the place I look forward to visiting the most on weekends would be a giant warehouse with giant shopping carts, but that is what my social life has devolved into: looking forward to the $1.50 hot dog and drink combo special, delving through the clothing aisle full of discount shirts, shoes, and pants in preparation for the coming winter, and standing in the middle of up to 1000 people (what's the max capacity at any given Costco? I wonder) reading a hardcover anthology called "Taylor Swift: All the Songs" while people speaking various languages like Mandarin Chinese, Korean, Spanish, and unidentified Indian subcontinent language (likely Hindi) talk around me. Costco has become a cultural experience like no other for me, an all-in-one experience that stimulates all my senses (the smell of the free samples of pirogis and breaded tilapia and whatever cuisine they're hawking that week, the sounds of hundreds of people seemingly talking all at once among sounds of warehouse workers stacking carts and making machinery noises, sights of all kinds of the world's most commericialized items, the touch to feel how "soft" the produce is (one guy today who was fondling the zucchinis gave me a helpful thumbs down on all the squash/zucchini packs, noticing they were all too soft and likely not fresh, and touch, and taste... you gotta hand it to the samples, they're just yummy especially after you've fended off various other vultures who are just waiting their turn to get some free food before they run out and it takes 20 minutes to make another batch. Costco, once called Price Club (fun fact) really succeeds by appealing to all the most basic things people want, in business paralance known as "consumer staple," not "consumer discretionary." I'm definitely more of a "consumer staple" shopper (and by the looks of Costco customers, I'm not the only one of my ethnicity who is), and for the low low price of $65 per year, I can go into the "Warehouse," as I like to call it, as many times as I want, when I want (as long as it fits into the Gold membership times of entry, Executive membership allows a full 30 minutes earlier to enter!) and as long as I can find a parking space in the football stadium-sized parking lot outside. You can even play games of bumper carts inside the mall as it's just a crazy maze of navigating people, carts, Costco employees, little kids running around, spilled fruit just lying on the ground, it's amazing more accdients don't happen like some of the Youtube videos I've seen of people bumping into others and causing altercations. Costco cart drivers are like vehicle drivers on the open road: there are some good drivers who stay in their lane and let others move, and then there are some bad drivers who are oblivious to others, clog up the key entry way, leave their carts in the middle of a busy lane to go grab some Lady Godiva chocolate, it's a jungle out there. But I love it. I will miss Costco if it ever closes down or changes its model; it's in its own little world. Preparing for Jeopardy is also like being in different world all the time. You think that trivia should just be its own corner of the universe that you can just all that knowledge as one complete package, but then I realize as I'm studying that there are some major categories that are just entire worlds in of themselves. History of the world is its own world of rulers, presidents, continents, wars; science is its own world with sub-worlds of human anatomy that delve into muscles, bones, cardiovascular systems, endocrine systems, organs, but the world that confounds me and excites me more than any others: the wide wide world of pop culture, just the entire catalogue of every movie that's ever been made, TV show that all seem to have 7 seasons each (sometimes more, Criminal Minds on CBS is entering its 19th season called Criminal Minds: Revolution, the Simpsons still chugs along with its loyal fanbase and continuously creates more quotes and running gags that people need to keep up with, and General Hosptial the soap opera continues the drama in Port Charles, NY (how much drama can there be in upstate New York)? By the way rest in peace to June Lockhart, a General Hospital alum and Lassie, Leave it to Beaver who was the celebrity fan of the Los Angeles Lawyers Philharmonic and turned 100 years old earlier this year! But yea the world of pop culture is somewhat unique to other trivia categories because it is constantly changing as things become more "popular" and fade out of being "popular," TV shows get cancelled, new shows spring up all the time so that it's the most dynamic category, requiring like a system update every year to incorporate all the new Oscar winners, Grammy winners, Tony winners, No. 1 Billboard Hits, Songs trending on TikTok, etc. It's exhausting, and you can only fully appreciate the sheer monstrous volume of it all if you binge watch "Pop Culture Jeopardy" on Amazon Prime as I have.......twice. Now on a 3rd watch, I'm still learning new stuff, most of which will probably be useless very soon like expired milk, if I haven't forgotten it already by then. Sigh.

Tarzan and Mowgli

There are too many movies in the world. I say this with the utmost respect to the filmmakers who make them, the actors who star in them, the makeup crew, the lighting staff, the costume designers, the sound effects guys, the gaffers, the extras who play background: there are way too many movies to remember. Often when watching Jeopardy there will be certain books or certain countries that get used over and over in clues and you can just guess that they'll come up once or twice a month, like there will be a reference to "Moby Dick" all the time or "Liechtenstein" in geography or the moon "Titan" (Saturn's moon) in astronomy......movies almost never repeat, and there are an endless array of movies to ask about. I'm reading a book right now that lists all the filmographies of the major movies stars, Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Helen Mirren, Judy Dench, Brad Pitt....it's impossible to remember every single movie. And yet people do....there are just movie buffs out there who can get every single movie question right (Yogesh Raut has played about 30 games of Jeopardy, including the most difficult Masters level, and I've never seen him miss a movie clue ever) and also Ken Jennings's best category during his 74-game run was movies. My problem with movies is they're too repetitive, plots get recycled and reused, often a clue will describe one movie and I'm thinking it's another and you have to choose one of two: Is the movie about a young boy raised in the wild who swings around on trees Mowgli or Tarzan? Kind of hard to tell, right? Both Rudyard Kipling and Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote those books about the same time period and with the same idea of a half-man, half-animal boy. I confuse a whole lot of gangster movies like "GoodFellas" and "Casino," is Sixteen Candles substantially different than Pretty in Pink? And you're telling me West Side story is just the plot of Romeo and Juliet, just in the streets of New York City? Good luck naming the right Dracula movie about vampires, and there's no way I can differentiate between To Russia with Love, Thunderball, Dr. No, You Only Live Twice, and also be expected to remember which English actor played in all of those movies. It's a hero's journey to try to learn all those differences if you haven't actually seen the movie, and therein lies the other problem: There's no time to watch the movies now, there's just too many of them. I could watch 5 movies a day for the rest of the year (75 days left) and still not make a dent in the movie "must-know" list for trivia purposes. Even if I DID watch the movie there's no guarantee I get it right: Jeopardy (not Pop Culture Jeopardy) asked about a Princess Bride scene with Billy Crystal talking about a MLT (Mutton lettuce tomato). I watched Princess Bride once, on a plane going somewhere, I remember Cary Elwes, I remember Robin Wright, Wallace Shawn, Andre the Giant, Inigo Montoya......where the heck did Billy Crystal come from? Pop Culture Jeopardy season 2 is coming out, and this problem doesn't exist if I don't try out for Pop Culture Jeopardy, but you have to know very specific things that happened within a movie, no way of knowing without having watched the movie. But maybe that's the intent of Pop Culture Jeopardy, to root out all the casuals and go for the hardcore enthusiasts who have dedicated their lives and time to knowing all about everything in pop culture. Ideally that's where your 2 teammates come in, to help bridge those gaps in knowledge, but I feel like most friends watch similar things, have similar tastes in movies, and are generally around the same age group, so not a whole lot of diversity of viewing interests, it's not a perfectly symbiotic relationship where what you know perfectly matches up with teammates' weaknesses, lot of overlap involved. And the worst thing is, there are still more movies coming out to remember! At least with countries there's a relative finite number of them, rivers, moons in the solar system, books (kind of the silver lining to the death of the book industry is you have to know fewer book titiles), but movies? Every year there's a new batch of Oscar front-runners, box-office leaders (it's The Minecraft movie this year), cult favorites, viral sensations (K-Pop Demon Hunters is everywhere). Good luck to everyone gearing up for PCJ season 2!

Algorithm (算法, アルゴリズム, 연산)

Today, on one another divided day in Trump's America where on one side of the country Trump pardoned fraudster George Santos, and on the other side the No Kings rallies around the country protested against the president's policies, I heard one of the more inspired speeches by Bill Maher on my favorite show: Real Time (other than Jeopardy of course, which is so ingrained in my Youtube feed that anytime anything drops remotely related to Jeopardy it hits the top of my feed). Bill Maher told everyone the algorithm is dividing us as a country into 2 different camps and that we should just mess with the algorithm: Don't let it dictate which side of the aisle you are on, so you get both sides of the viewpoint. Funny he mentions that, because.......I already do do that. Sometimes I'll click on a Joe Rogan video or Ben Shapiro video, but then.......I'll click on a New York Times video or Daily Show episode, or mainstream news outlet. My algorithm is probably weirded out by my political affiliations, but it does know I like chess puzzles and highlights of soccer goals: it continually feeds those to me all the time, and I mindlessly click on them to further cement their place in my queue. This is probably happening to millions of Americas right now who are powerless to stop it, and unfortunately those who have clear political leanings get the most extreme, one-sided material and believe the other side is the enemy. This is one of the worse parts of living in Trump's America and one of the more urgent problems facing us right now. Algorithm comes not from an Arabic word or Greek word as I had thought, but actually the Latin version of a Persian mathematician's name. (This may come up on Jeopardy, especially final jeopardy one day, as the writers love to ask about word origins). That's pretty much the extent of my knowledge about how it operates, but it works off of data, and we feed the algorithm data every time we click on anything. It's scary, makes me want to trade down to get a "dumbphone" or "flip-phone" and hope that our baby will never have a phone. Just like when I wake up and feel like my brain is fresh and uncluttered with junk from the phone, but over the course of the day as I hit "Youtube" or "Facebook" almost mindlessly to take a break from work, I suddenly see myself watching another video even though I had told myself just 10 minutes earlier I'm done with videos for the day. The algorithm is so powerful because it knows what you really like and filters to only those kind of videos, so it's hard to put the phone down, it's just right there for you, like eating ice cream and pizza at the same time. I feel a baby's brain is still fresh and can be molded how we want, feed it fresh veggies and fruits and none of the junk of the algorithm. That's partly why I actually feel more comfortable watching a channel with just ONE view than one with 10 million views, and I have been tuning into a Twitch live feed called "TriviaDragon." TriviaDragon is probably one of the best non-professional Jeopardy players out there right now who hasn't been on Jeopardy, much faster and much more prepared for Jeopardy than I am. He has a set of flashcards that he just runs through for the whole episode and answers them quickly, usually totaling 500 clues within 30 minutes. I know, thrilling, right? It's great for me, brings me a sense of peace, no ads, no links to different videos, no loops where the video plays again after you get to the end......it's just Taotao the host dispatching clues over and over again, like an old school study session I had in high school where we locked ourselves in a room and just studied, no phones no distractions just learning. After each video I feel defeated and feel my mind ready to explode with all the new facts that I just absorbed, many of which I'll probably forget soon, but it's a good feeling of exhaustion, of having accomplished something, rather than letting the algorithm lead me into oblivion and endless Mr. Beast videos or disc golf videos (those just recently popped up into my algorithm for no reason, it's weird sometimes what the algorithm decides to push even if you don't click on it, it just makes educated guesses on what you might like). Focusing on trivia is like going out into the wild and only having the great outdoors around me, no connection to the internet. I'm focused, I'm entertained, and I'm set on a goal- to be not embarrassed on Jeopardy if and when I get onto the show, especially by trivia superchampions like TriviaDragon or Dargan Ware, the guy who just became champion on Friday, whom I'm predicting to be a multi-multi-game champion. In his first game he pulls 5 out of 6 $2000 clues (supposedly the hardest clues in the bottom of the board) and also knew the 6th one just got beat by another contestant. Solon, Hokusai, Hegel's dialectic, TS Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, and Terrence Malick's 1995 "Love! Valor! Compassion!" Unbelievable.

Flies and Butterflies (苍蝇, ハエ, 파리 and 蝴蝶, 蝶, 나비)

Every once in a while MJ and I will be annoyed by an unwelcome houseguest or 2: the fly. Not sure how it gets in since we have all the windows sealed and doors shut, maybe flies follow us home from the outside, but once they're in they make themselves well known, buzzing around the home like they own the place and whizzing by our ears as if taunting us that we can't catch them. And it's true, it's really hard to catch them at their speed while flying around, but if they land and pause for a little bit, it's a different story. When I was a kid living in suburban Illinois I made a habit of killing flies in our home, getting whatever piece of paper was closest to my hand and swatting the flies as they landed. Maybe certain flies have evolved, or different regions of America have different flies: the ones MJ and I deal with seem bigger, faster, and just a tad smarter: they don't land in convenient places for us to swat them, and they sense our hand movements just a nanosecond because it comes crashing down upon them. I even tried to anticipate their escape path and swat away from where they are to where I anticipate them to be, but flies sometimes can fly away from where their heads are pointing towards. I'm not sure why I have such a bloodlust for killing flies: they're actually pretty harmless, as long as you don't put food out for them to infect. MJ doesn't like them because they're around dirty things and don't want them to touch our food; fair point, but they definitely can't sting or bite or cause any pain, something that can't be said about mosquitos and/or other creatures that can get into the home. I think it might be a bit of OCD too: something just seems off when the home has a fly in it, like something stuck in our teeth that we need to extract, a pimple on an otherwise blemish-free face, a literal "fly in the ointment" as the idiom goes which actually comes from a Bible phrase from Ecclesiastes about fly ruining something otherwise perfect. The Bible, turns out, is the source of a lot of vocabulary and phrases that we still use today. Breaking Bad even had a whole bottle episode with Jesse and Walt in the meth lab trying to excise a fly from the lab, a kind of metaphor for their relationship. Butterflies, on the other hand, are the exact opposte of flies, despite having its name in their name. MJ and I went to a botanical garden today and most gardens have a butterfly preserve or some sort of hothouse/greenhouse indoor component for when the winter months come rolling in. The butterflies were free-roaming, and it just put us into such a better mood than the flies. Butterflies are like the calm classical orchestra concert to the heavy metal flies or "Ride of the Valkyries," butterflies just want to be left alone and flutter up to you unassumingly, not making any noise exact the tiny pitter-patter of beating their wings. They have such exquisite patterns on their wings that we forget that the center of their bodies look kind of like house flies, they just survived through evolution through their beautiful wings, and now human beings cultivating them, whereas flies survive through sheer will of crowding into people's houses, surviving on other organisms' junk. It'd be so easily to kill a butterfly just by clapping your hands around them, yet they're so precious no one in the butterfly house even thought of doing something like that. There's a reason there are no houses full of flies (maybe iguanas or frogs would get a kick out of that though). The relationship between flies and butterflies is kind of symbolic of human life too (I always try to relate it to myself, selfish human that I am ). Some people are born butterflies, some people are born flies. Everybody just naturally gravitates towards butterflies and they can do no wrong, they're like gods' gifts to the world and they act like it, just going about their day as they please without worry of predators, they become soft. Flies, on the other hand, get no positive attention for others, they're just on their own to survive, yet they still manage to survive and make a living out of it. There's something admirable about it; it's not like they can just turn into a butterfly, and they didn't ask to be flies, they were just born that way. Maybe something us humans should consider at least when treating other human beings. As for actual flies though? No mercy if you've entered the Yan household! You know that phrase "wouldn't hurt a fly!" that does not apply to me.

National Blood Donor Day

TIL that there's a national blood donor day, every June 14. I would probably NOT go to donate blood or platelets on that day, as it's probably packed to the gills with willing donors. I also learned today that there's a man named Mark Vinson who's trying to donate platelets in all 50 states.... he already completed the task of donating blood in all 50 states this year! Missed the video. It's the kind of story that would have went more viral in something like.....2008, when one man went around the country doing "50 jobs in 50 states" and got on CNN for the interesting idea. In 2025, though, with so much more content and Youtubers and streamers and content creators, and people not caring about the news as much, it got a few thousand views on Youtube and an Alaska Airlines promotional spot. Sigh.....that's the state of the world: people will jump all over a story about Bad Bunny performing at the Super Bowl or celebrity gossip or the latest Taylor Swift album (Life of a Showgirl) or the latest ICE raid video, the good stories about humankind go unnoticed; good people doing good things don't get as much attention as someone seeking attention doing stupid things. In Mark Vinson's case, he's been donating blood and platelets for 37 years, he's an ambassador for the American Red Cross, he's encouraging other people to donate. I wish I came up with this idea; I almost did the 50 jobs in 50 states challenge in 2011 after law school when I couldn't find a job; it really ties together my love of visiting new places and my (wouldn't say love) my commitment to donating and doing something good for the world. So far in my blood donation journey I've donated in 6 different states and various different cities, and I used to seek out new donation places around L.A. and other cities I lived in temporarily just to check out new areas of the city. So I envy Mark Vinson and the life that lets him go to various states on business and otehr occasions especially with a family. Some of those smaller population states can be tough, and have less occasion to go to Montana, Idaho, North Dakota.......he even made it to Alaska and Hawaii, where "blood donation" is not one of the first things to come to mind about what to do there. (But that actually make it more important to donate if there are less donors there). The logistics of going to a new place is also tough: transportation is one thing, but also learning the new rules of the donation place, getting to know the nurses, finding out if there's a vein whisperer or not.....blood donation anyone can do, but platelets: you migth want a familiar face doing both arms. I think the best thing that American Red Cross does in getting repeat donors is NOT to keep spamming me with phone calls and texts about the "critical shortage" of donors and the free shirt giveaways, hoodies (although those are nice), I can get equivalent quality ones for $20 or so and not be forced to take an extra large shirt is they track your donations for you, so you can look back at your whole donation history and where you've been, how often you did it, where the blood went to, what your hematocrit and other health signs are (A1c tests for diabetes, etc.) It gives the donor a log, a ritual, and gives people like Mark Vinson a history of their life, where they've been to, where they might still want to go, that you matter in this world and others notice your sacrifice. So often in today's world our accomplishments go unnoticed: I paid my mortgage this month, yay! There will be one for next month, or at work bosses don't acknowledge your work, or you let someone in on the highway but they give no acknowledgment of your kindness. Instead selfish people who do relatively dumb things get likes and views on Youtube. It's frustrating and can be ungratifying in this "only attracted to cool stuff" world. It's valuable when someone pays attention, and that's likely why American Red Cross can get repeat donors like me. Even though they get money and have an incentive to recruit you too, at least they let you know someone's keeping track. I still won't go in to donate on National Blood Donor Day though.