Legal Documents

Bicycle is in the storage locker (along with his two bikes, one of which is likely "expensive junk"* at this point, and the other is sellable if the girls don't want it).

I... will eventually have space inside the house for bike(s). I even know what space would be good for them. (Under the stairs, probably).

Things like shopping and other small errands would be easier on a bike than walking... if there's a way to safely lock the bike when I get there. I am seriously considering "go shopping and use bike as shopping basket, walking it around the inside of the store" because my neighborhood is sketchy and I don't trust locking things to the bike racks, if there are bike racks.

( Bike details )

I have death certificates and ashes.

I'll have to send in corrections about the death certificate because I didn't have full info when I initially talked to them, like his mother's name. Maybe more info. (It's not "wrong," except that it says "unknown" in a few spots. I wonder what they do if they don't have a contact person? They had my info; they had his SSN; why didn't they track down more info? Bleh.)

I've been asked several times if there'll be a service, memorial, wake, etc. Probably not specifically; will probably be folded into Samhain activities. His rc modeling friends are likely the ones who'd most like a service - and they're very scattered (he was in at least 3 modeling clubs); I don't have a lot of contact info; I haven't met most of them. And I am very much not up to hosting such a thing.

Next is "contact various companies/orgs and inform them, and either close accounts or switch them to my name." He bought an AAA membership recently that we had no real use for (he wanted to use their towing service to replace the dead car battery) and now have even less use for.

( House cleaning/clearing continues )

Vitalant would like to know about my experience(s) donating blood and what "challenges" prevent me from donating. (I tried to donate with Red Cross. They needed proof of blood type in advance or wouldn't schedule me.)

Since they've removed the decades-long ban on accepting my blood based on having a bisexual husband, my main challenge is access. I have a day job. They're open during daytime working hours, weekdays only.

(They have a spot that's open on weekends. Transit would take 2 hours & $17 round trip, in addition to whatever time donating takes. I really can't take 4+ hours out of a weekend day anytime soon.)

The place that's a couple blocks from where I work is weekdays only, with most days ending in the early afternoon and one "late" day a week.

There is not time before their working hours to donate plasma, which takes quite a bit longer than donating blood. There might be time after - if I walked quickly, and they actually started immediately when I got there. I could, I suppose, donate blood instead. But my blood is not particularly useful; my plasma is very-best useful. (Yes yes "all types are needed." In reality: The only value for my blood is preventing a fraction of a percent of the populace from taking the more common types of blood.)

"Blood donation CRISIS!!!!"
Well, yes. Because, in addition to all the weird social shifts in the last few decades, people with jobs often can't donate.