Also, I'm so sorry to hear about your friend, but I'm glad it's happening in the 21st century (if that makes sense), because, like Ginger said, medicine has come a long way.

On my left shoulder.

I just posted a nifty thing in Natter about a writer who is "publishing" a story, one word at a time, as tattoos on volunteers.

I saw that and got confused as to which thread I was in. I would totally be a word.

Oh, DJ, I'm sorry. But like Ginger says, there are really good drugs now that can make HIV an almost completely manageable chronic illness.

So was there some kind of massive anti-sleep zone over the US last night? Nobody in this household got more than 4 hours last night. (Due to an error in judgment regarding the A/C on my part - I thought it was supposed to cool down much more than it did, so D's room was much warmer than I thought it was going to be. Long story short, we cleaned up vomit at midnight and spent the rest of the night trying to convince him to sleep in the playard in our room. Finally fell more or less asleep at 3, woke up with the sun at 6.)

Then took the poor tired noodle to his 12-month checkup, and now he's at daycare while I'm playing hooky from work and running errands. Checkup went fine - he's still bizarrely tall and skinny (15th %ile for weight, 75th for height - WTF, genetics?) but otherwise completely normal. (And the doc wasn't worried about his stats at all since he's pretty much always been in that range, I just don't understand how two people shaped like DH and I wound up with a tall skinny kid. He's just a freak of nature, I guess.)

But like Ginger says, there are really good drugs now that can make HIV an almost completely manageable chronic illness.

And I do really know this. It's just having lost people in the late 80s and 90s gives me a bit of a jolt.

Here's why I love C: "GOD! Does this mean I have to get all active and start caring about other people?"

I would totally be a word.

I'd be a word, but I'd want to pick the word. And it would have to be something like "which".

ARGH. Evite strikes again - my sister has invited all FOUR of her roommates to D's birthday party. Now I have to call her and get them uninvited - 4 extra people at a one year-old's party is WAY TOO MANY.

And I'm extra-pissed she didn't ask me first. She should know better.

{{{{DJ & friend}}}} Awesome tattoo, sweetie.

I didn't sleep well last night, either, but my play is featured in the SF Chron! o/!

What is with people? unless an invitation specifically says something, it's an invitation for one person!

Well, Evite does have the "allow guests to invite guests" function - I just forgot to turn it off. Still, it's polite to ASK.

ARGH. Evite strikes again - my sister has invited all FOUR of her roommates to D's birthday party. Now I have to call her and get them uninvited - 4 extra people at a one year-old's party is WAY TOO MANY.

Oh! You just reminded me -- I was going to ask if anyone had any experience with socializr.com, because my evite hatred level finally hit the "but I don't wanna" point (for a whole lot of CHEESY little SPAMMY annoying CAN'T EXPORT YOUR ADDRESS BOOK reasons, not this). And I was noticing after Vortex's ordeal that one of the nice details over there is that you can allow people to add on, but cap the number each one can add, and all suchlike things.

And I'm extra-pissed she didn't ask me first. She should know better.

She should. Regardless of electronic invite technology.