Mirrorface? Are you someone I/we already know under a new name, or are you a lurker? Hi!

Also, word is that TPTB will begin phasing out group homes for developmentally disabled adults

I thought that was who you worked with--will there still be group homes for other people (who?) that you'd be working with, or would this be "sorry find a new job"?

It looks like my brother may have an auto-immune disorder(although it still isn't lupus...something weirder, with a longer name...dermato-something.

I am oddly disappointed it is not lupus. But yay for getting an actual diagnosis! That must be a relief for him.

I am crossing my fingers the cable guy didn't just screw me over. He was here to switch my phone from the phone company to the cable company (cheaper! I wouldn't have a home phone but it's for work). And first he hooked it up, asked for me to bring the phone over to the modem, and hooked that in and said "OK!". I was like "Er....not OK. I have several phones, and need them to work in the usual phone jacks". So he futzed around a while, and said "OK!" Except it was still giving the voicemail beep...for the phone company. So I said "Why is it still the phone company voicemail?" and he futzed some more..."OK!" So I got the voicemail for cable...and the password he told me didn't work. More futzing "OK!"...now the password worked, but when I actually CALLED the home number, it didn't ring, and still reached the phone company. More futzing. "OK!" ....finally it rings, and seems to be working. But geeeeez.

Mirrorface delurked in... the Music thread, right? Hi, Mirrorface! Good to see your pixels again.

meara, that's ridiculous.

You know what's fun? Listening to a musical genius trying to figure out a song on an out of tune piano. I thought "Claude Hooper Bukowski" was the theme from Sesame Street.

We've been catching up on True Blood this summer. Currently in season three. My word, this show likes its gore.

ION, today Milo looks, in The Girl's words, like a street cat. Poor kitty.

Many men are the counter example. It's a pretty flawed theory.

It's rather an odd one. Entire groups of people are rarely anything. Genders even less so. Most men I've met are wonderful. I did not so much want to have Teh Sex with them, but I feel that this can be excused.

Andi, do not explode anything! I will send pictures from Scotland! And possibly pictures of Shir. (And The Girl. But she's less interesting to the Buffistas.) ION, would they really go back to state institutions for developmentally disabled people? That sucks. I hope you get to do what you love for a long time yet, and congrats on the great work review.

ETA: Hello, Mirrorface!

Colbert Report salutes a hero - taking on a real blood-sucker.

I'm officially enrolled in VHAP! I just need to pick a primary care provider.

This process has been really easy and timely. Of course I wasn't trying to wrangle multiple organizations into communicating with each other BUT it was still really easy. And every time I talked to someone at VHAP I got consistent answers rather than the contradictory "whoever you spoke to was wrong" crap I kept getting.

Hi, Mirrorface! Good to read you!

I don't think there is a cure, as such.(Although some people's does just...kind of clear up, sometimes.) But there are many treatments. Or it sounds like there are.

Meara, he is sort of relieved. But my dad the hypochondriac has kind of made it worse by focusing on worst-case scenarios. I did actually say "No, I never heard of that one. But nobody died of it on House, so that's probably good, right?" Of course, my dad thought my brother was on the down-low and had HIV, too.

Of course, my dad thought my brother was on the down-low and had HIV, too.

Keep it klassy, erika's dad. Keep it klassy.