It's is beautiful, Jilli, in every way.

Oh Jilli, what a beautiful tattoo! I love it.

I am beat, but I feel good, like we finally got this birthday party thing down. In fact, I'm recommending the UCLA botanical gardens for the next LAista get together. Or maybe at this point I should say I am offering it as an excuse for having one as we haven't had one in YONKS.

Just got word my niece-in-law has gone into labor. Good thoughts for them. May she have a smooth delivery. V. exciting.

Jilli, the tattoo is beautiful.

So I told my really nice nurse today (she volunteered for me) who gives me graham crackers by the handful that I'd said nice things about the biscuits and the nurses to friends, and then one friend was in the ER, and backed up the cracker evaluation. For some reason she was tickled positively pink (uh, what does that mean, literally?) by this.

She's the one who tells the doctors what I get, and is willing to go to lengths so I get the effective dosages. I couldn't ask for more. Hell, she even seemed disappointed that I wasn't going to be there next weekend. But she posits seaside lounging should be beneficial to my health, as long as I wear sunglasses.

I'm trying to find out how to give someone the information they need to wire money into my BofA account without giving them my account details (like, seriously--you need my home address too? I don't know you). It seems like there's a way to get around that, but I'm not sure precisely what it is.

Back to poking.

ita,

I have had $$ wired to me from overseas, I had to provide acct #, and my details, but I have a mailing address for my banks (I have a box at a postal service), not my home address.

My family has wired me money before, which is cool--they have my deets. I don't know this chick my sister is having send money--it costs me less to receive international wires than her. But I don't want her to have all my stuff, since I don't have an alternate address like you do.

BofA tells me:

Email setup is complete
Friends and family can now use your email address to send you money.

But that's not the most helpful thing in the world...can a personal Swiss account leverage this? I'm missing the part with the instructions for my friends and family...

Man, why doesn't everyone just have Paypal (in this scenario it's also free for everyone--I'm not sure of the profit structure yet)?

Dad said to say hi to the invisible buffista people.

Aww, hi to Dad. I am glad he loves your tattoo. It's really beautiful.

I showed it to Mom tonight and she really liked it too.

Courtesy of Matt Ruff: Per last week's "another think/thing coming" debate: Do you say "soft-pedal" or "soft-peddle"?

soft pedal. Dunno why.