Happy birthday, and link to post about emergency medicine

[beowabbit]

Happy birthday to ghoti72! (Thanks to LJ’s new friends’ birthdays feature, I’m going to be much better about remembering birthdays from now on.)

And on another topic, the wonderful and deeply good docorion posted to his journal a letter he wrote to a mailing list for emergency physicians in response to a thread about “overuse” of emergency departments for routine care by people on Medicaid. If you know docorion, you pretty much know what his perspective is, and if you don’t, you should read it and find out. He totally rocks.

Comments

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Re: birthdays - http://www.livejournal.com/portal .

It's what I use for my morning post - gives you the day's birthdays right there on the update page!

[beowabbit]

Cool! I had no idea that existed.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

I live to serve...

Um. Wait. Hee!

[ghoti72.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It is so cool to open my friends page and see that folk have actually remembered me. . .I feel all special and stuff. . .

[beowabbit]

Maybe that’s because you are all special and stuff.

i'm moving my reply over here..

[chinaski.livejournal.com]

since it's not relevant to learn_languages.

Indeed, I'm in Ottawa. However, I will be leaving very soon (next week) and possibly for good. I suspect we might... I know some people in the poly community here, one of whom used to be in a Boston Poly community. (& that would be Elyse)

I'll be in Boston soon, as a matter of fact. My boyfriend's family lives there, so it's my last stop on the Eastern half of this continent for a while. (I'm leaving from there to Seattle.)

confused

[lcohen]

what's the difference between the new birthdays feature and their old birthdays feature?

Re: i'm moving my reply over here..

[beowabbit]

I thought you might! Yeah, I know Elyse from when she was here, and luckytroll (whom my life partner was dating for quite a while, so we used to travel up to Ottawa fairly often). I also know Dana Peters; not sure if he travels in the same circles. I keep meaning to make it up there for a dinner, but since that means taking a Monday off work, I haven't gotten around to it yet.

When you're in Boston, you should check out the Poly Boston calendar at http://polyboston.org/calendar/ and see if there's anything you and/or your boyfriend would like to come to. The gatherings at the Diesel are fun, if somewhat chaotic, and there's lots of stuff going on.

Re: confused

[beowabbit]

Oh, that feature isn't new? I guess I just didn't know about it before.

Re: confused

[lcohen]

i was hoping that it would jump up and down and point when someone was having a birthday which is basically what i need.

great new user icon, btw!

[beah.livejournal.com]

Gasp! Your user pic lizard is just like the one I want for my tattoo! Where did he come from?

[beowabbit]

Just a random gecko that was crawling on the inside of the screen on docorion’s and sionnagh’s enclosed porch when I went to visit them the most recent time. I got a couple pictures, and I wanted to get a bunch from different angles, but s/he scurried away after the second one. Let me know what your email address is (mine is local part “js”; domain “aq.org”) and I’ll send you those two pictures uncropped if you like.

[beowabbit]

Oh, and in case you don’t know, they live in Ewa Beach (a suburb of Honolulu) on O'ahu.