"the name most people know me as".

That just so explictly doesn't mean your legal name! I don't know why this makes me so crazy. Possibly because I am SUPER EFFING CRANKY and looking for a safe target.

I figure a heck of a lot of people know me as meara. Others know me as Indy. And some know me as my legal name (quite a few of you probably mostly only know it due to FB!) And I answer to meara or Indy in person, as well as my "real" name, so....

That just so explictly doesn't mean your legal name!

Right? My grandfather's name was Howard, and I didn't know it until I was in high school because everyone (my grandmother, everyone!) called him Pete. A nurse nicknamed Repeat when he was a kid in the hospital, and it stuck. He was Pete Lastname to the world. I thought his name was actually Peter.

Yeah. My dad's first name is Dornis. Nobody calls him Dornis; his name is Bud to everyone who knows him. Would they make him use Dornis? It would be stupid.

Let me not get started with the non-canonicity of the names of my family. My parents were insistent that we just get the one, and now sis is calling herself Savannah La Mar like it's nobody's business.

Dornis is an awesome name (okay, weird, but awesome)! Is it from another language?

Similarly, my grandfather's first name is Ormon. He was known as Eddie as a child, and acquired Sam as a nickname in the navy. He's Sam to everyone but official documents, and has been since 1944 or so.

It sounds more like if they decide you are using a Pseudonym, they ask for proof of your name.

I was reading that it was affecting Asian people who use an American first name. So Leah Cheong gets asked to produce ID, but her "real" name is Li-Ya Cheong

ETA: I think part of the kerfluffle is that in the past, if you came up with a reasonable sounding name (like Sophia Brooks), they did not investigate further. This seems like a hunt to root out even non-obvious real names.

Wow, if one can have a common law name, my old board name would be it. I was known _exclusively_ by that name for 28 years. There are people in this world who will never call me anything else.

google+ would be useless to me if I could not include it.

Huh.

My dad had 'Henry' on his birth certificate, but was always called 'Harry.'

Then, some heinous grade school principal insisted on him being called 'Henry' at school despite my his and my grandmother's protests. After all, 'Henry' was his legal name.

My grandmother (who was seventeen kinds of awesome), went and got my dad's name legally changed to 'Harry.' She then informed the principal that she expected her son to be called by his real name from that point forward.

I am really holding off google+ until this shakes out more. And even if it doesn't I'm leery of a network that also contains the content of my email. I don't let facebook see my google addressbook for a reason.

Y'all, it seems like MK is gaining weight while off the insulin. This is kind of boggling (high blood sugar leads to weight loss.) It might be a learning curve with the scale, but after a plateau, he's up a few ounces. This bodes well. Of course, I have been giving him extra food because he's scary skinny, but that alone would be negated if his sugars were high. It's just something I have to monitor. He goes back in on Monday for a check. I hope it stays simple. At this weight, even the lowest dose technically feasible is way too much, but that could be the weight, or it could be a remission happening, or just a balance happening. As long as he remains the happy old man cat, I don't give a shit. If letting him run a little high means a shorter lifespan, but him happy until neuropathy runs its course? At this point, I'll take that over sugar crash disorientation, crazy er bills, unhappy rides to the er, etc. Dude has waaaay outlived his 9 lives.

Bleh. I think/talk about this too much.

Also? It's positively comfortable outside. First time in at least two weeks. Too damp to open up, but still, such a relief.