I don't even slightly understand the headspace of these people who are so anti-birth control. I just don't get it.

Birth-control is sinful and they don't want to pay so others can sin?

Or they just don't want to pay for anything for anyone else ever?

I had a cyst in the end of my shoulder bone (collar bone?) dealt with two years ago, and it hasn't come back really. I wasn't given any specific set of exercises, but I have moved it as usual. Unfortunately, it still hurts quite a bit. According to Hubby, veteran of a couple of dozen joint surgeries, full recovery is 50-50, maybe 70-30 for recovery. I've gotten good at predicting weather, between my shoulder and my knees.

Not to say there will be any problems, but it can take a while for things to improve, so don't get discouraged.

Where is the wedding, ita? Or does it matter, weather-wise?

I barely use healthcare, and I have never not had insurance.

I'm still getting used to having it again. I had to make a doctor's appointment today, and it took me a while to remember it would only be $30 for the copay.

BREAKING NEWS: Error Undoes Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results

It appears that the faster-than-light neutrino results, announced last September by the OPERA collaboration in Italy, was due to a mistake after all. A bad connection between a GPS unit and a computer may be to blame.

Physicists had detected neutrinos travelling from the CERN laboratory in Geneva to the Gran Sasso laboratory near L'Aquila that appeared to make the trip in about 60 nanoseconds less than light speed. Many other physicists suspected that the result was due to some kind of error, given that it seems at odds with Einstein's special theory of relativity, which says nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. That theory has been vindicated by many experiments over the decades.

Oh well.

Also, Science. It works, bitches.

askye, my response to similar bloviators has been that what they're talking about has absolutely nothing to do with the ACA mandate; it's one of the core principles upon which the entire insurance industry functions. If this guy has ever had any kind of health insurance, he's been helping pay for other people's contraception for quite a while already. And their Pap smears, and strep swabs, and postop physical therapy, and chemo, and basic well child visits and immunizations, and everything else you or he or anyone else can think of.

Ditto car insurance, homeowner insurance, any other insurance he has now or ever has had. That's how insurance works. If he doesn't like it, he can either start a crusade to dismantle the entire insurance industry, move to a tiny island nation someplace where there's just the one village doctor who takes payment in poultry and produce, or possibly both. I'm gonna vote both.

BREAKING NEWS: Error Undoes Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results

Whew, thank goodness. I was worried about those experimental results.

JZ - I just posted that he's objecting to how insurance works and I'm sure he'll come up with some retort. BUT I found a cute and informative video that explains how insurance works and I'll post that link for him if he tries to argue with me.

my mother always suggests telling them how nice it is in Somalia.

Where is the wedding, ita? Or does it matter, weather-wise?

Oh, I have no fucking clue.

Push comes to shove I end up in the birdcage dress I didn't wear to the Orthodox transsexual wedding from last year. That covers the portacath fine. I just...I want to wear red, dammit. To the pro tennis interracial lesbian wedding.

I have ducked out of work for the rest of the day. My skull hurts and I want to puke. I need half an hour off now, and that means missing this particular meeting that will piss off my boss, but I canna function, cap'n.

Dude. I want to go to more weddings like ita does. Especially if there are single friends attending....