trouble

trouble, originally uploaded by Reeses World.

this just opened near my office. I'm in so much trouble!

ranting sweetly

a little over 5 years ago i was approached on the streets of san francisco about joining a study to find a vaccine for hiv. i started writing about it here and talked about it often over the two years i was participating. it was called the 'project t' study which was short for the drug tenofovir.

so today, the results of the study were released in vienna at an international hiv/aids conference. there's information about the results here with details here and a Q&A on the subject here.

during the study i took pills once a day for nearly two years (technically 9 months for me specifically). got lots of blood drawn and many doctor visits and lots of talk about sex. and after all that, turns out i was taking the placebo in the blind study all the while. interesting news. here's to hoping that all is this helps us find a vaccine someday soon.

quiet days are nice but um, I'd still like to have electricity. power's out!

pizza night!

curious, whenever i've gone to look at the sea lions, i've never thought about eating them... "The tourists who come from around the world to gawk at the barking sea lions at San Francisco's Pier 39 can now ask a naturalist every day how the noisy pinnipeds taste and where their fine furry pelts can be purchased. The answers to these two common questions will be the same as always: It's illegal to kill, eat or sell sea lions or their skins. But any bumpkin who wants to know will have somebody to ask thanks to a visitor outreach program put together this month by Pier 39, the Bay Institute, the Aquarium of the Bay and the Marine Mammal Center.... It is hoped that the dialogue might some day reduce the number of folks curious about the flavor of sea lion meat and the quality of pinniped clothing and inspire them instead to focus on habitat preservation."

a few of my mom's photos from her trip to Washington and Oregon this summer:

this is hilarious and beautiful. i'm so proud it's from my hometown library system in kansas city, missouri:

I'm famous

I'm famous, originally uploaded by Reeses World.

health department meeting tonight

yay, new Sheryl Crow album!

dinner at a16 in the marina with the 'wifey' and her family

cpk for dinner

cpk for dinner, originally uploaded by Reeses World.

seeing 'the kids are all right' with Annette and Julienne

waiting for my 'wifey' to finish shopping in the mall so we can eat dinner

so i get a telephone survey last night. about san francisco stuff. so usually there is a question about sexual orientation at the end for statistics, which is an important identifier when you want to know what the gay community thinks, especially in san francisco. so they always add on a question about how people identify themselves. but last night's survey had the following way of asking that question: "do you consider yourself heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian, queer, somewhat gay, or completely gay?" now, 'somewhat gay' and 'completely gay'. really? are those new terms? now i know what the surveyors were probably trying to get at but this isn't really the best language they should have used and it was just hilarious on its face. but, that's the newly arrived status of being asked questions about sexual orientation in surveys when most of the non-gay world has no idea how to address us. it's rather stupid that they didn't ask around to get better language than that.

meanwhile my kitty enjoys the sun

meanwhile my kitty enjoys the sun, originally uploaded by Reeses World.

meanwhile my kitty enjoys the sun

meanwhile my kitty enjoys the sun, originally uploaded by Reeses World.

I'm a pale, pale man

ran into a long lost friend in the Castro tonight. so good to see him; I've missed him

in the Castro with a New Zealand book and looking for dinner

really enjoying the new kylie and scissor sisters albums

photo.JPG

photo.JPG, originally uploaded by Reeses World.

going to New Zealand in September! NZ2010! I'll be celebrating my 40th birthday twice over two time zones

watching David Fujimoto play softball