Ground Floor

So today's the anniversary. Bobby had to be at the airport by 5am this morn and that was the entire big day. Fun I know. I came home and ran all my errands by 9am. Went back to sleep until around 2:30pm and that was the entire day really. Sold some stuff on e-bay. Love that. Had a big meeting at work starting at 8pm, then the meeting let out around 9:30pm. I stayed around though after to help out the Monday staff while they got the low down on the meeting from their supervisor. Got home tonight around 11pm. One thing, I got the mail on my way in and low and behold I got my spring '05 edition of the gay bible. No not the A&F Quarterly....but it was the new International Male catalog. I've gotten one each season since I was 18 mind you, I swear that subscription must come complementary with being gay. You know like a mint on your pillow at the four season's or a reach around from the leather daddy at the bath house.

Rabbi may have given babies herpes

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK -- City health officials are investigating the death of a baby boy who was one of three infants to contract herpes after a rabbi circumcised them.

Ten days after Rabbi Yitzhok Fischer performed religious circumcisions on twins last October, one died of herpes and the other tested positive for the virus, according to complaint filed by the health department in Manhattan Supreme Court.

The complaint, reported in Wednesday's edition of the New York Daily News, also said health officials later found a third baby who had contracted herpes after being circumcised by Fischer in late 2003.

Under Jewish law, a mohel - someone who performs circumcisions - draws blood from the circumcision wound. Most mohels do it by hand, but Fischer uses a rare practice where he uses his mouth.

Fischer's lawyer, Mark Kurzmann, told the Daily News that Fischer was cooperating with the investigation, although it's unclear whether Fischer submitted to the city's request for a blood test.

"My client is known internationally as a caring, skilled, and conscientious mohel," Kurzmann said.

...Slightly recovered really. I feel alot better. For awhile there I just didn't want to get out of bed. I had a touch of the flu, but I think I put out the flames before I was overtaken with sickness. I had fever and sweats and I missed two days of work, but tomorrow I'm back to the grind and I'm not looking forward to it. I still have some sinus pressure but at least I can smell somewhat again. It's kinda weird how when you lose a sense and then get it back how great it is. Like when you have a cold and you can't smell anything and then it finally comes back and you smell that first aroma of fresh brewed coffee, or cookies, or grilled chicken, or sweaty balls. It's a thrill. Joking!

So the 7th is Bobby's and my anniversary. We met scandalously on the internet cruising gay.com and hooked up and have been together ever since our first meeting February 7th 2000. Our first relations took place this day, the actual dating took place a few weeks after, but the relations were the starting point so that's what we celebrate. So it's hard to believe. We've lived together only 3 years though. We took that part slow, which was a smart move I think. We've been together through alot and I really do love him alot. It's so strange. I never really thought when I came out that things would work out this way so early in my life. I thought I would be alone forever because I was gay and I really thought no one else was like me. But it slapped me around the other way and it's been good. I think wood is the traditional gift. So I want new hardwood floors. Is that too much to ask? Or Danny Wood he would also do.