Had a great time on our -- now annual -- Caribbean cruise; seven days starting and ending in Puerto Rico, and visiting Aruba, Curacao, St. Maarten, and St. Lucia on the Royal Caribbean Serenade of the Seas www.royalcaribbean.com/findacruise/ships/class/ship/home.do. I went on a snorkeling excursion in Aruba and we wandered around Curacao and St. ( Read more... )

Been a while, so here's a rambling, somewhat disconnected update ( Read more... )

Yet another year since my parents passed ( Read more... )

VD was nice and low key. Crazy, but tolerable day at work, met Brandon at PF Chang's for dinner, which is quickly becoming a tradition, then went home for a nice, long bath and champagne. B had bought me some red and white tulips -- I love tulips, was never a rose fan, even in a previous life when I dated women. Tulips just seem so classic and ( Read more... )

Brandon and I hosted an all-gay men Super Bowl party last night. Understand, I actually love football. I'd say half the people there understood the basics. The remainder were confused because both teams wore the same color pants ( Read more... )

Had a wonderful evening last night after a hellish couple of weeks, with more hell to come. Got home from the trainer Nazi, and Brandon had made dinner. We ate, took a long bath, and read for a nice (short) while in bed.

Doesn't get much better than that. Yes, I suppose that makes me old.

The 495 was flat out spooky. The on-ramp was really bad, but there were almost no vehicles moving on the freeway itself. To travel the two miles I needed to go, I had to weave around more than 20 abandoned 18-wheelers and cars. There were four delivery trucks left within feet of each other across all four lanes. It's now around 10 pm. Where did all ( Read more... )

As promised, my recollections of last Wednesday night ( Read more... )

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Played a bit more last night. Man, it's great playing a game where all the cool names haven't been taken. I still think WoW and CoH need to offer names that have been inactive for a certain period.

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