Howdy, oh readership of eight. How often are you offered love and companionship on the Internet, and it's not illegal, weird or Russian? Well, this morning I received an email from a friend. Seems he knows someone who has a dog that has grown bigger than his apartment complex allows (Boo-urns!).

Who would like a bundle of love for the holidays? I ( Read more... )

What do you get when you combine three awesome people, a road trip to New Orleans, and softball? An Outlander full of awesome. That's what!

Last weekend Lindsey and I threw our gear and our favorite bear, texwriterbear , into Sister Autoimmaculata and hit the road to NOLA to play in the inaugural Bourbon Street Classic. Things we knew:

• We'd get to NOLA after ( Read more... )

Monday was National Coming Out Day. I've never been a huge proponent of doing something simply because someone put it on a calendar, created ribbons for it, and printed up pricey flyers festooned with images of celebrities touting the wonderment of the day. By the same token, the decision to come out is a deeply personal decision that I don't think ( Read more... )

I like to think I've lived and learned over the years. While my big mouth (and sometimes my big blog) still get me into trouble, those incidents are now few and far between. I am better now than I was in my youth about thinking before I speak, and not speaking about things I know nothing about. I now know that, just because my best friend's sister' ( Read more... )

I make no secret of the fact that art can, often, escape me. Because life has a way of manifesting its sense of humor, my soulmate -- the woman I giggle with, scheme with, quote random movie lines with, and have the time of my life with -- is an artist. If you've been reading me a while, you might remember that I touched on the subject a while back ( Read more... )

This blog needs a facelift and an upgrade. No wonder it's been neglected for nearly two months!

A few weeks ago, I took a ride with the Montrose Motorcycle Riding Club. I hadn't ridden the R-Honda for the sheer pleasure of riding in forever, so I took the opportunity to drive in a big ol' 200+ mile circle. I missed riding for the simple joy of the road, the scenery and the curves, so I was in heaven. Also in heaven? The squirrel I ran over in ( Read more... )

We have an awesome front patio. It's small, but we have some tree cover that allows enough shade for us to enjoy it in the summer, despite the fact that it faces the afternoon sun. With trees, however, come birds. With birds come, oh, crap! No, that wasn't an ADD-interrupted thought. The majority of our patio furniture sits in the storage room, ( Read more... )

It's no secret that I loathe and detest P*rez Hilton. Not that it's any skin off his nose, mind you. The Rhonda simply is not famous enough to merit his dropping a donut long enough to write about me*. Just wait until my readership hits nine, though. And, even with fame? I still wouldn't care in the slightest if he said anything nasty about me in ( Read more... )

I tend not to talk about my ex, except in vague terms, and I try very hard not to be negative. We broke up for many, many reasons, and neither of us is solely to blame for the implosion of our partnership. For my part, I was an invertebrate with repressed anger issues, and that's just not a healthy combination. I know what you're asking yourselves ( Read more... )