02 January 2006

We got home Saturday night from my best vacation in a long time. LONG TIME. Arrived in North Carolina Saturday afternoon and spent several days visiting family and friends, some I haven't seen in a long time. I get pissed off at myself for not keeping up with people. How hard is it to pick up a phone?...After that, we took off for Savannah and spent several days there. It may very well be my new favorite city. Restaurants, history, water, warmth, culture, and sweet tea. Oh the sweet tea. In 1996, I went on a diet and wiped all sweet drinks of my list including sweet tea. The diet is long gone but I never went back to drinks sweetened with sugar. I can hardly drink a soda sweetened with sugar. I drank sweet tea in Savannah. I drank it again...and again...and again. Oh it was good.

One of the things that I noticed, my dad seems to be getting worse every time I see him. The last night me and Duncan spent the night there, he was better than I've seen him in a long time. However, earlier in the week, his symptoms seemed to be quite prevalent. Also, the day after Christmas, we had gone to my aunt's house for the annual holiday breakfast when he almost passed out. He became lightheaded and had to lie down. I really thought he was going to die. He drank some orange juice and felt much better very quickly. I guess it was a sugar thing. That was a long 10 minutes.

My brother is also getting a divorce so my sister-in-law wasn't around this year. They're on good terms but I guess I won't see her much anymore. She's like a sister but I didn't get up the nerve to ask for her address or number. I'll give that a few months. All in all, a great vacation. I suggest them regularly.

Happy New Year!

My first and only New Years Resolution. Don't loose track of people.

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06 January 2006

More than a thousand miles away from home, David and Mark, and Duncan and myself ate at the same restaurant, on the same night, in Savannah, GA. Small world...I hope they got to try some of this stuff down on River Street because my mouth is still watering from it. Of course. it's still watering from the waiter boy at the restaurant we at at on River Street also.

Thanks for all the "stick up their ass" American Family Association for turning me on to "The Book of Daniel". A show I would have never heard of if it weren't for all the publicity surrounding it. I may actually watch it now. And speaking of stick of their ass...

And thanks to D4L for this great little number.

Gurl shake dat laffy taffy
Dat laffy taffy
Shake dat laffy taffy
Dat laffy taffy

I'm lookin fa Mrs. Bubble Gum
I'm Mr. Chik-O-Stick
I wanna (dun dun dunt) (oh)
Cuz you so thick
Gurlz call me Jolly Rancher (Oh)
Cuz I stay so hard
You can suck me for a long time
(Oh my god!)
Gurl dis ain't no dance flo'
Dis a candy sto'
And I'm really geeked up
And I got mo' dro
I pop, I roll
It's soft I know
It's da summer time
But yo laffy taffy got me froze (oh)
Gone get loose (oh)
Gone get low (oh)
don't be shy
H** I'm Faybo? (oh)
I kno' you wanna ride
You a star and it shows

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07 January 2006

We were gonna do dinner and a movie tonight but the line for Brokeback Mountain went down the street and around the corner. We waited for a while until they announced it was sold out. We walked down the street and got into the car and drove away. Cops and ice cream will have to suffice tonight.

Yesterday, I worked diligently on my "Schenectady" pages. One day I will finish.

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09 January 2006

Yesterday I thought I might just be having some sinus problems but I think I might have a full blown cold, the first in a while. I may not make it through the whole day at work.

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11 January 2006

Samuel Alito is getting pounded with questions about abortion. Every Supreme Court nominee gets pounded with questions about abortion. It seems like they could spend all day asking him relevant questions about constitutional law and not touch abortion. Don't get me wrong, I know abortion is a hot topic and always will be but it seems like that's all people (or all people with money, hence influence) care about. Maybe if crime and punishment were hot topics, we could do a lot more toward increasing people's quality of life. Again I don't mean capital punishment, which we all know only waste money and doesn't deter crime, but every crime which victimizes someone else. In other words, abortion should only be a small issue in choosing a Supreme Court Justice, not the most important. The Supreme Court should be about freedom and justice. It's things like this why my voter registration card says non-affiliated and has been since I was 19 years old.

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12 January 2006

Hey, I look out the door and I see this today. I'm not complaining mind you, but I'm used to this. It's sunny and 50. It reminds me that we've been here almost three years now. It's mind boggling. A lot of changing and even more mind boggling is the fact it's been almost five years since we lived in Charlotte. I do still love Charlotte but I now consider Schenectady home.

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13 January 2006

We finally got to see Brokeback Mountain last night. It was really good and the end was not at all what I expected. I new the end was sad but I tried really hard not to learn what happened in advance. It reminded me how hard it was in those days and still is in some places I guess. There were some old men in front of us, I guess in their seventies. One of them was somewhat feeble and it was sweet to see how the other man helped him around. That would put them in the time frame of this movie. My aunt was gay and she had the same partner for 30 or 40 years. She lived in Florida and I never saw her much. She died before I could ever have the talk with her. I remember once they were visiting and they were holding hands in public. Two old women holding hands in public isn't such a big deal but I remember my mom saying that she wished they wouldn't do that.

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15 January 2006

Me and my friends were traveling at light speed until we ended up in a gas bubble as miniatures. We then traveled until each of us were in different rooms. I got married but when we were in our room, my wife proclaimed it was time for us to make a baby. I said I thought she knew I was gay. She wanted to make a baby. I woke up really fast.

Wham! Bam! Slam! Yesterday we started out at 52 degrees and rain. By last night, we were down to 23 and several inches of snow on the ground. This morning we are at 20 and we expect to drop more today. I knew winter would arrive.

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16 January 2006

This has been a year of change. I've done some things I'm ashamed of so I think it's time to confess them here. A year ago, if someone would have asked me, Do you like The Nanny? I would have quickly said NO, I hate the Nanny! I can't stand it! I can't stand her!...The past couple of months, I've been catching reruns on TV. I love The Nanny, I confess, I love The Nanny...Another confession, I used to hate Ashlee Simpson. I now kind of like Ashlee Simpson. I don't love Ashlee Simpson, but I kind of like her. I just felt the need to come public and confess. I apologize to all.

Today we felt the need to road trip. We found Kingston, NY and fell in love. We ate at Dallas Hot Wieners. It was good but not what we thought might be inside.

Today is Martin Luther King Jr's birthday. He is one of the greatest people to ever walk this planet.

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19 January 2006

I've put on a bit of weight over the last several months. Besides the holidays, the main culprit may just be the Taco Bell they built within walking distance of my job. I used to come home every day, watch a little TV, and eat a sandwich or some leftovers or something. I may have even hit the deli at the grocery store. But then came Taco Bell. Some people are haters of the Taco Bell, not I. I've always been a 7-Layer Burrito guy, but how can one resist the Grilled Stuffed Burrito? Maybe a Nachos Supreme? Oh, the Mexican Pizza! They all include sour cream, possibly the worst food on earth for you with the exception of mayonnaise. I've been doing good lately though, bringing my lunch to work but I noticed that a Chinese joint is opening right beside my job. Life ain't fair. What's a boy to do? Eat Chinese food.

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22 January 2006

I guess this has been a John Waters weekend. Hairspray, Polyester, and Female Trouble. There was a John Waters marathon last December in IFC and I'm just now getting around to watching them off the DVR. I still think Pecker is my favorite.

The snow is a coming. Yesterday afternoon it was a record high of 61 but then the winds moved in, the rain poured, and the temperature dropped to 40 in a couple of hours. Then it was over. The snow moves in tonight. This winter, and last winter too, but this winter especially, have been warm. There's not even any snow on the ground. We've had a little, but it's all melted. The first two Januarys we were here, it only got above freezing a few times. The snow was immense. Besides the culture shock, the weather was extreme and I didn't think I'd be able to stand it. Today, I feel at home.

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24 January 2006

There's this guy at work who's gay. I feel so bad for him because he's so closeted it's sad. He told me but I'm not supposed to tell anyone. I want to say, "You don't actually think nobody knows do you?" What I should have said was for us to overcome, you gotta come out and live with the breeders. This is one of the nicest people at work and there's not a soul there who's going to give him a hard time. Should I pull him out? We have to end the silent legacy.

I have moved yesterdays snow and some more is coming and am now watching American Idol. Since when did North Carolina's fag population reach, lets say, 75%?

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28 January 2006

I broke down and bought some new boots today. It seems like I go through shoes like crazy these days. It was also time to go through the closet and throw some out. Seven pairs. Some I haven't worn in many years, some just had holes.

I also found a box of stuff (George Carlin would call it shit) put aside when when we remodeled the kitchen. The question is now, put it back in the kitchen, throw it away, or just store it? Some candlesticks, my favorite poem ever by Digby Wolfe, Big Gay Al, mementos brought from Hong Kong from some friends, and the cow magnet board. Can you tell this really isn't a hard decision day?

I discovered the wonderfulness of podcasts this week. My favorite radio show is now available. How I've missed them, so I've done little else with my spare time this week.

Twenty years ago, The Challenger blew up. I remember exactly where I was. It was the same place I listened to my first CD, the same place I learned Rock Hudson was gay and died of AIDS, the same place I took my first bong hit, the same place I watched VH1 on our Astrovision cable service (but no MTV), the same place I watched An Early Frost, and the same place I was wishing I was having some man sex. Didn't get the man sex but got some woman sex though. Blah...

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