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Jul 6th
Well, the last few days have been interesting.
On the 3rd, I was feeling down because I haven’t been talking to Chris much the last couple of days, and I was being overly paranoid and crazy about it. I miss him. I have never felt so much for someone and to have them leave was very sad. I really don’t know how to deal with it, so my pirates have been fighting a lot lately. Maybe I need to see a counselor?
Anyway, I texted Chris that I wanted to hear from him more and that I felt like he wasn’t putting in the effort, which he took as me not believing that he truely cared. I know he does, I am just going through this emotional episode that I have never experienced before. So, we had our first fight where he hurt me pretty bad. I got off the phone with him and felt like SHIT! So, I was still going to go with Beth to Players (the La Crosse gay bar that I like downtown) and have a drink and play some pool.
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Must See
Jun 28th
So, I have been watching a lot of movies lately and wanted to suggest a few to the masses. I will list what I have seen and what I think you should see of those.
A little movie from the here! network called Shelter. Awesome movie and everyone should watch it!
National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets. Not a bad movie, if you like Indiana Jones, you will like this one.
Be Kind Rewind. I thought that this movie was going to be WAY funnier than it actually was. See it if you want to kill some time and you don’t mind OK, unrealistic humor.
George Carlin It’s Bad For Ya. See this but be warned that it was filmed at the Wells Fargo Center in Santa Rosa like 3 months ago before he died and the first part of his skit is about not being dead yet.
George Carlin Jammin in New York. Watch this one. It is funny and you can see how as much as things change over time, it also shows how much hasn’t changed in about 15 years.
I’m pretty sure that is it. Of the above, I highly suggest Shelter over the others.
Life
Jan 16th
Life is so strange sometimes. People that you once hated, can become people that you are in love with. Things that you used to look down upon can become your norm. 2008 has definitely thrown my life a curve ball. I don’t even know where to start.
Time and new places obviously change people. I could not have imagined this person that I have become in just the last 2 1/2 months. I have become a very social, outgoing party person where I throw parties and drink often. I am in no way an alcoholic, but I am more open to all these situations.
Again….
Jan 15th
I am single. Kohl and I broke up today. I wanted him to stay here and be friends with him, but he doesn’t want to. I will miss him when he is gone, but in the end I think that it is for the best for both of us. He deserves someone better than me that enjoys the same stuff as he does and will love him how he wants to be loved.
Good luck Kohl, I still love you.
Sometimes….
Dec 12th
I hate gay people. The following (taken from a gay guy on LiveJournal) is why;
“I brought my car in for service because the sunroof was making some noises. I brought it in yesterday at 7:30a, and they didn’t even start looking at it until 4p yesterday.
The people at Bob Smith BMW also aren’t very friendly nor helpful, yet they remind me to give them a 5 when the survey people call me. Right..
Anyways, since I bought my car there, I also get a rent-a-car. They gave me a free upgrade because I was friendly, and I’m driving a huge Dodge SUV. It’s like 3 rows long and man its hard to park that beast.
I don’t like the car. No heated seats. No automatic wipers. No temperature gague for outside or automatic climate control. No iPod adapter. No leather. The list goes on.”
WTF?
Very good read
Apr 22nd
If you have a good couple of minutes, I would suggest that you read this artice:
Why do straights hate gays?
An 72-year-old gay activist isn’t hopeful about the future.
By Larry Kramer, LARRY KRAMER is the founder of the protest group ACT UP and the author of “The Tragedy of Today’s Gays.”
March 20, 2007
DEAR STRAIGHT PEOPLE,
Why do you hate gay people so much?
Gays are hated. Prove me wrong. Your top general just called us immoral. Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, is in charge of an estimated 65,000 gay and lesbian troops, some fighting for our country in Iraq. A right-wing political commentator, Ann Coulter, gets away with calling a straight presidential candidate a faggot. Even Garrison Keillor, of all people, is making really tacky jokes about gay parents in his column. This, I guess, does not qualify as hate except that it is so distasteful and dumb, often a first step on the way to hate. Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama tried to duck the questions that Pace’s bigotry raised, confirming what gay people know: that there is not one candidate running for public office anywhere who dares to come right out, unequivocally, and say decent, supportive things about us.
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The Return
Oct 11th
Well, we are back from Disneyland. I had 133 E-Mails when I got back, wow! I made a “Beth Challenge” page at the top for Beth to guess where the pictures were taken, because it was in an area of Disneyland that I had not seen before.
Well, the first day of the trip we got there at 8AM (too bad Disneyland did not open until 10AM!). Everyone had to pee, so we stopped at the Paradise Pier Hotel and used the rest room. I called my mom to check in and she let me know that the computer was bit working right and it sounded like the hard drive had died! After that we drove to our hotel and tried to check in with no luck. After that, we drove back to the Micky and Friends garage and parked, rode the tram to Downtown Disney and walked around before entering the park.
We were there for opening (this NEVER happens) and we were able to get our Annual Passes processed in no time. We ate breakfast and made the rounds. We left a 1/2 hour before the park closed at 8PM and went to the hotel to sleep (we had also left earlier in the day to check in). The beds were hard, the room was crappy (if only that were the only issues with the hotel!).
Wednesday was another full day at Disneyland from the opening! It was fun. All the days blurred together, so it is hard to separate them.
Friday was the first day of Gay Days. Kohl and I wore red and Laura wore her hag shirt (see pictures at the end of this post). There weren’t too many red shirts in the crowds as Gay Days did not officially start until Saturday. We did head on over to the Disneyland Hotel to the Gay Days information center and get some official Gay Days swag (again, see the pictures). It was great!
Saturday, WOW, all the gay people. Laura got to tell off some homophobic guy in the line at Rancho del Zocalo, it was great! Lots of bears though. It was fun. I have never felt so comfortable with being so out as I was in Disneyland, not even the Castro makes me feel that secure about it. I loved it. Kohl didn’t as much. He was done. He was having issues with seeing all the other gay people holding hands, etc and we weren’t. Anyone that know me knows that I am not a touchy feely kind of guy.
Sunday, we only had a one day, one park ticket for Charise, so we spent the day in Disneyland and we massively hit all the rides in a mad dash at the last minute (as per usual). We hit all the ones we wanted on that day, except for Casey Jr, but we rode that one earlier in the week. We stayed until closing and Charise and Laura did some “Main Street will remain open for an additional hour for your shopping convenience” shopping. We went back to the hotel all tired and ready for bed.
When we got to the hotel, the key didn’t work! We went up to the office to see what was up. Apparently, we did not book the hotel room for the full trip, we were a day short. Well, our stuff was still in the room and we needed to get it and stay another night. We asked what the rate was and he said that it was $79. We decided that we needed to go to a different hotel and check out the pricing, etc. We went to the good ol Super 8 that we usually stay at. It was only $54. We checked in and went back to the Alamo (the original hotel) and were informed that we would have to pay the late checkout fee of $10/hour for every hour after checkout. Well, this would have been $130, so we checked in there for another night (only $79) and were not happy about this at all! We got out crap and checked right back out. We had a great nights sleep at the Super 8 and will never stay at the Alamo ever again!
The next morning, we slept in and checked out. We drove to the Paradise Pier and got directions to Burbank where we were going to go and see Jay Leno. On the way, I called Kevin and got exact directions to the Tonight Show studio and we got there in like 20-30 mins. We parked and started waiting for tickets. After about 30 minutes, a nice lady next to us let us know that tickets were on sale at 8AM until they are all gone, and the box office was closed now.
We left the studio and started our trek to try and find Hollywood. We took the wrong way on the freeway and after a few wrong turns, we stopped at a Quizno’s and ate and got good directions to Hollywood. We finally got to Hollywood and walked around the “Walk of Fame”. It was fun. We were done there and started home.
We got home around 11:30PM and I spent until 4:30AM trying to fix my mom’s computer. I finally went to bed. In the morning, I got up and started working on it again. I called work around 12:30 to tell that that I would not be in because I needed to get her computer running. As I was doing this, I realized that I was supposed to be to work at 12. Oops. I guess nobody noticed, or else I would have gotten a call.
I finally got her computer running and then I spent the next part of my day catching up on my TiVo shows and looking at all the pictures we took and uploaded then to Flickr and wrote this post.
That should do it for now. Have a good night everyone!
Here are some pictures from the trip:
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