Monday, February 19, 2007 1:15 AM

ok ok here is the Egypt trip. Too many photos too little time to make all nice so they are ALL here.

Sunday, February 18, 2007 9:17 AM

snowboarding in Mammoth mountain with Johnn. Finally learned how to carve and not scoop ten pounds of snow into my nostrils. Really fun really nice and another lesson in be nice to the homo behind the counter and voila the "room not to be had for any reason since its a holiday weekend and you made the wrong reservations and the 800 number and web site said no no no...suddenly appears." . Voila. board all day today drive back unpack work tomorrow pack and then off to a mission in the Philippines so updates will be attempted. key word attempted.

Wednesday, February 14, 2007 11:54 PM

so from a batting cage to a muscle boy party at my house to Dim Sum with Wine-o-ass, to Santa Anita Racetrack. The boy has been busy. Photos here cuz you dont wanna hear bout it.

Thursday, February 8, 2007 11:32 AM

SO she had a headache. Not too bad but bad enough for her parents to bring her to the clinic and that's where she passed out. When she came into the ER she was minimally responsive only to pain. She had spontaneous bleeding into her head and then we basically had to drill two holes in her forehead to relieve the pressure. The term "going Medieval" never seemed so appropriate. While we may be making great nanostrides there are procedures that are remarkably primitive.

I think we did a pretty good job explaining everything to a pair of shell shocked parents.

Yet another signpost on my road that screams "Don't worry about it. Get over your issues because baby why waste your time."

A sweet boy and I over margies made our arc of:

Phases of loves labor lost:

Meeting

Getting to know each other (coffee, hiking date) flirty

Hanging out

Having fun (sex)

Just having fun (you having sex with other people too)

Seeing each other (first month or two of dating)

Dating

In Love

Boyfriends

Having time for each other (ie NEVER seeing your friends except when you are together. Canceling plans with others if you can not be together UNLESS the other person gives express approval for your alone time)

Needing time on your own (reaction to Having Time for each other)

Weekends away (reaction to Needing time on your own)

A road diverges here into

a) open relationship with arcane rules only known to the participants involving trips out of town, area codes, zip codes, lunar eclipses.

b) Time Apart followed by more time apart followed by separate ways followed by pining (think fjords), FB ex-sex, FB ex-date, FB realizing why you broke up, go to #1.

Or you can just be communicative and skip all this and be happy.

Friday, January 26, 2007 12:22 PM

Memories of Hawaii

More things I have learned:

1) LOOK behind you even when pulling out of your USUALLY deserted cul de sac street ($2,000)

2) Apple scripts for managing Itunes playlists are brilliant. this site has great scripts. All hail Doug and give the boy some green he deserves it. Life savers if you absolutely HAVE TO HAVE a one button solution to create a random playlist by genre, parse that down to one song be each artist AND then copy itself from itunes to a SD card. (> 10 hours)

3) Meet with your ex to check in. (> 1 hr), not sleep because you still are tender over it (> 2 hrs).

This should be fun. I feel totally at ease in a leather bar. I am so not their type so its like a girl at a gay bar. I can drink spend time with friends and pee on people.

Thursday, January 25, 2007 11:44 AM

Things I have learned:

1) Airport Client Monitor is the best way to walk around your place and see how your signal is coursing its way through your house and body. Great to determine where to place your wireless routers. Amazing how I did not know this until now. When setting up airport express do it when the base station and express are in the same room preferably inches away from each other THEN move the sucker somewhere else. NEVER touch your airport express's after setup and working. EVER EVER. And if some PC hack shows up and wants a connection send him to the mac store. (>18hrs total)

2) Hooking up your Treo to an Audi requires that you move all your numbers to your favorite buttons (front screen hit down arrow on the big circle middle control and "edit favorite buttons choice) AND REMOVE the hyphens in the numbers. otherwise the treo resets incessantly. Then the numbers with names shows up on the middle screen on the dash. (>6hrs)

3) going on "dates" after a breakup is not fair to anyone.

4) If you have to negotiate anything do it after a night shift when you are cranky. (>$300 saved)

5) Pay attention to bandwidth charges on blogs (>$600, thanks possums)

that's all. from me to you.

Wednesday, January 17, 2007 10:10 AM

Well a morning at home finally. I feel like I have so much life maintenance stuff to do but I would rather be concentrating on the BIG questions. I have never or rarely gotten into the groove of job, love, life. Its always been uneven good one area bad another. Do I seek out or cause this instability?. I truly believe that a little chaos forces creativity and growth but balancing that with the great feeling of coming home and seeing the same person and having a routine is tough.

From the Bad Headline file:

LA Times: "Freeze hits consumers in the navel"
By Sharon Bernstein and Jerry Hirsch

CNN.com: "Cancer deaths drop for second year" ed: Like flies were they dropping like flies?

And what is up with the "Story Highlights" at the top of each story. IE DON"T READ THIS STORY instead read the cliff notes. As a writer I would be insulted.

Some very nice people have done some very nice things for me lately. I am very thankful. Verily.

Saturday, January 13, 2007 4:25 PM

Well it was 28 hrs of pure travel. My patient was a great Scotsman (tattoo of crest and all). He had a bad infection with a partial collapsed lung so had to take care of him and it worked out well. Its funny spending that much time traveling with someone you never met who is sick and going through all the thoughts sick people get (vulnerability for one). So its a little medicine a little therapy and a little travel agent. You try maneuvering a few bags, walker, medical equipment all through the airport crowds.

In Manchester at the Lowry Hotel. Highly recc this place. Quick walk across river and there you go right in downtown The British here seem less worried than Londoners and that is from a FULL half hour of observation. And sometimes I LOVE being gay since of course I know someone who actually works for the British Tourist Board who knows somebody who works for Manchester Tourist etc so drinks tonight with some new people. If you are gay and half a personality you should be able to know someone of somebody in any city over 10 people. If not get on it.

Thursday, January 11, 2007 9:18 PM

Its a new year. New Car.(old car 162,000 miles and 10 yrs so I was a little overdue but miss the anti LA feel of driving a beat up car BUT I do like the new Angeles inventions like airbags.),New Bike. (old one unfortunate fight with pole) Living alone again. Got the big broom out and sweep sweep sweep.

I am single again. Some times the right thing to do is the right thing to do. Sometimes the right thing to do...... Rinse repeat..

I am flying to Manchester UK to drop a pt off spend the day, do some tea and there you go.