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[Redball]

Jeez, from all you've written recently, probably not boring. Tumultuous?

[Zingoleb]

...maybe

I send some to friends, too! Like when I make a silly face.

I'm boring

hay ladeeez

[nekowafer]

hay ladeeez

oh heyyyyyyy

Tumultuous is a good word for it. Still more boring than not, though.

[Redball]

I lead a kind of quiet life. I can't say it's boring, but it's a little depressing as a widower, often hard to be productive, so I sit too much. But if I had fairly frequent moments of great tumult, I wonder if I wouldn't think the periods in between were boring.

[Jimmy the Squid]

I'm heading to america for some fun times in October. Looks like I will be in NYC for hopefully about a week (and other places too) and I was wondering if any of the americans here would have any advice on cheap/clean places to stay in NYC. I'm cool with hostels but my partner is very adamant that we get a private room and don't have to share bathrooms and such.

Help me out, internet dudes and lady-dudes!

[Carl-E]

I've only stayed in NYC once, for my honeymoon.  My father was working as an industrial consultant on a job there at the time, and was staying in the Gramercy Park hotel, paid by the company.  He went home every weekend, so we had a free weekend in the Gramercy Park hotel. 

It is not chap, but it was amazing...

[Lines]

The one time I went I stayed at The Latham which was...okay...but they've renovated since I stayed there. My room didn't have a shared bath, but I have no idea if private baths are still a thing or not, you'd have to contact them. The location was pretty convenient - it was pretty close to the Empire State Building, really close to a subway, and within reasonable walking distance to a lot of places, including Greenwich. 

[Welu]

Getting tattooed today in a few hours. EEEE!!

[Patrick]

Recently (this weekend, after an accidental episode of drunken makeouts) I've been talking to a girl I have known on and off for 2 years, and every time we talk I wind up finding another thing about her that I like. It's really nice, because I don't generally click on a personal this easily with people, let alone the opposite sex. And I'll be honest, there's that exhilarating butterflies thing going on, and it feels pretty nice.

Not sure how well this whole thing is going to fit in with my plans to permanently avoid romantic type stuff though. I've already told her that I'm not ready for much of anything, and that I doubt I'll ever be. But she lives in SF, goes to SF State, has plans to study abroad for a semester as well as travel abroad elsewhere for fun over the summer. So I really don't have much to worry about right now.

I don't like being conflicted like this. I've been straightforward about things, and I don't see my perspective changing anytime soon. But I do actually kinda dig this gal, and if I were in a better place/mindset for it, I'd be down to give her a shot.

[Akima]

I'm going to a Cinco De Mayo barbecue/party tomorrow (a co-worker lived in Mexico for many years and married a very nice Mexican lady). I confess that I didn't even know what Cinco De Mayo was about until I read it up on-line when I received the invitation, so I don't know what to expect, but I'm sure it will be fun.

[dr. nervioso]

From what I understand it involves mexican food, tequila shots, and margaritas

[Mister D Nomms]

I just had car sex with a swarthy mexican guy, so my Cinco de Mayo celebration is fulfilled.

[Zingoleb]

my respect for you just shot way up

I got a violin! And band practise was awesome!

[Barmymoo]

I really want to go to Sissinghurst, but I can't find anywhere reasonably priced to stay I decided I don't want to go to any of the summer balls this year, so I'm going to take the money I'd have spent on that (£65 for my college one, more like £125 on other colleges') and use it to do something fun. I have to find somewhere to sleep on June 19th anyway because I get thrown out of college for the ball. I could just go sleep on a friend's floor in another college but I really wanted to get out of Cambridge.

But nowhere near Sissinghurst costs under £70 a night and most places say minimum stay of two nights during summer. So. Boo.

[Patrick]

I'm never playing another gig alone as long as I live. I have never had less fun with music in my entire life than I did playing solo today. Yesterday was exactly the opposite, we rocked out and had a blast, but today seriously blew fat dicks all across the board.

[The Seldom Killer]

Barmy, you could always camp.

[Barmymoo]

I did think about that, but I don't have a tent and I don't know that there's a campsite near. Anyway it wouldn't really be a lot of fun camping on my own. I'm not really a tent person these days.

ETA: Aha! Just did a bit more googling and seem to have found a B&B 40 minutes away by bus which costs £40 a night. I will have a think.

[Zingoleb]

I know I've recommended it a number of times before, but have you tried Couch Surfing?

[Barmymoo]

Considered that too, but I don't really think it's for me. I value my privacy and I want to sleep in a real bed, in a room with a lock!

[Zingoleb]

I've gotten that from couch surfing, though!

[schimmy]

I'm trying cough surfing for the first time ever in a few weeks! Once I've handed in my final ever university essays, I'm going to Scotland for a little while with my girlfriend. It's very exciting!

[Barmymoo]

I kind of want to do a grownup thing of "I want to go to this place" *chooses date books hotel books train tickets*. I've never actually done that, it's always been based on dates and places other people have at least had input into, if not chosen for me.

[Zingoleb]

Kinda like my half-planned trip to go to Boston in July!

[Redball]

ETA: Aha! Just did a bit more googling and seem to have found a B&B 40 minutes away by bus which costs £40 a night. I will have a think.

Is the B&B in a town with some potential for exploration? Shops, sights, etc.?
I like the thought of going off on your own, booking your first trip. Those experiences for me are too long ago in the past to recall, and I'm not sure they were special, remarkable.
Does it add new meaning to "rite of passage"?

[Welu]

Had a late birthday dinner with my family and my boyfriend and his parents last night. Da's birthday was yesterday too so had a twofer celebration. Place was super busy so spent ages waiting on food but everybody clicked so didn't feel like a terrible wait. My Mammy realized when we got there she forgot the cake. Then later in the night one of the waiters came up to us with a cake and we got all confused and kept asking him where it came from but he said he didn't know. He was very sure it was for us though.
Another waiter told us a woman came in with it and pointed at our table and Mammy guessed it was from one of her mates.

Then we realized the cake was meant for the table beside us, also having a birthday. At this point we'd already ate half the cake. All had a good laugh though and the restaurant quickly made up a new cake for them and we have a story about accidentally stealing a cake.

[Redball]

That's not the first time I've heard of that. Can't remember if it happened to a friend or acquaintance, or as part of a sitcom plot. Both, I think.

[Barmymoo]

Haha excellent! Was the cake really specifically decorated or did the restaurant get away with it?

[Carl-E]

Did itr say somethi9ng specific like, "Happy Birthday, Grampa"?

[Redball]

No clear memory. The hazy part says it did have some specific, like perhaps the waitstaff figured the family who'd ordered the cake wasn't going to show up.

[Lines]

Sorry to be a bummer, blog thread, but today was a bummer kind of day. About two weeks ago I found out that a guy I've known since middle school died due to a bad reaction to some medication. The past two weeks have been pretty surreal and it didn't really hit me until I got to the service that he was actually gone. This was the first person in my year that had died, so pretty much the service was a high school reunion gone bad. It was awful. But the service itself reflected Will's personality - he had an amazing sense of humor and his friends and family shared that with everyone and I think he would have liked what they did. But it's still hard to think about how I'm never going to see him again and laugh at his jokes.

[Patrick]

The kind of service a person leaves behind speaks volumes of the kind of person they were. Sounds like you were quite lucky to know him. I'm sorry for your loss <3

[valley_parade]

Sorry to hear, Linds.

[Papersatan]

Went to goth night at the dance club tonight.  Had people telling me to go all year, finally did.  I had a great time, even though I was not dressed for it.  It was more people than in my home goth club (thanks college town? ).  I', gonna try to go again, but dress for it.  I didn't realize I was going to go tonight. 


PS very drunk as per see above. 

[Jace]

This bascinet looks great, got to add just a bit more padding before practice Wednesday, then just hold onto it long enough so that the Barony will let me buy it off them.

Only things left for my kit are a coat of plates, demi-gauntlets, and spaulders/pauldrons.

[Patrick]

I taught my first legit guitar lesson yesterday! It was a little awkward at first since I used to be romantically involved with my student (and I don't think either of us ever quite got over it), but I got over that feeling pretty quickly for the sake of the lesson. She did try to flirt with me a little bit (old habits die hard I guess), but I was able to rein that in easily enough and redirect attention back to learning. At the end of the lesson, she knew a C maj scale. Not bad for a beginner student and a n00b teacher after their first lesson. Especially considering our history 

Maybe I am cut out for more than I give myself credit for.

[Barmymoo]

I'd say that was a definite!

Blog thread, I am feeling slightly irritated by two things. First, my neighbour is giggling loudly with someone. I don't feel I can be too annoyed about it because last night my friend came over and we watched (and sang along to) Mamma Mia until just before 11pm, but it is still a bit distracting.

Secondly, last term I gave my friend my old bike. I have a new one, and I was going to give it to a bike recycling charity, but she needed one. She just posted on facebook "does anyone have a bike I can borrow tomorrow?" and I am now wondering what happened to the one I gave her. I don't know why this is annoying me really, but it is.

[Redball]

Would it ease the annoyance to ask her if the one you gave her "was stolen or something?"

[Zingoleb]

I taught my first legit guitar lesson yesterday!

This post made me open a new tab and look up how to give a guitar lesson. When I got to "How to give a g," Google was suggesting "How to give a guy head." 

[Lines]

Google didn't give me anything for "how to give a g", so that's something someone has been looking up on that computer! Hooray for cookies.

[Zingoleb]

See, I know it's not me. I don't need no online guide for that shit, dude's aren't that complicated.

...Hmm...

[LTK]

It's your search engine filter bubble in action, that's what it is.

[Redball]

Aw gee! I get "How to give your ag doll"
a hair wash properly

and then,

"how to give a g"
-spot orgasm

!!

[pwhodges]

Same here - those things are obviously what old men need to know.

Mind you, if you put the phrase in quotes then the dolls vanish from the selection and it's orgasms all the way!

[Papersatan]

"How to give a..."

Cat a pill
Cat a bath
Hickey. 


I don't even make it to second base, what with all my cats...

[Redball]

"How to give a..."

Cat a pill
Cat a bath
Hickey. 
I don't even make it to second base, what with all my cats...

Aw, gee! You left out a letter!

[Lines]

I also got "how to give" -a cat a pill- (didn't use quotes). I also got -minecraft more money-, which is odd, as I don't play minecraft.

[Papersatan]

"How to give a..."

Cat a pill
Cat a bath
Hickey. 
I don't even make it to second base, what with all my cats...

Aw, gee! You left out a letter!

with a final g, no suggestions.

[Zingoleb]

I went on a date with a genderqueer yesterday that included bento in the park, breaking into warehouses and into song, and getting harassed by the police (for kissin' in public, but not for breaking and entering). They read my palm and we told stories.

[Omega Entity]

"How to give a..."

Cat a pill
Cat a bath
Hickey. 


I don't even make it to second base, what with all my cats...

"how to give yourself a black eye"

[Jace]

This bascinet looks great, got to add just a bit more padding before practice Wednesday, then just hold onto it long enough so that the Barony will let me buy it off them.

Only things left for my kit are a coat of plates, demi-gauntlets, and spaulders/pauldrons.

Did not add enough padding, said the guy who got clocked on the dome and had the helmet cut into the bridge of his nose.
Moving spaulders up in the list because I took a wicked shot on the shoulder.