tinplatedhero

I'm settling in even more to Atlanta. Got a bike, since the Chatahoochee trails are so close. I'm working on a regular rock climbing routine and I've got a regular Friday night hangout at The Shelter, which I'm slowly starting to make some friends at. A little more time and I should be settling in even more nicely.

Random insight about surviving graduate school.

When someone--or a group of someones--is using the carrot-and-stick method of motivation on you, and he or she is being particularly hard with the stick, the secret is this. Realize that while you might like the carrot, it's not essential to your life. And all of the sudden, the stick has far less power.

They have completely, and totally...
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I guess I should update this thing more often. It was nice while it lasted, but I'm back to my usual situation again.

Yippee...

I am a giddy schoolboy right now. If I could scream, "She likes me! She really likes me!" I would.

"Get busy living or get busy dying"

I'm so fucking tired of watching, listening to, and hearing people fucking complain about everything from their weight, to their jobs,. to just everything about their lives, and then doing NOT A GOD DAMNED THING to change it, and then complaining more.

Fuck you. Go do something and then come talk to me. I've seen the worst life...
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I sort of want to punch my sister and this is just further reason why I should have never added any member of my family to Facebook. I got a new tattoo on my left shoulder and bicep, and said something about it on Facebook and how my arm felt like it was on fire.

She asked me if it really hurt and why I'd...
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Oh my fucking god, I missed driving my car.

She's a bit older, but she's got the heart of a sports car. And this is how I describe how she handles 0-60 in about 6 seconds with her 240 horsepower. When I stomp on the accelerator, she climbs into the driver's seat, straddles me, puts both hands on my chest, and slams me into the...
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Ah. That's where you've been hiding.

It's so good to have you back, Lust.

It's been an interesting last few days.

My ex-wife, whom I'm still very close to, has been in Tokyo for the last several months. It's been a great experience for both of us, and then when the earthquakes hit, it became difficult, but we learned an awful lot.

You see, our relationship was defined by a series of incidents where something would happen, and I...
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You know how it's said that men reach their sexual peak at 18?

I'm not sure I believe that. Maybe for other men, but not me. At 41, my brain is still firmly working like that of an 18 year old, and my body seems to respond just fine, although it seems like the chances for that to be with another person are somewhat slim...
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A friend of mine in Vegas let me know that he as a $1000 a night suite for a weekend available and asked me if I wanted it. For a while, I lamented about going, because I'd be by myself. And then some people (from around here) and elsewhere pretty much punched me and said, "you're whining about having the money to go to Vegas...
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I really like the concept of Miss Right, but sometimes "Miss Right Now" would be sort of nice.