This is now the fourth week in paradise! I'm sitting here in my hotel room (in an orange-stripped string bikini panty) eating sushi and fish soup. Some how they gave me the handicapped room. I flew in this morning, went to work, went for a four mile run, and then order sushi to go. This fish soup is very spicy. I saw Sinbad at the Ft. Lauderdale airport. I did take a picture, and I'll be damned if I can get it off of my phone. And speaking of the cell phone, all the pictures I took of the hotel and the Philly Craft Beer Fest are gone, can't find 'em, lost to the great devil of technology. Oh well.

I think tomorrow night I may go see "Watchman" at a theater if I can find one here. And maybe go to a shoe store to buy a new pair of heels. One can never have too many pairs!

For the third week in a row I find myself in sunny, warm Miami Lakes, FL, for work. Its a pretty neat little community. GoogleEarth it (or use whatever map program). From high above, the streets are laid out in a Nautilus shell pattern. That's good for me in that I can run the outer ring and get a good workout. And its pancake flat. I don't think I've ever run anywhere as flat as this place, not even in Indiana. And that's where I was just at. With DST now in effect, I ran in the sun and it wasn't hot.

I think I'm cursed with the worst travel companion ever (I wrote that in my whinny voice). I like to be left alone when I travel. I mean, if I'm reading or working on my laptop, don't bother me, please. (That is unless you're a hot female, then talk as much as you want.)

This past weekend was the Philly Craft Beer Fest down at the Naval Yards. Its part of Philly Beer Week. If you have the opportunity, I highly recommend that you get to one of the 150 events in the region. Good stuff if you're into beer! I was going to load some pictures for your entertainment, but I can't seem to get them off of my phone right now.

Wednesday Weirdness #45

1. What is one thing one of your closest friends does that drives you batshit crazy? I'll use my travel partner for this since I'm on a business trip this week. He tends to say inappropriate things. Not nasty or foul things, but things that just aren't appropriate to the situation. For instance, there was this time a woman we work with just came back from maternity leave. We saw her and her eyes were a bit teary, not crying, but like she had something in her eye. As we were talking to her, I could tell that it wasn't anything significant. He asked her if she was experiencing post-partum depression and was trying to console her. No matter how many times she said that it was just her allergies and that everything was okay, he just ignored her and kept talking about post-partum depression and how she should talk to someone about it. And he's just over polite - almost running to every door so he can open it for everyone, even if he's the one carrying stuff and no one else is. Argh! Maybe I'm just too much of a crab.


2. When buying a new sex toy, what are the features you look for that you absolutely have to have? Haven't bought one in a while, so it would have to be relatively inexpensive, no gaudy colors, flexible, cleanable. I'd love to get a Fleshlight in the Ice color.


3. If you woke up the opposite gender for one day, what would be the biggest downside to that for you? That it would only last for one day. I mean, I had a woman's body, I'd need more than a day to go shopping to buy some really nice clothes, and then I'd need a few more days to really give the body a sexual workout.


4. Do you use curse words in front of children? No, they should hear or use them until they are mature enough to really know what they mean and how to used them.


5. If you were zapped with a laser and turned into an animated character, what Disney movie would you hate to play a part in? Buzz Lightyear. Cool suit and he can fly. What more do I need?


6. How would you react to your partner answering a phone call or text message during foreplay or intercourse? Well, after seeing this video, I don't think I'd mind!!


7. What are three things you want to try doing but haven't yet? (They can be sexual or non-sexual, doesn't matter.) 1. Threesome (MFF, but doesn't every guy? lol); 2. Run another 1/2-marathon, and maybe a full marathon; 3. Brew beer in a microbrewery.

Its 5PM on Monday and once again I’m penning this blog entry from 32,000 ft in the air on my way back to Miami for another week at the company’s plant there. Last week we weren’t sure that we’d be going back, but word came down late on Friday. Most people I spoke with over the weekend laughed at the trip’s timing - a Nor’ester hit the East Coast last night and into today, blanketing Philadelphia with several inches of snow. Other than the plane taking off about an hour late, it really didn’t cause too much trouble. The kid’s in the neighborhood didn’t seem to mind a day off of school.

I hope this week goes better than last week. Last week I spent way too much time after work in my hotel room edging while looking at on-line porn and trying to find a good chat site and then chatting. I slept about 3-4 hours per night. By the end of the week I was exhausted. This week I hope to be more productive and restful. Sure, there will be some “me” time each night, but not to last week’s excess.

I have the “Iron Man” DVD to watch, and I also want to catch up on watching the rest of the episodes of “Neon Genesis Evangelion” on Veoh that I haven’t seen. I started watching the series way back in the mid-90’s when it was only available by rental at a local anime/game shop. Then they stopped renting videos, and I couldn’t find it elsewhere until now that it’s on the web.

I did bring some girl-clothes with me – khaki pants and a white blouse, along with an assortment of panties, stockings, and a couple of bras. I’ll try to post some pictures in my Flickr.com account. You’ll need to be a “Friend & Family” to see the naughtier ones, so either send me a Flickr mail, or let me know your account name and I’ll set you up. I want to buy a new pair of heels for one of these trips, either back at home or in Miami. I saw a cute pair at Target the week before last and I should have picked them up. This week I’m traveling with a co-worker, and we’re sharing a car. I’d hate for him to either see me leave the hotel at night or see me come back and ask where I’m going/have been and ask “What’s in the bag?” Last week they put us in next door rooms; I’m hoping for some more breathing room this week. It looks like I’ll be spending quite a bit of time in Miami over the next 3-6 months.

Last post I mentioned the current issue of “Leg Show” magazine. I brought it with me last week to help pass the time. I hadn’t bought an issue in at least a year. Production quality has really gone down - the pages are thinner, the picture reproduction has suffered, and even the model selection seems to have gone down a few notches. Page thickness is important as photos can be reproduced better on thicker, glossier paper. The photos were not as crisp, some even a bit blurry, as they used to be, and a few pages had ink blotches running down them. Photos used to be glossy and pop right out when I looked at them. Not this time. And then there’s the quality of the photo shoot itself. I don’t mean to sound like I’m objectifying women, and I truly don’t want to do so. However, a men’s adult magazine is supposed to have beautiful models and the combination of the clothes, styling, poses, and photography should accentuate them. In my opinion this issue didn’t seem to do so for the majority of the models. After a long look through the magazine, and really reading the articles, I didn’t use it as I intended. It just sat on the hotel room’s desk for the rest of the week unopened, and I threw it in the trash when I left. One thing that I did notice while reading it is that one can now subscribe to a digital edition. I may have to try this out as hopefully it does not suffer the same problems as the print edition.

What else is going on? Last week I didn’t get a chance to run at all until Sunday. During the week we were at work until late in the evening, then out for dinner. By the time I arrived back at the hotel I was too full for a run, and my attention was elsewhere (see above). This week I hope to get at least two runs in. Philadelphia’s Broad Street 10-Miler is the first Sunday in May, and I’d like to be happy with my run. No personal records this year – after the 8-month recovery of the stress fracture, and the more-recent hernia surgery, I’m nowhere near being in the same shape I was in in 2007 when I set my PR.

From way up here in the plane, the clouds down below look a lot like swirls of mashed potatoes or whipped cream, or even over-frosted cinnamon rolls. No, really, they do. Individual swirls

I started to write this entry on my new cell phone on the airplane on my way to Florida today for a business trip. The phone is the HTC/Verizon XV6900. It does all kinds of neat tricks that PDA/Smart phones can do, but the small touch-screen keyboard makes for lousy writing. So I pulled out the laptop to write more than a few words a minute.

Last Saturday was the homebrew competition. I entered the bourbon barrel porter that I brewed last October, mainly entered it to get the judges’ feedback. Before I brought the samples to the homebrew store in January I noticed that the secondary in-bottle fermentation produced a way over-carbonated beer. This was probably due to a too-short primary fermentation prior to bottling. Not an award winner in my opinion. Anyway, we went to the bar early to drink a few pints and have a few wings. As they started the winner’s announcements, there were lots of alcohol-lubricated cheers for everyone. When they got to my category, no awards for me. “Oh well,” I thought “just as I expected.” We stayed to hear all of the rest of the awards, and as they got near the bottom of the list, I forgot that my beer was not in the “Porter” category, but in the “Wood-aged” category. I was very surprised to hear my name called for 2nd Place! Bragging rights if nothing else. They then said that scoring sheets will be mailed, so I still have no idea how the beer scored. I told my friends that the completion in my category must have been pretty weak for my beer to earn a 2nd place., Here’s the ribbon (if I remembered to post it)


I wrote a while ago about wanting to go on a business trip so I could have some “me” time while at the hotel at night. This trip was a big surprise as they told me about it Friday afternoon just as I was about to go home. If this were going to be a fun trip, I had to act fast. First to the adult book store for the latest issue of “Leg Show” (more about that once I’m at the hotel and have a chance to read it. I browsed the DVDs, but nothing really caught my eye. (And that’s a story for another time.) Saturday was a busy day with other activities, including the homebrew competition. On Sunday I as able to find some time to get to the mall for some shopping. I was looking for a pair of those over-the-knee socks and anything else that may have caught my eye. Macy’s had them, but instead of white athletic socks, they just had heavy cable-knit socks. I looked at a few other stores and couldn’t find any, so I opted for a couple of pairs of panties from Victoria’s Secret. I almost bought a pair of bright-colored tights, but opted not to.

On Monday I stopped at the mall during lunch, and again found nothing of interest. So I packed a few old DVD/s the new panties, a few pair of the old, a couple bras, a pair of white pants and white short-shorts (better to show off the brightly colored panties), a garter belt, and some stockings for the trip. And I did pack some male work clothes too.

At the airport this morning I shopped for some lotion or bath salts, but really didn’t find anything of much interest. I wanted some oatmeal soap, or at least some cocoa lotion, but they had neither. I almost went for some strawberry-scented lotion, and realized that I needed to get to the gate. Maybe in Florida I’ll be able to find some.
I’ll post some pictures in my Flickr account (just ask if you need help seeing them as the naughty one’s will be only for Friends and Family).

Greetings citizens! Just to let you know, I'll be traveling for work this week (Tuesday thru Friday) and I may find myself with lots of spare time in the hotel room in the evenings. So if you're not too busy, I'll probably be on Yahoo messenger, screen ID JanCD66.

In preparation I did buy the new issue of Leg Show magazine (for the articles, really!) and a couple new pairs of panties from Victoria's Secret. I wanted to get a pair of over-the-knee socks, but the only ones I could find were the thick cable-knit wooly kind, so I'll have to keep looking. And I almost bought a pair of Hue neon-colored tights, but I was in a hurry and the check-out line was long. Maybe this afternoon I can get out to the mall to try a few other stores, or to the adult store for a new DVD.

American Apparel. The latest store I'm lusting over. Lusting over again for the millionth time more like it. Browsing their women's clothes on their website just drives up my lust factor in a huge way. Now I know what you're thinking, even for a crossdresser, those clothes are just out of my age bracket (i.e., non-college aged). Yet I lust after them none the less. Who cares if they aren't age-appropriate when I'm in my own house? Maybe the reason for it is that when I see those sexy clothes on those comely models, I just want to wear them to experience the feeling of wearing them. I'm no where near having the right body type to pull off wearing them.

So what's got me so hot and bothered? Over the knee socks. Not as alluring as sheer stockings, but I imagine that they feel delicious. And they give a different look to a woman's legs. I need a pair (or three). I could wear them under jeans or pants and no one would know the difference. Then there's the mesh body suit, the shiny body suit (in black), the mesh running short, the tiny running short, and the shiny hot short (in black again). Not for outdoor wear for me, of course (but I might try if I were somewhere far away). And I could go on for a long time about getting into their bras and panties. Just amazing.

Not much going on these days. This afternoon I'm at home just catching up on a lot of things and having some "me" time before having to go out with friends tonight. If I had planned my afternoon better I would have gone out shopping for some new women's clothes. The sales these days can't be beat and all of the nice pink & red frilly things are out for Valentine's Day. A few new pairs of satin panties would be the perfect thing right now. And I'm still lusting after a new pair of heels. Anyway, this afternoon its just me, a few of my favorite clothes, and my computer - surfing for porn and trying to chat with anyone to pass the time.

Thanks for the well-wishes everyone. I'm feeling better everyday. Most of the swelling is gone, but the incision site is still somewhat sensitive and knotty (for lack of a better term). Sex of any kind is one thing that I'm anxious to get back to. Not having any kind of action for the last two weeks is driving me insane. I've been horny all the time for the last week, and I'm starting to feel like I can actually have some fun, either alone or with another, to get some relief. Watching videos and pictures on the Internet only adds to the tension. And chatting with another while watching does it even more so. (If anyone wants to chat, just let me know. I'm jancd66 on Yahoo.)

And the urge to go out and buy some new panties, hosiery, and shoes is also mounting. Although I don't think I should go shopping until I have an orgasm or ten else I'm bound to both buy every sexy thing I find and possibly cum in my panties while shopping. I'm that horned out! I was reading this post over at The Panty Drawer about him buying a new pair of heels. I'm ready to go buy new shoes!! And I just lust over Nine West's. Maybe this is too pervy for you, but I not only love to put them on my feet, but slipping my cock into the toe of a nice pair of leather pumps (open or closed toe) and cradling my balls in the heel just feels so wonderful. A women's size 8 offers just the perfect snug fit. Strappy sandals or slingbacks are great too as I can tie them tighter around everything. The only thing that is better is if the shoe has been well worn by a woman. Knowing that my cock is in the same place where her heavenly foot has been is almost enough to get me off with no hands. The best feeling is when receiving a footjob when she's wearing sandals - she can put my cock between the bottom of her foot and the inside sole of her shoe, or I can snug the tip of my cock into her toes and the shoe sole. And if she's wearing hosiery, that opens up a lot of new possibilities!!

Okay folks, enough about writing about how horny I am, and now to take matters into my own hands and do something about it!

Just a quick post for today. You probably noticed the new layout. It was time for some refreshing. I also cleaned up the blogroll to the right. If you noticed that something is missing, your blog is under the wrong heading, its not there, or you want it to be, just drop me a comment.

This past week has been a strange one. I had inguinal hernia surgery on Monday, and my lower right abdomen and groin have been swollen and sore. Not so bad today (Friday), but Tuesday was icky. The doc prescribed oxy-contin with APAP for pain. I'd never taken the stuff before, but I knew that it was addictive. The drug info sheet also said it could cause nausea and constipation. So I just took half a pill on Monday evening, and then two other halves on Tuesday. That's all I could stand. It was making me too nauseous. I don't know how folks get hooked on this crap. Then the constipation (no need to say more).

I did a lot of reading and TV watching (boring). Yesterday I spent some time on the internets and had a nice chat with a friend. One book I read was "The Buzzard" by John Gorman. Its about the glory days of WMMS, The radio station of the '70's and early '80's. I grew up in northern Ohio and listened to the station when I was in high school and while at home in college. It was tops. Since then, the station's been nothing like it.

HELP: Anyone have any idea how to change the font size and line spacing for the blogroll?

Hey kids! Just letting you know I'll be out of the blogsphere for about the next week. No need to panic just yet. Don't forget your towel.

I've been working on remodeling the blog, so that's my lame excuse for not posting since last week. Blogger has a lot of new features, and the blogroll needs a vast pruning. Hopefully it won't be too long until I'm done.


WW #39

1.) Do you drive with your hands at 10 and 2 on the wheel? Usually so when I'm driving around town or on the highway.


2.) How long do you keep cards given to you on birthdays and holidays before throwing them away? If you don't throw them out, what do you do with them? I save the funny ones, and lately any that make sounds/play music. Especially if they are the Hoops & YoYo variety!


3.) If, when you die, you could will any one of your characteristics to your children (child/future children), what would it be and why? Determination. Just because someone says "no" doesn't mean that I can't do it.


4.) What is the best personality trait you got from your mother and the best personality trait that you got from your father? An eye for fashion from my Mom. She has a pretty good eye for it. From my Dad, being very accepting of others, no matter their lot in life.


5.) What is something that you wish you had a better understanding of? Using the different types of hops, malts, and yeasts for brewing beer. There are a lot of varieties out there, and not every combination makes a good tasting beer. Its a complex science and the best way to learn is by doing. I just need more time!


6.) What makes you nervous? Needles. And being near very beautiful women. I mean, if I were near bloggers like Maureen, LeDemure, Aughra, KK, Amorous Rocker, Sabrina, to name a few, I'd be a nervous wreck - anything I say or do would (in my mind) always be the wrong thing.

7.) What is the strangest household object that you have ever or would ever use for help in masturbation? Probably melons would be the strangest. Just cut a hole of sufficient diameter and plunge right in!


8.) What do you have sitting on the countertop in your bathroom? Toothbrush in holder, face soap, and hand soap. I don't like clutter.

I missed a few Wednesday Weirdnesses so here are the last two:

Wednesday Weirdness #38: Hypothetical!Questions

1- Times are hard and you get laid off. You turn to the adult entertainment industry and decide to get into sexing it up on camera. You're now a porn star. Even though you now do porn for a living, you still hold on to a little morale, ethics and dignity. What are 3 things, sexually, that you rule out as absolutely not happenings no matter the amount of money?
1) An all-male scene. I don't think I'd mind working intimately with another male as long as there were a few women involved.
2) Tongue in ass. Licking around it is fine, sticking it in is not.
3) Working with anyone under 21 or a relative.
4) And animals, blood, or scat.

2- Pretend you spent a busy day running errands and come home in the afternoon when no one else is home. You come in, sit things down and head to the kitchen. You find a dead body laying in the kitchen floor. What would you do? Call the police. And hope that the cause of death wasn't due to eating something in the refrigerator that I should have thrown out long ago. Or start roasting that leg of lamb to serve to the cops when they arrive (know where that came from?).

3- After some extensive testing, scientists found out you have a special supernatural skill that could be put to use to save 20,000 men and women all over the world. The only catch is after you use it, you will die. If you don't use it, 30,000 people will die but you'll still be alive and won't suffer any illness or strange side effects of your special supernatural skill. Are you willing to sacrifice your life for 20,000 people? Ouch! The tough question. Not knowing who those people are makes it easy to not sacrifice myself. However, knowing that they will die makes it very difficult to refuse. I need more info!

4- You are at a concert. A fight breaks out and the person in front of you gets hit by the person beside you. They turn around and think it's you and no amount of reasoning will convince them otherwise. They are taller by several inches and outweigh you by around 50 pounds. You are about to get punched and possibly manhandled. How do you get out of it and avoid injury? Run like hell! I'm not much of a fighter, especially over something as petty as this. I mean, me fighting them isn't going to accomplish much.

5- You're having a dinner party with your close friends. One close friend asks if it is fine if they bring a date along. You ask your friend if their date is someone they trust to act well mannered and respectful to others. Your friend sings the praises of their date and you agree to let them bring their date to the dinner party. Once there, their date turns out to be crude, obnoxious, disrespectful and all around a real vile ass to be around. Do you tough it out and later apologize to your other guests? Pull your friend aside and tell them to reign in their date? Confront the friends date about their vile behavior? I'd call the guest out in front of everyone. Sometimes embarrassment is the best way to deal with crude behavior.

6- You go to the grocery store and bump carts with a woman. She gets angry and chants at you in gibberish. She smiles, informing you that she has cursed you to never have sex again unless you pay for it. You roll your eyes and walk off. 2 years later and you haven't had any sexual contact with another person since that day. Do you start paying for sex or just never have sexual contact with another person again? I'd go back to the store to find her and marry her. That way she'd either have to lift the curse or also go without sex.

7- Your really good friend is going to their grandmother's house for dinner and invites you along. You make sure it is fine with their grandmother and she says to come along if you like, she has made more than enough food to feed you too. You go. While there, you accidentally break something extremely valuable to your friends grandmother. Do you hide it and pretend nothing every happened or come clean? I'd fess up - its not cool to lie to a grandmother!


Wednesday Weirdness #37:

1. Why do you keep a blog? Two reasons: 1) To write about things on my mind that I can't express in other places. Crossdressing and sexual fetishes aren't exactly topics for dinner conversation, at least with the friends I have. 2) To keep a list of the blogs and other websites that I like to read. I also figure that the people that read my blog might like to check out the things that pique my interest.

2. Who is one long lost blogger you wish would come back? I wish Dark Lady would post more. And that Johnny Rat would re-open his blog so I could read it. And that Footman would re-start his old blog. Ooops, that's 3!

3. If you made a New Year's Resolution, did you break it already? If you did not make one, why? No resolutions for me. I stopped making them years ago.

4. People who still have their outside Christmas lights up. Festive or Lazy? Discuss. I still have some up outside - just some strands of white lights on a tree in the front lawn. I think it looks nice to keep the lights on during these dark days of winter.

5. What is the last annoying song that got trapped in your head? The Wii music from the Wii Play and Wii Sports games pop up in my head way too often.

6. Have you ever worn or tried edible underwear? What are your thoughts on it? Nope, not yet. The though of being able to eat something that she's been wearing does sound attractive. It would depend on what its made of. Hopefully not like the dried fruit strips. Maybe the candy necklace type.

Bonus: If you could do one bad thing and get away with it, what would you do and why? Wear white in winter! Seriously though, I'd love to spend a whole week with a domme.

TMI Tuesday #169:

1. On a scale of 1-10, how satisfied are you with your sex life? It's at about a 6. There's definitely room for improvement. Frequency is what's lacking, and time is the one thing that is most needed to increase it. I could also use a good lengthy dose of "me time" - just time by myself to masturbate and dive into crossdressing for a longer length of time. There's nothing quite like sitting down and looking at a few new porn magazines (like Leg Show), looking at porn on the Internet (xhampster, RedTube, VoyerWeb, or any of the various links on the right) or on DVD, and masturbating. One new site that I just found is Fantasti. It has videos and a decent chat room. Chatting is another thing I like to do while stimulating myself, either in a chat room, in Yahoo chat, or even on the telephone. Part of the attraction is just connecting with someone else during such an intimate time, and the excitement of interacting with a new person.

Anyway, what I really need is a business trip to take me somewhere for a few days. I'd be able to take my girl-clothes, some of my porn, and have some fun at the hotel. Once I'm at my room, I'd strip off my clothes and take a nice warm bath with some scented soaps, apply some scented lotions, and then dress up in a new pair of stockings, garter belt, string bikini, and bra. If it were near dinner time, I'd then put on a pair of women's jeans, a not-too-feminine button-down shirt, a low pair of heels, and head out for dinner or, more likely, shopping! Shopping is always fun. Its always interesting to see of the saleswomen notice that I'm wearing women's clothes. If they don't, they usually ask "What size is she?" or something similar. If they do notice, then they are either much more accommodating ("Let me help you find something to go with that.") or they just ignore me. Either way is okay by me. Then maybe to a coffee shop, again to see if anyone notices my clothes. One sure way to get noticed is to wear higher heels, or to wear a tighter shirt, or wear a shirt or pants that are obviously women's.

Then back to the hotel room. I'll take off my shirt and pants, leave the lingerie on, and put on a sexier pair of heels. Then out comes the laptop and any magazines I've brought. I'll page through them while on-line in a chat room or watching a DVD, edging for hours. If I have my camera with me, I'll take some pictures (let me know if you have a Flickr account and I can give you Friends & Family access to those pictures - hopefully you have some too).

2. If someone shoves you up against a wall while kissing you, your reaction is? "Why isn't her hand unbuckling my belt and pulling down my pants?"

3. What is the most romantic thing anyone has ever done or said to you? "Take those pants off now!"

4. Where is the most unusual place you have ever had sex? Nothing out of the ordinary for me yet. Although Costa Rica was the most exotic.

5. How do you liked to be kissed? Long kisses with lots of tongue.

Bonus (as in optional): Most embarrassing sexual moment? It would be the few times of premature ejaculation. Nothings worse than cumming before either of us wants me to.

Please excuse the lack of posting lately. My Mac has been malfunctioning and is in the shop. The time away has given me some time to think about where this blog is going. Any feedback on the things you like or dislike is appreciated. Do I go off the deep end of pervdom? Go to the other end of the spectrum? ??

Merry Christmas!!

Hope everyone out there in Blogland had a great Christmas. Ours was very good - too much food (mmm, and I do love the left-overs!), and presents for everyone. This year we did a bit less than usual, and luck was on our side to make it better.

A couple days before Christmas the running club had a Prediction Run - you guess the time it takes to run the course, and whomever finishes closest to their time wins. I had never run the course before, the distance was an odd one, and I've been running inconsistently lately, so I just guessed a bit longer than the guy next to me before the race started. I ran with another guy in the club for a most of the race until the cold got the best of me and I started slowing down. I finally reached the finish line thinking I was way past my guess. Well, as luck would have it, I was the closest in the whole club, so I won a new pair of running shoes!

On another blog I saw a contest for the funniest Christmas story, and the winner would win a one-of-a-kind tote bag. I entered the story of our Christmas tree falling over after we finished decorating it just a few days earlier. Again, I didn't think too much of it. And again, I won! So my snookums got the bag for Christmas.

Hopefully your Christmas was just as fun and memorable. Have a safe and Happy New Year if I don't post in the mean time.

Blah. Nothing exciting to post about today, so here's some un-exciting news:

I just found out that the Stoogeum is just a few miles away from where I work. Its a Three Stooges Museum. I've been living here all this time, drove past the road its on a thousand times, and never knew it was there. That will have to change!

I need to have a minor surgical procedure done in January to fix an inguinal hernia. I had it fixed when way back when I was an infant. I think it is pretty much in the same place as its under the scar. I'll have to take pictures of the old scar before the repair and the new scar after its healed for all of you.

Still not sure what I mean? Did you ever see "Sixteen Candles"?

Long Duck Dong: "I love visiting with Grandma and Grandpa, and writing letters to parents, and pushing lawn mowing machine so Grandpa’s hyena don’t get disturbed."

Mike: (laughing) "Hernia."

Do you have a good eye? Try The Eyeballing Game to find out. Or maybe Robokill is more your speed. And then there's the more abstract Auditorium.

Not much else to report on today.

Blogrolling help? I use the Blogrolling.com service to store & sort all of the blog links over on the right. However, they're upgrading their site, and, while doing so, they've cut off access to everyone's account. So that means I can't add new blogs or delete blogs that have gone silent. Is there another similar service? How does Wordpress handle lists of links? Any suggestions are appreciated.

Hey Johnny Rat, send me an e-mail if you get a chance.

Jessica suggested I write about my dreams. Thanks! for the suggestion, Jessica. My first thought was about the dreams I have at night. They are something to write about for sure. Anyone I've ever told them to wonders what kind of drugs I'm on (just OTC antihistamines) as they are pretty strange and vibrant.

Then I realized she was asking about the other kind of dreams, as in what would I want to do or who would I want to meet if I had the chance. In a world where money didn't matter, I'd love to be someone that works with their hands - an auto mechanic or carpenter, or a brewer or baker. I like the physical work of creating things and the mental work of figuring out how to do so. I'm an engineer by degree and profession. The aspects of the job that I really like are equipment installation and start-up. That's when I get to get my hands dirty taking things apart, putting them back together, de-bugging, and then see them run. However, that's the smallest part of my job. Most of the time its paperwork - writing reports, purchasing, calibrations, giving or receiving training, etc. Stuff that saps the life out of me. But it pays well and I'm fairly good at it.

Anyway, here's Wednesday Weirdness #32 for you: WW #32

1.) If you knew one of your close friends was cheating on their significant other, would you get involved? (EX: Tell their SO, try to talk to your friend about it, etc) Why or why not? I would talk to my friend about it. That's what friends are for - to help one another in a time of need. All of my friends have great SO's, and I would not want to see their relationships split.

2.) If your SO was cheating on you and one of your close friends knew, would you want them to tell you? Why or why not? See #1 above.

3.) Have you ever stuffed your bra or underwear to make the size of your breasts or penis seem larger? I've tried stuffing the bra a few times, but it just doesn't feel nice. I mean, I like the feeling of wearing a bra, and the stuffing takes away some of that feeling.

4.) Would you sleep with a friend's significant other behind their back if it were guaranteed you'd never be caught? No, too much respect for my friends to do that.

5.) Do you think you are more intelligent than your significant other? In some ways yes. If you just looked at our high school grades, I came out on top; college grades, she beat me by a mile. As the stereotypes go, I much more mechanically inclined, more logical, more "data driven" than she. She's more process oriented.

6.) Do you ever fantasize about cheating on your significant other? Are you ever tempted to really go through with it? No. The first question would be "With who?", and I can't really say that I can think of anyone that I would want to cheat with. And the second question would be "Why?" and I have no reason to want to. Now watching a porn movie or picture and thinking "I wish I were there" - sure, I've fantasized about that. And I'm more likely to be hit by lightning that for that to ever happen.

7.) Have you ever had cyber sex, text sex or phone sex with someone other than your significant other during a relationship? Cyber and phone - yes. That's one of my weaknesses. When I start masturbating, I feel the need to talk to someone, and that is usually when I'm on the road traveling. She doesn't really understand the phone/cyber thing, so I either go to chat room or call a phone sex operator.

8.) Would you cheat on your significant other twice monthly for half a year to have all your debt permanently erased? No, I don't have any significant debt.

BONUS! Have you ever fantasized about having sex with any blogger friends? Would you be daring enough to reveal five of them? Hmmm, there are a number of them that I would love to, and see #6 for the likelihood of that happening. Do I want to reveal them? I think they already know who they are! If not, ask again and I'll let you know.

The lack of posting has been mainly due to the Great Muse of the Blogsphere not visiting me often enough. Life hasn't been static, I just haven't found the interest in posting about it.

If you look to the horizon just after sunset towards the west this week you'll see Venus and Jupiter in a vertical line, and the crescent moon close by.

There was a blimp near by a few days ago about 150 ft up. Its kind of neat to be standing underneath something so big and silent just floating in the air.

If anyone has some questions for me, please feel free to post them!

WW #30
1.) Have you ever taken your clothes off for money? Not yet, and I'm cheap. So send me a few bucks and I'll send you a nakey picture.


2.) Are you a morning person or a night owl? In college I was a night owl. I studied much better after about 9PM than any other time of the day. These days I'm a morning person only because I have to get up to go to work.


3.) Do you take any kind of medication daily or regularly? If so, what? Zyrtec for my allergies, a calcium supplement, a fish oil supplement, and a multi-vitamin every other day.


4.) Do you ever have naughty thoughts about any of your friends significant others? Hmmm, not yet. I guess I either know them to well or I'm not attracted to them.


5.) What are your favorite comfort foods? I'm a victim of my chocolate love! Then there's beer, warm bread and brownies fresh from the oven.


6.) Would you rather direct a porn or star in one? Star in one, but I don't think I'd be 'the' star. I'd be the slave to the starlette. Or possibly be in something like(NSFW) this or maybe even this. Yeah, kind of pervy, but that's how it is.

7.) Have you ever seen a "donkey show"? Would you ever be interested in seeing one? Ewe, yuck. Never, no way.

8.) On a scale of 1 to 10, how gullible of a person would you say you are? I'd say a 3, unless there's a beautiful woman trying to sell me something (i.e., well dressed, perfumed, make-up, stockings, hosiery, heels), then I'm more of an 8.

WW #29

1.) When was your last visit to an emergency room? What happened? I was 5 or 6 years old and was playing on my Grandma's swing set after it rained. I was hanging and swinging from the top bar and slipped off, breaking my wrist. Off we went to the ER. I don't remember much about what happened there. I wish I could remember more about the day-to-day events of my childhood. I spent some time in the hospital for something else and don't remember much, other than the taste of the breakfast cereal they fed us (I was in a common ward for kids). It was a hot cereal, similar to but not oatmeal. I can still taste it - best stuff ever.

2.) Who do you look more like: Mom, dad or another relative? I have my Dad's nose and jawline, and Mom's eyes, hands, and feet.

3.) What sounds annoy you? The sound a serrated knife makes when it runs against metal. The bubbling sound the fish tank makes at night if I don't remember to close that room's door.

4.) What are three movies could you(or have you) watch(ed) over and over and still love? Star Wars, Sixteen Candles, Blade Runner.

5.) Do you ever wish you were someone else? As a crossdresser, I've thought about that many times. It would be neat to have a woman's body from time to time. I'd have a much easier time buying clothes!

6.) What do you think of when you think of Paris? The cardigan sweater my parents got me when they went there when I was in the 3rd Grade. I wore it all the time to school that winter.

7.) What's the last sporting event you watched? The Penn State game last Saturday at a brewpub. I entered the chocolate stout that brewed last year into a homebrew contest and went there to see the awards. Well, they said the awards would be given out between 4:30 and 5PM. I've never been to a homebrew contest that gave out awards on time, and I was bottling the bourbon barrel stout that I brewed a couple weeks ago, so I figured I'd still be early arriving at 5:30PM. Nope, too late. They had given out the awards and left. So I did the next best thing - had a burger and a few brews at the bar and watched the end of the game. Later they sent me an e-mail saying that I won 1st place in my category and that they'll send me my awards. Yahoo!

8.) What do you think about sexual Role Playing? I have a roll in it and I love playing! Ha! No, seriously, I'd love to do it but she's not into it. So I do it when I call the phone sex line.

Another Chocolate Post

Have you ever eaten cocoa nibs? These are the seeds from the cacao tree that are used to make chocolate. Until recently I never had. I unexpectedly got some from Tcho a couple weeks ago and had to try them. They were smaller than I thought, about the size of small pebbles. The looked like chocolate, and they really smelled like chocolate. They weren't really meant to be eaten as they were, but in the name of discovery I had to try them. Popping a small handful into my mouth, however, I found that they didn't taste exactly like chocolate. Not in the way peanut butter tastes like peanuts. They were kind of bitter, and my first impression was a taste of hops (as in the hops used to flavor and preserve beer) with an earthy chocolate side taste. I mean, the chocolate taste was there, it just wasn't right up front. They are good for cooking, so I'll find something to add them to in the future. And I think they will be a better addition to brewing a chocolate porter or stout than using unsweetened cocoa powder.

I also tried the Citrus sample that came with the nibs. Another dark chocolate that's right on the mark for a dark chocolate, but I didn't really taste any citrus flavors right away. That flavor, more of an aroma, came out after the residue had been in my mouth after I swallowed the bite. That bar was good in that it didn't have a burnt taste that some dark and bittersweet chocolates have, and it wasn't overly sweet like others. All in all, a good chocolate!

Wednesday Weirdness #28

1. If you were in a situation where it was either starve to death or resort to cannibalism, would you resort to cannibalism to stay alive or let yourself starve? I'd starve. Even reading about it skeeves me out.

2. Do you know all of the words to the National Anthem and The Pledge of Allegiance? Almost all for the Anthem, and all of them for the Pledge. My college's Alma mater - most of them.

3. Do you consider yourself a leader or a follower? Depends on the situation. At work I'm more of a follower. With family and friends I'm more of a leader.

4. What is your most favorite holiday? Why? Thanksgiving. Its always on a Thursday so there's a long weekend afterwards. And it all about the food! I'm salivating already...

5. In what ways, if any, are you superstitious? I'm a creature of habit, so missing something in the routine kind of throws me for a loop. Er, well, that's more OCD than superstition.

6. If you had to pick a creature from the Mythical Creatures Guide to be your pet, which would you choose and why? I'd go with the Changeling. It could be any pet I'd want depending on the day.

I was one of the 2 million+ folks at the Phillies World Series Championship Parade on Friday. Well, I should say that I was part of the crowd as I didn't actually see the parade. We arrived at the train station about 2-1/2 hours before the parade was set to start. Train after train after train blew by the station, full of people from further up the route. The newspaper and radio told everyone to take regional rail, and this time everyone listened. From what I heard the roads were empty. Anyway, we finally boarded a train at about 11:20 only to arrive in Center City Philly about 20 minutes after the parade had past. So we just walked around to be part of the crowd. Here are some photos of the day. The trip home was mostly standing in line for a train for 2 hours, then being packed like sardines in the train.

From After the Phillies Parade

From After the Phillies Parade

From After the Phillies Parade

From After the Phillies Parade

From After the Phillies Parade

From After the Phillies Parade

From After the Phillies Parade

From After the Phillies Parade

From After the Phillies Parade

From After the Phillies Parade

From After the Phillies Parade

From After the Phillies Parade

From After the Phillies Parade

Phillies Win the World Series!!!!

Homebrewing Update: Last Friday I took the day off to homebrew what will become a Bourbon Barrel Porter (with some vanilla). This is the first time I've tried this recipe and also buying the ingredients from Northern Brewer. The ingredients were top-notch, and I recommend you try them if you're going to homebrew. Basically, I make the porter with the kit ingredients. The "bourbon barrel" comes from the Maker's Mark bourbon I bought and the 2 oz. of smoked oak cubes that came with the kit. While the beer in the primary fermenter (a 7 gallon plastic pail with a lid and airlock), the oak cubes are soaking in 8 oz. of bourbon. Next week I'll transfer the beer from one pail to another (the secondary fermenter) and add the oak cubes & the bourbon in which they're soaking, and one cut-up vanilla bean. I might add 8 oz. more of bourbon. That will sit for at least a week, maybe two, then I'll bottle it. I'm expecting it to be ready for drinking around the New Year, and it will get better as it ages. (The chocolate stout I brewed last year is really getting better with age - I just don't have much left!)

Running: I've been running about 4.5 miles two to three times a week, and did some speed work at the track earlier in the month. I ran a 5K last Sunday and improved my time by about 45 seconds. I'm happy with my results as its showing that I am getting back to where I left off before the stress fracture. The race on Sunday was the same race from last year when I realized that something was really wrong with my leg.

Wednesday Weirdness #27

1.) As an adult, do you do anything for Halloween or is it jut another day? We do decorate the house a bit and put on scary music/sound effects while passing out candy.

2.) Do you ever dress up for Halloween? What will be your costume this year? We really haven't gone to a Halloween party in a few years.

3.) Have you started Christmas shopping yet? When do you usually begin? Sort of. I started thinking about what I'm going to give but I haven't bought anything yet.

4.) Do you look people in the eye when talking? Does it bother you when people don't make eye contact during conversation? That depends. One thing that bothers me is when the other person has a lazy eye. I mean, which eye do I look at? Are they offended that I'm looking back and forth between the good and the lazy eye? I also have trouble looking at women that I have a thing for in the eye. There's this girl at work that I've crushed over since I met her. We talk occasionally about work and stuff, and I just have a tough time looking into her eyes - I just start to melt. Same with the girl that I see at races at all the time.

5.) What excuse do you usually use when you want to take a day off work for no real reason? I don't think I've ever had to come up with a reason. I just tell my manager that I'm taking the day off.

6.) How often, on average, do you find yourself thinking about sex per day? The question should be "How often do I find myself not thinking about sex?" And the answer would be "Not much!"

7.) What company makes your favorite brand of shoes? What makes them your favorite? I have Doc Marten's and Sperry Topsiders that I wear all the time. The Doc's are comfortable, and the Topsiders (not the plain old deck shoes) are the preppy thing to wear. (Yep, I read the The Official Preppy Handbook as a teen). For running, I wear the Brooks Beast. I'm not a heavy runner, I just need the support that it offers since the fracture. Before that it was Asics all the way! As far as women's shoes go, I do love Nine Wests!

8.) Do you ever save alcohol bottles once they are empty? I do have a small collection of beer bottles that have either a strange shape or patterns in the glass.

9.) Do you enjoy musicals? "Maria. I just met a girl named Maria." Some I do, some I don't. Don't get me started on "Xanadu".

Back to Beer Basics

On the way home from work yesterday I was listening to this story about beer short-servings on NPR, which was based on this blog article. Apparently, some establishments are using glasses that aren't holding 16 ounces and still calling them "pints". The Wall Street Journal also did a column about this earlier this year. "What's up with that?!" to be colloquial. If the menu says "pint", serve me 16 ounces of beer. Or at least add a disclaimer like they do at McDonalds. I used to think draught beer was more economical. If I order by bottle, at least, I know how much is in it.

More importantly, which presidential candidate will address this issue?! Is this an "elitist" issue, or one for "Joe the Plumber"? Is this a "hidden tax" that can be eliminated (or propped up?) by a socialist regime? Are they just going to put lipstick on it and then find some way-better looking & acting comedienne to bring it to our nations attention (Tina Fey really does have a better stage presence)? (Don't ask me where I'm going with this, I'm just rambling.) Is this the Red Tide of Communism's way making its way back into our country? Is this what makes some parts of our country "un-American"? I say its time to stand up for our rights as tax-paying, of-legal-drinking-age, non-drunk-driving, drinking-responsible citizens and fight back to get what we paid for.

Its been a weird Wednesday so far - the very windy weather we've had since yesterday is playing all sorts of games with the power lines. I'm running around like a headless chicken trying to keep things running.

WW #26: Wednesday Weirdness- Happy Birthday Edition

1. Is there a particular birthday that you are dreading (ex: 40th) why? No. Actually my birthday is on Friday and I've already past 20, 30, and 40. No worries here on this one.

2. What is your favorite birthday memory? The one that stands out the most was when I turned 22. I was in college and we just had a big Physical Chemistry exam in the evening. Most of the class went out to get pizza a beer. It was getting late and my roommate and I decided to leave. On the way out, he "casually" mentions to the group that it was my birthday. D'oh! They pulled me back in, lined up the shots of various liquors, and I proceeded to get pretty damn drunk.

3. What was the best birthday present you ever received? The worst? I'll pass on this one as nothing in particular sticks out in my memory. However, since it is my birthday on Friday, you could send me a picture or two, nudge, nudge, wink, wink, grin, grin - and I'll do my best to make the most of them!! And I'm taking the day off to brew beer.

4. Frosting roses: Love them or hate them? Depends on what they're made of: butter cream - yes; Crisco and sugar - no!

5. Do you like when people make a big deal out of your birthday, or do you prefer a quiet or no celebration? I prefer smaller celebrations to big ones.

6. Surprise parties; Good or Evil? Good! I like a good surprise every now and again.

7. Bonus Question: Over at Casa ASM, it is traditional for the birthday boy or girl to get carte blanche in the bedroom that night. Who and/or what would you choose for birthday bedroom carte blanche? See yesterday's post.

Pervy Thoughts

I recently found my way to the Public Disgrace site (definitely NSFW). The idea behind the site is "women bound, stripped and punished in public". The preview clips show scenes of women being tied up in various positions and having a lot of different things done to her by men and women while in very public locations or staged scenes with many people. I don't really care for the scenes that were shot in public locations. The look on the faces of the people that weren't part of the cast go from complete disgust to complete enjoyment. Which to me is a distraction from the action going on between the cast members.

I do like the scenes where everyone is part of the cast. One of the videos is at a house where a dinner party is going on. The girl that is the object of the party is brought out in lingerie while everyone is dressed. She has to accept anything that the guests care to do to her. In one scene she's bound, put on the table where everyone is eating, and the various guests stimulate, slap, and abuse her as they wish. Everyone is obviously having a good time.

This is where my pervy thoughts come in. I'd love to change places with her! The story would start like other fantasies that I've posted - I'm out shopping for women's clothes and I'm caught by one or more women. They proceed to verbally humiliate me in the store and then lead me away to some house where there's other people gathered for the dinner party. They bring me in to the house secretly and take me up to the bathroom. They disrobe me, make sure I'm shaved completely from the neck down, then dress me up in the clothes I've just bought. They lead me down to the party on a leash with a ball-gag in my mouth, and have me serve the guests. At first they laugh at me and verbally humiliate me. I'm forced to kiss and lick the womens' feet. Later they become more physical - groping and fondling, and exposing me. As in the videos, this eventually leads to me being tied up or suspended in various positions while the women fuck me with hand-held and strap-on dildos and vibrators. I'm blindfolded and forced to suck cocks. Eventually after everyone has had their way with me, I'm tied up in some odd position, a strong vibrator is put in my ass, the women put their feet on my face and body, and then I'm forced to cum while everyone watches.

Yep, pervy thoughts for Monday. Any of the women readers want to share a picture or two of your feet, in heels or not, with me?

TMI Tuesday #156 - Foresight

1. What do you do that sends a clear signal to your partner that you're interested in an intimate evening? If we're on the couch watching TV or reading, I'll grab her legs, put her feet on my lap and give her a foot & leg massage. If we're in bed, copious amounts of me fondling her gets her attention.

2. How important is foreplay to an exciting evening? Very. I like the long and drawn out kind of foreplay. The kind that starts with some nuzzling and kissing as we're getting ready to go out for dinner to build excitement.

3. What is the first thing you do during foreplay or what is the first thing you like done to you? As mentioned in #1, I like massaging her feet and legs. That usually leads her to using her feet on my dick. And that always feels good!

4. Are you a one and done kind of partner (20 minutes or so) or do you like intimacy sessions longer than 60 minutes? The longer the better!!

BONUS: If you are interested in sex with a same-sex partner, what would be the first thing you'd like to touch on that other person, and why? (For those already in same sex relationships...what was the first thing you touched, or if you were interested in a relationship with the opposite sex, what would be the first thing you touched?) I'm not in a same-sex relationship, nor have I ever been. If I were, then it would have to be our dicks. I mean, I don't find the same body parts attractive on a man as a woman.

All is well, the Blogrolling.com site is back up and running (sometime Saturday I think). Move along, do not panic.

I read that someone has hacked into the Blogrolling.com website. Can I scream now?
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All of my links were there. Hopefully they will come back.

In the mean time, please leave a comment here so I can get back to your blog. Also, anyone know of a good Blogrolling substitute?

Wednesday Weirdness #24

1.) Do you think you're approachable? No. I'm a quiet sort of person that doesn't talk too much, and I think people that don't know me take this for arrogance. Conversely, if I'm out running I almost always get stopped by somebody asking for directions. Sometimes that can be a bad thing - during one run I was so wrapped up in the run that I gave out the wrong directions.

2.) Out of the two, would you rather be able to predict things before they happened or be able to read minds whenever you wanted to? Why? I'd rather be able to predict things. I mean, some thoughts are just not meant to be read.

3.) Have you ever kissed, fooled around or slept with an ex significant other AFTER you were already broken up? No.

4.) Do you believe dreams are your imagination running wild as you sleep, your subconscious showing you what's really on your mind or something else entirely? A bit of both and other things. I dream in color, and my dreams almost always have people from one time/place in my life mixed with people/places from other times/places. Things are familiar, but not exactly the way they should be. Like last night. I dreamed I was at college and at my current age. As I walked through campus, I noticed that they were building huge new dorms. The strange thing was that I was at one end of campus and the new buildings were way at the other end, although they appeared to be just behind the buildings in front of me.

5.) How often do you use cuss words? Does your use of cuss words vary on your moods or situations? Very little, and usually only when I get hurt, e.g., stub a toe or hit my finger with a hammer.

6.) Do you ever purposely lead people on so you can get what you want? No, I'm pretty open about what I want.

7.) When was the last time you did something you told yourself you wouldn't do? What was it? Remember that post from last week? I'm trying to forget it.

8.) If you could meet one musician who is no longer alive, who would it be? Mozart. I'm not sure the movie did him justice. I love his works - I can tell he was very full of life while composing them.

Haven't had a lot of time lately for blogging, so here's what's been going on lately:

Running: I ran three 5K's in the last two months. My times are averaging around 25 minutes. I can wish they were better as my best 5K time from before the tibia stress fracture was about 22 minutes. I know that consistent training will eventually improve my times, and my training has been anything but consistent lately. The first 5K in September was on a hilly course, so I was pleased with a time of 25:10. The next one was 9/27 on a very flat course, and my time was 25:17. I felt like crap that day for some reason. The third race was the next day on another hilly course, and my time was around 25:06. Lots of work to do...

MBA: Over the summer I studied for the GMAT as I'm planning to apply to a part-time MBA program this fall. Studying took a lot longer than I expected, and it really opened my eyes to how rusty my math skills have become since college 18 years ago. I took the GMAT last month, and my score was about what I expected, just above average. The toughest questions were in the data sufficiency category. A mathematical expression is given, then two more that might help solve it. You have to figure out if the first is sufficient, but not the second; if the second is sufficient, but not the first; if either is sufficient; if neither is sufficient; or if both together are needed. That's where I had problems in the practice book, and I'm sure that's where I faltered at the real test.

Anyway, now its on to the application process. There are three schools in the Philly area to which I'm applying, LaSalle, St. Joseph's, and the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. My GMAT score is above all of the schools' average GMAT, it just my undergrad GPA that I'm worried about as it was slightly below a 3.0. One of the programs I'm confident that I'll be admitted to. The other two are stretches, as near as I can figure, as they require an essay and letters of recommendation. I've started on the essay and need to ask a few folks for the recommendations. And hopefully my employer will still pay my tuition when the time comes.

Homebrewing: I'm getting that itch to homebrew again as I'm down to about 12 bottles of the last batch I brewed over the last Christmas vacation. I'm thinking of a bourbon barrel porter. I found the recipe on one of the many brewing websites. Instead of fermenting in an actual bourbon barrel, oak chips that were soaked in bourbon and some bourbon are added to the wort during the second fermentation. I read that a few folks also added a couple vanilla beans in there as well to add another complementary flavor. Mmm, that sounds good!

WW #23

Okay, so I'm a day late for Wednesday Weirdness. Here I go:

1.) Have you ever purchased an item of clothing and intentionally worn it with tags on it so that you could return it the next day? Nope, never.

2.) Would you rather be late to the party, or the first person to arrive? Why? I'm usually the first person to arrive. When the invite says "7PM", I'm there at 7PM and everyone else shows up at 7:45PM. I'm just a very prompt person. I guess the impression my Mom made upon me when I was a child stuck - she was never early or on time for anything, even church on Sunday.

3.) When do you usually begin your Christmas shopping? The beginning of November. Any earlier and I'd get those gifts confused with birthday gifts.

4.) What three cancelled tv shows do you wish they’d bring back? "Geeks & Freaks", "The Adventures of Pete and Pete", and "Johnny Sokko".

5.) What do you have in your vehicle's glove compartment? Insurance & registration papers, owner's manual, a few pens, and duct tape. I try to keep my car uncluttered.

6.) Have you ever donated blood? No. I'm a bit scared of needles and blood. I'm sure they'd have to pick me up off of the floor if I ever did.

7.) Have you ever kissed or dated someone else's significant other? What happened? I did kiss a married woman once. It was one of those things that seemed to be a good idea before it happened and turned out not to be. It was a few days before I moved from Indiana to Pennsylvania and she was taking me home from a bar where the folks from work took me out to have a "going away" party. I should have taken a ride with one of the guys that lived in my apartment complex. I had enough to drink that just did what I wanted to do without thinking about it. We're still e-mail friends, but its not the same as before.

8.) Have you ever mistaken one product for another while in the bathroom and didn't notice until after you used it? (EXAMPLE: Washing your hair with liquid body soap, slathering hand soap on your legs instead of lotion after a shower, et cetera) I'm sure I have at some time or another.

9.) Would you/Have you ever dated someone who had a criminal record? I haven't, and in the future it would depend on the crime. Murder - no; shoplifting - ok; tax evasion - no; drunk driving - maybe.