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Its Thursday night and I have lots of time (and porn) on my hands (as well as my cock in my hand). I'm sitting here at my computer doing several things: reading the April issue of "Leg Show" magazine, watching a certain someone's pole dancing videos (thank you!!), watching the porn DVD "Plaid", and surfing for more porn. I'm wearing a brand new pair of panties, Barely There's jeanous in a white bikini, a new Maidenform bra, black stockings and garterbelt. Its going to be a loooong night!!

First, let me talk about April's Leg Show. It is incredible!! Probably the best so far (but don't I always think that of the new issues?). Seriously, it is. On the cover is a stunning Sunny Leone in a pink sweater, black seamed stockings, and pink heels. The look on her face just reaches out and grabs me. She's also in the front cover spread in a very cock-popping pose, as well as the letters pages. The letters are all worth reading. Back to Sunny. She's, she's, she's, ... just too damn gorgeous. Her legs are perfection. Her feet are so nice and suckable. Natural breasts, c-cup. The poses are incredible! Its hard not to stop here and jerk it all off for her. Rating 81.

First up is Ellen, a cute little blonde in blue lacey lingerie and gray stockings. Her poses and looks are A-1, I could easily look only at her to get off. She gets a rating of 68. Paige Richards is next, a Betty Page look-a-like. I really like her looks - long dark hair, curvy figure, pale skin, and feet to die for. The black lingerie really shows off her body well. She excites me, 61. Eve & Lydia are a great pair of women in a hotel room. Lots of legs & stockings, lots of lips and kissing. I'm certainly enjoying watching them enjoy themselves. Lydia 48, Eve 41, total 89. Sally Anne, I've seen her before in Leg Show, and sure enough, I have the issue she was last in. Nice plump legs, pantyhose, and a great smile, 51.

I think I've posted on this rating system before if you are wondering. It has nothing to do with looks, everything to do with how much she's showing off. My top picks for most masturbatable are Ellen, Paige, Sunny, Eve & Lydia, and Sally Anne.

Ok, I've been on the computer now for over two hours. No, it doesn't take that long to type with one hand! There's just soooo much to do tonight!

Its Tuesday again: TMI Tuesday

1. When you are out in public, do you often get hard/get wet? No. I'm pretty good about self-control even when in public.

2. When you masturbate, how long, typically, is your session and what do you think about (other than having an orgasm)? The majority of the sessions are about 20 minutes. However, when I get the time, I like to masturbate for at least an hour, more if possible, edging all the while. I think about the things I'm looking at - pictures in a magazine, on my computer or Internet, or a video - and what's going on in that picture. When I have more time, I like to get all of my girl-clothes out and put on a nice lingerie outfit. The hosiery, panties, bra, and shoes are very sensual and tactile arousing. Couple this with viewing pictures of women's feet, legs, and bottoms also clad in similar clothing really gets me going. Its arousing to imagine being in the woman's presence dressed up and her controlling me, or imagine what it would be like to be dressed in her lingerie, or doing whatever it is that she's doing in the picture/video.

3. What is your most pleasurable intercourse position? Me on top. I have better control of the rhythm, strength, and motion of intercourse than in other positions. Kramer says that its better on the bottom ("Let them do all the work!"), and I think its better for her that way for the same reasons I like it on top.

4. How often do you use the word "fuck" (or its derivatives) in casual conversation - frequently, occasionally, rarely, never. Very rarely. It just doesn't seem to fit in my conversations.

5. Have you ever had a spontaneous orgasm? How when why where? Yes, a few times. All of the experiences were due to a build-up of excitement for an expected long masturbation session. One time I was going on a business trip late in the week. For the 5 or so days leading up to it, I was planning the girl-clothes to take with me, the adult magazines I'd buy at the airport, and even the clothes I'd buy during the trip's evenings. On the day of the trip, before I left my house, I had already put on a new pair of panties, new pantyhose, and a camisole. In my carry-on I had a pair of silk stockings, a garterbelt, and push-up bra. In my checked luggage I had a pair of women's khakis, two blouses, a pair of short-shorts, another bra, several pairs of panties, and a pair of heels. And my business clothes, too. Anyway, after a long flight and driving the rental car, I was sooo excited about getting to the hotel room to "get busy".

I checked in at the hotel's desk, then went to the lobby restroom to put on the women's khakis and heels as I just had to get more female clothing on ASAP, and took off my sweater. As I walked out of the restroom, I had to walk by the lobby bar when a table of women immediately noticed my heels and bra. The looks on their faces really got my heart racing! I got in the elevator with another couple that also got off at my floor. As I walked down one wing to get to my room, I could hear the woman tell the man "That guy's wearing heels and a bra!", which got me even more excited. Well, I got into my room, started taking off my clothes when, boom, I came hard in my panties.

Bonus (as in optional): Post a link to a picture you consider a strong sexual turn-on. Here it is! And here's a better one!

Its Tuesday, and I'm out of ideas for a post: TMI Tuesday

1. What is your favorite charity? Do you you give your time or just money to that charity? In terms of the amount of money donated, my favorite is the parish that I belong to. So far I've only give money. My college's alumni club just started doing public service, and I'm considering participating with it.

2. Describe your bed. What side do you sleep on? Queen size with a wooden headboard that I can't seem to stop from baning against the wall during the wild and crazy sex that is had in it unless I keep my hand pushed against it. I sleep on the right side if one is looking at it from the foot of the bed.

3. How important is a partners kissing ability? Very important. I love to kiss, but we have different kissing styles. I like lots of tongue.

4. Have you ever purposely tried to seduce someone over a long period of time? Other than my current SO, no. I think its tougher for a guy to seduce a woman. All a woman has to do to catch a man's attention is show a little leg, cleavage, or even touch a guy's arm or shoulder, not to mention wearing a nice perfume. Heck, just saying "Hello" to a guy is sometimes enough.

5. Top or bottom? Bottom. I'm submissive, and I prefer to receive. In other meanings, I prefer a woman's bottom to her top.

Bonus (as in optional): Have you ever shaved your pubic hair? Oh yes. I've been trimming and shaving for over 10 years, more like 15.

Actually, there are a few things on my mind. First, is Daylight Savings Time. Waking up an hour early is have some effects. Its been two days and I'm still tired all day. I know this will go away by the weekend. The other is my dreams. I'm not sure if my all-day tiredness is causing stranger than usual dreams, or just that I'm remembering them better since I'm waking up in the middle of them, but they sure are more unusual than the normal unusualness.

I did go shopping last Friday during my lunch hour. I was looking for some new stockings, a new garter belt, and jeans. Stockings - check. Garter belt - nope. They are tough to find. Macy's didn't have them, nor did Victoria's Secret. I did get a new bra at Macy's, a nice 38A black padded one. Vikky's had a new bra/pantie collection, Secret Embrace. They look great, but no bras in my size at the store, and a very limited selection of the matching pantie, which is what I really wanted. Jeans - nope. The Express store I went to only had their new $98 jeans. Come on! I know fashion jeans are in, but there's still a lot of business in the $30-$60 range. The Limited didn't have much to choose from, neither did a few of the others stores.

I may post some pictures at my Flickr site for Friends & Family. Let me know if you're interested.

Strange Link Occurances

Something strange is going on with some of my links along the right column. When I click on some, not all, of them, the link won't work. When I look in the browser's address bar, I see a bunch of extra html code is attached. This code is not in the template. Any idea what might be causing this? I'm far from an html code expert. So if this happens to you when you click on one those links, just look at the address bar and edit what doesn't belong, and you'll get to where I intended the link to go.

Here we go again with another installment of TMI Tuesday.

1. Have you ever orgasmed sitting at your computer? What was the situation? Of course!! Many, many, many times. I'm either stripped down nekkid or in some of my girl-clothes, looking at some pictures or movies on the Internet, and doin' the deed. I need to get a more comfortable chair for doing this.

2. Ever been sexual harassed? What happened? Not that I didn't like it, lol! See yesterday's post about the Philly Craft Beer Fest. That was probably the closest I've been to being sexually harassed.

3. Who is your hottest nerd crush? From the choices given, I pick Milla Jovovich from The Fifth Element. However, there are better that weren't in the list. I've always had a thing for the girls in Dr. Who:

4. Can a man have multiple orgasms? Yes. They are a rarity, and well worth pursuing.

5. Is there such a thing as too much sex? No. Well, maybe if things start to get too sore and raw to make it enjoyable.

Bonus: Have you had sex in the last 24 hrs? No :( "Aunt Flow" is here for her monthly visit.

In Heaven there is no beer...

...that's why I drank it all day long on Saturday. We went to the Philly Craft Beer Festival at the Philadelphia Naval Yard. And what a beer-soaked afternoon it was. We arrived an hour late, and that was to our advantage. When the event opened, the line to get in was about 1/4-mile long. When we arrived we waited about 5 minutes to get in. The event organizers said they capped tickets at 1500 for each of the afternoon and evening sessions, and it looked more crowded than that though. There were so many brewers (~50) with at least 2 selections each, so there was no way to sample all of them. One didn't have to wait to get a sample, although moving from table to table was tough. There was some amazing beer there: Rogue's Chocolate Stout, Magic Hat's Vanilla Porter, and a Rock Art that I can't remember.

There were three things that stood out for me there:
1. The people. I'm a people watcher and this was a great place for it. Sure, there were you stereo-typical beer geeks there - guys that look like they just woke up and put on the clothes that were on the floor from yesterday. But there were a lot more women than I assumed, maybe even more women than men. And the majority of them were very good looking (and that was before the beer goggles went on). The guy in front of me in the food line (man does not live by beer alone) was shamelessly giving his wife a back rub - reaching up under her blouse and down her jeans, occasionally pulling up the back of her thong above her jeans. And the front of her blouse was low-cut enough that she offered a clear view of her attractive cleavage. She wasn't sleazy by any means, just a bit tipsy.
2. Ah, the advantages of being in a crowd. As I was drinking a sample, a 20-ish year old girl grabs my ass and says "Hey handsome, can I squeeze by?" "Yes you may!" I said to her with a smile on my face. Its not every day that a strange girl does this to me, and the pleasure was all mine. I should have offered her $20 to do it again!
3. The ability of Philadelphians, no matter the location or event, to break out in the "E - A - G - L - E - S !" cheer multiple times.

After the session was over, we headed up to The Standard Tap for some eats and more beer. A great place if you're ever in town.

It would have been a great venue for some crossdressing (at least the androgynous look with women's jeans, low heals, blouse, and sweater), but I was with some friends and ran into some other friends that I didn't know were going to be there. At least I had my panties and hosiery on ;)

Okay, I know I said last week that this bog is turning into TMI Tuesday posts, and I don't want that to happen. But (...everyone has a big but) I don't have much to say since last week.

I entered two of my homebrew beers in a local homebrewing contest recently. Before they announced the results, I read my scoring sheets. The first one, a stout, scored pretty well. A few points higher than last year's entry. I didn't think much of it. The other scored far below this. At first I was stunned. I didn't think it was great, but not as bad as it was scored. The feedback is invaluable though. That's why I entered them into the contest. Anyway, I stuck around until the awards ceremony just to see who did win. They went through the first few categories and my "bad" beer didn't place and I didn't expect it to. Then they reached the category for my "good" beer. I was again stunned as they called my name for 2nd Place!! I thought it was good, but not anywhere near as good as some of the people who've been brewing for longer that I have, and brewed with a full-grain mash, not the grain/extract mash that I do. Now I've got me a big red ribbon and a gift certificate to a restaurant. Yippee!!

Now on to the questions:

1. Commando: Sexy or disgusting? Do you have a "best" commando story? Depends on who and where. If it is some smelly, creepy person - no way! If it is her in a skirt and we're out on the town - yahoo!! No good story for me. Add this to the list of things to do.

2. Foreplay: Is there such a thing as too much? Only if it results in a premature ejaculation. Otherwise, I *love* lots of foreplay.

3. Oral sex: Good if you are getting? Good is you are giving? Equally ewwwww? Good both ways, especially if it is at the same time!

4. Orgasm: Is one per night enough or does the first one just get your motor running? Depends on the amount of foreplay. If the foreplay has been going on for a long, long time, then the orgasm pretty much completes me. But then again, that's how it usually goes for me.

5. Morning sex: "Oh hell yes!", "Well if I have, too." or "Just get in the shower and go to work." I *love* morning sex. I also love sex just out of the shower. Once the thought of sex is in my mind in the morning, I pretty much have to get some or I'm a horn-dog all day.

Bonus (as in optional): Have you ever had anonymous sex? Have you ever had an orgasm without at least knowing your partner's last name? No. Add that to the list.

Okay, I know this TMI Tuesday is a day late. I had President's Day off and that's thrown me off the wave. And I can't believe I haven't posted since last Tuesday. I really don't want this blog to degenerate into just TMI posts.

Running season has started again with a run last Saturday. Yep, it was cold (~20 F). And it was a justifiable reason to wear running tights in public. Not as sensual as wearing pantyhose (ok, I confess, the pantyhose were on underneath), but they do feel good. And many of the women running also wore tights rather than running pants, so I had something to look at during the race.

As you may have noticed, I added a chat widget at the bottom of the right column. Hopefully I'll be on-line when someone is reading this blog and we can chat.

On with the questions. Would you rather...
1. be famous now & forgotten after you die or forgotten now & famous after you die, forever? & Why?
Be famous after I die. With fame comes too many problems - people would hound me for my money, time, advice, and pictures, I'd have no free or private time to myself.

2. give blood or read Hamlet? & Why?
Read Hamlet. I'm too much of a pussy to give blood. Giving blood for drug/cholesterol tests is enough to make me feel feint.

3. be extravagantly rich, but hated by others or be well loved and admired, but dirt poor? & Why?
Poor, I'm sure I could sponge off of those that love and admire me ;)

4. be imprisoned for the rest of your life or kill someone? & Why?
Be imprisoned, I have too much respect for human life to kill. But that would also depend on the prison. I'm sure if I were in one of those prisons where one gets raped everyday, I'd eventually go crazy and try to kill.

5. fight Mike Tyson or talk like him? & Why?
Fight Mike Tyson. I'd run around the ring until he tires out, then let him hit me once. I'd willingly hit the mat and not come up. Talking like him would be a never-ending curse.

Bonus (as in optional): Who would you kill if you were guaranteed to get away with it? No one. I thought about the bad people in the world, but there are too many of them to make a difference if only one is killed. Even the very evil heads of state. Take one out and there's another one right behind ready to take over.

TMI Tuesday...The Valentine's Day Edition.

1. Have you had sex with another person in 2007? Yes!! Averaging once per week. Have you passed on an opportunity to sex with another person in 2007? No.

2. What is the funniest thing you have ever said or done during sex? (Orgasmic facial expressions do not count.) "A knee to the groin, even if it was a mistake, still does not make the boys happy."

3. What is the first thing you notice about a member of the opposite sex? If I can see their faces, its the eyes. If its a rear view, then its their ass. Unless, of course, she's wearing a skirt or shorts, then its her legs even if she's facing me.

4. What is the best pick-up line you have ever heard? Can't say that I've heard one that is the best. Most are just cheesy. Every used? Nope, don't use 'em. Ever been used on you? Cant' really remember any being used on me - maybe that's the sign of a good one.

5. Where is the most unique place you have ever had sex? Costa Rica. Unique for me, but probably not unique for the millions of people that actually live in Costa Rica. They would probably say Philly is the most unique place they've had sex if they've ever been here.

Bonus (as in optional): Do you pee in the shower? Occasionally. If so, has any SO known that you pee in the shower? No. Has any SO peed in the shower? Never asked, never looked. That's the way it should be.

Did you see The Police perform at the Grammy's? Incredible!! Here's the link to the tour. I hope I can get tickets if the come to Philly.

Car update: I finally got my car back from the collision repair shop last week. It looks great!! They did an excellent job, and the owner even gave me credit for a coupon that they publish in the local newspaper. This cut my out-of-pocket expense in half. Now I hope I can keep her another 5 years or more.

We went to the Philly Car Show over the weekend. Lots of beautiful cars all around. I'll post pictures either here or at my Flicker account. It still beats me why more manufacturer's don't make more fuel effiecient cars. Fuel efficient doesn't always mean poor performance or low quality. Take the Honda Civic or the Cooper Mini as examples. Both have plenty of power and are very stylish for moderately priced cars. Both of which may be the replacement for my Accord in 5 years. Ford had a concept car on display, the Reflex pictured below. Its a uniquely styled car and I think is supposed to have a hybrid or alternatively fueled engine. But why wait for the technology to come down in price? Just put a standard gasoline engine it it and they'd sell them like hot cakes.




"Shaguar!!"



Off of my soap box. Has anyone heard from Feetman lately? Looks like his site has been taken over, again.

I may have to go shopping on Thursday - all of the Valentine's Day lingerie will be on sale!!!

TMI Tuesday

Let's all play along: TMI Tuesday

1. Have you ever had sex in a friend's house/apartment/car/whatever... but not with that friend? Does your friend know? No - I'll add this to the "To Do" list.

2. Have you ever sat at your computer naked? Very often!! How else does one surf for porn?

3. If you are sure you WOULD get caught, is there anyone (known personally, celebrity, fictional character) you'd cheat with? Sure! Here is a post here of those women, and there are two more pictures just a few posts down.

4. Have you ever photocopied a body part? Yes, just a hand.

5. Just how rigid are your standards: Is there anyone out there (say, a celebrity), that you'd do, just to say you scored? (We aren't talking a dreamy celebrity i.e. Brad Pitt or Jennifer Aniston; we are talking Mick Jagger, Dick Chenney, or the Queen of England.) Given those choices - no way!

6. Have you ever contacted a “lost love” years later? Yes. Not long after I met my current SO, I ran into two girls with whom I went to college at a bar after a Cubs baseball game. This was about 5 years after college. Since I had just started seeing my SO, I figured I'd test the waters with the "lost love", but it didn't really go any where.

7. What was the worst thing your SO ever caught you doing? Masturbating - see question #2. What was the worst thing your parents ever caught you doing? One time when I was in 8th grade I went up to my room after school to change clothes and masturbate. Usually not a problem. However, that day I wanted some of the good material that my brother had in his room. The folks were down stairs so, feeling rather cavalier, I walked down the hall to his room in just a shirt. I got to his room and found the magazines. When I got up to leave, I heard Dad walking up the stairs. I quickly jumped behind my brother's bed, hoping Dad would go to his room and not see me. Not to be. He came into my brother's room to get something out of his closet (they shared it) and saw me sitting between the bed and wall. Not sure what he saw as I had the shirt pulled down around my waist and legs. I just told him I was looking for something under the bed and waited for him to leave. It was a close enough call to induce shrinkage. Did you ever do either of those things again? Of course!

8. What is the shortest period of time you've ever gone between sex with two different sexual partners in separate sessions (that means threesomes don't count unless they are separate threesomes)? Too long.

9. Besides the usual (lingerie, sexy shoes, etc.), what's the sexiest thing your SO can wear? Short shorts - short enough that I can see the bottom curve of her ass below the bottom of the shorts.

10. Have you ever masturbated with a house hold object (other than a sex toy)? If so what? Yes, rubber gloves, ice, candles, a honeydew melon, lingerie, and probably more that I can't think of now.

Bonus (as in optional): For you girls out there...what size boobs do you have? For you guys, how many inches are you packing? Hmmm, that depends on how aroused I am, currently 8-1/2".

I'm getting that shopping itch again. I haven't been out shopping for women's clothes in too long of a time. I really need like an entire day to myself for shopping. Get up, take a nice long bath, shave, put on a nice camisole, panty, stockings, women's khakis, a blouse, and women's shoes. Go to the local coffee house for some breakfast, then off to the mall. Shopping on the Internet is not much fun. Inspiring, yes. Nothing is better than seeing clothes and shoes in person. In person, one is able to touch the material, try the clothes on, see how it drapes on the body. There are a lot more stores than these at which I shop, but the others don't have web sites. Conversely, Victoria's Secret has a great web site, but they don't carry their outerwear clothes in the stores. Of course, I could spend all day there buying lingerie!

Lately I've been looking at these pants from New York & Co.



pants and shoes from Banana Republic




and pants from The Gap


For shoes, I like Nine West

And Now for Something Completely Different...

I ran across this post at Anne's blog which has inspired another post about: Toast! If any of you live or lived in Indiana (as I once did), or live in a city that has the syndicated Bob & Tom Show on the morning radio, you may have hear of Heywood Banks. This one man has done more for the promotion of toast than anyone except toaster manufacturers and bread bakers with his song about toast. Either way, remeber this the next time you eat breakfast.


"Toast" by Heywood Banks

All around the country and coast to coast
People always say, "what do you like most?"
I don’t want to brag, I don’t want to boast
I always tell ‘em, "I like toast."
YEAH, TOAST!!
YEAH, TOAST!!

I get up in the morning ‘bout six A.M.
Have a little jelly, have a little jam
Take a piece of bread, put it in the slot
Push down the lever and the wires get hot,
I get toast.
YEAH, TOAST!
YEAH, TOAST!

Now, there’s no secret to toasting perfection
There’s a dial on the side and you make your selection
Push to the dark or the light and then
If it pops too soon, press down again
Make toast.
YEAH, TOAST!
YEAH, TOAST!

When the first caveman drove in from the drags
Didn’t know what would go with the bacon and the eggs
Must have met a genius, got it in his head
Plug the toaster in the wall, buy a bag of bread
Make toast.
YEAH, TOAST!
YEAH, TOAST!

Oui Monsieur, bonjour coquette,
Une croissant? Et vous auvent?
Maurice Chevalier, Eiffel Tower,
Oui Marie, baguette, bonsoir!
FRENCH TOAST!
FRENCH TOAST!

In Chicago or (fill in location).....TOAST!!!!

Here's the animated version.

I've been meaning to post these pictures that were published in Life magazine about two weeks ago.

Car update: The insurance adjuster called and said that my car is repairable. The repair shop said that it is repairable, but it could have been a total loss as the car is 9 years old. I'm so relieved that it can be repaired. Although the prospect of a new car is always exciting, the reason for it this time would not make it a joyous event. I'm glad I'll be able to have this one for hopefully five or more years.

Its not that I am particularly fond of a Honda Accord, but it is paid for and I'm cheap. Why buy something new when the one you have works? I have also wanted to see how many miles I could get on it before it breaks down on its own. A friend of mine has one with over 300K miles. It looks like crap, and it won't die. I also started looking a new cars earlier in the week just in case. I'm not too impressed with what's out there that would make a suitable replacement. The one I really want (Mini Cooper) is going to get some upgrades later this year. The Honda Civic, the practical replacement, doesn't offer much more that my Accord, except better gas mileage.

That is all.
Sheen V

I came across this blogger while surfing this morning, The Masturbatrix. She has three blogs,
Diary of a Phone Sex Madame, A Woman with a Male Masturbation Fetish, and Orgasm Denial Games. After reading some of the blogs, this woman really knows and understands people who call phone sex lines. I'll have to give her a try sometime.

I admit that I'm a phone sex caller. I started when I was in my 4th year of college (I went for five). I was living in a single dorm room. I masturbated plenty in college, and even more so when I had a single room. I would "read" the adult magazines and was curious about the phone sex advertisements in them. I called a few, and, not really knowing what to do, hung up after a few minutes.

I didn't do any more of that until after I graduated from college, got a job and moved to another state. One of the magazines had an ad for a phone service that originated in the city where I went to college, and it was relatively cheap compared to a lot of the others. I was sooo nervous when I called the first time. I remember sitting on the floor of my apartment (the furniture hadn't arrived yet) naked. I told the girl my name and she told me hers. We chit-chatted a while, all the time I was stroking it. Just hearing her voice made me hard and excited - she really didn't' need to moan and groan, but we did as that's what I thought I was supposed to do. I don't remember much more about it other than the feeling of exhilaration caused by "exposing" myself to another person while masturbating. It was such a thrill. Even to this day, that's what makes the calls so very satisfying - its revealing myself to another in such an intimate way.

Over the years that I lived in that apartment, I called many different lines. Some were just plain lousy and I never called them back. Others were excellent, and didn't stay around too long for some reason. The one I mentioned in the previous paragraph is one of them (e-mail me if you want the number. I'd post a link, but they don't have a website). Anymore, there is just that line and one other that I call. Both services offer consistently great women to talk to. I just wish that the women would stay at these places longer. It seems that just as I get to know and enjoy a particular woman, she's gone.

I don't call so much anymore as my SO takes care of a lot of those needs now. I only call them when I'm alone, either at home or if I'm traveling. I don't call them every time I masturbate, mostly just when I need a big tension release or am lonely. Its a way to combine all of my interests (crossdressing, submission, humiliation) into a focused time. Again, its still not so much about how she talks, its more the revealing of myself that's the biggest turn on.

I'm that jackass....

You know when your driving down the highway and you see that traffic is starting to slow down, and eventually you see that there's an accident. Well, I'm that jackass that caused one yesterday. I still can't believe that I did such a stupid thing. I've never had an accident before - causing or receiving. I'm driving up the on-ramp and I see the cars in front of me also going up it. I look over my left shoulder to check for on-coming traffic, look to the front, and slam on the brakes - BAM! I hit the guy in front of me. We're both okay, no injuries.

His car was 10 days old. My cars was 9 years old, about 89K miles on it, and I just bought new tires and all new drive belts. I wanted to keep it for another few years, at least to 100K. The repair shop said it might cost $5K to fix, and that's about the Blue Book value of it.

I think the worst part of this is that I'm the cause of it. I've inconvenienced the guy in front of me, his family, the tow truck operator, the police officers, the EMS guys, my family, the insurance company. Not just last night, but for a while. I've let these people down due to my own stupidity. And I'll pay for it - my insurance will go up, I've either have to fix my car (if it doesn't get totalled) or I now have to buy a new car.

Emotionally I feel awful. I replay what happened in my head and think that if I had just done something different - left work earlier or later, taken a different route, swerved instead of slam on the brakes. I'm generally not an irresponsible person. But I've done this irresponsible act.

I don't usually talk about politics, and I'm going to make this one exception. The President is going to address the nation about a troop "surge". Okay. Let me think about this one.

Let's look at it from the insurgents point of view: "Bush tells me that he's going to send 20,000 more troops to kill me and my friends. Hmmm." The smart insurgent might think "It won't happen overnight, so I'll just hop in my car/truck/sandals and make my way out of the area/country until the troops arrive, let the martyrs fight, and then come back once they leave to fight again." The martyr insurgent might think "Here's my chance to die for my people/religion/tribe. I'll go to the war zone (if I'm not already in it) and just let loose on anything that's not in my group. Body counts don't matter much to my insurgent leadership. In fact, they want me to die fighting. None of them are going to be on the wrong end of a political backlash the way it happens in America. We have no Congress to threaten a funding cut. Its just a free-for-all for us insurgents."

Either way, tipping his hat to the other side is no way to reach his objective, IMO. I mean, why are the insurgents as successfull as they are?: They don't broadcast their plans weeks in advance. If the US wants to hit them hard, do it by suprise.

Maybe I'm way off base thinking this. Someone tell me so if I am. I do support our troops, and every death (ours or theirs) is a failure on both side's.

That is all,
Sheen V

Aaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrgh!!!

That's my reaction to:
a) The Buckeye's offensive line falling apart last night.

b) The Buckeye's defense falling apart last night.

c) The Buckeyes failing to adapt to Florida's game.

d) The inability of the Buckeye's coaching staff to try something different once Florida figured out that OSU would just keep using the same old plays possession after possession.

e) The frustration I'm feeling as I'm considering getting the cable company's cable TV, internet, and phone service since Verizon refuses to extend service into my neighborhood.

If you picked all of the above, you're right! I can't believe how they fell apart last night. It was almost too painful to watch. If it were a closer game, I wouldn't feel so bad for the team. What happened? The news reports I read this morning didn't have too much to say about the players' and coaches' thoughts and reactions to the game. I'm sure there will be more as the week progresses. On the bright side, they did have a perfect regular season, won outright the Big Ten title, and Troy Smith won the Heisman Trophy. That's a lot to be proud of. They are losers only if they allow this to get the best of them.

Oh, and I really am frustrated with my internet options. Verizon won't run DSL to my neighborhood ("It's too far between switching stations. It's in our 10-year plan."). And I've always regarded the cable company as the Fourth Axis of Evil. But. Going with their TV/internet/phone plan for $99/month for a 2-year agreement is almost absurd to pass up. Its cheaper that those services separately. I just have to figure out where I can mount the modem/router in my house. I'm thinking of setting up a wireless system as there is no cable near where I have the computer. The engineer in me wants to lay it all out, but I should just let the installer figure it out.

That is all,
Sheen V