What do you think?

You've gotta be here to enjoy this.

Mmm,bakery!

Vacation!

I'm going on vacation starting today! "Down the shore" as they say around these parts - down to the New Jersey shore for a week of sun, sand, beer, and ice cream. And I'll look for some lemon sherbert!

Wednesday Weirdness #13

1.) What material is your favorite for bed sheets? In the winter I like flannel - much warmer in the winter and sooo soft!

2.) How often do you masturbate? Not nearly as much as I used to or should. I do it at least once a week. It used to be an every day or several times a day affair. Occasionally I'll get a few days in a row in. Recent medical findings say that men should masturbate at least 5 times a week to keep the pipes clean and reduce the risk of prostate cancer. And it has to be masturbation for some reason as they found that sex doesn't do the trick as well. I find it not only cleans the pipes, it also clears my thoughts.

3.) What takes you the longest to do while showering? (IE shaving, washing hair, etc) Probably shaving when I do shave in the shower. I never really timed myself. I probably should to see how much water I'm using.

4.) What do you think is the right amount of foreplay? Do you spend enough time readying your partner for sex? I love foreplay! I could spend a lot more time on foreplay. I just love exploring her body. How much is too much? See #7.

5.) Who tends to initiate sex more when you are in a relationship? I do. She's initiated only a handful of times.

6.) What birth control do you use? Condoms. Neither of us wants to get an operation or have her take the pill. Anyway, condoms are interactive - when she's ready she puts it on me. And there are so many different varieties of them. I don't know if one style or another makes any difference to her, but its fun to change.

7.) What is one thing your partner could do in bed that would instantly turn you off? Be passive. I don't like it if she's just laying there not doing anything. It sends the signal "I'm not interested" or "I'm bored" which then turns me off.

At the Phillies game last weekend (7/12):

The Philly Phanatic!

A panorama of the stadium:

Philly as seen from the stadium:

Driving home. That's William Penn way up there on top of City Hall.

TMI Tuesday #143 - School Days Edition

1. What were you known as in HS (Jock, Princess, Geek) I was the geek, but not the uber geek that studied 3 languages and hung out in the A/V (audio/visual) room all the time. I didn't have much style and had ugly glasses. A knee injury kept me out of sports. I did have lots of friends in all of the other cliques, and I tutored the captain of the football team on physics and math. I did belong to a science fiction book club.

2. What were you really? Farmer Ted "Fresh breath is a priority in my life."

3. If you could go back and tell your 16 year old self one thing, what would it be? Don't take school or yourself so seriously. Sure, good grades are important, but remember to have fun while you're there. Stop and smell the roses.

4. If you could erase one moment from your school days what would it be? Not so much as a moment as an on-going thing - my best friend was dating this girl and over time was spending more time with her than with me. I didn't consciously realize I was jealous and I didn't treat her so well.

5. Who did you not date (or more) that you wish you did? I can think of a few, Carla, Bena, Nancy, Chris. The first three I had known since the 1st Grade. I didn't date any of them because we weren't in the same social circles and I was much too shy to ask any of them out. Even the girl that I took to the prom, I had a tough time asking her even though we were set up as my three friends were taking her three friends. And I was so absolutely terrified at not wanting to do anything wrong that I didn't do anything right. I had to be the worst date.

Bonus (as in optional): If you went to prom, describe your outfit. I wore a black tux, nothing over the top. Unless you include the people I was with. The other three guys wore whites tuxes with tails and top hats. We picked up our dates in an antique Roll Royce. It was a sight to see.

The Good and The Bad of the InBev Anheuser-Bush Deal

By now you may have already heard that InBev will be buying Anheuser-Bush for $52 billion to create the largest brewing company in the world. Whether this is good or bad largely depends on your point of view. As much as I don't like drinking A/B beverages (or SABMiller or Molson-Coors), I am disappointed to see the sale. I think this leaves Boston Beer Company (Sam Adams), Yuengling, and Sierra Nevada as the largest American-owned breweries.

Good:
-For the A/B shareholders: They'll be making a tidy profit by the sale. Hopefully one of the index mutual funds I own will too.
-For microbreweries: Many people that traditionally drank A/B beer because it was an American owned/operated/located company. Hopefully, those people may now say to themselves "Why should I drink a beer that supports a foreign company when I could drink a beer made by a locally owned & operated microbrewery?" (There's some false logic in there, which I'll get to later.)
-For A/B beer: Just maybe they might tinker with the existing formulas for the better, or more broadly market some of the “micro-brewed” beer that they already produce.

Bad:
For Americans in general:
-Another homegrown business sold to a foreign company. The breweries will stay, but the profits go to Europe.
-Jobs will probably be cut to some degree, although A/B had proposed a list of cost-cutting measures before being sold.
-The export market: Lots of folks overseas drink A/B beer as it is an import to them, just as we in the States drink beer from other countries. Some InBev whiz bean counter will say “ Why should we import Bud to Europe when we can just make it here and save on the shipping costs?” The “import” will then just be another domestic and sales might decline.

"Hi! gang at Cheers!" as the line goes. I hope that I haven't lost too many people with the sparce postings. Things have been super busy lately.

Feetman. Has anybody seen or heard from Feetman? He used to have several great blogs about the beauty of the female foot. He left a few comments on my Flickr account over the weekend. And what do you know? As I'm blogging about him, I checked my Yahoo Messenger and we're chatting. No new blogs :(

Tcho Chocolate. Remember waaayyy back in February's Valentine's Day post I mentioned Tcho Chocolate? No? Ok, I'll wait a few minutes for you to re-read it. Back? I recently ordered two of the "Chocolatey" flavor. Mmmm, mmm! Damn! That's good stuff! I'm not much of an artist when it comes to describing how things taste, so excuse this if it doesn't make a lot of sense. Its a dark chocolate, more on the bittersweet side than the milk-chocolatey or sugary. The flavor seems to develop as I keep it in my mouth to melt. At the $5 price point it is not an everyday chocolate bar, more for a special occasion. It would go great with a nice dark, malty porter.

4th of July. We had some rain this weekend, but it didn't spoil the parade. No Eagles cheerleaders in it this year :(

Lots of fire engines!

Can't forget the AOH!
The local gang.
And no parade is complete without Mummers!

Need to Keep Busy (or Waste Time)

Try going to Games With A Purpose, or GWAP. It has a few different games that you play on-line with a partner the computer selects. The games are different types of matching games, and the purpose behind them is to teach the computer. Its kind of neat, something different to try.

Just when I've thought I've seen it all

I was at a local 5K (running) race last night to do the 1-mile walk that they also had before the 5K. I did the walk since I'm not yet back to running a full 5K and a group of us were all going. Anyway, the walk and the run went well - people running, people cheering, a post-race party in the parking lot afterwards at the restaurant that sponsored the race, a good time was had by all.

We ate at one of the tables in the back of the parking lot, and as we were cleaning off our table to leave, I saw a guy in jeans and a dirty t-shirt carrying a bottle in a brown paper bag into the parking lot from the sidewalk. I thought to myself that he seemed a bit out of the ordinary. It was hot, so even if one was not running in the event, shorts would have been appropriate. And that bottle in the bag. The restaurant was not a BYOB, and they were serving beer and margaritas in the parking lot, so it seemed strange that he was carrying a bottle to the place. There were some kids trying to keep another kid from getting out of one of the port-a-pottys and I lost track of the strange guy.

Once we reached the crowd in the main parking lot, a couple from my group went one direction and me and another went a different direction. A few steps later I saw a mass of 2-4 guys in a tangle in an apparent fight heading our way. We got out of the way and watched them later fall in a big pile on the ground, lot of yelling and punching. A few of the guys in the crowd go over to break things up. I saw a guy with blood pouring down his head. Then I saw the strange guy pop up from the ground. Then I hear someone say they saw him break a bottle over the bleeding guy's head. A minute or two later the cops and medics show up and mop things up.

Very unusual. In the 20+ years of attending races, I've never seen a fight at one. I think runners are the most peaceful and courteous folks you'll ever meet. I mean, when I watched the 1st and 2nd place runners cross the finish line almost at the same time, it seemed to me that they were thinking "You first", "No, you first", "Only if I have to". Something else must have been going on with the strange guy and the race just happened to be there. Oh, and this was one of the few times I didn't have my cell phone on me to get a picture.

Allrighty now, I've found how to combine my love for Minis and lingerie...

http://www.autoblog.com/2008/06/24/agent-provocateur-mini-clubman-sells-for-70k-on-ebay/

As promised, here's pictures of my 1998 Honda Accord's historic event:Little did I know that when I parked my car with 99,999 miles on it, a storm came thorugh that night and brought down a huge tree limb from my neighboor's tree. Missed the car by *that* much.
Hooo Haaa!!!

Still going!

And this past weekend its exhaust system heat shield fell off.

Tagged!

I've been tagged by Evening and here are the Rules:

1. Link the person(s) who tagged you.

2. Mention the rules on your blog.

3. Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours...
4. Tag 6 following bloggers by linking them…
5. Leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger’s blogs letting them know they’ve been tagged.

1. I was tagged by Evening. Her blog is private so I won't link it. For those of you who can, then you know how to get there. For those of you who can't, believe me, its like heaven!! Oh, those legs!! I'm still a bit giddy after visiting her blog.


2. The rules are up there.


3. Six Unspectacular Quirks. I actually self-tagged me over at Randi's, so I'm just re-posting here with some edits:

1. I'm 41 and I still like to watch Speed Racer cartoons.
2. I take pictures of odd things - like my car's speedometer at 99,999 miles, 100,000 miles, and 100,001 miles. That just occurred over the weekend. I need to post the pics here.
3. I've only worn khaki or black pants to work (except jeans on Friday) for almost 10 years. I wonder if anyone has noticed.
4. I have a hard time drinking my homebrewed beer if there's only a couple bottles left in the fridge because I don't want to run out. Yes, I can and do brew more, but no two batches are ever the exact same.
5. When I visit blogs and read comments, I'll click on the women commenters that I don't know to see if they're hot. Can't say I've been let down yet.
6. I have rules for a lot of insignificant stuff, like how my closet is organized. Pants on the left and only hung on hangers with the cardboard tubes. Shirts on the right, long sleeves separated from the short sleeves. And non-work shirts go on the left side next to the pants. T-shirts are rolled and put in the cubes that separate the left and right sides. Clothes fresh from the laundry start at the very outer ends and work their way in towards the middle.

4. & 5. Tagging others. This is something I don't usually do. However, Evening tagged me and her womanly charms are working their magic on me. So, if you're reading this and you haven't already posted your 6, post them and let me know that you've done so.

Okay, I realize I've not posted in a couple weeks. I've been having one of those "I have nothing to post that's interesting, and I have lots to post that's not interesting" kinds of weeks.

Good News: I went for another MRI of my leg last Thursday and the radiologist said that there is no sign of the stress fracture. Yahoo!! I see the orthopedic surgeon on this Thursday for the official word. I haven't resumed running yet, just cycling and walking. I'm itchy for a run.

TMI Tuesday #139
1. What's your favorite color of lingerie? I like to wear black if I'm going to wear the whole outfit - bra, panties, garter belt, and stockings. If its just individual pieces, white for bras and colors for panties. Oh, you mean on her! White.

2. Do you have a porn collection? Yes. Several years of Leg Show magazine (I think I posted a picture of them a while ago), a few DVDs, and gigabytes on the computer (mostly pictures).

3. Do you have any fetishes? And how! I have a thing for wearing women's clothes (mostly undergarments), and I love women's feet and legs, in or out of hosiery and heels.

4. What is your favorite place to have sex? Hotels. I think they were made just for sex - the big king-size beds with lots of pillows, the lounge chair, the big mirror in the bathroom - all there just perfect for sex. And just the thought of knowing that there are people in the rooms on either side of mine, as well as just outside of the door, that could hear, or be heard, is kind of thrilling.

5. Do you like to scratch, bite, pull hair, etc? Do you like having it done to you? I like a good spanking.

Bonus (as in optional): Do you think the number of sexual partners you've had is below average, average, or above average, and how does that make you feel? Not sure what the average is these days (guessing 5?), so I'm below average. I didn't really "sow my wild seeds" so to speak when I was younger. I sometimes wish I would have, but at the time, there really wasn't anyone I wanted to sew them with. That's what living in a small town in Indiana was like.

I saw this meme over at one of Macabre Girl's blogs:

Wednesday Weirdness #6

1. When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? An astronaut or a race car driver. I remember seeing one of the Apollo landings on TV, and my brother and I always had space-themed birthday cakes when we were kids. I still want to be both!

2. Do you put ketchup on top of your french fries or on the side to dip in? If you don't use ketchup, what do you use? If you don't eat french fries, what's wrong with you? (Ok so that last one is just a joke. Kind of. *wink*) I put it on the side to dip it in. Sometimes I'll dip them in mustard, or even mayo.

3. When was the last time you had phone sex? If you've never done it, why? Two Saturday's ago, so that would be May 24th. I had some time alone, really needed to get off, and made the call. Its always more fun when someone else knows what's going on.

4. When was the last time you made someone cry? What did you do to make them cry? Can't remember the exact date, but it was a few weeks ago. I was over at the neighbor's house where there were a bunch of little kids playing. Me and one of the fathers were playing "run the bases" with them (he and I played catch and the kids would try to run from one person to the other and not get tagged out). He threw one a bit low and as I tried to catch it before it hit one of the kids, I knocked him over and the kid started to cry. It would have been worse if he was hit by the ball.

5. How often do you sing in the shower? Only when there's someone else in the bathroom that I can annoy.

6. Have you ever cooked dinner or any other meal naked? If not, would you? I'm sure I did at some point in the past.

Its time to play TMI Tuesday #137 :


1. How old were you when you first kissed a boy? You mean like a romantic kiss? Haven't yet, and no plans to do so in the immediate future.


2. Who would play you in the movie of your life story? I'd like it to be an animated move, kind of like Akira, and my character would be voiced by Mike Meyers.


3. What is the number one thing your love/hate about gay people? Love: Their sense of style. Hate: The whiny lisp some gay men have. I mean, not even women talk like that. And as a crossdresser, I sometimes think being gay would be an advantage - many people assume all crossdressers are either bi or gay, so they would then just say "that's ok for him to dress like that since he's gay."


4. If you could legally get married to "the fella" - or any fella - would you? No. I may be a crossdresser, but I'm not gay.

5. Have you ever worn short short shorts in public? Yes. I've a pair of white short shorts from Express that I occasionally wear when I crossdress in public. I also used to have a couple of pairs of rugby shorts that were very, very short. They were the most comfortable things to wear. And that's the trouble with Land's End these days - they don't sell the rugby jerseys that they used to back in the '80's. Man, I loved those things!


Bonus (as in optional): Who is your favorite blogger? That's a tough question to narrow down to just one, so I won't. Each of the bloggers that I've added to my list of links on the right have something that I like. I don't just add links for the hell of it. I can't say that there's any one blogger that I've connected with on some deep existential plane, and I haven't met any in real life. So if you're on the list, you're a fav! Some are not on as they've taken down their blog (come back Feetman!), or have made it private and I haven't been allowed in (that girl from the UK that lives out west now, can't remember her handle). And there are a few not on the list because I do know them in real life and they know nothing about the side of me that posts here (mostly running and beer/homebrewing friends).

My half-naked legs!

Arrrgh! And I'm not even a pirate. Its just been one (or many) of those months. I haven't posted anything remotely pervy in a long time. Not that I haven't have many pervy thoughts or yearnings, I just haven't written about them. It seems that lately those pervy thoughts are getting stronger and stronger. Last week, Fred, a good blog friend over at Everyone Has A Bad Side! wrote a very good story with me as the main character. It combined my love domination, humiliation, and crossdressing right on the head! Thank you, Fred! I could really go for something like that right about now!!

As you may or may not have noticed, I've been adding a number of new links under "Feeding My Fetishes" over to the right. As I've been surfing various blogs and then on to either the links they post or to the blogs of commenter's, I've been finding new places that tickle my fancy. One such blog, Breathplay A Lovely Little Fetish Blog, includes many fetishes, not just breath play. It was there that I saw this link to a bondage scene that included water. While watching the various video clips, I wished that I were in the girl's place. To be tied up and played with, pleasured and pained, teased, dominated, and humiliated - oh what an experience that would be!! It also reminded me of this.

And its not just that. I haven't been crossdressing much lately. I did some on the two business trips earlier this year, and it was limited mostly to the inside my hotel room. Although I do wear panties every day. Some of the new links include blogs about crossdressing and/or humiliation. I feel the need to go shopping to buy women's shoes, shirts, shorts, and bras, panties, and hosiery. And then to have the opportunity to wear them out somewhere in a more androgynous way (or not). If I could only go New York City for a few days...