Ashi

Hope for the best. Get recover soon.

Work is important, but life is too! Do whatever you need to do!

Happy birthday, Eric.

Yuck. LOL. I am late 90's/early 2000's sort of guy. Can't stand 80's! LOL. When I worked in retail back in 2006, these 80's flashbacks were back, like boatneck, argyle sweaters, and leg warmers (sans shoulder pads. Thanks goodness they will never be back).... LOL If I were straight, I would totally dig Rachel. She is always so smart. And another comment. Don't you hate it when Tom said he hated those yuck things, but nothing..., I mean NOTHING could destroy him. He looked fab even in those ugly clothes!

Depends on the circumstance like many said. But for me, it is a yes.

Methodwriter keeps excellent lists of popular songs of yester years in his blogs. If you haven't read them, please do. They're often good choices that reflect the period those songs were first performed. This list is an addendum to his latest list: The Class of 2005 Playlist- We're Here, We're Alive, We're the Class of '05! Anyways, here are my additions (mostly alternatives and punks). Most of them are from around 2005 but not all (ones in parenthesis are recommended songs that may fall out of the 2004-2006 range): - The Killers (I love , but Methodwriter already covered it. Also try... , ). - Jimmy Eat World (also try... and cover of Wham!'s ) - Panic! at the Disco (also try... and ). - Maroon 5 (also try... ) - Daniel Powter - Coldplay (also try... and ) - Keane (also try... ) - Arctic Monkey (also try... ) Marching Bands of Manhattan - Death Cab for Cutie (also try... Brothers on a Hotel Bed and ) - James Blunt (also try - Goodbye My Lover, ) EDIT: Extra bonus. How could I leave out Green Day? (thanks Allan for this)

I actually prefer a "stupid phone" except you can't buy them anymore....

Fox News report is like the Huffington Post. 'nuff said.

I f*ckin' love Mr. Brightside.... Oh, the cover of Alphaville's "Forever Young" is nice also.

I tend to agree with Mann. Though I am the "trust, but verify" type of person, so I will reserve my opinion until every information necessary is gathered. The reason I tend to agree with Mann is, when I look through the picture of the table MikeL shown, a lot of the so-called evidence is actually necessary feature for the app to function (smart phones are very complex things, we must remember). For example, they list features like take photos and video.... Isn't that the whole purpose of the flash app? So you can take better photos? Why does the company even list this? The only thing I think might be worrying is allow full network access. The other things like creating or deleting shortcuts is just convenience feature so people who doesn't know how to properly install/uninstall the app, the app will do it for them. The app I use is called Flashlight (free version). There are two of them on the table listed. Neither has the same icon as mine.... Fishy.... Seems the company is dodging around the legality issue. The table also lists "prevent devices from sleeping" TWICE. And both sets of data do not match, so which one should I believe? And another says "install shortcut" the other says "uninstall shortcut" and yet another says "Write home settings and shortcuts." Look, if the list is long, it must be credible.... That's a standard scare tactic. And which channel does that YouTube broadcast the info from? Is it a homegrown faux news-like ads (aka, infomercial?). BTW, a lot of anti-malware softwares do the same thing.... They often find stuff that's questionable, but not actually malware (i.e., false positive), so users think their products are better than competitors'. You really need to go through the list and see the stuff they listed and make some research on them. Not all of them are malwares!!!! I am not saying we shouldn't be more careful of the apps we use, because in our time and age, there are indeed lots of weasels..., but I would think we need to be more critical about what we read (i.e., do a lot of fact checking). There is plenty of sensationalistic misinformation floating around, and Internet is a great format to spread that. There is no editor-in-chief who checks the fact and acts as conscience (i.e., ethics checker) over blogs and faux news sources, unlike most of the reputable and established publications have.

It used to be a very light blue (kinda like igloo), but the new owner painted over with that orange color. Which is fine I guess, since orange is kind of in nowadays.... (maybe he is a SF Giants fan. Go Giants!).

I passed by this house a lot on the way to San Francisco: http://gocalifornia.about.com/od/californiapictures1/ig/Unusual-Houses/Flintstone-House.htm

Mee2

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I am not sure if he is straight or gay yet.... It looks he could be either way. I don't see any clue that gives away. But I know..., having a crush on someone you don't know is gay or not is horrible. So you like the black tall socks with baseball shorts type eh?

Happy Birthday, French!

A bit of adventure and a creepy twist at the end. I like it. The setting in Guatemala slum with some colonial backdrop is nice touch.

Iarwain... lately I've been condensing my words quite a bit, which might make things a bit unclear. In my post, I already assumed sexyinaf knew the bonding can be beautiful (after all that foot rubbing and back stroking... ), so I thought there is no need to rehash This is actually a very complex subject, so I should congratulate myself for I conveyed my idea in only two paragraphs. LOL I should have known I was also written to a wider audience, not just for him. My comment was concentrating on the stage where I assumed sexyinaf already knew what you were talking about, and already lived through it, cried about it, reflected about it. And now I believe it's time to move to the next stage of Valley of Despair, which is acceptance and rebuild. Yes, you can choose who you love, but you also can't.... Otherwise, many of us would not be gay, as the consequence of being gay is pretty ugly in this imperfect world. This would lead to that age-old argument about whether sex = love or not.... We even talked about this back in my Home Econ class back in high school... And most guys thought sex and love were inseparable while gals thought otherwise. I am somewhere in between. But then, I am a gay bottom.... I can definitely see tons of gay guys do think sex = love though, top or bottom.... Just some observation, not scientific. You can have friendship, but not romantic love with straight people. Do not confuse the two!!! That's just dangerous, both mentally and physically. Part of the growing pain for men is how to accept love, without ever being (self-)destructive. Love is just that awkward for young men. Guys can be killed if it's not done well, and this applies to both straight guys and (especially closeted) gay guys. Contrary to common belief, you can't change the nature of men if you love them enough. I don't want to hear another farce about "how can I turn a straight man gay." You love them for who they are, rich or poor, better or worse, gay or straight, but you don't love your straight friends the same way. I personally have the "privilege" of dwelling on a guy (another one) in an epic romantic novel proportion. That melodrama is a constant ridicule from guys who know it, and I can laugh about it now. On the other hand, I could have used that 15 years to find a possible love interest rather than a doomed one (hope is a dangerous thing, anyone?). Move on! Fifteen years can turn a young man old, and sexyinaf should use his golden years better than I did. I know in novels characters can rekindle instantly from where they left after decades, and nobody gets fat or wrinkles, or the smile is still as sunny and innocent as you remembered it. In reality, no one is Count Dracula, everyone gets old and mature. Sexyinaf and his friends still exchange little messages, this is about as good as it can be when a confession failed (and kudo to his friend still being sport about it). I tried to contact the guy who left me crying in the middle of a mid-term, you know.... All I got was a lukewarm reception, at the same time, you could tell he would love me only if he could.... It's worse than death! Don't repeat my mistake and become a bitter old queen. Don't.... Just don't.

You should have known massage his feet would be the unmaking of your friendship.... But what can I say, sometimes we do stuff against our better judgment.... Yeah, I had a very close friend like yours, too. I didn't massage him because he was an online friend, but we were close like you and your friend, inseparable, really.... Nowadays, he is just a suppressed memory. If I counted my past relationship, sometimes he didn't get to be counted, because that's how suppressed he is to me now, and the fact he is straight and it really isn't a true relationship, though we were probably closer to each other than some married couples.... I guess it's alright you let it out, but please do move on. I didn't move on fast enough, and let that impossible relationship ruined my college grades (I cried in the middle of a mid-term and I had to walk out of the class, so yeah, it was pretty bad). So..., please take a lesson from it. Your friend still posts birthday wishes to you so you know he doesn't hold it against you, so just let it be a happy memory. Now, go charm some gay people. No gay, no play!