KJames

You're lucky that you can get her out as quick as bail is set, the next day. In California, DWI offenders are held for a minimum of 48 hours...then bail is set, and it usually takes their families another 3-4 days to make bail...so they're in for a week, easily. If she is still living with your parents, there's no reason they shouldn't know, especially if they're going to be receiving mail in their mailbox from the court system. And, since you and your friends are making her bail, you all now have a vested financial interest in making sure she goes to her court dates. Really it should, don't feel too bad, she has every means to be responsible and now you are going out of your way to bail her out. it's more than i would have done. Chris, the sitting will do her some good, hopefully, but hope that your words never come back to haunt you. It's not a fun place to wake up--it made my mom go into the St. Joseph's Hospital detox program the day she was released from the drunk tank in 1978...and they stopped her 2 blocks (1 minute) from home.

Mini-golf after a couple shots, huh? I've bowled after having a couple shots...it helped me to focus...but we're using a bigger ball, too. I don't know if that's a fair comparison since the one time I had 12 strikes it spanned the ending of one game and the first 8 frames of the next instead of being all together...um...oh, yeah, the thing that did me in, there, was a 4-6-7-10 split...and my ball rolled clean through the middle. Baby, and Honey? I call Rob "Honey"...I call the cat, "Baby"...or (puts on Gollum mask), "My precious!"

I consider sleeping in as not having my cat wake me before I get the wakeup call from our voice-mail system... and I'd put the office on the "do-not-disturb" feature of our phone company features, at least until I go back in...except our office is just across the hall from the bedroom...and I'm addicted to sites like GA...

Great to hear you've made such a wonderful change! Hopefully you and Dan will start writing again soon...

I've given up on the "straight acting" label...it just never works...the guy would be jeans and a t-shirt guy, and so effeminate that it'd just kill the mood...conversely, my biggest turn-on was a guy, smaller than myself, who looked effeminate, but only acted very shyly, who was quite well-endowed and knew very well what to do with it...just my luck he was looking for leather guys... Some years later I learned to "go out" with someone for a show or dinner or something social just to see if there was common ground...there are a lot of nice people out there, but the label straight-acting really would only apply to someone who would only date the opposite sex...

I wasn't going to say anything, but since most writers write from experience, and your stories are rather, 'er, 'um...detailed...I wasn't going to suggest your level of "personal skill" in these matters... *ducking and running for cover*

Oh, come on, Phantom, you've seen more in magazines...

I second your idea hh5...but don't forget the abandoneds and throwaways, too...

That the powers that be that this isn't an athletic group...

Of course, him upside down in the ropes wasn't too bad either...

Glad to hear your recovery's going well. My last stepdad also went through a bout of cancer down here in Orange County...you remember, that place with Disneyland in it ...and he got to full remission from his as well. Hope the rest of it goes speedily and better than anticipated.

Don't worry about giving up Sodas...if you're a Coke or Pepsi drinker switch to Coke Zero (or Zero Cherry), or Pepsi 0 (0 Carbs, Sugar, Calories). Both of those "diet" sodas taste like their regular counterparts, except that the Cherry Zero is more like Black Cherry than Wild Cherry...good nonetheless...I think the soda change for Rob & I has been the biggest factor in our weight loss consistency. Our eating hasn't changed much as far as our choices of food goes, so we were already picking the right foods, but our issue was quantity and using sugary sodas. Also add the diet teas, especially the Green Teas...they're good for you. All can be counted as liquid intake toward that 64oz of water we should all be drinking. If you're earning some...get on Weight Watchers...the online support (if you sign up for their montly pass program) is excellent with weight and points tracking, and access to a recipe points builder as well as a recipe database. I realize you're doing this for the health benefit, since you're so darned cute anyway, but Dragonfire's suggestion of plenty of sex is both good and bad...sex is terrific exercise but the endorphins released can promote weight gain if you've eaten too much and too recently--save it for well after your food is digested...or first thing in the morning... Good luck in your efforts to improve your health!

My goodness! It seems like you had one of these right after I joined here...and I definitely remember seeing it happen last year...has it really been another year already? Well...now you can legally drink! Happy, Happy Birthday.

Actually, Mark, while it might save some grief, I still think it important to read them all, in order, to know the characters and what they've gone through.

Well, Mark, we get similar weather here in California, too...just not often enough to b***h about it... I do remember that we have all but a few of the world's climates available here in our state. I remember skiing in Big Bear in 80F weather, the girls were in haltertops, and the boys were shirtless and in cut-off shorts! (YAY!) Then we went down to the beach the next day, we left the same weather, 85F though, and Newport Beach was 60F, overcast and all crappy.... Then there's the tule fog over the grapvine and in the San Joaquin Valley...don't even go there...

I'm not getting on her bad side...maybe "slow down" was the wrong choice of words, but even mainstream print books slow down during summer...

I think Eric is probably one of JPs new boyfriends....his description sounded much like Andre.... Perhaps JP told him about Stefan, but Eric likes 3-somes? Hmm.... this is the only thing I hate about summer...all writers slow down, not just the ones online...

OH! You're just a baby!

Been there--Done that...up to the guy's elbow...still a size queen...but it was 20 years ago...

Been there--Done that...up to the guy's elbow...still a size queen...

I sort of got that impression, too, Conner. Given Stephan's past, I think he's more of a bottom than anything else, in terms of frequency...and just wants a good caring top who will bottom once in a while--examples: The Yacht captain in is well hung, Eric seems well hung also, Greg was reasonably well hung, Luke was, Josh was, Roger was, Dirk was... Paya: Before I started reading "If It Fits" I DID go back and read Marks "CAP" series from the beginning--and I pushed myself to do it, too. I wanted to know the characters' histories within the context of the story arc. I would suggest doing it, as it really helped me to do so; it explains a lot of JPs emotional pain and why he has those strong mental barriers, as well as the family's inter-relationships and interpersonal dynamics. But be ready with a box of tissues...I had to use a roll of paper towels and was crying through several chapters. Mark: If you try to loop the Wardroom/Bridgemont series around as an ancestorial prequel to CAP, you are going to find yourself in a great deal of pain...

Have a happy birthday, guy!

Well! From one near Orange County to one near LA County, Happy Birthday! Here's looking at another 21!

Kev, I completely understand where you're coming from here. I am an only child, and was the first grandson in my family on either my father's or mother's side. All four of my grandparents were or are singularly exceptional, at least to me--the memories just don't seem to fade in significance. My maternal grandfather passed away from lung cancer when I was 9, at 61, in 1971 at the VA hospital in Long Beach, which is 10 minutes away from where I now live--oddly enough--I suspect that he was murdered by that "killer nurse" that was poisoning the terminal patients--they didn't catch him until the late 70's! Thanks to him I had my first taste of LUCKY beer when I was two years old--he fell asleep and the freshly opened beer was still ice cold on a hot evening. Although I'm not a nightly drinker, I still lift a cold beer now and then and think fondly of him--the town's best auto mechanic, and a damn good carburator specialist. Gram' divorced him decades ago, and is still going strong at 88, and has four grands between mom and my uncle--I have three cousins, two guys and a gal--each of them has given her two great-grands, for a total of 2 great-granddaughters and 4 great-grandsons...and she loves it. Gram's mom, my great-grandma, lived until 1987, and passed at the ripe age of 92, I was 24 or 25 when that happened. My paternal grandfather passed away in 1989 of heart failure attributed to old age he was in his mid 80's, and gram' in 1998, in her early 90's, of system shutdown associated with advanced alzheimers. I still can't visualize any of them any way other than how they were as I was growing up...and my earliest memories of them still have them all with dark hair. Still, there isn't a week that goes by that I don't remember some pleasant memory from our past and think fondly of any of them, however briefly. I hope that your recollections of your time with each of yours will be as sweet.

Thank you for paying attention, Graeme... Sorry, Mark, I'm one of the guys that would let Brad and Robbie do me...