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I read this in one sitting, it was easy to keep going because it was such a fun read. What a wonderful story: complicated and rough and just, well, it went in completely unexpected places and I learned some things and hated some things and loved reading it the whole time. I want to read more. - G

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Uh, my understanding is that "asexual" does not mean "devoid of sexuality". It means "not interested in sex". Wikipedia. LJH, yes, an asexual person can have romantic, affectionate feelings for another person while not being sexually attracted to them.

Now you WAIT just a got-DERN minute. The story is set in July of 2002. You know what a MacBook Air was in 2002? Air. It didn't exist. The Mac at the time had a G4 processor (not even Intel then), was running a cross-breed incestuous, buggy-as-all-get-out operating system - OS X 10.1 ("Puma"). It crashed a lot, needed lots of resources to run damn near anything in "Mac Classic" mode, and looked like this. They were HORRIBLE. Not that the PC was much better, but at LEAST it would be running Windows 2000 (How do I know? Will runs it on his PC. So there). And FWIW, the 2002 equivalent of the MacBook Air is this baby. Meant for a consumer, low-level audience, it couldn't even perform the least rigorous tasks without a kernel panic or a beach ball lasting for hours. SO: Your attempt at trolling fails. HA! /huff huff endrant

Alex will hang around for a while, see a tall ship in Boston Harbor, be all like "ooh, a BOAT!" and then start yelling incoherently for some guy named "Winky" to clear for action and have the carriage brought round. He'll then adopt a thousand yard stare, mumbling over and over about how he had failed his majesty by coming to America, fall into the harbor, and be committed after repeatedly calling JP "Little Lord Nelson's opium dealer". Wade will buy a horse, wondering why he bought blue and cream livery for it. How'm I doing so far?

Stay out of the bookstores in Portland, you'll have a relapse if you go inside

Here's MY question: who's the character you like least, and, to Chris: how fun is it to write a character/arc you don't like?

I took a day to think about it. Because this is a toughie. I like Todd for his humanity and his honesty. I like Adele because she doesn't take any shit. I like Layla because she doesn't either. Noah is great for his simplicity and the path he's on - Father Noah maybe? I could go on about Keith and Paul and blah blah blah... But it's Fenn. He's my favorite. I can relate to the guy, I guess. Just enough of a criminal to warm my heart.

Have you all read this? HAVE YOU?? Why not? Get out a cold drink, turn on a little music, clear the schedule for a bit and dig in here: https://www.gayauthors.org/story/chris-lewis-gibson/thehousesinrossford Chris teases the story with this: "With guns in the cookie jar and condoms in the collection plate, no matter how ordinary this Indiana town may appear from the outside, inside the houses in Rossford, there’s never a dull day." These are some FUN people to read about. They're a big ole complicated family and they do some pretty unconventional, funny and sometimes heartbreaking and always well motivated things. I'm not one to gush. But I read these stories from start to (almost finished) in a day, pretty much in a sitting. It's funny. It's got great characters and an obviously fleshed out backstory. The characters are great, they evolve with the story, and the story evolves with them. It's just a great read and Chris is a great storyteller. So go give it a shot!

OH GOD THE SKY IS FALLING

Grand Rapids MI, Detroit MI and Buffalo NY. Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo ...is grammatically correct and actually means something: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo AND NOW I SEE THE LETTERS IN THE WORD BUFFALO AND THEY DON'T MEAN ANYTHING

I hope when I'm 60 to be as active as you are at 73.

Mozilla has a very lgbt friendly culture. And people that use it's products tend to be under 40 - people who are very tolerant of lgbt issues. They also use a lot of developers, mostly younger people as well. They need those developers - they are the engine that makes the company run, in a lot of ways. Eich's views about gay marriage - which he has never denied that he still has - threaten Mozilla's ability to keep the developers. I think that's why he had to go.

I'm running windows 8.1 and it's fine, I've got a start menu replacement running, and with it, it goes to the desktop, no need to use the touch interface at all. And MS is scrambling a bit to find a good way to reintegrate the start menu. It actually improved performance on my 6 year old laptop. I like windows 7 too, but 8 isn't torture. Windows XP will be around for a long time for systems that don't change or don't need the Internet. I have customers that use it in point of sale and shop floor systems that are dedicated to specific software, there's no reason to upgrade those. XP won't stop working, it just won't be kept up to date after April 8th. Don't let vulnerable systems on the Internet and run a good firewall and it will be fine for years to come.

"That's where the innocence is" LOL

I pretty much treated my high school career like a train in a continuous derailment. Lots of noise and dust and a wreck at the end, did a military enlistment that grew me up (much like college does). Got out of the military, got a decent little job as an inventory clerk at an automotive parts manufacturer, and worked my way into installing and building computers and servers for small business, something I've been pretty successful at for over 20 years, at least. I've spent a good chunk of change learning - probably as much as a college degree, but spent on technical schools and certifications. I am starting another class in a week, because at my age and in my profession, you're "old" at 45 and out of date at 50. I do this independently and I run my own business. I have a select group of small companies - some manufacturing, some more "office" type - but i know a lot of different people who work in all kinds of jobs, in many different industries. I know everyone from the kid on the forklift to the president at most of my clients. Its nice that I know enough to rattle off "how to do x on y computer", but it's also good to know how these places work, and have a bit of a voice in how they spend their money on technology. All without a college degree. Most of the folks I work with, at these small companies - they don't have degrees either. They're press operators, construction workers, pressmen at print shops, they're all over the map. They're good friends with their co-workers, good people to know. Solid, honest people with a good grounding in their families, their friends, their trips to Vegas, their cabin up north. Most will retire from where they are with a 20 year watch and a nice little pension, and then they'll go do something else - one guy retired as a press operator and started an online business with his kids. Can you be successful without a college degree? Absolutely YES. Can you be rich? Sure, but it's a lot harder. Most people don't try (but I do know at least two people that built nice little companies from nothing - one was a landscaper who built his business up and sold it for a few million. Another is a college dropout who went to work in the family business and made it take off. He'll sell it in a couple of years after the patriarch passes - and he'll make way more than a few million. And about that military stint of mine - it's the same as college at that age. It's a grinder - you go and work and party your ass off, and at the end of 4 years, you figure out if it's going to be a career or if it's not for you. But you learn how to be a grown up, and that's what it's about.

I always hated calling my friend Tim because his number had a zero and a 9 in it, it was such a pain - dial ALL the way around, then WAIT for it to come back, then dial AGAIN ugh AND THEN IT WOULD BE BUSY BECAUSE HIS SISTER WAS ALWAYS ON THE PHONE /firstworldproblemsfromthe70s

If I had any conversations - at all - with my parents about porn when I was thirteen, I'd have wanted to drown myself. We lived on a lake, it would have been pretty easy. Give him boundaries but also give him space. Please.

Thanks for the updates, Jim - I hope Dom's well. Do you have a link to the stories on line site? Thanks!

INB4 RICKY Redecorating Windsor Castle? Lipstick on a pig, man. Lipstick on a pig.

Excuse me. I'M REALLY BUSY THESE DAYS AND DON'T HAVE A LOT OF TIME TO READ BUT YOU PEOPLE ARE PUSHING ME INTO THIS STORY AND I CAN'T AFFORD TO GET SUCKED IN SO STOP IT THANKS A HELL OF A LOT MATT Carry on.

YOURE A HORRIBLE PERSON. and so I retaliate: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=13ZTstNLpEY

Baby wipes. They're not just for babies. THIS IS LIFE-CHANGING ADVICE. And y'all got it for free.

To make themselves feel superior, of course. It's not about the impact they make in an hour: it's about making themselves feel better about their pitiable lives in that moment. That's what it's like when you're thirteen and just got past those parental controls, I guess.

HERE'S your human rights violation - inside a men's room at Sochi: