MikeL

CRT? Just kidding, CJ. I had one of those monsters until switching to a flatscreen a couple of years ago (an LG 23.5" HD monitor which looks just like the TV in our guest room). There's a world of difference. Go ahead; treat yourself.

ryot (Definition: a farmer or tiller of the soil.)

Happy Birthday, Lughcifer! (I trust this is no April Fool's joke.)

radiogoniometer (Definition: instrument for finding direction through radio signals)

Winner, Wet T-shirt Contest, Belarus, 2011

You youngsters don't know it yet, but you will revisit this issue later in life. It doesn't matter what your sexuality is. If you have children, the issue is the same. Not long after our youngest son married, he and his wife were visiting and he asked what they should call us. I know that he was asking permission to call us by our first names. My response was, "Mom and Dad will be fine". That's what he had called us most of his life. I can't imagine ever having called my father by his first name. It would have been disrespectful. So, my sons and their wives all call us Mom and Dad. There's never any confusion about whom they are addressing.

Weird! I mean that in the best possible way.

Ah. Loving feedback. The best kind.

Facebook is fraught with problems. I've long been concerned about the lack of privacy and kicked the social network out of my life several years ago after a picture of one of my grandchildren appeared on a totally unrelated web site. It had been lifted from my Facebook profile and was presented for all the world to see on a for profit site as if it were a picture of me. I've not regretted leaving Facebook for a single minute. I'm much happier spending my time cultivating real friendships with real people. You previously blogged about Facebook friends versus Facebook freaks. Today you were subjected to the insensitivity of one of those freaks. Do you really need "friends" like that? You have Westie. And you are certainly no loser. Anyone who thinks that is no friend.

Trevor's Sports Bar is fine, too. Or Trevor's joint. Nah...maybe not joint.

"Sports Bar" sounds good.

indifferentism (Definition: the belief that all religions are equally valid)

rodomontade (Definition: bluster; boasting; bragging speech)

vauclusian (Definition: of a spring in which water is expelled by artesian pressure)

No need to apologize, Zombie. It appears you have the "touch". I can't do it today, so I'll have to rest on the laurels demonstrated in my pictures. No trumpets? TADA That egg is not very fresh now, is it?

erogenesis (Definition: induction of sexual desire; production of arousal)

meconophagist (Definition: consumer of opium or heroin)

chromatocracy (Definition: government by rulers of a particular skin color)

onomamania (Definition: mania for names)

edacious (Definition: voracious; gluttonous; pertaining to eating)

adelphogamy (Definition: sharing of a wife by two or more brothers)

Hmmm....I made the change you suggest on my Windows 7 machine and it significantly degraded the appearance of all fonts. Did you by any chance get a pirated copy of the OS?

See: https://www.gayauthors.org/forums/topic/34395-say-it-aint-so/page__view__findpost__p__349963

Yay! The goat lives. We are far enough in the story now that waiting an extra week is a no-brainer. Who would read 115 chapters and then quit because there is a two week wait between chapters? At least we aren't left waiting two years as is the habit of some authors.