colinian

The test nailed me perfectly: Oakland, Fremont, and San Jose. All are in the San Francisco Bay Area, which is where I was born, raised, went to school including high school at Las Lomas (2007) in Walnut Creek which is about 16 miles east of downtown Oakland. I attended the University of California in Berkeley which is 6 milles north of Oakland. I've lived in Berkeley since I started going to school there in 2007, two years in the Foothill dorm, the rest of the time in a house 3 miles from the center of the campus. Colin

I didn't think about that. My next door neighbors get their meds through the mail other than an injectable which comes by FedEx. I can see how parcel post could disappear and be taken over by UPS and FedEx. I don't know if that's a money-maker for the USPS, but if it is their financial picture could become more bleak. Colin

Where I live in Berkeley there are a lot of older people. Many of them can't leave the house without assistance. They would have a big problem if the USPS shut down home delivery. Colin

Doug and I and my brother Chris and his boyfriend Steve live in a small house in Berkeley. We moved here when we started our junior years at UC Berkeley to save money. Every year we "put up" two table-top size decorated artificial trees in our living room and a wreath on the front door. That's it, because we all go home to our respective parent's homes usually the weekend before Christmas and return on the day after New Year's. When we get home we put our two little trees and the wreath away. Colin

A cute story. Teddy bears are good for recovery or just to have and hold when you're lonely and bored. Colin

This is a very cute story with an irritated protagonist and a cutie in Kayla. And poor Bryton; he's being yelled at and it's not his fault. Note to Ayla: "When there are little kids around, assume that you're walking through a minefield. Because you are!" Note to Bryton: "If Ayla only has the TV for entertainment, she's going to be brain dead before the 6 weeks are up. So how come she doesn't have a Kindle or a tablet? Buy her one!" Colin

(This is a slight diversion.) When my little sister was just starting to talk, she used "flutterby" whenever she saw a butterfly. I thing flutterby makes more anatomical sense than butterfly, and it's a cute sounding word, too. Colin

I'm the webmaster for Codey's World. We censor stories. We have a submission policy that is clear yet ambiguous enough so it lets us make decisions that push the edges of the policy both to make it less inclusive and more inclusive — mores change over time. Our submission policy is censorship: Our submission policy is simple: No gratuitous or graphic sex, drug usage, or violence, and no Fan Fiction. Almost anything else is acceptable. Who's the judge? We prefer authors to self-censor what they submit to Codey's World. Otherwise, there are several of us who review unsolicited manuscripts and make the decision if a story is accepted or declined. Why do we have a submission policy that censors what we allow on the site? It's because we have a lot of young teens who visit the site, and we cater to that audience. And it's the policy that Codey established when he started the site. Nothing graphic. Talk about two guys having sex but keep it off-stage and watch your language and how you're describing what's going on off-stage. Too steamy for Codey's World? Submit it to our parent site, AwesomeDude, or to GA or Nifty or someplace else. Colin

11:43 p.m. on Sunday October 12, 2013. I'm signed on to GA reading the latest forum posts. Then I'll get back to a story I'm writing. Colin

It's 12:56 a.m. and I'm avoiding working on a story I need to finish. Colin

Hey, Ieshwar, Happy Birthday! I'm glad to see you're still older than me. Almost exactly two months by my reckoning. So, how's it going, old man? Colin

Here are (somewhat belated) Happy Birthday greetings, Cia! I hope it was a great one and that you had a fun time. Colin

Cross Country Skiing. I have a great set of skis and accessories. We live close enough to the Sierra Nevada to go up whenever the conditions are good and we have the time during the winter. Colin

Are You Scared Yet is also posted on AwesomeDude (http://awesomedude.com/jjjanicki/). Colin

I always single space following a period (full stop). I always use the Oxford comma. Colin