From the monthly archives:

August 2009

Three’s Company, too.

August 31, 2009

After we were dating for a few weeks Shelly told me that she was married, but separated and in the process of getting a divorce. This didn’t make me too happy, as you might imagine, but you know, everyone is entitled to at least one ‘practice marriage’ to get you warmed up and ready for [...]

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A Long Time Coming…

August 29, 2009

After working at the hotel for a short time I was managing the catering and banquet side of the business, which included scheduling wait staff. This part of the job was pretty tricky, because like all food service business, mostly you need a bunch of people for a short period of time, but you have [...]

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Foundation and Empire, The Trilogy of Lust

August 27, 2009

This is a story that I’m surprised I totally forgot about, or maybe I blocked the memory, I don’t know.
I used to work for a major hotel chain in college. It started out as a part time waiter position in the banquet/catering department. My room mate at the time did room service there and told [...]

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Jobs can really suck

August 21, 2009

While working for a former employer, I was given a task that I had absolutely no desire for. We all have this sort of thing happen from time to time. Someone throws a couple folders on your desk, maybe you find out that Fred, who had the cubicle three spaces down is no longer with [...]

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Confronting Racism

August 16, 2009

Yesterday we were at my youngest brother Chuck’s house for a party. He has a Fourth of July shindig every year, but for whatever reason, it got pushed back and was scheduled for yesterday. Chuck is the guy you are sort of scared of if you see him running around somewhere in public. Or maybe [...]

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Drugs & Wasted Years

August 11, 2009

I could almost cry as I see my children perhaps straying upon a path I have taken that has not served me well. I would even go so far as to say that the path has pretty well taken possibilities either off my plate or delayed them for decades. And facing easy fact, we don’t [...]

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Port Call at Fort Dix

August 10, 2009

Before I went to Germany I got sent to Fort Dix, New Jersey. This was my ‘reporting station’ which means this was where I needed to be according to my orders. Fort Dix was right next to McGuire Air Force Base, which was where many overseas military flights to Europe originated. It was also where [...]

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Morp 2

August 7, 2009

So this was like the weirdest place for me to be. I had two girls who asked me out for the the same event? Inconceivable!
Yet there I was.
Like a total shitheel, I told Sherry that something had come up and I couldn’t go to the morp with her. I felt really badly, as she was [...]

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The Morp

August 6, 2009

Many schools have a tradition known as the Sadie Hawkins dance, or at least they used to. Probably most kids don’t have a clue what that means or where the phrase comes from, and that’s why our school decided to have a MORP instead. A morp is a prom where the girls ask the guys [...]

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Rocky Horror and When Pigs Fly

August 1, 2009

I played one of the main characters in “The Rocky Horror Show” when it was performed at a local theater. Actually I was in two different productions of that show, once playing Brad and once playing Riff Raff. Yeah, quite a difference with those two characters, but it was done four years apart and you [...]

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