I've got to...

Get a life!

Or learn to write as well as my friend Zeldapinwheel

http://zeldapinwheel.diary-x.com

She's studing for school. Visit her and fill up her post box with senseless questions about serving margaritas to six year olds.

Miss you k. Good luck in exams!

Ah... the internet

I tracked down my crush.

Causes me to wonder as I think back on it, What was life trying to teach me?

I can say without a doubt that I didn't learn it and life is still trying! I hear it banging against my door even now...

When I gave her the valentine flower, she wasn't repulsed. She didn't make fun of me as I feared. She was suprised and very curious.

After my graduation from University, she lived for a time less that a 2 minutes walk from where I grew up and now live. I had no idea...

Why has life felt it important to bring her "back into my life" two decades later. (I'm thinking the "two decades later" has something to do with it.)

For those interested. She's married(? I assume it must be happy) and living in a small town in the midwest. Her name is no longer "Hill".

The town I grew up in was a little over 10k. It was a beautiful place. You knew pretty much everyone one. It was predominately one color, one class, small town America.

I'd really have to love someone and someplace to move out to the middle of nowhere middle America. (I like snow, but not THAT much)

No Opera. *Gasp!* No modern art. No world class symphonies and symphony halls. (God bless the Bass and the Meyerson!)

Architects make those great buildings possible, *plug, plug*. Hire an architect today!!

Good for her. Maybe I'll drop her a line.

On that note, I called my ex, the one who blessed me with HSV-2, to invite her to an A&M game.

Left a message.

Saddly, I don't expect one in return.

Self Examination

My 20th high school reuion is coming up. "20" sounds so odd. Has it really been THAT long? Yes. The great conveyor belt of life moves forward.

A friend of mine I've known since kindergarden, has a 16 year old. I should be guiding my own childen through school. That's in the future. Haven't had them yet. Just a technicality.

Instead I have a Woody.
A one eyed Woody that is....
my cat.
Before January of this year, I had no idea you could drop $1,000.00 on eye surgery for pets.
One eyed dogs. No eyed dogs, bumping into walls as they made their way to the waiting room. And then there is MY cat. Folks don't call them "babys" for nothing. (I'm talking about both the pets and owners! I was in a panic!!)

On the way home from work the other day, I noticed a young woman who was overdressed for the time and area. And "call girl" came to mind. We have laws against women, or men, from having sex in exchange for cash. Now I'm not opposed to the law. But the sound of locking someone up because they have sex for a living rang odd to me as I thought about it.

It's not illegal to have sex for free.

It's not illegal to pay for pornography via internet (been there, done that).

It's not illegal to have sex for the price of dinner.

You can go to a bar, or a dance club looking for a one night stand.

It's not illegal to have sex with someone not your spouse.

You can give someone a communicable disease that will affect anther's for life.

It's not illegal to have sex on public property. (see "former Pres. from Ar.)

The church works over time to control it...

If you sign contracts and put it on film, you can rent or sell it for cash.

Media use it to sell us everything from jewelry to Uncle Ben's Rice, but if cash changes hands and penitration occurs, then it's "illegal".

Now, I don't want prostitutes in my neighborhood. I dont' want them soliciting me as I fill my gas tank. I don't want them slowing traffic as I head to work.

I don't want my future children growing up to use sex to make a living.

But if she becomes a model....

Or he gets a job in television...

Where both are sold to hundreds of thousands, it's societally "OK".

But if it's one on one...it's a no no.

All you have to do is make sure the money collected from the services rendered is distributed to as many folks as possible and you're fine.

HUH?!?