The last two weekends in one issue

The last two weekends have been interesting. One I can talk about and the other I’m not sure I’m at liberty to speak about in depth so I won’t

Starting with the weekend which is the furthest from today. A friend got married more specifically a former significant other got married.

Now, before you go all shouldn’t this be in the WTF Wednesday file. I stop you and say, No it shouldn’t. I’m not sure if this is an odd thing or not but most of the women with whom I’ve been in relationships still talk to me and at least on some level consider me a friend.

Sometimes it is just hard to maintain those friendships because of distance and other reasons why friend don’t always remain close. I don’t really ask about it so I don’t know if this is odd or not but people seem to think it is a little strange when I mention it.

Anyway this friend AKA Texas asks, hey if I invited you to my wedding would you come. I said yes immediately. Then asked if there was a section for exes that I would have to sit in, she said no, that I was allowed to sit with everyone else like a regular person. See I am a regular person.

The way I see it is everyone has a past, no matter who you are and everyone will have a future. Now you may or may not be a part of that future just depends on how you deal with things. We never got that far in our relationship and this relationship seems to make her happy. So who am I really to say one way or the other if it’s a good one or not. It’s her life to live how she wants not how I or anyone else thinks she should.

When ever I mentioned I was going to Texas’s wedding, people would say, “Really, why the hell would you do that?”

I thought why wouldn’t I go? We were friends while we dated, and remained friends afterwards. Friends celebrate things in each other’s lives.

There were several people at the wedding who knew us as a couple and I got some pretty strange looks from a few people as well as some hey good to see you here. Then as the grape vine twists it was cycled back to me that some people thought I should not have gone and others who thought you know it was nice to see someone so evolved and able to be there. There were more of the latter than the former.

I’m not sure how evolved I am but I still don’t see why people can’t accept that people can remain friends even after they have been in relationships. Now I won’t say there weren’t some raw moments and hurt feelings at first. But in all honesty I owe this friend a lot because she was a key person in helping me to quit smoking something I had tried and failed to do many times before.

Her wedding by the way was very interesting and it was the first time I had ever seen both people cry their way through their vows usually it’s only one or the other. Mainly I’ve seen more men cry than the women Now many of you guys you may think you’re not in tune to your tears but you just might be standing there exchanging vows and looking across at the person whom you love. Just saying you may want to have that tissue handy.

This past weekend is the one which is respectfully classified. Classified not because it is OMG stuff but because I don’t always talk about everything in my life in here, there are a lot of things which are private and are not for general knowledge. I keep a secret well and don’t talk about things which should be private.

I will say that I had a very good time at one particular point and while I was nervous mainly because I was happy and looking forward to things. I don’t know where things go from here but isn’t that part of the enjoyment of life the not knowing, the anticipation and the looking forward to things and living in the moment. I’m still smiling a lot today because of that one point.

Sunday was Brand A’s birthday and I was able to meet her and Head Nod’s son for the first time. He is a very cute baby and seems to like me for what ever reason.

I got there a bit after several people, like maybe five minutes or so. But this worked out because my order was in later and when Brand A and everyone else go their food mine order was just going in so I was able to hold the baby and in a few moments of me holding him and doing the RLS leg bouncing things he was knocked out sleeping which he wasn’t doing for some reason. He didn’t seem fussy at all but now I guess I can add baby whisper to my list of nick names. Doodle came down at one point and hung out for a few minutes, was good to see her. I asked how she had gotten so tan this early in the year and she said, I was born this way. To which I said I was there No, and then someone else pointed out that it might have been believable if I didn’t have a very Irish complexion, i.e. very pale.

So it was a good weekend.

In other news

There isn’t any right now

Litter box thought

Well I didn’t mind the litter box tonight my thoughts were about other things.

That’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow

Happy Birthday if it’s your birthday and a very merry un birthday if it isn’t your birthday

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Listening to: Stunt boy playing Crysis 2 “cloak engaged” “Maximum armor”

Gamer Tag: invisible don

PO Box 4425 Roanoke VA 24015

I forgot what 8 was for

Out and about with invisible don

Friday I was out for Former Smoking Buddy’s birthday. She has it in the traditional place so if you have ever been to one of her birthday parties then you’ll know where we were, if you have not then you may not know where we were.

HK did not make it and neither did Jonzo. Brand A was there without Head Nod but he was watching their little one so that’s allowed. Jonzo stated he was ill and I’m not sure why HK did not come out. Also absent is the NOB (non official boyfriend).

Also there and not as yet named in the cast were The Cobra Charmer, Sparkle Gaga, The Daliha Gaga, (the gaga are together) the IQ Dummy AKA 50s pin up, and several others who haven’t gotten names and were not key in the events of the evening. But they are there at the parties.

So I arrive early but on time to the place. My waitress, who I’m pretty sure, was the devil helped me out. At first I didn’t think see was the devil herself but just an agent or at least a tour guide. However during the evening if you were looked around for her she wasn’t there but as soon as you said, oh hey I haven’t seen the waitress in a while. POOF she was right there with her black and red hair, silver lip piercing and her ready to please smile. Then she was not to be seen again until summoned.

Also there early was the Cobra Charmer and I know him but he doesn’t really know me. We meet every year at this party. He says, Hi in the same way our waitress the devil says may I get you something else and then flashes his ready to please you smile.

He never remembers our talks and then his smile is, well… you know how sometimes you wonder if someone is thinking something completely different than what they are saying. Yeah, well with him you kinda know he certainly is thinking something much different. Unless of course you bite at the first offers in the hello and I’m sure it’s a much different conversation from that point than any of the one that we have ever had.

The Cobra Charmer moves around in a dancing kind of way that if you’ve ever seen a snake charmer is his sort of movement. Which you know, I’m sure works for him with other people but in truth is the nicest nefarious person you’ll ever meet. From what I can tell he really is a good guy and his motto for sure is, nothing ventured, nothing gained and once he sees that he is fishing in the wrong pond you’re mostly safe but you know the door is always open.

Then Brand A arrived and we caught up and then more people started coming and then Former Smoking buddy arrived for her party. Lots of talking and catching up as the last shindig where all of us were present was in July.

Former Smoking buddy gets a plastic Tierra every year for her birthday. She always wears it and this year she got matching earrings. Sparkle Gaga got to wear the earrings on his nipples, only because they made him after he jokingly mentioned that he wanted to wear them. IQ Dummy AKA the 50’s pinup was the supplier of the crown.

IQ Dummy AKA The 50’s pinup works at the place where consenting players get things to play and was at a place in Vegas for other workers of places that sell things for people who play. These people are business people and most of them don’t talk shop all day long they have families to raise, bills to pay and all the other stuff all of us do.

However in Vegas a meeting of this type wouldn’t seem so far out of place as it would oh lets say any place in Kansas. However some people regardless of their profession talk shop all the time. Well AKA the 50’s Pinup had to remind a coworker of hers of this fact and said let me talk to the bigger people they like normal talk at these things like how are the kids yadda, yadda yadda… not how do you get a zipper unstuck on a gimp mask and doing lines of cocaine on someone’s clit. Yeah it was said, out loud too. It wasn’t the strangest thing said during the evening either.

However at this point I know I’m not probably but really and truly am the nerdiest kid on the block today. Then the Devil shows up, ‘Get you another sir?’ Oh sure why not the conversations is headed that direction anyway might as well enjoy the ride.

So fun stories of the night include, NOB might be more than one person in a single body, Less than zero and the incest pick up and the boy girls getting all box of jazzed about the juke box.

I don’t know NOB but he may be more than one person. I really don’t know more than that now but maybe someday. This was certainly one of those you had to be there conversation. I’m not sure I really understand it all and I was there.

The incest pick up story is common enough, you meet someone you start talking and then somewhere along the lines you get the feeling that you might be related to the person. Now the normal person says WHOA, back up we need to confirm this and not do anything else. OK see ya bye

Nope former smoking buddy was talking to someone, not any of the NOB, a whole other person. Less than Zero walks up starts taking and then says his name pretty early in the conversation. To which Former Smoking Buddy says, We might be related, To which Less Than Zero says, is that a problem? Ah … WTF? Yes, it certainly is and now even if we are not related if you think dating family is ok maybe you should move to Arkansas.

The boy girls at the juke box was just two guys with girl voices getting all OMG at the juke box jumping up and down while holding hands when they discovered Liza on the Juke Box, Ok don’t know what they discovered Liza on the juke box but it surely wasn’t speed metal based on their reaction. Maybe this is also one of those you had to be there kind of thing to truly appreciate it sort of thing...yeah…well, moving on then.

Then the conversation turned to Roanoke being compared to a black hole slash a 1984 Big Brother slash Stepford Wives slash any really freaking 50s Sci fi movie sort of place.

You know you don’t want to be here but you can’t seem to find a way to escape and the longer you stay the more you become one of them and forget about the rest of the world and just accept that this is all there is and it get deeper. Because the longer you are here the less of Roanoke you actually do into. Mainly people in Roanoke know a quarter of the city and the down town. No where else. They don’t even go anywhere else in the city except the malls.

Ask any life time residence if they have ever been to some place in another quadrant and they will look at you as if you’ve said, so have you tried the salad bar in hell I hear it’s nice. And then say something to let you know they don’t want to talk about that part of town any more EVER. If you haven’t guessed I’m not from here. I go anywhere in the city but I have a sneaky feeling I’m becoming ONE OF THEM… shudder. Actually I’ve lived here longer than anywhere else in my life. I do go other places besides my sector though. Which gets me a lot of do we know you looks complete with raised eyebrow.

The Star is the big beacon that draws everyone back here. Seriously ask any one who lives in Roanoke about the Star and they will look at you with that ready to please and say in an eager tone, ‘Have you been to the STAR?’ The whole time looking at you with their eyes all wide and smiling at you and then will automatically offer to take you if you haven’t been. It’s like a creepy 50s movie and you are bathed in the transformer rays of the STAR into a Roanoke Person.

I know strange huh, ask about it though. I’ve been to the STAR but really only when I first came here when I started dating THE EX and now only when new people come to town….ARGH… I am one of them…Let me go kill myself a little bit.

Ok I’m better now.

So moving on the birthday party was two parts, Part one in Cuba and Part two was the Pie Tasters at another place. So now it’s time to go to Part Two which involves getting the tabs paid, and POOF the devil appears with her pierced and eager smile and lilt come again.

So we get to the other place and the gaggle of smokers is outside as you can not smoke in this club but you can in Cuba, I forget to mention you could in the other place and everyone but Brand A and I smoke. I used to I don’t think Brand A ever has smoked. I would have been out there with all the others but not no more and good thing too because it was cold. As in wow I’m glad I wore a jacket it is cold out.

The Pie Tasters are a SKA band if you know SKA you know it, if you don’t think Madness and very early No Doubt. Mostly the crowd didn’t look like a SKA crowd but more of a pompous, I’m better than you sort of assholish sort of crowd. I was soon to find out drunken was also an adjective which would be helpful.

Lite T was one of the bouncers, I say Lite T because I think in his head he looks more like Mr. T than he does actually. I think the Red Mohawk throws it into the Lite category along with the absent hundred pounds of bling and lastly the not so muscled structure.

Now Lite T was certainly able to bench a buck fifty but that’s gonna be tops. His helper No Neck Magee could curl Lite T with the buck fifty and drink a beer with the other hand. So I’m not sure why Lite T was there except maybe to take the punches so that No Neck Magee could grab you and crush you while you were distracted by the Red Mohawk.

Lite T was all about enforcing the 12 inches from the stages line to which every girl on the front row said, so the length of my cock right. Yes, five girls said it. Le sigh. Girls have such potty mouths these days. One of cock girls had on a mini dress and a rock the size of a walnut. Her husband did everything she said to do except talk. I didn’t hear him utter a peep the whole night.

Now onto the Drunken players there was the Drunken BBC with hair. He seriously looked like the BBC with hair except that he was falling down drunk. Literally I had to pick him up off the floor a couple of times to keep him from being stepped upon and wallowing on a bar floor is just gross. Trust me I’ve cleaned them before it isn’t pretty.

Drunken Mosh girl is next and she was a whole ass, seriously if you are the only one moshing at the dance you should probably not be moshing. SKA is more of an up and down fun sort of feel not an angry toss your elbows and bang off of people sort of crowd. There is nothing wrong with a good mosh, I know I’ve been in the pit a time or two boots and all. Now Drunken Mosh girl got popped by Former Smoking buddy and the mini dress. Former Smoking Buddy got pushed by Drunken Mosh Girl and if looks could kill she would have died but Former smoking buddy just she tossed her back into the waiting arms of the idiot guy she was with. Then Mini Dress punched her because Drunken Mosh girl grabbed her rack. Mini Dress’s husband held her beer while she readjusted.

At this point Lite T finally pulled drunken Mosh Girl out of the bar. While her idiot boy made faces behind Lite T. I’m thinking your date is being escorted out and you are going neener, neener to the bouncer. Hmmm, did you play with plastic bags on your head or were you other wise oxygen deprived for a long periods as a child.

Next up was the Drunken Rabbi, I’m not sure why he wanted to talk to me and I’m pretty sure he was hitting on me. I’m not sure why but this was sort of the theme of the night.

The Drunken BBC was not to be out done though on the drunken scale. Wanna be Cooler Guy with Hat, had his long term girl with him. You could tell they were long term and lived together because she stayed there. If she had lived else where or even drove her own car she would have left his drunken Hat there. Only because she knew he was only going to be at the same place she was sleeping later and the only thing keeping her here was gravity. Wanna be Cooler Guy with Hat didn’t realize that Gravity Girl was highly pissed off. He kept trying to make out with her and she kept knocking him down. Gravity Girl may have weighed a buck maybe. Wanna Be Cooler Guy with Hat had a good fifty pounds and a scraggly beard and probably ten gallons of PBR in him. At one point I was worried about being in the splash zone of Wanna be Cooler Guy with Hat and the BBC with hair.

So at some point Blondie Locks starts talking to me about who was drunker, The Rabbi, The BBC with Hair or Wanna Be Cooler Guy with Hat she was also worried about the splash zone thing and we had plan that if one looked as if they were about to blow we would turn them away from the other of us. It’s really hard to watch three drunks on your own. Blonide Locks was with I’m going to hold the wall up at the table and not having a good time guy. I was relatively close to the stage and in easy reach of the bar if need be.

We Blondie Locks and I, discussed how it was that The BBC with Hair had a date who was more into the band and I think in particular the bassist and we know that he didn’t really know she was up within Lite T’s Zone of protection.

Then Mini Dress also got in on the betting of who would spew but I think her money was on Wanna Be Cooler Guy with Hat. While mine was one the BBC with hair. Blondie Locks didn’t pick a favorite but had odds that the BBC with Hair wasn’t 21. I certainly thought they all might blow at one point or other

I noticed was that once mini dress and blondie locks started hanging around where I was standing the Drunken Rabbi disappeared that is until last call, now I’m really pretty sure he was hitting on me. All and all it was a good time. I lost Former Smoking Buddy, AKA 50s Pin up and Mr. and Ms Gaga at the end of the night. They had gone out to smoke and I didn’t see them come back and then went out to look for them but couldn’t find them and then last call had been rang so there was no going back in even with a stamp. And all the better too I was able to avoid the whole confirmation of the Drunken Rabbis plan I just left.

Very good party, the people watching was great fun. Happy Birthday to Former Smoking Buddy.

That’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow

Happy Birthday if it’s your birthday and a very merry un birthday if it isn’t your birthday

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Listening to: The White Stripes – Rag and Bone and The Violent Femmes

Gamer Tag: invisible don

PO Box 4425 Roanoke VA 24015

...what would your mother think

So I was out last night, with Hoover and the BBC. I know on a school night too. Now you are probably thinking nothing good can come from this. Well if it were a more dangerous crew then you would be right. Before you relax, we are not harmless… well we are mostly harmless but not to be trifled with for sure.

There wasn’t really a grand occasion for going out. The BBC was in town on a school night which he usually isn’t now that he has moved away. The last time I was able to grab a drink, chat and catch up with the BBC was at Hoover’s wedding. Hoover had other things to do following his wedding than hang out with the BBC and me. I know how rude.

So Hoover and I get to the place at about the same time. Walk in and the BBC is missing. Hoover says, he said he was here. I bet he went to the wrong one. Yup he did. We order and are two fingers into a beer when the BBC gets there.

Now it is time to break into the guy-ble, bro code, the card carrying members of the manly men club. This includes catching up, comparing work stories, telling jokes, throwing one another under the bus, telling embarrassing stories and just having the time out to relax, let our hair down so to speak. Hoover and the BBC can’t really let their hair down and mine stayed neatly bound in back.

Boys being boys, we toss out a bit of locker room humor, which one game is who could randomly get the phrase “that’s what she said” into the conversation after something that someone else had said.

The BBC won that game after something I said, I won’t repeat it because it was said in entirely different context than it would be taken with the phrase “That’s what she said” following it. Well that and the fact that I don’t really remember what it was I said so guessing would just make it worse and probably not funny either.

Yes, you are correct, we, men do revert back to middle school a little bit in groups of three or more. Most of us don’t linger there in middle school for very long but we do make the trip there now and again. So of you ladies make that trip too.

We all worked at the same place once upon a time. Hoover and I still do but the BBC does not. The BBC used to sit near my desk before my exile to Ile du Diable and it was at his desk that Hoover mentioned his interest in his now wife. We, the BBC and I, encouraged this as a very good idea, which it obviously was as they have gotten married now.

The BBC is currently dating someone, who both Hoover and I encouraged him to ask out independently of one another in this case. I was able to get some information to him when there was an opportunity to ask her out. They seem to be very happy, no wedding plans that we know of yet.

Yes, that’s right girls we are just like you we try to get each other matched up with the girls of our dreams, just like you do with us. We aren’t all locker room humor and gross and disgusting things. There are some of us out here that still resemble human beings and even some of us who actually are real stand up guys. We just pretend to be dimwits when we are in groups of three or more.

Off of the girl stuff and into other things like the fact that we had the rare opportunity to witness the very worst in live entertainment. Imagine if you will, or dare, a mix of Aldo Nova, Al Jarreau and Bob Marley. Then mix in a bit of Linkin Park. Oh yes, it was indeed the stuff of night mares. I seriously thought about asking the management how much it would cost to get them to not play any longer and think of trying to get a collection going to pay them to stop. I’m sure I could have gotten the money, probably really rather quickly.

At some point the BBC realized that the seat in which he was sitting was a bit sticky and then put a paper napkin on the seat to minimize the harm to his pant but the paper napkin ended up stick to his pants too and in a rather unfortunate spot.

I did really well with the smoked filled bar and only really wanted to grab a cigarette out of the hand of the lady sitting next to us once. I would have smoked it but the feeling passed after a few minutes. When I put on my jacket this morning I reached in the pocket and my hand hit the pack of gum in my mind I thought oh man did I buy cigarettes and was really relieved that it was only the gum, two and half years now.

No Warlock Vatican Assassins or other Sheen-isms in the stories, and you were thinking that it was something terribly exciting because I wasn’t allowed to blog last night. Well there are a few reasons for this is because I’ve omitted some details and will still be omitting them for now.

Another reason is because blogging after a night out with the boys is something akin to drunk dialing but you reach out to more than one number, but it is equally hard to understand, the spelling gets much worse and I may have remembered that comment and not had the good sense to leave it out and that I would bet would have been really rather unfortunate.

However, like drunk dialing once you get it not your head not to do that you have to do it and knowing me I had to have something to type so I thought I would leave a Carlos Estevez Blog like message or I would have just ended up typing something very hard to follow, poorly written and maybe including things I’ve omitted, aren’t you glad I waited. I know I am.

In other news

I am happy, nervous, smiling, and wondering a lot of things and trying to sit on my hands but all I really want to do is see if I really can fly…think a happy thought …second star to the right and straight on ‘til morning.

In other, other news

It is now only one. The last of the block crew is me.

That’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow

Happy Birthday if it’s your birthday and a very merry un birthday if it isn’t your birthday

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Listening to: Pink -Perfect

Gamer Tag: invisible don

PO Box 4425 Roanoke VA 24015

You stink pretty

The title really has nothing to do with anything other than it was the quote of the day from yesterday. props to KT for coming up with that one.

Yesterday was a pretty good day ended up going in to work for a bit. (yuck- what I want to know is when did I become a grown up? I'm not liking the idea and refuse - well I'll refuse on my own time but still it's a refusal so from the big chair pthtththth ala edith-anne )

Then went to the Taubman Museum - ah 3 something for a cookie? Hello. When did a cookie become a high priced thing? for 50 cent more I can get a box of them from the girl scouts so I'll do that.

Other than the cookie sticker shock it was a good tour, saw some really interesting pieces and some that I well ... art is art and if it moves you it does. I still think Andy Warhol is a fraud who was ... you know I'm not going to his freakin ghost probably thrives on the talking about him. So dry up and blow away fraud.

I can't pick a favorite photo or painting because there we too many, I did really like the sculpture rise sally rise and the mirror boy was cool even if he is a bit creepy

the adventure continued to the waterheater where we saw the rescue birds from NYC - they were OK - there was one song I really like and I didn't catch the name the rest of it was a lot like a lot of other female bands

Red Clay River also played and they were great. I enjoyed the show

Then it was back to the grown up world of grocery shopping and chores around the house. Went to bed at a reasonable time and got up late because it's the weekend.

I am uber-excited that George W has two more nights and a wake up before he is not the Pres. any longer. Then it will be one more and a wake up. So the day I have to go back to work at the end of that day we will have a new president. This is awesome stuff.