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23 entries this month
13:57 Mar 31 2023 Times Read: 247
Friday.
Fuck yeah. And next week I only have to work Monday and Tuesday.
I need a break from this. It hurts my head, there's so little thinking involved.
17:32 Mar 30 2023 Times Read: 262
I feel like today is Friday. It's not Friday but it really feels like it is.
Every time I remind myself it's not Friday, my motivation to do even the smallest tasks just tanks.
17:03 Mar 30 2023 Times Read: 267
My job is so boring I find myself spending way way way too much time between my Tumblr and Reblogme accounts...
16:59 Mar 29 2023 Times Read: 278
Fuck the balance.
Where is my whiskey?
22:10 Mar 28 2023 Times Read: 316
Trying to find that happy balance between taking care of myself and just letting it all go to shit...
18:59 Mar 26 2023 Times Read: 335
My favorite breakfast place is closing permanently next month. Very disappointing. The current owners just took it over about 2 years ago. They seemed to be doing well. Always a little busy in there...
Dammit.
14:37 Mar 24 2023 Times Read: 350
I have my own office! They moved retiring old man out to a different area!
Yay!
21:12 Mar 23 2023 Times Read: 358
Read that script again with less tired eyes.
That all gonna need a helluva lot of editing before it's fit for public consumption.
13:51 Mar 23 2023 Times Read: 380
I figured out what I wanted to do last night.
I wrote a 6 page movie script based on my interpretation of the story told in the song Hotel California.
If you could imagine, it is a story about a vampire society.
"You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave."
14:44 Mar 22 2023 Times Read: 415
I feel like I have deprived myself of artistic creativity lately.
What should I endeavor to create? I need some inspiration.
Mind you my main mediums are photography, film and writing.
17:18 Mar 21 2023 Times Read: 442
For those of you looking at these questions and don't want to answer in a public view, you can do so by private message.
Whom among you are into erotic stories?
14:41 Mar 20 2023 Times Read: 469
Ok, let's say you don't have a partner to explore your kinks with. Do you still explore your kinks?
14:50 Mar 19 2023 Times Read: 512
What kinds of naughty, kinky things?
Erotic stories?
Erotic images?
Erotic movies?
14:34 Mar 18 2023 Times Read: 535
Do you like naughty, kinky things?
21:54 Mar 16 2023 Times Read: 554
Remember when Elf said, "You're not Santa! You smell like beef and cheese!"
If you want to know what that smells like, I invite you come sit with the guy I have to share an office with.
Oy.
00:07 Mar 16 2023 Times Read: 579
I found out today that a person I have been friends with for 30 years passed away in her sleep Monday night.
Younger than me. Three kids, all about the same ages as my three kids. Just poof. Gone. No warning. At least none that she ever let on outside of her most personal circles.
I just did graduation photos for her daughter, and family portraits for her family a couple summers ago.
She was a wonderful mom. Wonderful person. When we were younger, she was the pot stirrer. Always looking for trouble. The one I couldn't get to quit smoking no matter what I tried.
Story time?
We worked together when we were young. I had my own place (lived with just my widowed grandmother) but I had to be the everything for that household, while balancing full time school, and full time employment. Every Memorial Day I hosted a picnic/party for my friends and co-workers. Had a sand volleyball court with lights - we'd make a bonfire and play until the neighbors called the cops. Dinner, desserts, drinking games, music and friends all being friends.
One year I wasn't planning a party because I had tickets to see a Metallica show about a 60 mile drive away. My friend (who I mentioned above) said I had to have a party. She would host it as long as the party was at my place. I pondered that. I told her, "You have to take care of my grandmother. If she gets angry about anything... hell to pay." My friend agreed.
The day of I got the grill going and had the food prepared. She showed up with the drinks, and a few friends, and I left for the show. By all accounts, it was a party just as I would have had it. I got home close to 1AM, and there were about 10 people left, sitting around the bonfire, listening to music and just hanging out. My friend put together dinner for my grandmother. Everything was cleaned. Leftovers in the fridge. I had no need to worry.
That's the kind of person she always was.
Today is a sad day.
22:04 Mar 14 2023 Times Read: 603
A couple folks said they want to hear the story, so here it goes:
Way back then, I felt like I didn't have very much communication in my life that wasn't business oriented. I ran my own business. Most of my time each day was tied up with making business happen. I had a spouse who didn't talk to me unless she wanted me to do something, or had a complaint, so I was looking for social interaction that could be had a bit passively while running my business.
I found these forums. I forget what the name of them was, but the parent website was broken into dozens upon dozens of forums that you could join. The forums all had their own topics, and individual members could petition the site to open their own forum. Most of them were pretty immature. A few were interesting and I found interesting people in them, but over time I grew to realize that the majority of members were trolls, and shit stirrers. and most of the forums were just places where lonely people went to vent their life problems. The forums had chat areas, which were almost unbearable woe-is-me pissing contests daily.
So someone that I met made the suggestion that I try out this new'ish place, Vampire Rave.
My reaction was... "Vampires? WTF? Are you serious?"
But I scoped it out. Honestly, there was still a pretty good level of woe-is-me pissing contests here, and as you probably know, a number of trolls... but not nearly as bad. I did meet some pretty outstanding people here. A couple right away, and they seemed surprised that I honestly didn't have any ulterior motives beyond just getting to know people, and trying to have intelligent discourse.
And that is what kept me here. The people I met. A small circle of people, that made this interesting. A short time after joining, with my business, I landed a contract that got me doing work all over the United States, so I was able to meet many of those people face to face, and truly get to know them as people, not just members of this site.
And often met them in such unusual ways.
"Hey, just got kicked off my flight and I'm stuck in a city nearby you. Want to grab dinner?"
Shit like that.
Amazing how many people agree. I could have been a crazy serial killer. Or actually a VAMPIRE! And they would just be like, "Shit yeah, let's hang!"
Life is weird, man.
But 17 years later and this account, however infrequently signed into, is still here.
22:01 Mar 13 2023 Times Read: 631
So this May will be 17 years since I joined this site?
Holy fuckcannolis....
Who wants me to tell the story of how I ended up here?
01:20 Mar 11 2023 Times Read: 660
Maybe I should go look at my society.
I haven't done that, I don't think, since maybe September...
20:13 Mar 10 2023 Times Read: 677
No one?
I find that extremely hard to believe.
00:45 Mar 10 2023 Times Read: 706
I'll take over where Lord Mogy left off.
So... who likes to be spanked?
00:47 Mar 09 2023 Times Read: 736
What? Lord Mogy left?
What the fuck, dude?
22:47 Mar 07 2023 Times Read: 766
Remember when I used to host cooking shows on the webcam feature here?
Wow... that was.... over a decade ago....
Yeah, I'm still a really good cook. So, there's that.
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COMMENTS
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vormel
15:41 Mar 31 2023
Bravo!
birra
18:18 Apr 01 2023
Yes, I feel like I'm already on vacation even though I have 2 days to work before I'm actually on vacation....