Yesterday’s post inspired me to dig up this gem of a sign from October 2006—possibly my favorite sign ever—photographed in an “adult” store in NYC:

Patrick is convinced there’s something dead in our furnace vents. He smells something bad, he says. It’s disgusting, says he.
I smell nothing.
He’s been unscrewing grills, shining flashlights through ductwork, being a little HVAC detective for almost an hour now. I find it amusing, and kinda cute. I suppose I’ll be grateful if he actually finds [...]

I haven’t even thought about blogging in the last month, and I completely stopped reading blogs, too.
I was initially a little ashamed that I did a big redesign, then wrote just two posts in two months… but I’m over that now.
This is what’s working for my life, and that’s all that matters. I’ll post [...]

Patrick and I are leaving for San Francisco in a few hours - and we’ll be gone a whole week!
We’re going back for Pride since we had such an amazing time in 2004.
And yes, the North Caroline Boys, David & Chris, whom we met during that eventful trip two years ago, are meeting us there [...]

I’m thinking it might be time for a redesign of this place. The thought of a redesign intrigues me, maybe even enough to start publishing and/or posting more frequently. The visual rejuvenation usually gets me interested in blogging again…
The problem is that I have no idea what I want things to look like now. I [...]

I’ve got a half-dozen posts here set to “draft” rather than “publish” because making my thoughts public doesn’t seem appealing right now. See, I’ve been posting, just nobody knows it…
Why am I not in the mood to publish? Most posts lately have gone in two distinct directions: either more personal than usual, or more… annoyed [...]

From the barely-18-years-old-if-that gay boy next to me at the club last night, after taking his first ever hit of poppers:
“Wow… this is so weird. I feel like I’m on drugs or something!”

We’ve been busy the last couple weeks helping Baxter adjust to his new home. He wasn’t socialized at all as a puppy, so lots of things are new and “scary.” Outside the house, and especially outside the yard, his tail’s always between his legs. There are just so many unknown sights, sounds, and people. He’s [...]

Thanks to all of you, Patrick and I had a multitude of suggestions available in our search for the perfect name for the new addition to our household.
There were a ton of great ones, though we had a tendency to dislike each other’s favorites, so that made things complicated. We most seriously considered Rufus, Reno [...]

Reno is not the armpit of the world.
It’s more like the elbow. Useful, but often unwashed.
I do have to tell you: On the way there (at about hour 5), we passed a billboard advertising Battle Mountain, NV (”The Gateway to America’s Outback”) that said, “Voted ‘The Armpit of America’ by the Washington Post!”
I swear [...]