Rudynate

I think "happiness" is the wrong goal. My days are filled with moments of joy and contentment and moments of deep frustration. But in general, I wouldn't describe myself as a very happy person. But I'm a very satisfied person. I have worked hard and developed my skills and my intellect. My income is in line with my professional and intellectual development. My work is very challenging. It's something that only a few people are up to doing. My personal trainer tagged me on his instagram page a few days ago and said I have a "fiery determination to be the best." I get a lot of satisfaction from "my fiery determination to be the best," but it isn't all a bed of roses.

My partner loves fresh fruit. Periodically, he forgets that it isn't a "free"food like green vegetables and starts putting away 4 or 5 servings in a day. Inevitably, he starts to put on belly fat. When he wonders why he's getting fat in spite of eating well, I always have to remind him to rein in the fruit. He makes that one change and in 2 or 3 weeks the gut is gone.

One time, I was going through the checkout line at the grocery store. The checker was scanning my meat, fish, fresh vegetables, fruit, etc . She suddenly asked, "Who fixes all this?" I said, "I do." She smiled and raised her eyebrows and didn't say anything.

I'm off of hiring just now. I don't know whether it's permanent or just a mood I'm in.

I decided to leave that unsaid.

They might be in the wrong business.

To me, that falls into the category of "just common sense." Nobody can take a gut punch without bracing their abs. It's the whole point of this particular fetish- how much can you take? Guys with strong abs who can really brace them can take a lot.

I loved to go to the barbershop with my father. The barbershop charged more for kids on Saturday. So he would wake me up early on a weekday, we would go to a diner for coffee (cocoa for me) and doughnuts, then to the barbershop. The shop was owned by a good-looking Italian guy named Carl and he had his equally sexy younger brothers, Tony and Sammy working there too. I had little-boy crushes on all three of them. Sometimes we were the first customers. The men would all sit there smoking and chatting while I got my hair cut. It's a very fond memory.

I can't remember the last time I heard it. Its not surprising that some wouldn't recognize it. Also, it was only used by a certain type of guy. I never once heard my father say it.

I only ask if seriously interested, partly out of consideration for the guy, but also as a time management tool. I dont like to spend a lot of time cruising RM, but sometimes, the flesh is weak and I have to trick myself into limiting my time spent there.

It helps a lot of he has great abs. I don't think it would be much fun if he didn't have fabulous abs. Punching a guy with great washboard abs in the gut is very sexy.

I had a FB a long time ago and we got into gut-punching. He introduced me to it, and I've never done it with anyone else. It was very, very hot. But that also may have been a result of a strong chemistry between us.

I met the guy who played Mr. Whipple in the Charmin' commercials. I worked in management at an upscale hotel. A bunch of "D-list" celebrities were staying in the hotel for some sort of fundraiser. I was chatting with Mr. Whipple and, without my asking, he whipped out one of his headshots, autographed it and handed it to me. It was mildly astonishing.

They're sort of in the same part of the city. The Curran Theater is close to Union square. I've only been to the Nob Hill Cinema once and I don't quite remember where it is.

And then there's the Kelvin scale, which makes even more sense. 0 on the Kelvin scale is absolute zero- total absence of thermal energy.

OTOH,a freezing point of 0 and a boiling point of 100 makes a lot more sense than a freezing point of 32 and a boiling point of 212.

One of the reasons I know the metric system as well as I do is because I have a scientific background. People in the sciences tend to know the metric system backwards and forwards.

39.3 inches, I believe.

There was a plan decades ago for the US to go metric. I learned the metric system in grade school. Our teachers said it was important to learn because the US would be going metric in 10 years. Never happened, obviously.

Thanks for explaining. Some actually think it is a reasonable topic for discussion

I thought Avalon was the champ at starting inane threads. Guess I was wrong.

No.

I don't remember people actually wearing them, but the VFW used to give them out in return for donations at certain times of the year. They called them "buddy poppies." My father would bring his home and give it to one of us to fiddle with.

My cell phone charging on the bedside table.

That was generally an age of creamed dishes - chipped beef, ham, chicken, eggs, tuna, potatoes, various vegetables. Now, I find bechamel sauce to be an extremely rich sauce that I almost never use.