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They already know that they want/need it or they wouldn't be calling me. The deliverable is a patent application, one of the most difficult legal instruments there is to draft. I could tell them that it's a long, drawn-out administrative law process, and I could tell them how many degrees I have, how issued many patents I have secured for other clients and so on, but they don't care. They have the idea in their mind that applying for a patent is something like getting a driver's license, and I'm supposed to fix that for them somehow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgbk9tyJVyA I found this angelic boy this morning on youtube.

I'll remember that - because I do love to waste time.

Very good advice. I understand his frustrations, but he keeps doing the same thing with these loser prospects and expecting a different result. Time wasters are time wasters. Cheap bastards are cheap bastards. You need to use screening questions to identify them and get rid of them. My favorites, in my business, are the ones who ask,"Why does it cost so much?" I used to reason with them like Jarrod does, but a long time ago I realized I don't owe them an explanation and learned to anwer them "Because it does. Anything else?" And then get off the phone.

That is totally sexy.

we could learn a duet

I also work at the piano. My skill level is probably late intermediate or early advanced. A few years ago, I tried an experiment. One of my favorite pieces is the 3rd movement of the Moonlight Sonata - a virtuoso piece. I thought, "Why couldn't I acquire the required skills as I'm learning the piece?" So I started on it, worked on it for a few years. I finally got it to the point where people who don't know music thought it was amazing, but people who know music would say "not bad." I haven't given up on it though, I just realized you have to have a teacher for a piece of that difficulty. I just found a simple transcript of the Overture to Bach's Cantata #29 (the Ratswahl Cantata). So I'm ready to take that on.

I forgot to mention that Toronto is one of my favorite cities in North America.

Been there in the mid-winter at least a couple times - definitely cold but no worse then Rochester, directly across the lake, where I grew up.

I first noticed him in the movie Swordfish in 2001. A short time after that, I saw him doing a song-and-dance routine on TV. I remember my thought was "flamer." I remember reading an interview in some publication on the internet and he was talking about suffering and hardship and how much he had learned about it when he was staying in a hotel in Toronto in the middle of the winter and the hot water ran out and he had to take a cold shower. I thought,"Seriously!?!?! You think having to take a cold shower in a luxury hotel is suffering???" He should have been embarrassed to have said that.

Kaiser is supposed to have the new booster any time.

I'm the same - I have never lost my temper with anyone during a contest prep - but sometimes it takes nerves of steel not too. My husband's oldest sister drives me crazy sometimes. He forgot that I was going to be prepping for a show and invited her to come stay during that time. She got there the night before we were to leave for LA for a national show. I was so brittle that I didn't feel up to speaking with her when she got there and I asked my husband to explain. The next morning I was able to be sparkly and nice and tell her how nice it was to see her.

Right - it's called being "hangry," and it's a real thing.

I thought that RM called all the advertisers porn stars to avoid the term "escort."

Yes, I agree. I was sad to see him retire.

Does Micheal Vincenzo count as a porn star? He's one of a couple providers I have seen on the regular.

It's keto, hence the high fat content. I read about them and they sounded great so I ordered a few to try them. After I ordered, I read the fine print and realized that they were very high fat and cancelled the order - I'm firmly in the high-protein, moderate-carb, low-fat camp.

I like kinky sex, but BDSM generallly isn't my thing. I do have a sub FB though who likes to serve me and be pushed around, and I really like it. Subs talk about going into sub space, but I think there is a dom space too. As soon as I walk through the door at his place, I acquire an attitude of complete entitlement, and it feels real, not play acting. He only sits in my presence if I give him permission to, brings me an endless stream of nice little snacks and treats and stands and watches while I eat them, he likes to get flogged, endlessly fucked, be adressed as "boy," etc. We've been doing it for years. He says that that's the way I actually am and that I'm comfortable being the man I actually am when I'm around him.

I had a trainer many years ago - a dumb, hunky young straight guy - who was on the verge of getting roped into something like that - first they had him come and pose in briefs, then they wanted him to pose again and take a little cialis so that his package would show more through the briefs, etc. etc. I said "you're getting in over your head - I wouldn't go back." He said, "Oh, I can take care of myself." I don't think he ever went back, but I was never sure.

There’s no reason to compete if you don’t feel it. I love it, and I have wanted to be a competitor since I was about ten years old. But that’s me doing me. You just have to look around you to know that achieving better than average fitness doesn’t require stepping onto a contest stage.

But this begs the question: why would a wealthy Silicon Valley magnate settle for Medicaid-financed long-term care when they could afford to provide themselves mucn better long-tem care?

I have read that they are bad news, but Expel were the only diuretics I ever took. I've never had that much of a problem holding water.

Dehydration flattens you out. My coach used to have me take an herbal diuretic - Expel but none day of and day before.

Up to a limit, I agree. Jeremy Buendia, in a youtube video, said his contest prep was 6 months. I'm a lot more comfortable with a 16-week prep than I am with a 12-week prep. My trainer keeps himself almost stage-ready so that he can be ready pretty quickly.

I have done it once - the prep wasn't as long as for a show - only 8 or 10 weeks. But we did a peak week just like you would for a show. It was my first time posing for professional photographer so most of the pics were only OK, but my conditioning was spot on, and that was really the point - to be in stage-ready condition just because.