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I went to Dallas last weekend. Leaving San Francisco, the flight was about half and half - masked and unmasked. Coming back, there were more masked than unmasked. SFO-DFW was on American. The head flight attendant was an impossibly hot guy - about 35, built, shaved head and eyebrows. Normally I don't like shaved eyebrows, but for some reason, on him - it was totally sexy. He was very pleasant and very on the ball.

You're a pro - you've seen it all.

Same thing happened to me on RM. He was someone who only wanted contact if you were ready to book, otherwise didn't want to be bothered. But I am somewhat sympathetic when I encounter weirdness like this. I do everything I can to screen out timewasters so that I don't have to talk to them. My answering service qualifies them, and I will only take an appointment if they provide full contact information, and STILL they get through.

He definitely has a prosthesis. I have spoken with him a couple of times. I used to chat with him at the Castro location of Fitness SF. I found him really friendly. But one time, I heard him arguing on the phone right on Market Street with somebody who sounded like a disappointed client. Some of his reviewers said they had had a wonderful time and that the prosthesis hadn't made a bit of difference. I thought "Well dummies, that's what makes him special." For awhile, he was a personal trainer. And then he disappeared. I thought he was extremely hot and would have probably risked being disappointed.

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For years I've been having problems with my scalp. It is pretty oily and it was breaking out - sores and zits all over it. I was using a dandruff shampoo, which sort of controlled it. Recently, I started using the shampoo from a line of skincare products that are being advertised all over the internet and my scalp problems have completely gone away. I know I sound like a commercial, but I'm really happy about it.

Of course they are important. But since I have other things to think about, I didn't write the cite down for you. I believe it was an article on a general-readership web site that was referring to an article in a scientific publication.

That sounds totally sexy. There was a provider here in SF who had lost a leg in Afghanistan, who was incredibly sexy. He got out of the business before I got to spend any time with him. I was hoping I could convince him to take off his prosthesis.

Don't remember - something I read recently - I was surprised to read it. Even if it's true - it wont change anything. The majority of adults in the US don't smoke. They are not about to go back to workplaces, restaurants and movie theaters that are filled with cigarette smoke.

I read not long ago that there is new data that suggests that second-hand smoke exposure is not nearly as hazardous as was once thought.

You did everything by snail mail, telephone or going to the office. There was no e-commerce. no zoom, no telehealth, no Internet. I started graduate school at a Cal State campus in 1992 and the faculty had just gotten access to the internet - they were all incredibly excited. Berners-Lee had just invented the world-wide web. Netscape had just invented the first web browser. I had been reading William Gibson's novels, so the first time I heard the word "Internet," I knew exactly what it was. I just thought, "Oh my god, they've done it."

I have fond memories of PSA. At the time I lived in Denver. A direct flight from Denver to SF was quite expensive. You could save a lot by flying to LAX and taking PSA to SF. We were young boys then - we didn't think much about how much of our valuable time we were wasting by not using a direct flight.

It was only a few years before that, that there was no such thing as the smoking section on an aircraft - the whole cabin was the smoking section. Non-smokers just had to live with it. Back then, smoking was much more common - it wasn't the unusual thing it is today - people smoked everywhere - in the waiting room at the doctor's office, in college classrooms and lecture halls, in the hospital, in movie theaters, in the grocery store while shopping, etc.

As a young man, I was an oral top - loved to get my dick sucked. Didn't like doing it too much. Then I went through a decades-long stage of being versatile - loved it either way. Now, I'm kind of bored with oral - I just want to get on with the butt sex. I can say, though, that when I suck a man's dick, he finds it pretty memorable.

If you were receiving care in a well-run PrEP program, none of that would be necessary - at Kaiser, I have a standing order for STI, kidney and liver function testing. Once a year I get tested for hep C. I get the med refilled every 3 months - I order over the web and the med comes in the mail 3-4 days later.

I got I got my first orthotics when I was about 25 - I was training for a marathon and got a stress fracture in my forefoot. The podiatrist taped my foot and told me I could keep training as long as I wasn't experiencing any pain. He told me I had a forefoot varus which is a fancy name for flat feet. He predicted I would need foot surgery by the time I was 40. I saw 40 many moons ago and still haven't foot surgery, but I wouldn't wish my feet on my worst enemy.

excellent idea.

There is one little problem with Venmo - I am told it is difficult to get the money back if you accidentally pay the wrong person. I always think about that when I'm paying someone.

Arthur Frommer described this strategy in "Europe on Five Dollars a Day."

Yep - big problem. Orthotics are great if you are wearing sneakers/athletic shoes that have some give, but they make a pair of dress shoes, for example, too tight. I have two pairs of Frye lace-up boots that are just the best shoes I have ever owned. I wouldn't be able to use orthotics with them.

I see that one all the time. Fortunately, I have used the Norton software and think it sucks so I never bite.

I think I have had three different pairs made by podiatrists, one of whom was Dr. Steve Subotnik, a semi-famous podiatrist in San Leandro, who had lots of experience working with athletes and weekend warriors. I haven't used them in a long time because they screw up the fit of your shoe- its hard to find shoes that are deep enough after the orthotic is inserted. I read an ad recently for orthotics that are thinner so they don't interfere with the fit of your shoes. I want to look into those. They used to x-ray your feet and make plaster casts of them. This newer system using impression material sounds a lot better.

There's always something about them that smells. The email address is usually the giveaway. I haven't been taken in but eventually they will get smart enough to fool me. I don't think it's just the elderly they target - it's anybody who is taken in by their fake emails.

I don' t know where I got the idea, I guess maybe the advertising worked, because I always bought AMEX traveler's checks whenever I traveled. It was part of my "getting ready" ritual - going to AMEX and buying traveler's checks a couple days before I left. I lost 500.00 worth once and they gave me a lot of grief about replacing them so I switched to checks from another company.

I have noticed the same thing - on more than one occasion, the tracking history indicated that the parcel was here in San Francisco and was then returned to the original location and sent back to San Francisco by a different route - sort of like when the GPS hiccups and starts sending you in circles.