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Sometime in the 70s, I was visiting San Francisco and I took a ferry across the bay to Larkspur or Sausalito . I met an older German couple. We had an enjoyable conversation on the way over. They asked me for my address, said they would like to keep in touch -and they did for years - notes, Christmas cards, etc.

I have connected with guys though work at least a couple times. I also connected with a guy attending a convention at Moscone Center. I was working for some medical publisher giving doctors little trainings in how to use the internet. I was walking around the exhibits on a break and locked eyes with a good-looking daddy who turned out to be a psychiatrist. Several times on the street, those same tell-tale eye-locks. I had a near-miss at a BNI meeting. A smokin' real estate agent kept turning in his seat to check me out. But that turned out to be all. I remember a couple of the work connections were when I was working in the hearing aid industry. There are lots of gay audiologists and I connected with a couple of those.

Depends on the weather - Winter its a hoody, sweatpants and a beanie hat. Summer its a pair of board shorts and a tank

Did it seem prietchy? Im sorry,

We had a '62 Ford station wagon that had an automatic transmission. My mother had a lot of difficulty getting used to it. She just couldn't get used to not having a clutch and not shifting between gears.

Really - It's no accident they were popular - even though they were a sedative, they felt very stimulating. And they were very disinhibiting - you would do things on quaaludes you would never imagine otherwise. I loved to do a quaalude and go to the baths. I was a corpsman in an Army hospital in Germany. There was a German sleeping, pill, called Mandrex (MX for short) and they were the same drug as quaaludes - very easy to OD on. It was a rare weekend that a GI wasn't brought into the ER for ODing on MXs.

It's supposed to do just the opposite - make you feel desirable and desired. Maybe time to reconsider your hires or just stop

He's a skilled spanker. And he has big hands. Lucky bottom boy

There is a virulent strain with a 10% death rate and a mild strain with a 1% death rate.

Im really into pierced nips and PAs. I almost got a PA, but I gave up the idea when I found out you had to sit down to pee. Pierced ears are completely OK. Earhoops are completely OK. I can tolerate an eyebrow piercing. The others are all creepy.

A few years ago, I stopped to help a drunk who was lying in the middle of the street. He looked up at me and said, "leave me the fuck alone, Grandpa." Thing was, I looked younger than he did.

I like it all. I will never tire of the scruffy men with tats and beards. I might add that I am a scruffy man with tats and beard. I also like clean-shaven men and men who haven't a single tattoo.. For a long time, I didn't care for guys with shaved heads. Slowly it grew on me until I think its very sexy - but only on certain men. If somebody's head is bumpy or angular, shaved is not their best look. But for a guy with a smooth round head -it's generally a great look. I like muscles and I like slender. I even like bearish as long as it really is bearish and not just a euphemism for obese. No limitations as far as ethniciity/skin color.

I spent my early childhood in a small town that was pretty old-fashioned - I remember when Main Street was paved with red brick. I also remember when the workers from the Public Works department or the utilities would do an excavation, they would leave it open overnight with wood barricades that looked like sawhorses and they would put oil lamps around it for warning lights that gave off a really sooty black smoke.

Most contain detergent instead of soap, so they might be harder on the skin. If the label says "surfactant," that is another word for detergent.

Maybe they remember the early 80's when CDs were paying 11 - 12% and the prime rate was 22%. I wouldn't be surprised if we got there before long.

It was a different place in the 90s. Still plenty of gay guys, but a more mixed crowd than in 70s-80s. I used to rent a room at the Turk Street Y whenever I visited. Guys would leave their doors open if they wanted company.

Things that you book too far in advance have a way of falling through. I think it's best not to try to schedule too far out. One time, I scheduled weeks in advance with a high-profile provider. Sure enough, I came down with a bad cold - the kind that can hold on for weeks and weeks. I didn't see how I could be sure that I could make our date and be fully recovered and not putting him at risk of catching my cold - so I cancelled - probably 3 -4 weeks out. He was very unhappy with me because he had passed up other business. I thought having cancelled that far out would enable him to schedule other clients. He didn't see it that way - and we never repaired the misunderstanding. My lesson from that was not to try to schedule too far out.

That's curious - what is your concern - dislodging a clot, maybe?

It happens fairly often on A4A that pros reach out who haven't identified as such. I can usually tell from the wording in the profile. I always ask these guys up front, "Are you a pro?"

One time, I guy I knew to be a provider reached out to me on a hookup app. I wasn't available, but I assumed that that would have been a recreational encounter for him, not work. OTOH, if I contact him through his profile on RM, of course, that would be work.

His pics show his potential - he has a nice natural build.

When I'm really smitten, I monitor myself. I don't hesitate to compliment a guy's looks, but I don't want to gush either. If I've told him how great-looking he is a couple times, I turn it off and show him non-verbally how attractive I think he is. But I certainly wouldn't be embarrassed about the guy having that effect on me. That's why we do this.

I think that's a fairly common practice among providers - at least that's what they say in their profiles.

Water does amazing things. I had a massive DVT several years ago and the swelling in the leg persisted for months afterward. I had to wear sweat pants all the time because the huge leg wouldn't fit into normal pants. I went swimming in the Yuba River and when I got out of the water, the leg was much less swollen. I started swimming regularly, and the swelling disappeared rapidly. The leg is still a little larger than normal, but you have to be looking for it to notice it. I had a multi-level lumbar fusion and the single most useful activity in my rehab was pool walking.

I always carry fat at the waist and lower back. If I get my bodyfat low enough it disappears completely, but we're talking maybe 5% bodyfat. You have to be lean enough so that if you pull up a skinfold at the waist -it is almost nothing but skin. If you pull up a skinfold on your bicep, you can see light through it. 45 minutes of fasted cardio every morning and carb cycling will do it. Tough for anyone to sustain though.