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"A man's not worth a cent until he's 40.  We just pay him wages until then to make mistakes." -Horace Vandergelder
 
 

About a dozen years ago they dug up a large stretch of Palm Canyon Drive in downtown Palm Springs to upgrade the sewer and water lines. Guess what else they dug up? A lot of big roaches, which scurried all over the sidewalks. Unfortunately, you can't completely get rid of them.
 

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I think it was the Art Gallery of Ontario that Gehry got his hands on, not the ROM......
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-starchitects-architecture-toronto-frank-gehry-genius-art/
when I was in architecture school, we came upon many buildings that were little more than monuments to the architect....the age of the Starchitect has been very long......

To paraphrase Lauren Bacall: You know how to get a hard on don't you, you just get your partner to put together his lips and blow.  

I'm watching the fireworks over Sydney Harbour Bridge (and the rest of the harbour), glass of a nice red in hand.
A happy and prosperous new year to all, may it bring everything you wished for yourselves and those dear to you.

When I was 22, I couldn't imagine a day when I wouldn't get a hard-on at the sight of an attractive male. At 52, I worried about whether an attractive male could get a hard-on at the sight of me, At 82, I had trouble remembering how to get a hard-on. 

A happy and joyful Christmas and holiday season to all!
It's lunch time on Christmas Day here, I'm doing nothing special but have a nice Pinot to open later with my dinner. In the mean time it's 23 degrees in Canberra under a clear blue sky, cooler than the 28 that was predicted but there's still time for that to change.
When I worked in Hawai'i, a work colleague commented to me how weird it was to have hot weather at Christmas. I tilted my head with a confused look on my face and said, 'Not really'.
Hauʻoli Kalikimaka!

Some would opine that those professions were ever deserving of that fate.

Before my potential husband and I started living together, the first subject I broached was the issue of sexual exclusivity: we both were accustomed to being sexually promiscuous, and I didn't want that to end. We agreed that having sex with other people was OK as long as we didn't keep it a secret from one another.  He has already let you know that sex with other people is his job, but does it/will it ever go beyond a "job" with someone else? Will you be comfortable hearing about his work? Will he expect to "work" at home, and how do you feel about that? Will his need to "work" take precedence over your personal plans together? How would you feel if a client wanted a threesome? How do you plan to explain your relationship to other people? If either of you is uncomfortable discussing these issues in advance, or if you are uncomfortable with his answers, then you need to go slowly with any kind of commitment.

Call me anything but late for dinner. 

But I draw the line at "Gramps."😒

I left NJ and moved to Palm Springs where I knew few people and none of them really well.  Most of them were known to me from this forum or the Palm Springs weekends.  It has been 10 months and I am very glad I made such a drastic move at an age when most are moving into adult living facilities.  I have a house I like.  I left the RoUTine I was in in NJ.  I started going to the gym.  I bought season tickets to community theater.  I have invited friends to come and spend a week with me.  I have made a few acquaintances and one or two friends along with the ones I already knew.  In some ways, it has been difficult, but by leaving a known life and taking up in a completely new environment, I have become less lonely.  My dogs are company in the house and they force me to go out to get them food and toys and exercise.  I joined a dating app and have had several sexual encounters with men I have met from there.  I have been more vigorous about hiring but by the hour and not overnight so shorter meetings but more frequent.  I call my friends more often and text others more regularly.  
If you are traveling through Palm Springs, give me a call and we can get a drink or a coffee or just a visit.  
I do not know that such a drastic change would have worked for everyone but it has for me.  

As someone with a December birthday, this resonates! 🤣

In eastern PA I would recommend MBody Studio - Bethlehem

Another of those cases where the quotation doesn't mean what we think it does. At the risk of going off on a tangent, 'blood is thicker than water' is another where the meaning in context is the opposite of what the accepted wisdom would hold. [The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.]

How to say "no" nicely and forcefully.  

Wow! That didn't hit me until my 80s.

I completely relate.  I suspect with the apps, you kiss 9 frogs to find a prince. But for me, the prince would also be one who saw something cool in you AND might be a FWB.
I’m new to the apps.  I’ve had 100 or so app “inquiries” (from me or to me) which resulted in five encounters, of which 2 were princes…and I’m neither a spring chicken nor a silver fox (and there are members of this forum who’ve met me and can attest to that 😅)
Don’t make it about your appearance.  Make it about “the package” including experience, respect, nurture, fun loving etc.  Be as fit and energetic as you can be but don’t apologize for what you can’t change.  And see it as an excavation where you’re peeling back layers of mud to find a few diamonds 

Proper sensual massage doesn’t need to include a happy ending and to call it a ‘happy ending’ is wrong too. If there is a climax it doesn’t have to happen at the end. It’s best if there’s plenty of time after a guy climaxes for continuation of the massage to bring him back down again gently. Head massage and feet massage are great after climax.
Rub and tug guys do a perfunctory massage, then grab and grope at your bum and cock in a rush to get you off. They call it a sensual or erotic massage 🙄. It’s nothing of the sort. In a proper sensual massage the masseur and the client are fused together as if they are inhabiting the same body. Their breath aligns, the masseur moves seamlessly through the sequence like it’s a dance. There’s no separation between massage and ‘happy ending’ because the whole thing is erotic not just the last 5 minutes. That’s why I think guys who’ve done therapeutic massage sometimes get it wrong: they do a therapeutic massage and tag on a hand job and then charge sensual rates. You have to think of a sensual massage as a seduction from before the client even gets on the table. Work their brain as well as their body. 
 
 

Wait a few years and it will be at the cardiologist's office, at the urologist's office, the guy who knocked you out for your colonoscopy...

God forbid he is martyred for saying so.

Thank you, Harlow. My husband was my cameraman and video editor. He passed away suddenly on August 18 of this year. I hope to continue the cooking channel sometime next year. Friends have volunteered to do the camera work, but I need to sort myself out first.  
Stay tuned---thanks again for watching my channel.