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I think the CDC made the right call, though I also kinda hope masking becomes more "normal" generally. It's quite common in Asia and some other places to mask on public transit and other crowded spaces, especially during flu/cold season. I think I'll continue to do the same...wear a mask on trains, planes, ubers and probably in like busy grocery stores and shopping malls. I probably won't at bars and restaurants just because a big part of that experience is eating and drinking. I do think the risk in those settings is still pretty high for respiratory infections, but you also have to live your life to some extent. But I have stopped wearing masks outside basically ever since I got vaccinated and not sure if ever made a ton of sense to mask outside unless you were in very crowded areas. There was just never any evidence of infection from someone passing you on the sidewalk. Be cautious when you can but don't be paranoid/anxious about getting COVID or sick generally. My sister has had a really hard time with COVID and it's sad to see people get into these cycles of anxiety over getting sick. We're animals and that's something that can't be avoided entirely. We're also social creatures so those of us who've been responsible and taken the vaccine should feel free to live their lives as normally as possible now.

One thing I find useful as a client when it comes to tipping is strangely enough when clients charge a value of $20. I almost always throw in an extra $20 but that's pretty easy when it's $240 or $260 for an hour. It's a bit harder when it's $250 and unfortunately some guys have just gotten an extra $10 instead. This is just because the ATMS throw out $20s and when I am quickly at the ATM I usually don't take out more than an extra $20.

Ah thanks...I was ok looking, I guess? Haha. I did swim and ride my bike a lot but I somehow always had an extra few pounds that even at my fittest couldn't quite get rid of. Definitely not a cut, lean stallion like some of the men I watched over. Haha.

I get it too, often if I go on a particularly long run. I do have orthopedic inserts and they definitely help. Stretching and lacrosse ball helps too. Good luck. It's definitely no fun, but for me at least the pain only lasts a day or so after the long run.

I did grad school at University of Texas and damn, some of the young men were fine. Somehow had both a bunch of lean hipsters with tattoos and facial hair and ripped jocks straight from Friday Night Lights. I worked as a lifeguard then and I sometimes had to remind myself not to drool. width=234pxhttps://i.pinimg.com/originals/d2/1a/38/d21a3846af9c1a9aa99fe838885abd3f.jpg[/img] width=319pxhttps://i.pinimg.com/originals/34/0c/88/340c884540f876b8c072e25a049bc139.png[/img]

Thanks Rob! It looks great!

Back when going to events was a thing, I had one regular in particular who would much rather we go see a play and have a longer session than having any kind of tip. We'd often spend an evening together with a dinner, a show and some fun. He gave me a better deal on the hourly rate for this longer session and I would pick up all the tickets, meals, etc. I never tipped him over his quoted rate, though the cost of the tickets and/or meals could be $100 or more. Sometimes in a regular session, I will tip an extra $20 but typically not much more than that.

Although I did contribute several reviews, to me the forum has grown to be much more important than the review site. I would be bummed if DaddyReviews got taken down but I would be devastated if I could no longer access this community on the forum.

I want to retire now, but I think I'm much too young. Haha. I am really getting burned out on my job though. This recent article in the NYTimes really spoke to me. Really wish I was back to having summers off like I did when I was a teacher. Might have to make some career changes soon.

There was a lot of conversation when Prep first came out that the medication in some ways could almost be a vaccine if it became very widely used among the populations most likely to contract HIV. Unfortunately the cost of the medication and low adherence among some groups made that a challenge. Though in areas that have really pushed, Prep, there has been some great success in decreasing HIV infection rates. Australia is a good example. So I am encouraged by this vaccine. If it can be something people take once or maybe even every few years, that could both lower the cost and increase adherence to the point where there is so little HIV in a population, that it can becomes nearly eliminated. Devil's in the details, but definitely hope. These MRNA vaccines are possibly a real game changer in many diseases.

I am okay with you taking ownership Coolwave. Are you willing to have the steering committee, etc.? I signed up to volunteer for that. But I don't have the technical knowhow or the money to help in more substantial ways. I do want to see this web site preserved though.

A lot of the "characters" in Nomadland are actually real-life, full-time nomads including Bob Wells and Charlene Swankie. Bob Wells is actually a nomad "influencer" and has YouTube videos promoting and giving tips about the nomad life. That "Rubber Camp Rendezvous" event seen in the movie is a real event and they actually filmed that event in 2019. It's not the life I'd choose, but I think the people in that movie really did choose that lifestyle and I think even in a certain amount of homeless population in any city, it's a choice they are making not simply that they ran out of options or whatever.

He contacted me on Thursday evening saying he was going to be around for the weekend and I didn't see it until Sunday. Part of it was it was my friend's birthday weekend and we ended up going up the mountains for a couple days to do some late-season skiing. So I was genuinely not checking my secondary phone number. But then I did on Sunday and was like, "Oh man sorry, I didn't see this, but might be down tomorrow (Monday) evening if you're still around." I was just too tired on Sunday to make it happen and he was going to leave Monday morning. Sometimes it just doesn't work out but he was a bit dismissive and short with me, saying like, "Well you told me to contact you if I ever made it back to Denver and I did." Sure enough he did. Felt bad, but again it just doesn't work out. In another circumstance, I would've gladly met up with him. Hope he tries to contact me again, but if he thinks I'm a flake, I guess there's not much I can do about it.

The problem I've come into recently was guys that I have previously hired reaching out to me when they are back in town. I truly appreciate that they do this and it has often worked out into a nice repeat meeting. But I actually use a Google Voice number for this hobby and don't regularly check my texts on there as I do my regular number. So unfortunately one guy reached out to me and then kinda got a little peeved that I didn't respond right away. By the time I did, he was only in town one more day and I couldn't meet on that day. I do understand from his perspective and tried to explain that I'm not checking that number as regularly. But him getting upset with me kinda turned me off hiring in the future. Sometimes it really is a miscommunication.

I liked Nomadland quite a bit and only think it's ending is depressing if you consider the nomad lifestyle to be the lesser of those choices. To Fern, being a nomad is the choice of freedom and autonomy...her way of burying the past grief over her husband and truly becoming her own person. The ending to me is powerful because it questions the conventional ways we think of "happiness" in favor of a different path. I doubt I would choose the same, but thought it was the best way for that movie to end and was in many ways a "happy" ending. I do really want to see Minari. It looks really good. I think maybe I will rent it on Amazon this weekend.

Thanks for all that you do! Happy to contribute in the future to some kind of ongoing fund.

I haven't seen the Father, so it's hard for me to judge if Anthony Hopkins' performance was better than Chadwick Boseman's. I really did like his role and performance. His tortured trumpeter was at turns charismatic, sinister, and sympathetic. The fact that he performed it while in immense pain from his cancer treatments is an incredible feat. The only other performance I saw was Riz Ahmed's in Sound of Metal. The fact that he learned sign language and was so believable as someone who undergoes hearing loss was also an amazing acting challenge and I would've been happy had Riz won as well (plus I find him incredibly good looking). I agree with you about Frances McDormand. I liked Nomadland but her performance wasn't as strong as some of her fellow nominees in my opinion. Let Frances have the Oscar for producing the film but let Carey Mulligan or Viola Davis have the statue for what I though were incredible, dynamic, complex performances (Never saw Vanessa Kirby or Andra Day's performances so cannot judge them).

It's helpful to kind of look at this from an anatomical perspective I think. A lot of what a bottom find pleasurable is not just in the feeling of something up the bum but in the pressure penetration provides to the prostate and seminal vesicles, the actual organs in the male reproductive system that produce and secrete semen. These organs are located right next to the rectum but really only a couple inches inside the anus. For a lot of men, the prostate being massaged by a penis or toy up the anus is very pleasurable because these organs are (along with some other muscles) responsible for male orgasm. Some men can even cum just from stimulation of the prostate without any penile stimulation at all. For me, I have a much more intense orgasm when I am having both my prostate and penis stimulated.

I think a lot of the crater this year could be because most of us spent the last year not watching movies in person. I actually liked the Oscars this year, though sad Chadwick Boseman didn't win as well.

I fully admit that I am overgeneralizing, though PERA actually is not just a teacher pension in Colorado but applies to many state and local government employees as well. Both my mom and sister work for local/state governments and also get PERA. So apologies if this does not apply to your pension. The rules I am speaking about are federal rules. But it sounds like maybe certain states/pensions have different set-ups to avoid those federal provisions. In general my main point was that many (though clearly not all) people who get a pension are paying into that pension at a higher rate than people without pensions pay into social security. In Colorado we pay 8.75% of our paychecks into PERA, whereas a Coloradan without PERA would only pay 6.2% into Social Security. So overall, those of us with jobs contributing to this pension are taking home less per paycheck in exchange for likely having more robust pension payments in retirement. Again this is just my experience with my job/pension. Just making the point with people saying, "Oh you're so lucky to have a pension," that part of having that pension (for me at least) is taking home less pay every single paycheck than I would if I had an identical paying job that only contributed to Social Security. Don't get me wrong, I am glad I have that pension, but in my case there is some lost income now for more money in retirement later.

I believe something similar happens in Colorado as well. Thanks for the information.

Interestingly, I've understood it to be the opposite, that SS benefits could be lowered because of participation in a pension instead of a pension being lowered because of participation in SS. From the PERA web site: "Two separate federal provisions are in place today that may reduce a public employee’s or retiree’s Social Security benefit: the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset. As a result, an anticipated Social Security benefit may be reduced due to participation in PERA. A PERA benefit, however, will not be reduced by any Social Security benefit received."

It's quite possible that I am over-generalizing from my experiences with my pension. Quite possibly other pension programs look pretty different. But the one we have in Colorado, PERA, is fairly accurate to the way it was explained to me by literally someone from PERA. And I definitely do not contribute to Social Security in my current job but do contribute to PERA instead. That is definitely accurate. But like I said, I am not pension expert. Here is a website explaining these SS vs PERA (public workers pension in Colorado). I think it's pretty close to what I said.

It actually depends on the circumstances of the individual. Actually I may end up getting both SS and my pension because I started working at age 15 as a lifeguard and had regular social security jobs for basically the next 15 years. But ever since I started working in education, I have only been paying into the pension and not into social security. I am already vested in my pension so I am guaranteed some benefits. There are some rules with taking social security benefits if you have a pension that may reduce or even eliminate social security benefits upon retirement. I am not super familiar with the exact rules. But I have gathered that like someone who started teaching right out of college at age say 22 and spent 40 years teaching and contributing to the pension would receive the pension benefits but not much or any social security even if they say worked through college at like McDonalds and contributed to social security for five years. But someone in my situation who worked regular jobs for 15 years, spent 15 years teaching and then 15 years working a regular job again (assuming this is what I do) would receive both the pension and social security upon retirement. Regardless, for the time one works in a pension-earning job, they are not paying into social security and instead are paying more per paycheck into a pension. So their take-home pay would be less during that time than someone working a more typical job that pays into social security. I believe this is how it generally works with employees with pensions, although I am not necessarily an expert on this. Certainly that is how it works with my job. There literally is no social security line on my paystub, just the money for my pension.

Thanks for your post. You have a lot of wisdom and actually I think I am probably in a similar position that you were in during your working years. So it helps to kinda see what my future holds. I am definitely lucky and grateful to have a pension as well. Though one thing people often don't realize with jobs with a pension is that we are not paying social security but instead are paying into a pension at a significantly higher rate than one pays into social security. So we actually have lower take-home pay than someone making the same amount of money in a non-pension job. The benefit is that we make more money in retirement than we would get from social security, but we make less per paycheck for the entire time we have that job with a pension.