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I could leave on Monday. Just means a bit longer drive to Monday and Tuesday but it's still doable.

Hmm..So I may have to miss on the Sunday dinner. I actually am road tripping this whole thing and I have to be back in Denver by Tuesday evening. For some reason, I though the majority of the events were on Saturday instead of Sunday. Oh well..I can attend what I can attend. Maybe I can see if I can get another night at InnDulge on Sunday night.

I'm thinking of checking out Moorten Botanical Gardens while in PS. I have always been fascinated with desert plants like cactus and succulents and the admission is really affordable. Maybe a few of us can go together if others are down.

Sorry if my post wasn't clear, but that is actually what the Israeli study shows. The vaccine prevents COVID infection and therefore prevents the spread of the infection to others. First paragraph of article, "The Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine appeared to stop the vast majority of recipients in Israel becoming infected, providing the first real-world indication that the immunization will curb transmission of the coronavirus." Forth paragraph, "If confirmed, the early results on lab-tested infections are encouraging because they indicate the vaccine may also prevent asymptomatic carriers from spreading the virus that causes Covid-19. That’s not been clear because the clinical trials that tested the safety and efficacy of vaccines focused on the ability to stop symptomatic infections." It's one study of course and the article cautions against generalizing too much from it. But at least some preliminary studies do show that at least the Pfizer vaccine not only prevents people from getting sick, but also getting infected and transmitting the virus to others. Since the Modera vaccine is very similar to the Pfizer vaccine, you probably could assume the same holds true for that one, though of course it hasn't been studied specifically.

He's apparently in Denver now.

For what it's worth, I really like Matt Muck. Met him a few times and he is really great if you're into what he's about. He sells his whole working-class guy thing to a T. I didn't get a sense that he sees a lot of guys when he visited Denver, but he said he has family here so maybe the Denver visits are not as much about seeing clients as it might be in other cities.

Trivia. I almost always win at trivia games, bar trivia, etc. I have one of those sponge brains that absorbs every random fact I encounter.

It does appear that the Pfizer vaccine is 89.4 percent effective at preventing COVID infections. This is according to an Israeli study.

I did Lyft for a while and definitely used that extra money for the hobby. I once even picked up an escort traveling to the city. We had met once before but he didn't recognize me. We had arranged a meeting in the afternoon and he went on a little shopping trip in the morning at a nearby mall. I offered to pick him up but he had assumed I sent the Lyft for him. He didn't realize it was actually me driving the thing.

I agree with you. I think budgeting for the hobby is smart. I do the same because I work in education and don't really have a ton of extra money for the hobby so I do budget for it. I kind of think of my budget for what I have left over each month after expenses and my savings. I usually do not have any money for my first paycheck because all my bills are at the beginning of the month. But tend to have an extra $300-$400 on my second check of the month so that is when I tend to meet guys. Therefore, I try limit myself to hiring only once a month at most. If I am trying to go for a bigger experience or a trip, than I often go without the hobby for a couple months. Right now I am trying to save up for Palm Springs, so I am not hiring until then. Although I should also get a tax refund and (hopefully) the third stimulus to help with the trip.

Glad our Texas members are safe and appear relatively unscathed. I used to live in Austin and we had one brief snow event there (maybe 1" at most) and everything was closed for 2 days because of it. So I can only imagine. I did donate to some relief organizations. Glad the weather has improved and hopefully things will be back to normal soon.

Yeah I am very glad that I didn't meet with him when I saw him in NYC when I was there. I find him very attractive from his porn performances but everything I've read about him has been negative. Sorry for your experience.

For a summer in college, I was one of those annoying non-profit hipster assholes that bother you on the street asking you for donations to save the environment. I stopped after a week because A) a lot of these co-workers were legit true-believers that acted like if you didn't raise a bunch of money by bothering people just trying to have lunch downtown, you personally cut down the Amazon. B) My bike actually got stolen from INSIDE their office and nobody gave a shit and acted like it was my fault for bringing a bike to work. And this was an environmental non-profit where 90 percent of the employees drove to work. They even had a security camera in the front of the building next to the entrance but they wouldn't share the footage and even discouraged me from filing a police report because of "privacy concerns." Someone who worked for this organization definitely stole my bike and I am still bitter about this today.

I guess this isn't something you would necessarily see on the profile, but when things just don't add up in your conversations with an escort. There was this sexy new guy in Denver that initially came across as being very naive and new to escorting, which like hey if that's the case I still might be interested. But then he quoted me this really high price for Denver and when I said I wasn't interested at that price, he started to talk about how it was really the standard price in New York when he escorted there and yadda yadda yadda. Are you actually new to escorting or are you actually this experienced escort that should charge this high NYC price?

I think it would be fun if you wanted to try to get into that second hole. I would enjoy being with this guy. I also like lean, slim guys.

Interesting...grocery workers and other essential workers are on the next "phase" here in Colorado, which I think starts in March. I do know that different states have different things they are doing though.

How many of them actually are? I think it would be pretty hard for a younger escort to be vaccinated unless he also worked in health care or education or got really lucky getting a vaccine somehow. We're only at 11 percent of people in the US receiving one dose and less than 4 percent with both doses.

As accurate as all these are, I do want to stress that in my experience "scamming" is extremely rare in this hobby. It's only happened twice to me out of dozens of times hiring. And only one of them was a real rip-off experience. The other was someone who just had really outdated pics. Although I do think I successful avoided a scam once by just being suspicious of a profile, so I guess I took the advice to heart. Haha.

Yeah, that is kind of my attitude about it too. I should be fully vaccinated by then but to me it's my Spring Break and Palm Springs sounds like the perfect place to unwind in some warm temps. Would love to meet people of course, but if it's not allowed, just spending some time by the pool or going on some nature hikes sounds absolutely lovely too.

Yeah I think we already know the answer to this question to some degree because we already live through the flu every winter, although of course that is not as contagious. But I think we'll probably be wearing masks a lot more in general, taking a lot of at-home COVID tests, getting booster vaccines every year or every other year to deal with variants that pop up, but otherwise it won't be a big deal in my opinion. I think with a little extra pre-planning, endemic COVID shouldn't be a big deal for this hobby. Especially now that we have widespread at-home COVID tests. You could self-isolate, test, wear a mask everywhere and hope your companion does the same (and you could probably at least have him take his own COVID test). That's kind of what I've been doing anyway the last few months with the only difference is that I go to the free testing provided by my work.

I'm not really into Housewives, but I love competitions involving beauty, style and grace. Probably all considered girly.

Anything beautiful. I remember a sad moment when I was maybe 10 or so and I was driving in the mountains with my male cousins who were just a couple years older than me. I said something like, "Oh these mountain views are so beautiful." And they chastised me for saying that, because "beautiful" is only something girls say. I should say the view is awesome or something. Probably when I realized I wasn't like the other boys but in retrospect it's sad that they had such a limited view of masculinity.

I think there will still be stigma but I do think legalization will help with stigma. When I went to the UK, the escort I spent time with said that his family knows what he does and was not necessarily proud but generally supportive to the point where they helped him out financially a bit when he couldn't work when he was dealing with cancer. He actually was on TV once for a news story about his profession and he said most people he knew didn't really care. There is a different stigma for clients of course, but I think legalization just makes the whole thing much less of a big deal all around.

When I went to a free clinic I was pretty broke so didn't donate then. However, I always make it a point to support the clinic in my end of the year giving. Usually about $50 (I give that same amount to about 5-6 organizations per year).

I have actually! Brad's great. Really good massage skills and looks just like his photos. I thought he looked in his early to mid 30s. I'd recommend him for sure and wrote a positive review on his profile. Wish he was still in Denver.