Charlie

There is a Bergen County in New Jersey, but no town of Bergen, even though there is a town of North Bergen (which is not in Bergen County) but no Bergen or South Bergen. Since the other places on his list are all cities, I would assume he meant Bergen, Norway, but he isn't like to be in Victoria (BC?) the day before and Breckinridge the day after that Bergen. [Note: I worked in North Bergen one summer when I was in college. It is not a likely place for escort activity.]

I agree with @Unicorn that the French Caribbean has the best food. I like St. Bart's, but it isn't very gay.

Is that a strangely modern decorative tattoo on his left arm?

That Frenchie must work out with him, because it is BIG.

SW is now the biggest airline at PSP (it used to be Alaska). A friend's father came from Tulsa to visit her here for the holiday, and was supposed to fly back home on SW Xmas night. After numerous cancellations, he is still here. He has finally got a ticket on American via Denver tomorrow.

I know I have told this story before, but one night in the 1970s I was walking toward the Meatrack on Fire Island when I met Calvin Culver/Casey Donovan coming toward me. We smiled at one another, and without a word being uttered, we kissed, and then were rolling around on the ground. It only took a few minutes, then we kissed again, and both continued in the opposite direction. My most notable pornstar hire in the 20th century, however, was Eric Ryan (real name Craig Ambler), one of the sexiest men I have ever met. We spent a wonderful evening in 1987 at his apartment on West 74th St in NYC. We talked for hours, both before and after the main event. I was surprised to learn that he had been a straight construction worker with a wife, before he realized that he also enjoyed sex with men, and could make a living using his body that way. He invited me to come back in the morning to have breakfast, but I had to decline. Unfortunately, both men got lost in drugs and died of AIDS. Their last films were upsetting to watch, especially Christopher Rage's Fucked Up, in which Calvin was obviously under the influence as he got fisted.

It's possible that he doesn't have power.

I wonder why they all loosened one strap to show their left nipple?

Looks more like a tour guide than an escort. Sixty photos and not a single nudie or cock shot?

I was at a car dealer yesterday, and the manager said that customers who normally lease the same model every three years are being told that the dealer can't can't get their favorite models this year, because they are waiting up to 8 months for supply of some popular models. Another dealer told me they have a long backlog on orders for hybrids.

An article on the front page of the LA Times today said to prepare for shortages of vegetables because of the combination of drought and the increase in plant diseases in California as a result of global warming. They predicted that we would soon see lettuce at $11/head.

In case you are wondering where you should have spent Christmas, it is supposed to be 84 F. here in Palm Springs later today. Right now (10:45am) is is only 80.

I try to do the same thing on the conveyor belt, but the checker often moves quickly and things get mixed up, and the packer doesn't always recognize which are the cold items that go in the thermal bag and which are not.

I liked packing the bags myself, because I think I pack them more logically than most of the "packers," who don't seem to have any training. It's a nuisance having to tell the packer what should be put in which bag. (Do I sound like an obsessive organizer?)

For those in the US who may be confused, those temperatures are Celsius.

My father's family had a plot in New York where it was interesting to read all the tombstones. There was a bench to sit, and family members sometimes even met there on summer Sunday afternoons for picnics with their ancestors. My parents purchased a more "modern" cemetery plot in the suburbs, where tombstones are not allowed, only brass plaques with names set in the ground. What fun is that?

My uncle was killed in Germany in 1945 and is buried in a US military cemetery in Belgium, where his only grave marker stands. To the best of my knowledge, I am the only family member who has ever visited it. 😞

The only time was from Madrid to Marrakech. There was nothing memorable about it.

Whew! Fire in the cargo hold is one of the worst things that can happen on a flight.

I would want to see a lot more photos to tell whether those two are of the same man.

Well, I can say it. But I was gay man in my 30s at the time.

As a native of New Jersey, I resent such aspersions on my taste.

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The old decor looks very dated. I wouldn't have booked the old place.

I keep getting viral infection symptoms (sneezing, congestion, constipation and diarrhea, lightheadedness, etc.--no fever), but the COVID test is always negative when I am experiencing them. I got the antibody test at the end of the first year of the pandemic, before vaccination was available, and I have had the original vaccine in 2021 and both boosters, and never had any noticeable reaction to any of them. I don't remember if insurance paid for the test in 2020, which my doctor had recommended.