Here it is the end of August. How did it get here so fast? The last I remember it was March, cold and rainy, trying it’s best to become spring. Now we’re headed into the dog days of summer, hot, humid, and insufferable. Before long it will be fall, my favorite time of the year, by the way, and life will slow down to a cool and comfortable pace.
This summer I had three vacations planned, but work raised it’s ugly head and I had to scrap all three of them. It’s starting to effect me. I’m feeling burnt out and if I don’t take some time off soon I won’t be responsible for my actions–nothing postal, you can calm down. In past years taking a day of here and there was enough to recharge my batteries, but that just doesn’t do it any more. I would love to get a way for a couple of weeks to Puerto Vallarta, or someplace where there is no cell reception, if that’s even possible these days.
I have one more vacation scheduled in November, to see my mother and sisters for Thanksgiving, and I’m not going to let work interfere, not this time. Come November 19th I’m on the plane to Tulsa.
Trust me…
Ciao
I’m off to Paris, France in a few days. It’s a combined business/pleasure trip that I’ve been trying t arrange for almost one year. While I’ll be in Paris for almost two weeks, most it the time I will be busy with work, but I should be able to string together a few days that I can get out of Paris and see some of the country. I’m really looking forward to this trip. It’s been over twenty years since I’ve been to Paris so I’m sure there will be a lot of new sights to see, as well as some of my favorites. If anyone has any suggestions for “must see places”, please let me know.
Ciao
In all of it’s irrepressibly flaunted extravagance, Gay Pride Month has arrived. In large cities throughout the world Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, Queer, and our straight allies join us in celebrating everything that is GAY. This weekend in Baltimore the GLBT community hit the streets ready to party and show off their pride in full exuberance. I didn’t get to go this year, but I’m sure that my brothers and sisters did us proud and strutted their stuff as only a Baltimorean can. I hope that you were able to get out and celebrate with your community. It’s important.
Ciao
Well it’s the last day of May and I’m just now getting my flower garden planted. It sure feels like it’s late in the year to be doing this, but too many things kept me from working on it sooner. I wasn’t as aggressive or as ambitious as I’ve been in past years with my plantings, but I think it will look good non the less. I planted a lot more perennials this year, keeping only the front (south-facing) bed for annuals. I love all the colors that you can get with annuals, but they do require a lot of work, every year. As soon as the garden grows some I’ll take a few pictures and post them, but for now I’m goring to crawl into the bathtub and soak my poor aching body; which I will not be posting a picture of.
Ciao
Well it’s been almost a month that I’ve had my iPad 3G and, as much as it bothers me to say it, I’ve fallen in love with it. Now those of you who know me might be chuckling and saying, “Nu? You’re an Apple Fanboy…we should expect different?” While I will admit that I do like Apple, and that I own several of their products, I didn’t expect that I would like the iPad as much as I do. My poor MacBook just sits on my desk collecting dust, wondering what happened to me.
My favorite app on the iPad is the iBook reader and I’ve spent a lot of time looking for good ebooks to load up my iPad with. One place that I like a lot is All Romance, they have a very large GLBT section that I’ve bought a lot of wonderful ebooks from. I’ve developed an obsession for gay vampire and gay werewolf stories. If you’re looking for a good ebook to read let me know, I can recommend a couple.
The only complaint that I have with the iPad is it’s low visibility level in harsh sunlight. But I tell myself that it isn’t that big of a problem because I don’t read a lot in the sunlight, out of respect for the vampires of course.
Ciao
Too often I miss important moments in life, things that should mean something, like birthdays, divorces, births, court dates. They just don’t register. Or more likely, I ignore them. Well that was yesterday. Today I set up my BusyCal calendar on my Macs and I’ve input all the important dates so I won’t miss them, again. It’s great. It sends me reminders of upcoming events, it syncs with iCal and my iPhone so I don’t have any excuses left for missing something important. I’ve heard that Busy Cal is working on an iPad version as well. Life is good.
Ciao
Sometimes life just looks better in black and white, without all the colors. It’s less confusing and there are fewer choices to make. Some days I long for a life that’s simpler, clearer, and quieter. But in reality I would only be able to survive in that world for a very short time. As much as I long for a different life I’m not willing to give up what I’ve got now. Not that it’s that great, but I’ve become comfortable (lazy) with it and I’m not ready to loose it, not yet at least. So, every morning I open my eyes, get out of bed and face my day. For now that’s the only option I have.
Ciao
Well, it’s almost the end of February 2010 and yet another month has flown by without so much as a “by your leave.” At the rate that time is slipping by it will soon be time for Chanukah. I always have good intentions to keep up with the blog, but something always interferes – or better stated, I allow things to interfere, and as the days, weeks and months fly by, the blog gets farther and farther away. Sometimes I feel that I just can’t keep up, that no matter how hard I try I fail.
Well, here’s to failing. May it soon become a distant acquaintance.
Ciao
Today is the fourth year blogoversary for The Lee Word Side. I started the blog with the intention of it being a journal, and a place where I could express my feelings and thoughts through my writings. I got a good start, during the first two years I accomplished a lot of those goals. I wrote a few stories, a few poems, and a few posts on politics and current events. But during the third year something happened and I lost interest in posting. I tried to force myself to post, but those few post reflect the forced effort and should not have been posted. This, the fourth year I just let thing happen as they may. If I felt like posting, I did, if I didn’t, I didn’t. That approach’s success is reflected in the low number of post made in 2009.
So, what does the future hold for The Lee Word Side? Will it continue to limp along, barely providing any content? Will it recoup it’s former vitality? Well, only time will tell.
To all of the people who have been following me throughout this experience I say “Thank You.” Thank you for checking in and thank you for posting comments and sending emails. I truly appreciate them all. Please continue. So, here’s to the fifth year, may it bring entertainment, excitement, and satisfaction.
Ciao
As promised, here is the January Evan Wadle picture. I can’t imagine him ever looking bad.
Enjoy!
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