I was talking with various friends this week about their relationships, and thinking about good and bad relationships, and realized I've seen a lot of sub-optimal patterns. Here's the payload from that train of thought. (It's only tangentially related to my recent relationship circumstances ( Read more... )

Hi LJ.

It's been a long time. Hopefully this extended entry full of love, lust, drama, mystery, novelty, and cultural judgement makes up for it.

( Yeah, on a boat. )

Forgive me FL, for it has been weeks since I last confided.

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Travel

FOO camp was amazing. Everyone was friendly, interesting and interested. I met some luminaries of my various fields, and a number of net celebrities. The atmosphere was really great, generative and fun. Excellent mixing of disciplines.

An elementary-school classmate of wasta's ( Read more... )

It's been a while, so here's some recent +/- happenings ( Read more... )

After dinner, I stopped in to the ex-babes and had a nice visit. It's always good to talk to her.

I miss being partnered.

Here's the long overdue state of the Ziptie.

Babies
On Tuesday kety and I went up to visit fuzzyredmittens and cjcollier and scarletwilde and Zelda. We ordered pizza, socialized a bit, and then set the old folks upstairs while we socialized with the 3 year old and the 2 month old. Good stuff. Zelda is darling; with those parents that's expected ( Read more... )

My laptop is at work today, so I'm taking the liberty of posting at lunch ( Read more... )

Long conversation with the babe today. She needed a change. We jumped in to too much familiarity too quickly, without getting to know each other enough, and it didn't feel like a good fit for her ( Read more... )

I'd have done well to have heeded my own advice.

In other news, I'm continuing to date (verb) the date (woman) from the date (event). It's going remarkably well. We're a very good fit in terms of our desired communication style and things we value in relationships. Also delightfully compatible tactile aesthetics. Good stuff. Scary. More news as events warrant.