Yeah yeah, so I posted like five times Thursday and then not again until today. So sue me.

Thursday night was busy. As hinted on Wednesday, I had a date with riff_77. It went swimmingly. Buca di Beppo has largely redeemed itself in my eyes after its downright sketchy performance a few years back. Its tiramisù, however, remains pretty questionable. After ( Read more... )

Had a very nice date night with radiantbaby last night. We always go out for Date Night, so I thought for a change of pace maybe I would cook dinner. It'd been a while since I'd last done that. So I stopped at the store on the way home and grabbed fixin's for Ben's Pasta-ey Goodness. I think I might've put in even more oregano than usual. Yum ( Read more... )

The day has only begun and somehow it seems to be a rather nice one. This is heavily influenced, I suspect, by my discovery of a back-roads route from home to work that avoids 90% of the horrible evil traffic on 400 and the north end of 141 and cuts my commute time nearly in half. This is always a fine beginning to a day. I arrived at work to ( Read more... )

Had an absolute blast at frolicon this weekend. Hung out with old friends, and made a few new ones. Even enjoyed some new experiences. Hell, I even managed to get in a little reading. I won't even be trying for a full report on this one -- I learned the hard way with Pantheacon that I just can't keep up with that, and guilting myself over that fact is only ( Read more... )

Saturday started out with errands. A fair number of them, here and there. Lunch, groceries, post office. Then we had a little time, so radiantbaby and I braved North Point Mall traffic to find me a new coat. My old was was getting quite threadbare and had been in for repairs more times than I could count recently. Coming apart at the seams is bad enough; it ( Read more... )

Mexican dinner with lots of cheeseydip, then home for a night of lounging about in bed with a wonderful lady. I ♥ Date Night.

One sad point, though: troll, my trusty desktop at home, appears to be dead. From the flashing (?!) power light I'm guessing it's either the power supply or the motherboard. Muchly joyfulness. Fortunately as every good D&D ( Read more... )

It's been a crazy-busy week since I last posted. Work work work on Tuesday and Wednesday, then a long drive late Wednesday night up to northeast Tennessee to see my mother and younger siblings. They seem to be doing well. The weekend was basically relaxing, though I was a bit sad that I didn't feel comfortable calling my father for Thanksgiving in ( Read more... )

The following weekend -- Samhain weekend to many of my friends -- was the fated day for radiantbaby to move into my house. We'd been holding off on that for a while. See, zydee and I bought this house a little over 3 years ago now. When she left -- a bit short of 2 years ago now -- it was with a bit too much haste that I fell into another relationship. As it's ( Read more... )

So Sunday evening while chatting with the wonderful radiantbaby I came to a realization about a bad habit I've got when it comes to dating skills. I've never really needed to date per se. See, there's this wide space between seeing someone at social gatherings and being in a capital-R Relationship with them, and most people get from the former to the latter ( Read more... )

Yeah, maybe it's a dumb little post, but it made me happy. I woke up this morning with a profound sense of happiness and gratefulness for all of the love in my life. It really is amazing to me. Aphrodite got some frankincense this morning in thanks.