Tuesday, November 26, 2002

We had a 10:30 PM hockey game last night. Jen spent the evening at my place before we headed out to the game.

It ended up being a bad game. We lost 5-3. The team started arguing about half way through. Our goalie, who isn't that great, is kind mouthy. When the going got tough, he started swearing at the other players.




Monday, November 25, 2002

Bleah. Last night I chatted on the internet for too many hours. I do that every now and then just to get it out of my system.

Cor and Scott had dinner with Brent and Sean. Cor knows that I like Brent. When he came home, he told me to forget about Brent. Brent is very much in love with Sean.

Sunday, November 24, 2002

Social Weekend Friday I had dinner with C2, Steven and G. Steven and G are great talkers, so the conversation was lively. In fact, Steven suggested that we start a gay talk show called "The Gay View"

Saturday morning, I worked with C3 on some large art work he's creating for a laywer. It's going to look good. All that's left to do is color calibrate and print out the work. It's going to be 4'' x 8''

Saturday afternoon, I went to C6's and watched the Apple Cup (College football. UW Huskey's vs WSU Cougers) The Huskies won 29-26 in triple overtime. It was a good game.

After football I went over the Steven's. His new room mate moved in. She's an old friend who has a five month old baby. He doesn't really want to have the baby, but his friend needs a place. She is recently divorced. She wants to move back to Virginia with family, but it's going to take a few months to tie up some loose ends.

Steven and I drove down to the Cuff and chatted with the gang.

Now Cor... Friday night Cor met a guy named Scott. I've known Scott for a couple of years. He's a friend of Harry. Cor ended up spending the night at Scott's (He told me so) Then the next morning, whiel C3 and I were working, he showed up with the guy he dumped last weekend. They went to Cor's bedroom and had sex (The computer room is next to Cor's room) Now last night, Cor slept over at Scott's.

Cor seams to like Scott, but I'm sure he'll find a reason to dump him in a few weeks.

Friday, November 22, 2002

Today my work team went to see Die Another Day. It's very James Bond. Lots of big stunts. Weak Plot. Fun movie.

Thursday, November 21, 2002

Today I had lunch with the east side bears-- C2, Steven, Cor, G, T&J, Bruce and C3. It was good. Of couse Bruce and C3 arrived late-- about 40 minutes late.

I'm suprised how perceptive Steven is. He picked up some odd vibes from T about J about their new house. Later on he asked me about it. I told him that J lost his job about a month ago and the two moved into their new house last week. So T is a bit stressed and annoyed that he's the one paying for their house.
Last night I had a bunch of guys over for dinner... Cor, C2, Mathew, Sandy and two of the pb's. It was fun. We planned a trip to Mexico at the for the end of January.

Right now the two pb, Scott and Tom, are dating. I'm not sure how long that's going to last. Tom is clearly very in love with Scott, but he's also very controlling-- that's buging Scott.

In June Tom was in Seattle on vacation. He met Scott and fell for him. Shortly afterwards Tom moved here from Kentucky. Well, he was supposed to movie in with a friend and just date Scott, but the friend flaked out and Tom ended up moving in with Scott. Since then Tom has rented a room at another place, but he doesn't spend much time there.

Every time Tom mentioned that he and Scott here living together, Scott said "No we're not."

Wednesday, November 20, 2002

Lunch

My work-team go for lunch together almost every day. It's so predictable we don't even say "Would you like to go for lunch?" Instead, at noon someone stops outside your door and says "Blabbabaallal!

That was until today. Today, we switched to telepathy. At noon three of the guys stopped outside my door, said nothing and just staired at me. I got up and joined them. We walked to the last guys office, stood silently outside his door and staired at him. He got up and joined us. Then we went for lunch.

Monday, November 18, 2002

I napped a couple of times on Sunday. In the early evening, I went to a house warming party thrown by my ex manager. Most of the people there were work people.

Later on, I played hockey. We won 5-3. I had an ok game.

Monday was an busy day. After work, I met with a guy named Art. I'm ot sure what to make of Art. He runs this group call BTO that, well, provides an atmosphere for bisexual married men to meet and play with other bisexual married men. I am neither married, nor bisexual, but Art has been trying to get me to join the group for over a year. Today another guy and I met Art for a drink. He gave us the sales pitch for the group. The 3rd Thursday of every month they meet in a hotel. I'm not going to go but it was an interesting chat.

After Art, I had a date with Derik. He's a nice guy, but I'm not really attracted to him. We had dinner at "Bill's off Broadway".

After Derik, C3 came over to my house. A lawyer in NY has commisioned him to do some large images and art work. We played around with the scanner and printer to see what the source material would look like when magnified ten times. We got mixed results. The flat images scanned in very well. But, when we tried to scan in a weave, the scanner couldn't focus properly. The parts of the weave in contact with the glass were fine. The parts off of the glass were blury. C3 is going to try and find a scanner that can handle 3D source material. Either that or he's going to take a macro-shot with a regular camera. Then we can scan in the resulting photo.

Sunday, November 17, 2002

Frustrating Saturday night. I went to the Cuff. Harry was there. We hung around and talked, but he ignored me physcally. It was so frustrating. I want to hold him and kiss him so badly.

I met another nice guy at the Cuff. I got his number. I'll give him a call and see what happens.

Saturday, November 16, 2002

Friday was quiet. In the evening I had dinner with C2 and Derik.

After that I went to the Cuff for a while and said 'Hi' to the gang. My ex, Brian, was there. He's got a new boyfriend.

This morning I drove C2 to Tacoma to pick up his new car. It's a 1990 'Z' This is a big improvment for C2-- the old car was a 77 'Z' We talked about his wheeling and dealing... much of what C2 spends his money isn't store bought/above-the-table. One of his favorite places to eat has the nickname "The Illegal Taco Stand" It's a truck and trailor that pulls into local parking lots, puts out a sign and sells food. His mechanic operates out of two storage lockers at a U-Store-It. Most of his cloths are promotional items given away by companies to sell their products.

I'd like to learn how C2 gets all of his connections

Thursday, November 14, 2002

Cor is stressing out. He called me this morning and told me he was dumping his current boyfriend He said he really wants to meet a good man and settle down. We joked about it for a bit. I told him couldn't really help but mabye C2 could. A while later he sent C2 and I this email...

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C2, Barry

HELP

I need a husband who :

1) Is intelligent, a Master degree will help. Foreign languages too.
2) Well traveled (been to at least 30 countries but not on Business trips). Like adventures.
3) Got a good job
4) Very good looking, latin or white
5) Masculine, to the point that I will not see anything gay in him
6) Good in bed (and outside of it too). A good size will help a lot. Has to be very sexual.
7) Live in the Seattle area
8) Able to love, care and move in
9) Good body, muscular and outdoor guy
10) Like to share a life, completely faithful.

I am tired to “break the hearts”. Two in a week is too much. Therefore I need someone close to above description. Enclose is one pic of mine a couple of weeks ago.

Do you know anyone?
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C2 and I had lunch together and had a good laugh over Cor's email. C2 and I have been single for years now. We'd be overjoyed if either of us could meet a man with half of Cor's criteria.

I think that Cor is about to learn a painfull lesson about being single. Part of me feels sorry for him. Part of me says "Join the club."

Wednesday, November 13, 2002

I had hockey practice last night. When I got home Cor had a new guy over. I guess his Las Vegas BF is out.

C2's friend Derik, the guy we had dinner with on Friday is persuing me. He sent C2 an email saying so. Derik and I are having dinner on Monday.

Oh yeah. Cor has dumped his Las Vegas boyfriend and is seeing someone new.

Monday, November 11, 2002

I played hockey last night. We lost 4-0.

Other than that I had a quiet Sunday.

When it rains, it pours...

One of C2's friends, the one C2 and I had dinner with on Friday, asked me out on a date. I haven't replied yet. The friend is a cute and nice guy, but it doesn't sit well with me. I've heard to much gossip about him. I'm trying to forget the gossip and just get to know him better. But, my mind isn't that easy to change.

Also C2 wants to introduce me to another guy-- Big T. Big T is my age and size.

Also, I heard from Harry again. We exchanged short "Hi how are you doing" emails. I really need to forget about Harry. However, he still makes my heart beat fast.

I think I'll say yes to the offer for dinner and then go from there.

Sunday, November 10, 2002

Friday Evening I had dinner at Siam's with C2, Cor and two for C2's friends. It was a good dinner. The two friends were very much into the gay scene... trophy fucks... hanging out where the hot men are. After dinner C2 asked me what I thought of the two friends. We simultaniously said "Typical Capitol Hill fags." Capitol Hill is the gay area of Seattle.

I had a beer at the Cuff afterwards. I met a guy and gave him my number.

The guy called me at 3am in the morning.

Next morning, I called the guy and we agreed to get together that afternoon.

We did get together that afternoon, but it didn't go well. He's not good at giving directions and he's a bit dyslexic so it took two phone calls to clear things up. Also, he spent a lot of time talking about how cute I was and how he was so attracted to me, and how I was his perfect type and on and on. It felt uncomfortable.

I left his place around 5pm and went to Bruce and C3's (Yes, we are talking again) We had dinner there and then went to see Bowling For Columbine. It's a good documentary. It tries to answer the question "Why is the gun crime rate in America so much higher than anywhere else?" It comes up with a few possibilites though nothing concuslive. Overall I recommend the Bowling For Columbine. It's has much to think about.

This morning I had breakfast with Steve and his boyfriend. It was good to see them again. Steven mentioned that I'm becomming quite the social butterfly. That a lot of social things happen around me and because me. He also mentioned that there is a fair bit of good gossip about. People think I'm attractive and wonder why I'm still single. A good ego boost.

Friday, November 08, 2002

Had a social day yesterday.

Yesterday, I had lunch with the bears I work with... PG, Steven, C2, Bruce and a few other guys.

Afterwork, C6 and I went to the Snowboard Conneciton to get ready for the year. I bought new bindings and had my boards tuned. Chris bought boots and bindings.

Afterwards, C6, Officer Rob, R and I had dinner at the Six Arms and then went to the Cuff for beer.

The wax they used on my snowboards smells like cherry. My garage and my truck now smell of cherry.

Thursday, November 07, 2002

Cor and I had an argument last night. I wasn't in a great mood to begin with. I had low energy from the flu, plus I was tired. Cor walked in on me using the computer and saw me surfing some... ehem... porn. Cor made a mean joke how he was glad it didn't work out between us because I'm nasty (Sexually) and he's a nice man. At that point, I lost control. I vented about the way he treats men, especially thouse who love him. I also snaped at him about the way his jokes are always mean. He insults me and then says "Just kidding."

We stopped talking at that point. Later on I apologized. I told him I didn't really mean it and that I was in a bad mood from the flu.

This morning he called me up and apologized. He said that I was right and that the reason he was mean to me was that he was a bit jealous of me. I was the only man he wanted that turned him down, so now at times he feels jealous and wants to cut me up. He also said I was right about the way he treats men. And he's going to try and change his ways.

We'll see. No harm done. Cor and I are still friends.

Wednesday, November 06, 2002

I had dinner with Mathew and Sandy tonight. Two of their friends, Shil and Wayne came a long. By the looks of things, I've become Mathew's and Sandy's "token single friend." The two of them have moved on to "Couple Friends" I think this is more of Sandy's doing than Mathew's. I don't hold it against them. I don't think they know they're doing it. But, it's happening.

Dinner was good. A bit pricy though. We ate at Duke's on Lake Union.
I've been back to the doctor. We did a bit more digging. It looks like I have an alergy to the toilet paper I used while I had the flu. Normally the alergy wouldn't matter, but I used so much TP while I had the flu that a nasty butt rash broke out. It's in control now.

I've spent the past two evenings at home, resting.

Cor bought a house. It's about a 10 minute drive from my place. It needs some rennovation, but other than that it's a good place. I don't think he'll move in till January.

Monday, November 04, 2002

My first day back at work. I was had a good day. I didn't goof off, so I ended up being more productive than I had been in weeks.

Sunday, November 03, 2002

Well, I'm mostly better. I still get tired easily. I'm not eating like I used to. But, I'm up and around.. walking around the block.

Cor has found a house he really likes and he's going to put an offer in on it. We went to see it today. It's a nice house. With some work it will be a great house.

Afterwards we had lunch together. He told me his woes and worry's. His Los Vegas boyfriend is very bad with credit cards. He has six cards all maxed out-- around $10 000. Cor has told the BF that the BF has to show some progress in paying down the debt before Cor will let the BF move in with him. I half agree with him, half disagree. From a business standpoint it makes sense. But from a romantic, through-better-or-worse standpoint, it's cold and calculating. I hope I never have to make that kind of decision.

Saturday, November 02, 2002

I've been flat-on-my-ass sick for the past two and a half days. I feel better now, though I'm still slighly weak and I've lost 10lbs.

Wednesday afternoon, I got chills and felt tired. I drove home and went to bed. For the next 24 hours I did nothing but sleep, run to the bathroom and drink water. Thursday evening Cor gave me some granola, yoghurt and juice. I ate bit of that. Friday at lunch I had a piece of toast on peanut butter. Finally last night I started to feel better. I had two bowls of soup before I went to bed.

I was supposed to go to a Wedding in L.A. Oh well. I'll mail them my present.

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