September Ends

Dear Jack,

Well the month of September is ending. Here's the wrap up.

Mike's nervous about work because of the shifting climate in attitudes among those in charge. It also appears they may close the bookstore. It doesn't look like a good situation for him regardless. Emotionally and spiritually he needs to leave. We're going to focus in October on getting him a more secure job.

My job is going well. I had a good heart-to-heart with Yetta which ended with a good compromise where I will be eventually faded out of the YGK09 stuff. My primary work will be at HWLC. I am excited to see how it develops.

We are official members of St. Luke's, and we attended the fall dinner there. We have found so many nice people there and great opportunities to expand our ministries. The place just feels right.

The biggest problems outside of Mike's work is that the dishwasher has died, as well as the DVD player and the freezer part of the fridge. We have to get them fixed. The fridge and dishwasher will be at the landlord's expense, whereas the DVD player is ours.

In general, I think things are looking up. Autumn is here, and thus begins the series of events that I call my favorite time of the year.

Working Weekend

Dear Jack,

This was a long weekend. Yesterday I ran the booth for Yetta at London Terrace. Two of our volunteers did not show up, which put some extra pressure on. The street fair was pretty good, despite the small size of it and the constant drizzle of rain. I think Yetta met more people in that time than we have yet. It will definitely help her cause. Afterwords, Karen, Katsumi, Michael, Elizabeth, Yetta and I went to Grand Szechuan for dinner. It's my favorite Chinese restaurant.

Today we had an event at Animal Haven SoHo, and then I joined Michael and Paul at the Center for the 25th Anniversary. It was busy busy, and humid, but I still managed to enjoy myself. We did dinner at Cowgirl, and then met up with Daniel at Michael's Restaurant.

I'm glad Yetta is letting me come in tomorrow at noon.

The Pines

Dear Jack,

This weekend Michael and I traveled to the Pines with Yetta for a campaign fundraiser.

The trip was interesting. I traveled up on Friday with Yetta, John, David, and Emily. Yetta was in a yellow Corvette, and we were in a Jetta. Yes a Jetta following Yetta. We stayed at Hotel Ciel, which wasn't as bad as the reviews seemed to say. The first night was mostly uneventful. John and I walked on the beach a while. I shared a bed with Yetta, and slept well for the most part.

The next day we went to the beach, and despite putting on Bert's Bees Sunscreen, am now sunburned.John  lost his glasses in the ocean...some lucky Mexican will have some Prada's wash up soon. After that we met Phyllis and traveled to the home of a friend of Yetta's named Dennis. We hung out there and played in the pool. The ladies departed for various events, and us boys went to change to do the Low Tea. Michael arrived around 6:40 with Chef Josie.John , Michael, and I went to dinner at Bay Bar and then walked with David and Chef Josie through the Meat Rack to Cherry Grove.  This was at night... Josie with a flashlight, the rest of us behind, and me leading a blind John.

I liked Cherry Grove in some ways better than the Pines...only in that it was more small townish... but some of the lesbians there were brutal, and I saw four fights break out there. Michael and David ended up at Ice Palace and J4hn and I had ice cream before joining them there. Josie joined the other lesbians from our crew and they all disappeared.

Later that night us Boys marched back to the Pines along the beach. I have the blisters to prove it. When we finally got back to the room, we ran into the lesbians. They decided to go skinny-dipping in the ocean. Michael nearly went--as in he wanted to go, and left to join them, but couldn't find his way to the beach. I went to find him to help him, and I ran into an orgy. It was the first time I saw one in real life. I wasn't expecting it to say the least, although in reality I wasn't SHOCKED--I mean it was Fire Island Pines.

I slept very little that night because of the sunburn and sore legs from the walk. Michael was out like a light. The next day was the event. It went pretty well...the food being one of the better things.

I was exhausted when I got home with Michael...and in pain. I took a Tylenol PM to get to sleep and to ease the pains in my legs.

REGARDLESS, I HAD FUN! :-) Mind you, I think I may have to lay off being around gay men for a while....

Filing

Dear Jack,

Well we have finally completed our filing. I am tired and glad it is over. I will sleep now. YAWN. Yeah Yetta. I also noted that her competition is not listed as giving anything to anyone since 2007...way to support the process!

Anyways Sleepytime

At Last I'm Home

Dear Jack,

Just got home after a long day of volunteering. Mikey came and joined me and Yetta, and it was really nice. Also I ate a great salad for dinner and it was really that good that I'm blogging about it. Lovari stopped by while we were there too. It was a lot of fun, but a lot of work. I think it will definitely pay off in the end though. MPD may as well concede now! LOL.

Life goes on, and I go to bed.

Millennium Approaching

Dear Jack,

Well this weekend is an exciting one. YGK, EKK, and I have been diligently working on filling out the necessary stuff for the Campaign Finance filing coming up. I can't wait for it to be done, but not because of the work, because of the results we have turned up. I'll post more on that when all is public.

After working the day on things yesterday, YGK, EKK, and I met up with Michael at the birthday party of John. I met John. at an HX Mixer at Vlada. He works for HX and was chatting with our friend Alex. He's a great guy, little shy in the cute way. He joined us for an OUT Astoria event a couple days ago too. Anyways we had a grand time and met some new people, and rekindled the friendship of some people we had met at other events.

I am ready for a little break after all this, but I'm still running on adrenaline so I'm good. I want to see the final result in its completeness.

Anyways, on to work.

Been a Long, Been a Long, Been a Long Day...

Dear Jack,

Had a long day. It was good and productive though. Things are going great with the YGK09 stuff and I'm hyped. I'm about to head to bed, but wanted to post. Not much happened today other than I got a lot of work done, and was there a long while. I ate a hotdog, and that was great.

That's all for now.