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So, this weekend I went on a road trip to L.V. for a religious retreat with B & D. The purpose of the weekend primarily was that we had a trainer coming in from out of the region to talk about some of the technical things involved with our initiation processes.

B drove the SUV out to L.V. which was basically about a 5ish hr ride (w/a dinner stop). I was working on about 90 minutes of sleep from the day before. We got in to the Luxor very punch drunk and tired. Went up to our adjoining rooms and B&D were pretty much gone for the night.

I had a little cash on me that I specifically wanted to use in the casino with no purpose whatsoever beyond having fun with in the Casino. Win/lose was irrelevant. It was money I would have otherwise spent on toys/movies/ etc. It was budgetted fun money.

Having this mindset however made it impossible to lose money, I discovered. I basically hit slots and blackjack and found myself up about $700. This was a very weird feeling because I really wasn’t trying to win or lose. I got tired and meandered my way to the room.

The PPV in the room had Disney’s remake of “Tuck Everlasting” I however did not everlast more than about 1/3 to 1/2 the film and promptly fell asleep. It wasn’t the film. I’m pretty sure I’m going to buy it now. The original is a long time favourite, and surprisingly the remake wasn’t the horror I was afraid of.

3hrs later it is 7:15. Quick clean up and off to get morning beverage and shampoo. When I stayed at the Luxor for New Years, I really fell for the conditioner and shampoo they offer in the rooms. Sadly however the giftshop was out. I got tea (of course), some krispy kreme donuts, and water. Then into the gift shop. No shapmoo. Aw. *shrug*

They however, had the thoth/tahuti statue that we used in the invocation last week. (Sometimes I hate it when the universe goes, “HEY LOOK, MAGICK!!!!!” The ibis headed god is now sitting on my mousepad staring at me.

Back up the elevator, check out. Knock on door. Off to training.

I’m not going to comment much on training as this is a really inappropriate forum for such material. I did learn a lot of very interesting things and it is definitely driving me forwards in my plans.

The trainer was in from Indiana and was incredibly cool. A.K. is a Bishop in the order and has some theories on Kaballah that blew my mind. I got the chance to talk with her after training. We went on a crawl of some of the local Adult Shops in Vegas where I got a really rocking leather vest. I really love vests and for some reason I’m getting more into leather (coats and vests) We also went out for some really good chinese.

On the way out after training we were all coordinating for mass that evening. Out in L.A. we do very full masses with an ordained clergy and baptised children. The L.V. group were planning to fly without Mass children. I offhandedly commented, “And me without a white (baptismal) robe” The priest said, “we have spares, you want to child?” And D and I agreed to child.

Mass was fun. Mass is always different whereever you go. But D & I have been very actively been doing mass in different roles for quite some time now, so we dropped in fairly naturally. And that black suade evening robe was just dahhhling.

All in all a good weekend. We drove home after mass. And I got in around 4am. I woke up to the phone at 2pm this afternoon. Wow!

So, I’m off to breakfast. More later!

93, 93/93!!!

I once commented that all American holidays can be redefined as
National Something Subjugation Day

Today was one of the motivations towards that idea. Now, I came up with this during High School. You know, “the best years of our lives™” Back when I was training to be a monk

So, I played the “valentine game” I picked three people that I was ‘curious’ about. Now there were some people that I thought were going to pick me. I guess I could have made it easy on myself and gone with them. But I didn’t.

Today, I discovered, three people wrote me notes; but alas; none were the three that I wrote. I’m pretty sure I know who all three were… One has already verbally verified.

So, I am spared the embarrassment of having told three net beings that I was sorta something about them. *LOL* You hope for the reaction to be all blushy and fluttery. You expect Cecily to tell you, “Oh, William. You’re beneath me.” 🙂

So, I could be all disgruntled and the lot… but there were three people that picked me. And that’s cool. If you’d like me to know it was you, feel free to write or comment. I’m touched and won’t embarrass you. Further if you’d like to ask if it was you that I set my less than respectable sights on; I’ll fess 🙂

On other meme type silliness. I made the 20 inanely shallow questions test. This is one where you get to rank different aspects of me anonymously. Most are shallow, some try not to be; but are anyway on the merit of the medium.

As of last night I’d had 7 people

I’m amused that my worst stat is the evaluation of my driving ability. It’s down to 5.5 and dropping consistently (10 is best) I’m amused because I’ve had less accidents driving in the past 18 years than some people have in a year. The count of accident’s I’ve caused is 0.

Beyond that, my hair has taken a dive with a 5.6 *guess long just doesn’t buy it) Physical features are about a 6.4

But someone has taken pity on me and my datability has risen to 6.5

I don’t really take it all personally. If I did; I wouldn’t have put it out there 🙂

Well, I’m off to a training seminar in a few hours. So probably no posts until Sunday.

Enjoy your NSPS Day. try not to trip over anything Pink. It’s allllll over our cafeteria commons area.

Have a good weekend all!

02003.03.22: repaired bold tag in first line that made the entire post bold.

This is someone I met on an 80’s web site and introduced to LJ.

This post really hits me deeply. And I just wanted to pass it around because it makes me feel good.

Well I posted about this earlier today to ‘friends’ only. I figured that way the people who wanted to be nasty could be filtered out until later.

So here’s the rehash. Someone has put up a site that let’s you vote anonymously about people. Say what you will, the victim…er target… Won’t know it was you that cast the vote.

If you want to get in on this: the voting is now open to anyone

I’ve had 7 this afternoon from my ‘friends’ list make some opinions…
Here’s how the voting’s gone before people who may not like me vote :)..