So yes. I am up late. Again. Kill me, why don’t you? Do you know what I am doing? Making a cake. Why? I don’t know. It’s brunch tomorrow. No one will probably have cake, but yanno what? It’ll be pretty on the counter. Well, I think, anyway. I opted for a bundt cake. It’s so much easier. I just don’t know how it’ll look as a yellow cake. Now I have to do the frosting more like a glaze. *sigh* I think I am crazy.

Also I am enjoying the official drink of the @blueteam. So that’s fun. Plus every now and then I hear from Shel. I miss that crazy kid! It’s weird when you chat like every day for like ever and then go to maybe once a month. It’s like my therapist went part time! Sheesh! And I mean that with love… *blows kisses north*

Okay. I think I need to focus on my glaze now. Shit. How the hell am I doing that? Nuking the frosting I think… Yes. That will work…

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But really, does that surprise anyone? So here’s the thing. We were at Urban Mo’s. It tries to be a restaurant but really it’s a big ol’ gay bar. We were there with our gorgeous friends for dinner and drinks. Let’s remember for a moment that Richard and I do not usually (or ever actually) do the gay bar scene. We used to, but ever since that bar manager from Chevy’s in Daly City licked Richard’s nipple in the middle of a bar in Castro and that whole scene happened we tend to keep it low key. Have I ever told that story here? I dunno.. Shel’s been reading forever. Maybe he can comment if he remembers that one. But that, combined with my sordid nightclub past keep me out of those places. Give me dinner and a simple dive bar anytime. Anyhoo, so like I was saying. The ‘going out’ thing is totally stressful for me. First I had to pick an outfit. Not easy since I am slimmer than I have been in a while and all my jeans are like huge. Bad rapper huge. So I shopped. I dressed. I waited for Richard. I changed 2 more times.

Eventually we get there and have a great time. I was going in and out of my ‘queen of the club’ mental space from the old days. It’s amazing how you can walk a certain way and people just move out of the way.. or you can become invisible and get trapped and tripped over. I like to toy with my ‘presence’. It’s an old survival trick I learned from many nights at the old club ‘Spread’ in SF. It’s probably all in my own head tho. I am weird like that. But where was I? This story is making NO sense. Sorry. But yeah, there was this guy who totally grinned every time I passed. Since I was trying to be ‘fun’ I smiled back. I am totally trying to be more social these days. It’s part of something I have been working on… But that’s totally off topic. So I pass, I smile, the whole time sucking in my gut due to my outfit choices. Then Britney came on. I have been wanting to dance to that song FOREVER! Gimme More! So I rushed to the dance floor. My friends followed and I grooved to Gimme More. (That is like the best song to dance to, especially since I haven’t danced in like YEARS. Thanks to Brit, every time you misstep you just stop, look up all dazed and wander around the floor a bit. Then you pick up from nowhere and poorly lip-sync… HILARIOUS!) So after the song was over I suddenly felt overcrowded, hot, and had to be outside IMMEDIATELY. Do you ever get like that? It’s normal for me, but we all know I am a bit off. I like to think it’s a cute ‘quirk’. It was when I was close enough to the door to smell the smoke-free air that this same guy appeared out of nowhere and tried to chat me up. “Hola, hola, hola…”, with a big smile and arms outstretched. I don’t know that it was actual flirting, since I didn’t hang around, but I am assuming so. Either way, I was so amazingly rude. I looked at him, looked away, side stepped to get around him and walked off without even speaking.

I am such a bitch. Now when I was 20 that sort of behavior was one thing. But I am old now. In gay years, even OLDER! I am lucky to have young hispanic hotties say hello to me, let alone flirt.

So yeah. I feel horrible now! I could have at the very least said hello. But I was in a state, and HAD to get outside… I am sorry Hot Friendly Guy! But I am taken anyway, so if you were flirting it would not have gotten anywhere, so maybe it’s for the best after all.

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The inability of purchasing international gift certificates on iTunes sucks dirty ass. Just FYI.

Seriously. You cannot do it. You get this warning about how certificates can only be used in the store they are bought in if the recipient’ s email is say, for instance, Canadian and registered in the Canadian store. I think I knew I was buying a gift for, as an example, a Canadian person. I am using Canada as an example here. I don’t care about the logistics. Just make it work! But no. Even if I logged into the Canadian iTunes store I was flagged as American and sent back to my own store! Bastards! So now what? I have an international gift I need to buy within the next few days!! Where do I turn if, for example, I need to buy a gift for a Canadian?

As I was getting desperate I got creative. I Googled Canadian (for example) Gift Certificates. The resulting websites offered email certificates for Canadian (as an example) stores, but ew. Really. How do I know if my supposedly Canadian friend shops at those places? I mean, I wouldn’t from the looks of things online. So I went over to the Amazon. Now that is a global market! Right? Erm. No. Well actually, yes and no. An Amazon.com certificate is not valid at Amazon.ca (for example). However, I was able to go to Amazon.ca (for example) and buy in the proper monetary exchange without being flagged as American and sent away. I found this to be a hypothetical shopping experience plus.

I will let you know if this hypothetical international purchasing scenario resulted in a happy gift recipient, hypothetically speaking, of course.

tagged: apple itunes shel birthday gift amazon canadian international hypothetical scenarios

Hello? *looks around* Well, looks about the same here inside the ol’ blog. Shel didn’t throw any wild parties, or if he did he sure cleans up well… Oh wait, that picture is crooked. Hrm…

Anyhoo, it is great to be in my own house posting on my blog the normal way. Feels good, yanno? We actually got home around one-ish. There was quite a bit of housework to drudge through. Lemmee tell you all. 2 cats home alone for a week plus open windows? Dusting and vacuuming galore! They were well taken care of, but it looked like those cats threw a party up in here!! I think we are caught up though. More that caught up. I think we did the chores we missed out on this past week too! Phew! Now it’s off to the store. The cupboards are bare and I am getting bitchy from starvation.

I am sooo behind on my internetting.

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For those of you that don’t know him, I should make a formal introduction to your guest author. His name is Shel. He comes from the far away land of Canada. I have known Shel for a number of years, even when he just used to blog with jpeg entries. (It’s not what you think, but still don’t ask.) When he’s not at work, you can find him blogging at orangelounge.ca. Just not as much as he used too. If he’s not blogging he’s off spending time with his man. They just celebrated 2 months together. Is that cute or what? Aww. I remember my 2 month annaversary! Well, kinda. I mean it was like 10 years ago. Heh. Wait, did I just try to make this post about me? See how I am? Bad.

Anyhoo, here’s Shel:

I figured we should put a face to the name. Heh. Doesn’t he seem like a nice fellow?

‹ wish i hadn't asked!

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*ahem*

Is this thing on?

This is Shel from orangelounge.ca testing the emergency DP.com broadcast system. Except it’s not really an emergency broadcast system. It’s more of a… DP is on a vacation system.

So your illustrious host here is headed off into the sunset, the land of old people, pastels and parks of the amusement variety, and it’s been left to me to keep you entertained in his absence. I’ve been given a list of non-DP.com sanctioned topics, which will make things rather challenging for me, but granted, if you wanted to read what I’d normally rant about, you’d go to orangelounge.ca, right?

Just sayin.

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Hey there kids! How are you today? Good? Great! Me too. I have to admit though, I have had better days off. But that is off topic. I have a very specific question for you today. An important question that weighs heavy on the future of this here blog, danielphillip.com. Okay well maybe not heavy since we all know I am king here. Hands firmly on the wheel and all.. I even carry a big stick! But really, I am curious how you all, the other half of the fabulous phenomenon here at dp.com feel about the whole guest poster, guest author idea? It is totally different than a multi author thing, eh? I mean in that situation one expects it. But here at dp.com we have heard almost exclusively from me. Sure I went on vacation once or twice and folks at the time (that I still love bloggistically) stepped up to the plate for me.. Gawd. I remember Puerto Vallarta. Ahhh. But had I blogged that! So many great posts there..

I think it concerns me because I am more hesitant to share than I was in the past. It’s like a part of me, this site. There is so much of me here if you look for it. I am more than some trashy links and a recap of a trip to the mall if you dig deeper… (really, search me! Check the archives by category!)

But now I am off track again. I want to know would you welcome another voice here at danielphillip.com? Would you really? What if it was someone totally new and unexpected?

a guest author??

total votes: 11

honaey, we only love you! no way!

 45% (5)

 

i would enjoy another opinion...

 0% (0)

 

change frightens me.

 0% (0)

 

i love the idea of you mixing it up!

 18% (2)

 

keep the other voices in the podcast yo!

 0% (0)

 

only if it's sheldon.

 9% (1)

 

i thought this was a multi author blog.

 9% (1)

 

other (in comments)

 18% (2)

 

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That’s right. The cancelled show. Not by me mind you. In my mind the show must go on! And so I went ahead and recorded me on my own without my buddy from Cananada, Sheldon. All in all I’d say it is the usual. You and me, after a long day at work.. Unwinding… Talking aboot whatever comes to mind… Awww. Doesn’t that sound nice? Plus I was nekid. Just kidding! Gawd that joke never gets old! Or is it a joke?

Bwahahaahah! I love that! Okay, but no, really. I wasn’t nude. *wink*

I have to stop.

Mentioned: Shel, Me, Donald Trump, American Idol, Blake Lewis, Chris Richardson, Melinda, Sanjaya (ugh), work, Anna Nicole, the Baby Daddy, and stuff.

tagged: richard work podcast shel blake lewis sanjaya anna nicole smith chris richardson melinda baby daddy

Okay kids, time for a little self promotion. Shocking, I know. I am never self promoting! Heheh. But seriously, it is time to invite you all back to my linkdump site Link-tastic! It’s revamped, thanks in part to 5 new banners created by Shel. I had to dive in and figure out what the CSS was doing and tweak, reload to see what I did, and tweak some more. Do I understand CSS a bit now? Erm. No. I am much more talented with EE type stuff. But still, I am pretty proud of what I accomplished with Link-tastic!, I mean rotating banners are pretty cool. Sheldon exclusive banners to boot. Words.

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I have never needed a laptop computer before now. I mean sure I have wanted one. They are cute, sassy, and it would be soo nice to have at work. Blogging from my phone absolutely sucks yo. So yeah, I really wanted one. But I have to say, now that I have a recliner my life has changed. And it’s only been one day…

Let first of all clarify something, as when I told Shel about the new recliners he was less than excited. In fact, since he called me old 5 minutes ago he has been giving me the silent treatment. Harsh. Where was I? Oh, clarifying.. These recliners are known as chameleons. That means they do not look like recliners. Okay? No, really! They are cute! And not in that tiny Cost Plus furniture kind of way. These are cute and totally suitable for full grown men. So the butch side of me can recline during Medium (or sports, if I wanted…), and the nelly side can add a toss pillow for a touch of color. Cause the things are that cute!

But back to my original dilemma. I don’t want to get out of it. I swear it is the perfect seat for a gym weary body. I can’t wait to try it out after work. Climbing the 5 stairs to the computer is just so daunting when reclined in the fluffy cushy new chair. Especially when I have a glass of wine, a healthy nibbley thing, and a cat in my lap to keep me cozy. I even watched American Idol. That’s how comfortable I was.

BTW. Hello? America? Are you awake? WHY IS SANJAYA STILL ON???? OMFG!!!! AAARRRGGHHH!!!

Okay, I feel better. Yeah, new chair=good thing.

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