FMJ @ LAX

It made the long journey from Australia, now it has to make its way across the continental US.  I don't know whether it is flying or trucking across, and they haven't given me an expected date of delivery.  But it should be a matter of days now.  I'll be trimming pubes and locking up in the new cage soon!

8 Democratic Senators voted against $15/hour

Senate voted 58-42 to kill the $15/hour federal minimum wage.  I didn't realize we were that deep underwater on this issue.  We're happy to spend several trillions of dollars on "COVID relief" but the $7.25/hour minimum wage can stay right where it is.

Adjusted for inflation, the current minimum wage is lower than it was in 1950.  From 1938 to 1968 we kept raising the minimum wage, to make sure everybody got to share in our nation's rising productivity.  But for decades we've only cared about making sure stock prices keep going up for Bezos/Musk/Gates et al.

If we divided the net wealth of the US equally each household would have over $800,000.  But instead let's fight over whether to cancel Dr. Seuss.

I need to commit to finishing a book

I've been starting to read countless books and not finishing them.  I feel this is different from starting a TV series and not finishing it, yet, because TV series were supposed to take years to complete, before the Age of Binging came along.  I don't feel as bad about not yet having finished Euphoria or Outlander, but I feel bad about not having finished countless books I've started in the past few months.

Books were the original binging.  You could sit down and read an entire book in a day, if you had nothing else to do.  Unless it was one of those monster 800-page novels like Stephen King's original The Stand (I can't believe he added another 345 pages to it when he re-published it 12 years later).

For decades I've purchased more books than I've finished, but I feel this behavior has become much worse during Quarantine.  Before I had my daily commute on which I'd often read while riding Metro.  Now ... there's too many distractions all day long, all night long, all Internet long, I was thinking I need a week off from work and house AND Internet, during which I'd listen to music I already own and read books I already own.

Mainly I read on my laptop now, digital print media, but I could download the entire book onto the app and then turn off the Wi-Fi.

There are some books I love so much I want to savor them over time, but this is different, I've simply got too many open books, I want to pick one to commit to finishing.  But then, which one?

Here's how it's gonna be.  The next book I start or continue reading, I'm going to stick with until I finish.  I'm not going to read anything else until I finish it.  I'm not even going to read my daily newspapers or weekly/monthly magazines.  So, choose wisely, Bug.  Commit.  Binge a book on purpose.  Fiction, nonfiction, graphic novel, just pick a goddess damned book and read the entire fucking thing.

Saturday

Was officially feeling lonely and Quarantine-fatigued, 56 days of cock-locked horniness feeding a trenchant desire to snuggle with an adult fella, but I sat with my emotions and I'm feeling a bit better.  I remembered how I wrote that post about how I (and others) should reach out when I'm feeling lonely, but did I do that?  Nope.  But, I'm feeling I can do this for three more months.  Sigh.  It's not forever, not the end of the world, but some days I feel it.

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Remembering how when I went to Durham for Moogfest all by myself for three nights, I still had the apps to entertain me by dangling the possibility of hooking up with the local guys.  I remember being flaked on down there, heh, and the Duke student who wanted to literally kick my locked balls because of his intense Daddy issues ... I passed, that sounded uniquely dangerous, to have my locked balls vigorously smashed between boot soles and 3-D printed nylon.

I mean, a touch of ball torture can be fun, but I think this guy had deeper issues.

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Teen Wolf continues with the serious shortage of shirts for their hot male lead actors :-)

I had a large lunch, has taken a while to digest.  I think in a bit I'll venture out for more alcohol and then I'll have another toy evening.  It felt great last night to have a healthy butt again, though I did take it easy.  Maybe I can go wider and deeper tonight.

And I had a great night listening to music, like I haven't in a long time!  And then fell asleep listening to an audiobook that I've already read, waking every so often, hearing more of the story wherever it was, and then falling asleep again, ... but it's a story about improbable love followed by heartbreak, so ... not so helpful with the lonely feeling.  I'm gonna be so available for dates and hookups in a few months :-)

Teen Wolf 01x11 "Formality"

Aww, it's the episode for making me cry because it's all about love and telling people how you feel romantically about them.  Aww.  Relationship Anarchism doesn't mean you can't fall in love and cry at weddings and so forth.

2nd season Teen Wolf ...

has a few more black actors, thankfully; first season was def feelin' too white, but, the leads are all still white white white

I guess I'm stuck on this popcorn TV show for a while, because the other shows I was watching were much more emotionally demanding, and I need popcorn for a while, but I'd like my popcorn to be a bit more multiracial please!