...the Cro-Mags...'Fallen Angel'...two mobile homes blocked Central AVE, preventing buses from continuing down their routes!...Queer as Folk...the camera shop in Palm Springs that would only accept American Express, and the journey to the bank to make a cash advance on a credit card [we had never had this happen before, and we thank the owners of 'Indulge' for helping us solve this problem]...Tito Robinson & the 'Clubhouse' in DC...Mile High Comics in Denver...But every time I grab the ring, it's always...brass!...Mike's mixes used for several parties through the years, once at TRACKS...during Open Season, Mike W. & Phyllis (plus others) putting PBP pamphlets on windshields in DC, wearing PBP shirts and eating at the Post Office Pavillion...Brad & Desire...traveling to CNA in Rockville, MD and ULLICO in DC, in order to be impressed...Fiesta Fatale!...Warren Bell, David Peterson and Joe & Anne Elliott...the mayors of Washington, DC: Washington, Barry, Dixon/Kelly, Barry (again) & Williams..Mayor Barry was caught in a cocaine drug bust at the VISTA Hotel ["The bitch set me up!"]..he went to prison, served his time and was re-elected..Sharon Pratt Dixon/Kelly [a big shot from PEPCO] vowed "it was time to clean house"...Carol Lamontagne, Clinton Ray, Beth Lancy & Mike Biondi...seeing a Usonion home at the Smithsonia Museum of History & designs of places not built at the Library of Congress, both associated with Frank Lloyd Wright......"V" for Vendetta and 'V' the sci-fi movies/series...Casey Hawkins & Marietta Smith...the Shakespearean festival held near Wareham, MA..."that's not fair!"; "Life's not fair!"...'Ring my Bell': while I put away the dishes...the PBP Employee handbook that prohibits gambling on the premises and nepotism; but the Human Resources Department consisted of a husband & wife, and the husband handled the weekly football pools!...Dr. Cameron (Larry), his wife Sally & son Liam...John & Jan Scalia, Jr. and their daughter Constance...1983: test driving a Renault Alliance, talking with a salesman about car payments; return the next day and being told that the salesman was fired and that our application was rejected!...walking through ice, wind & snow to get necessary medications, and catching the flu...Bessie Herod & Rhonda White...experiencing thundersnow...the Boy Next Door in Atlanta, That Look & Raymond Dragon in LA and Bravo! & Body Body in Provincetown...'The place where Louie dwells'...Culture Club, with Church of the Poisoned Mind...the bread at Casa Grande (tic, tic, tic!)...Big Boys Don't Cry!...Do you know what they say about men with big feet? I bet you do!...driving the wrong way when leaving the poorly lit parking lot at Landmark Mall...animals that Mike's insured motorists have struck: a moose, a cow and a jackass...
...Albuquerque is the ninth-fittest city in the United States thanks to hiking and jogging, despite a poor junk food record...the Duke City was credited with improving its standing thanks to its hiker-friendly environment, high population of joggers and a small ratio of bars to residents...
...driving down I-85 in North Carolina one late November night, stopped at a truck stop for gas on our way to Atlanta (just for gas!); on our way out a young girl with a most astonishing hair, part cut close and looking like white fur, other strands long & darker, and artfully arranged, to give the impression of a cute, little innocent pussy cat, approaches us & asks " Where are you going?" with a charming & helpless smile, we lied & said "Charlotte", which was much too close for her; what went through both our minds was: "we don't care how charming and helpless she looks, we're not transporting a minor across state lines!!"...Believe me, the sun always shines on TV!..."end of year" Conversion, when Mike had to verify that programs which were modified to handle the new year's benefit changes were correct; in years past, Mike had worked as much as two 18 hour days at the end of the year to "debug" bad program code; in later years, the average time was 2-hours in the morning on New Year's weekend...Arch Riddick: The intent is......
"The optomist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears that this is true!" James Branch Cabell
...infamous announcements from the past: The system is up and ready for processing.; The system is down until further notice...
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...the electronic hotel key that would not work in Albuquerque...the various trophies given to us & Trident Int'l DC during our participation in the L/L club scene...taking pictures of sunset near Chandler, AZ; taking pictures of sunrise in Bryce National Park, UT...UNO tournaments at Fox Street & during "Keelhaul, '82"...Joan Young & Young Associates of Staunton, VA; Joan resided in Mint Springs, VA...the anger released in a parking lot in JFK airport when Pan AM cancelled all flights to DC on Memorial Day Saturday due to lack of planes & personnel; the cab rides between JFK & LaGuardia and back to JFK; the pleasure of having Pan AM fly us home that evening on a very small plane with 40 passengers of similar emotional state (and how we determined that the names announced over the loudspeakers were "Souza" & "Brady"!); and finally, walking through a deserted National Airport at 1 AM...on the flip side, being paged and asked if we would give up our front (Row 6) seats for a handicapped individual; we did...driving past Metropolis, IL...tacky logo on T-shit, "Don't worry; be Hopi!!!"...Joe Fields & Edie Thompson...Eureka Springs, AR & Branson, MO...Assassin, love slave, idiot!...drove from Atlanta to Morehead City, NC, missed the ferry boat, cancelled the reservation and returned to Alexandria all in one day...the Whitman-Walker Clinic...CAB (Capital Area Board)...BHT (Brother, Help Thyself); in the good old days of Trident Int'l DC...what's the first thing you do in DC when something is going to be changed? Panic!...1997: the miserable vacations in P'town; it was rainy & cold during April & Memorial Day weekends, with the temperature remaining in the fifties all the way back to DC...
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