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This is the time of year that commemorations are held for the atomic bomb drops on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. One of my uncles passed away a few years ago. It wasn't until I read his obituary that I found out the following. "After receiving a Master's degree in 1943, he was immediately asked to join the Manhattan Project which was developing the atomic bomb during World War II. He studied at University before working at Oak Ridge, Tennessee during the remainder of the war. In 1946 after the war, he taught as an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering. In 1950 he left the university to work at Los Alamos, New Mexico. There he was involved in the development of the first hydrogen bomb and its testing at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands." Huh... The things one finds. I never heard him mention anything related to this in the 60 years I knew him.

Happy BD! I wish you a special day!

Your mileage at Sweet 300 will probably be completely different than at a SC. One site gives this Description: Sweet 300 is an upscale sex shop with adult theaters, private rooms, and peep shows. Apples and oranges.

In principle I subscribe to the process of immediately placing the unsealed envelope on the nearest flat surface on arrival. However, with some regulars I get so distracted by the greeting process that there have been been occasions where that was missed. Fortunately they know me well enough they know the envelope will appear.

Well, that took an interesting turn, didn't it. I would humbly suggest that since the "Ottawa summer social" is a no-go, this thread should be closed and a new one for the Ottawa September Social be initiated.

To the question posed in the OP - how do I as a client take a post that says a provider is absolutely terrible and such. If everything else I've seen suggests she is actually quite good at what she does, I'll look to see what else the negative poster has writen. If there is a pattern of negative reviews from that account, then pffft... don't care what was said. Also, for me looking at someone new to me, the "TripAdvisor" effect kicks in. I tend to discount the top "glowing" reviews and the bottom "experience from Hell" ones, too. Everyone one and every place has those. The truth, for me, is in the middle reviews. To the subquestion that has developed in the thread regarding what a provider should do in the event of a brainless slagger, the advice already given is very good. I am reminded of the advice regarding dealing with an idiot on their level. Don't. They have more experience being idiotic and will win. Report what you can and move on.

Today was a Graduation Day of sorts. The last of my post-surgical dressings is gone. That little hiccup where the incision tried to reopen has finally healed to the point where it no longer needs treatment. Score one for the Good Guys. I'm back at work and as I write this, I'm in Montreal on a five-day run driving a crew for a US network covering FIFA Women's Soccer. I will celebrate my achievement with a taste or two of good Tennessee whiskey from our good friend Jack D. The last two steps to complete recovery is getting my body to stop doing something I want it to stop doing and getting it to start doing something I want it to start doing. Same parts, different functions. lol

[URL="https://medium.pjrvs.com/the-complete-and-logical-guide-to-winning-at-your-own-life-in-19-super-difficult-steps-135a17b3c5c6"]The complete and logical guide to winning at your own life in 19 super difficult steps[/URL] [I]As the author says, this is a really long piece. Too long, in fact, to post as one item here. The first seven points are here to give you a sense of the piece. If it interests you, follow the link for the whole article. If it doesn't, move on. [/I] The complete and logical guide to winning at your own life in 19 super difficult steps By Paul Jarvis Just like every other human on the planet, I have epically awesome days and days when life just shits on my face. And while I canâ??t stand most self-help (see: tired quotes over stock photography on Instagram), sometimes I need a little pick-me-up. And most of the time, in order to get out of a slump (because my brain leans more into math/science than anything else), I need to drop a logic bomb on my ass. Yes, this is a long article. But hereâ??s the thingâ??â??â??if youâ??re reading this in your inbox and are already like, â??fuck this!â? delete it. No hard feelings. If youâ??re reading this in a browser on a website, and you see how tiny the scroll-bar is because of how far you still have to scroll to get to the bottom, close this tab and go back to 140-character tidbits of advice. Still with me? Phew. Just had to weed out all the folks from points: #1, #4 and #8. Welcome friends, onward we go. This guide works when anything shitty happens. Someone criticizes you online? Read this. Someone wants a refund on something that took you five years to build, and theyâ??re mean about it? Read this. You got fired from a job or by a client? Read this. Zombie apocalypse? Wellâ?¦ in that case, whatâ??s probably more important is non-perishable provisions and zombie-smashing devices (but maybe afterwards, read this). 1. Everyone is offended all of the time. Weâ??re all set in our ways. As much as we tout how open-minded we all are, we all have little nit picks about everyone else. Slow drivers (who speed up when the road goes from one to two lanes), 17-year-old yoga teachers who talk about the meaning of life for the first 45 minutes of a 60-minute yoga class, people who write op-ed pieces on the Internet (like meâ?¦), people who swear, people who use social media in a way that we donâ??t. Assume whatever it is youâ??re doing, someone else canâ??â??â??and willâ??â??â??be offended by it. This shouldnâ??t stop you from doing what youâ??re doing, but it also shouldnâ??t come as a surprise when someone tries to tell you how offended they are by what you just did. 2. If someone is offended by you, thatâ??s because theyâ??ve noticed you. Before you get bent out of shape about someone dumping their shit on you, realize that theyâ??ve taken time out of their day to call you out. They noticed you, paid attention, and consumed what you made. Sure, they hated it, but now youâ??re wasting even more of their time because theyâ??re telling you how much or why they hated it. Even if you donâ??t respond (and you probably shouldnâ??t), youâ??ve won because youâ??re on their radar and they donâ??t want you to be. Plus, even if someone is offended by you, them telling you about it is basically the worst case scenario. Life will continue, the planet will keep fucking spinning, and no one but you will be the wiser that someone was offended. Worst-er case scenario: someone complains about you publicly. Reality: itâ??s not that bad, because people have the attention span of a gnat when it doesnâ??t relate to them, so it fades quickly from the collective radar (or Twitter stream). Weâ??re all paranoid that everyone will hate us. Especially when we make things for other people, and especially when we put those things online. Go into everything assuming that even if a few people do hate you or what youâ??ve made, there are more people silently consuming what you made (or even better, buying what you made). 3. Not being noticed sucks more, but itâ??s a universal pain. If no one hates you, no one is paying attention. If attention is what you want for vanity, confidence, or, hellâ??â??â??to make a decent livingâ??â??â??then know that itâ??s not instantaneous. Every single person that youâ??re currently paying attention to, at some point in their lives, was in your exact position. They kept at it and worked enough so that others started listening. Also know that if no one is watching, you can experience true freedom. Dance in your underwear. Write entirely for yourself. Swear like thereâ??s a going-out-of-business sale on â??fucksâ? and â??shits.â? Find yourselfâ??â??â??not in some coming-of-age hippie way involving pasta and ashramsâ?? but in a way that helps you draw your own line in the sand for what matters and what doesnâ??t. Do what you want to do, just because you want to do that thing. This will build confidence that will come in handy later. 4. People will judge you, regardless of what you do, because everyoneâ??s â??judgy.â? Fear can make us afraid of what others will think. Itâ??s not a question of if people will judge you, because they definitely will judge you. People are judgy and that judgement is scary. True story: I just got invited to an event, read the invite online, and judged the hell out of the event. I actually said, out loud, to myself, â??Fucking hippies!â? Itâ??s a party that features fires and dancing, wild-harvested local food, rosehip mead and gratuitous photos of people with dreads and body paint hugging each other. Is their party happening regardless of whether not I attend? Heck yes, it is. Will the party be awful because I think theyâ??re a bunch of hippies? Heck no, hippies donâ??t give a shit about me. Theyâ??re going to drink their rose hip wine (probably out of chalices they whittled while chanting to fairies) and dance into the night having a blast. Donâ??t be me in that situation, be the hippies. Not literally of course (unless thatâ??s your thing), but you get what I mean. Look at it this wayâ??â??â??whatever you do, whenever you do it, youâ??ll be judged for it. Even by letting fear kick your ass and doing absolutely nothing, you will be judged. So, since youâ??re going to be judged any way, why not actually take action? That way, at least when you judge yourself, youâ??ll be able to sleep well at night (youâ??ll be tired from the figurative mead and dread-locked dancing). Everyone else who judges you can politely fuck off. We all care what others have to say. But it becomes dangerous when we value their opinions more than our own. The list goes, in order of importance: 1) our opinion of ourselves, 2) (which is a distant second) everyone elseâ??s opinion of us. 5. Luckily, judgement & respect are different things Being judged and being respected are not the same thing. People can think youâ??re an asshole and still hold you in high regard. People can totally disagree with you, but still understand your values. Conversely, if someone judges you as a nice person or a decent human being, it doesnâ??t mean they respect you. People walk all over nice and decent human beings all the time. It sucks, but it happens. On the other hand, people donâ??t tend to walk all over people they respect. 6. Self-respect leads to others respecting you. Self-respect, in a world where everyone is constantly offended and judging you, is fucking tough. But itâ??s necessary. You need to figure out what makes you respect yourself first, before anyone else will respect you. Thatâ??s because people are sheep. They see one person doing something, and they do it, too. Like fucking lemmings and cliffs. Or that Derek Sivers TED talk where that one guy started dancing and everyone followed (he was probably drunk on rosehip mead). So if youâ??re respecting yourselfâ??â??â??publicly and proudlyâ??â??â??chances are, others will follow. And even if they donâ??t follow, hey, youâ??ve got yourself a nice big bowl of self-respect and thereâ??s nothing wrong with that. 7. Self-respect & entitlement are very, very different things. Self-respect means you know what youâ??re willing to do and what youâ??re not willing to do. Itâ??s honour and dignity that makes you, you. Itâ??s your line in the sand to help you feel good about who you are and what youâ??ve done. This doesnâ??t mean that you have special privileges or rights to anything, though. Whoa there, pardner! Entitlement means you think you deserve something. You deserve your own self-respect and to be treated decently by others. Anything past thatâ??â??â??youâ??ve got to fucking work for it. And even then, even if it doesnâ??t work out the way you wanted, thatâ??s just the way the cards fall sometimes. Feeling entitled is the quickest way to lose respect from others. The world doesnâ??t revolve around you. You donâ??t deserve anything that you didnâ??t earn. You need to start small and build up; paying some dues. You canâ??t just do whatever the fuck you feel like and make a shit-load of money or get famous doing it. The world doesnâ??t work like that. Iâ??m glad it doesnâ??t. Thatâ??s not healthy. Ashton Kutcher had it right when he said, â??working hard and being generous and thoughtful and smart is a path to a better life. The only thing that can be below you is to not have a job.â?

Oh, I get out of the city a lot. No, it startled me back when I came to Canada some 30 years ago. Back before I knew there were Canadian hillbilly folk. But that goes to my original thought. The flag isn't really some quaint folksy funny thing. It is a battle standard utilized by a treasonous pseudo-government established to preserve the State's right to continue an economy based on slavery and to preserve the idea that the white race was superior to all others. Long way from there to Daisy Duke's. I agree with the earlier statement that one should revere the flag in your own home if one wants but the government, both State and Federal, should not display it.

It is with some amusement that I watch the debate taking place in the US regarding the "Confederate Flag". The part I find amusing is watching the verbal and logical gymnastics performed by those who support the public display. They say it has to do with history, with heritage, that it is part of the culture. Yet, so far as I know, unless they've changed history, the flag in question is actually a Virginia battle flag, not a flag of the Confederate States of America. The flag was (is) a rallying cry to treason - declaring war against the USA is one of the basic definitions of treason. The flag was (is) flown proudly by members of one race seeking to terrorize and murder members of another race. Seriously? That's a history and culture to instill pride? The same arguments used to support the Red Rag are the same ones used to justify the display of Nazi emblems - history, heritage, culture. IMHO, both sets of emblems should be relegated to museums. One other thing.... I was startled the first time I saw a "Confederate Flag" here in Canada. I wondered then and I wonder now if the owner understood what they were displaying.

John Cundell has the last livery stable in Lowertown Ottawa. He's at 113 York Street and his phone number is 613-241-8054. He has two carriages. I understand the rides are a bit expensive but if you're in the Market and see either carriage taking a break you're welcome to come up and give the horse's nose a scratch.

There have been earlier threads where clients discussed apps that generated numbers. The general idea being it protects the client's privacy and he doesn't have to reveal his "real" number. As I've read those threads I wondered how long it would take for this issue, multiple client numbers, to come up. Because the lady needs a real number for her security I'm not a fan of these apps. My personal opinion is this. If you, the client, are dealing with an established professional person, you have no reason to be trying to circumvent her security procedures. Give her your number. You know you're not a threat. She doesn't. Playing games like this is not the best way to demonstrate trustworthiness. If you think you need to point out the obvious, explicitly tell her not to randomly call or text on this number. If you, the client, are trying to hook up with someone where you think there are trust issues, you might want to reconsider that. But that's just my take on it. YMMV

Had the opportunity today to see (and hug) a legendary former CERB-ite lady person. I wish we could have spent more time together but it was just delightful to enjoy being in her presence.

This probably should be in the Highlight Of The Day thread but it's a biggie. I was informed by my doc today that I no longer have cancer. The pathology report following my surgery showed that there was cancer in 20% of my prostate but the margins were clear. The blood test I did last week returned a PSA value of 0.0. And that all translates into Bingo, we have a winner! There will be future periodic PSA tests to ensure that all stays good but for now, I'm going to enjoy practicing saying "I do not have cancer." Happy Dances for everyone! On the house!

From the CBC @ 8:35 am EDT today: Peter MacKay, justice minister, to leave federal politics Justice minister expected to make announcement today he won't run again 3 MINUTES AGO CBC NEWS Justice Minister Peter MacKay will announce today he won't run in the next federal election, CBC News has learned. More to come

Actually, the smoking thing was my one victory of the day. I'm on the "Step 3" patch. Btw... The difference between Nicoderm and the "Store Brand"? Store version is cheaper but looks like crap and doesn't stay stuck for 24 hours. Nicoderm is clear and sticks until you remove it. As for the rest of the day.... Next!!

Today sucks. There. That was simple. Had a fit of reality whack me upside the head. Realized in my current situation I needed to withdraw a request for something I really, really enjoy. Did that. The only good part of today was that I did not go find a cigaret when I really wanted one. Last one was March 25. Is there somewhere that you can take a day, declare it defective, and return it for a good day? Sign me up.

Here is the full text of the Court's ruling. https://regmedia.co.uk/2015/05/21/jane_does_vs_backpages_dismiss.pdf

Indeed, a well written, very honest piece. I envy his honesty.

I've not been to Vibe, but based on my experiences with similar businesses, the literal answer to your questions are "maybe, maybe, and maybe." You'll be wanting to chat a bit with the attractive lady. At the end of that chat, you'll be much more clear on what and where.

When your short term goal is developing the ability to pass gas, stand up, or cough without also passing fluids, you better be able to laugh at yourself. It's getting better. I swear it is.

Well, she is 19. No, wait. She's 20. No, 21. And she's from Stockton, CA. Or Modesto. At least, that's what comes up on the 3rd picture. So, good luck with that.

An hour of glorious time and companionship. My first since my surgery. With an understanding and lovely person. Heavenly.

Watching Omar Khadr on the news last night, I saw an odd connection between his case and the Harper Government's attitude towards sex workers. With regard to Khadr, we have this from the public record. As a young man, younger than 15, he was taken to Pakistan and Afghanistan by his father who brought him up in an environment of radical Islam. When he was 15, according to a confession he agreed to in exchange for his release from Guantanamo Bay, he threw a hand grenade during a fire-fight with American troops. One American was killed, others were wounded. So, to me, what we have here is a child soldier indoctrinated into a way of life that led him into a fire-fight with US troops. According to every action taken by the Harper Government with regard to Omar Khadr, including statements made yesterday by Harper and MacKay, Khadr is evil and should serve every second of his sentence and too bad he wasn't given a longer one. He is beyond redemption. There is no way he can be other than the bad person he was when he chucked the grenade. The government will spend however many millions of dollars fighting this person. Got that. Now to the other half of this thought. According to the narrative that the Government sold us during the passage of the recent legislation dealing with such things, sex workers are these poor, enslaved beings who, if only they had a chance at a better life, would immediately and forever leave the trade and be done with it. There is redemption. There is a new, good, formerly (through no fault of her own) bad person. Here is where I get confused. An apparent guiding principle in Khadr's case is that a person cannot be saved. There is no hope. But with the sex workers, the guiding thought is that everyone CAN be saved, can be redeemed, if only given a chance. Maybe I need to take some more of that time I have too much of at the moment to work this out.

Yesterday MOD disabled Tapatalk because it was crashing the system. He since has reactivated it since that it how I am posting this. Here's what's working for me; Android version 4.13.4 is okay. iOS - 2 versions: HD 1.6.2 okay 3.8.0 will not connect.