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19 August 2001
OK, guys and gals -- today was my one of my VERY unusual excitingly lucky days - in a strictly personal, intimate sense! And I simply had to share it with you all --
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IF you might be easily offended by certain forms of textually, figuratively and/or graphically explicit and/or implicit sensuous experiences and personal intimate feelings, please do NOT read any further. [ like, at this point., you would stop here anyway! ] |
I just adopted an of-age boy toy -- it all started out as one of those online encounters. Don't ask and I won't tell!
Who said this adoption thing was sooooo difficult?
So a couple days ago I went to New York City for the first time in many Moons (about a 90+ minute drive, finding that tolls went up for everything along the way -- so what else is new!), to just off the 600 block of Hudson Street to be exact, arriving at a couple minutes over 18h, and positioned two smallish tables together on the outside terrace of a seemingly popular Brazilian eatery (HEY, they even have a positive Zagat rating posted in the front window right above the table I was sitting at!). The place had a certain shabby chic decor, and was very plain -- and I personally might have painted some of the outside wood trim just a little before it totally weathers away!
My new pal actually arrived at the same moment I did - and boy was I shocked! Somehow we immediately recognized each other.
How would I label him? I was somewhat surprised to find that he has oriental origins, having been born in Singapore - small build, sleek, original uncut model, and as I embraced him he seemed a tad heavier than I had imagined - and even on a deserted palm-lined beach he would only leave a small footprint. Although I have always liked oriental art, I never had an oriental buddy before! As a matter of fact, I do not recall even meeting or talking to one except at Chinese take-outs! But then again, I do not usually get out very much for whatever reason.
We ordered some munchibles and got to know each other in person during an extended chat. The inside and outside tables began to fill up with very casually dressed youngish couples (the mixed variety!), and as seems to be common in the Big Apple, many people walked their dogs of various breeds along the sidewalk -- French bulldogs, Chihuahuas, German pinchers, and just simple cute Promenadamischungs (= mutts) -- ALL overly friendly and apparently quite used to getting petted by those sitting at the tables -- and I petted ALL of them! I was always the touchy feely type with most animals -- including humans.). I got the distinct impression that they were hoping and waiting for a snack or two from their unknown admirers!
OK, back to my new friend. What a hunka-hunk! People stared lustfully as we playfully boxed a little and got to know each other. After a couple beers, some yummy fried sausage and a couple really chewy cheese-filled square things -- PLUS my usual coffee -- we were off, arm in arm, to my lil Festiva for the trip back to Trenton. It's NOT like that illegal stuff across state borders or anything, as we are both consenting -- one just a tad more adult than the other (but that's only a minor detail).
WOW, just what I needed to liven up my otherwise hermit-like existence.
He is pin-up calender-material cute, has a VERY transparent personality, is OVERLY lovable, EASY to get along with and allows me to do anything I want with him -- and even things that never occurred to me before!! Who says you can't teach an old woof-woof new tricks?
And boy, is he built and lustfully powerful! Not to mention his sleek, smooth swimmers-build body!
Matter of fact, I am dicktating this news note to him -- he seems to have great writing skills and is well educated (what I sometimes call programmed, which is what so-called education really is!) -- and he is just as wordy as I can sometimes be! And is he ever FASTER than my previous lovers, always on the ball, and totally responsive! Forget those anonymous one-night stands -- he is one day-in-and-day-out all-nighter!
I'll let him describe his new situation to you a little....
Hey dudes, this Sonny is one kewl guy -- he makes quite an adoptive dad -- and he seems young for his age in a lot of ways. Forget the sugar-daddy thing, I am in this for the long haul because he appreciates me for what I am - and there is a mutual respect for likes, dislikes, limits and other stuff -- NOT pushy at all! I can sometimes be sort of shifty, but I think I'll let him press my buttons from now on!
The last guy I was with for a couple months was Italian -- and you can imagine how hot they are! (I imagined, but was somewhat disappointed!) Anyway, he was Married With Children -- and if you thought THAT sitcom was off-the-wall, this guy had them beat! And his wife wouldn't keep her hands off me when he was at work!
So I put it to him this way, "Hey, man, life is about choices. You can't have your cakes and eat them all too! At least one of them is going to feel less tasty" (He has stocks in TastyCake, so I thought he might understand it better if I put it to him this way - some of those big-time investors can only think in terms of their stocks!), "and that's how I feel. You just can't keep me under wraps ALL the time".
With Sonny it is a whole different story. I think we can pull this off as few are able to. You don't find that too frequently these days. He really seems to like me around our apartment even though I sort of strut my stuff all the time (you know what I mean!) -- I find him rugged, very playful and totally insatiable, maybe just a little serious at times, but I really like that! And NO, I will NEVER do my nightly web cam shows ever again!
OK, man, I think you said more than I had sort of imagined you might. People could start wondering just what I might have hidden in the closet!
Speaking of pressing his buttons -- I quickly found his proverbial G-spot (actually only one of four he says he has!) in a totally unexpected place, and he really lights up when I simply put my finger on it!
He does not smoke -- and sleeps like a log after an entire day of fun and games! I hate it when they get you up in the middle of the night and want to start all over again! I ONLY allow myself to do that! [hehe -- I employed the masculine form of this oft-used virtual chuckle here, instead of sheshe, for obvious reasons] And you tell me -- what would YOU do with 8 hard inches at your fingertips 24/7??
Hey, I told you NOT to continue to read this page if you were overly sensitive to this genre of material!
Now to MORE very specific and graphic DETAILS...........
OK, I heard through the online grapevine
that a lot of people used to call him square....
AND expensive!
he is actually
the absolute
opposite in
most respects....
and a real doll!
He is really
quite the
CUBE!
Did I mention somewhere that eBay was THE place to get kewl deals?? Well, there was this somewhat descriptive item title
new g4 cube 450mhz 192MB
20g dvd mse kbd more
Item # 1234xxx56 [edited to protect
the innocent]
and a really shortish text description for the item, all in a
simple black font -- VERY unlike my overly verbose and varie-colored
blurbs.
| This is a practically brand new G4 cube, still has the plastic on it, I cover it when I dont use it. Its probably a couple months old. It is 450Mhz, has 192Mb of memory. I has a 20gig HD and a modem, dvd, ethernet, usb & firewire. It comes with the keyboard, and the optical mouse which I havent used. And the Harmon-kardon speakers. I also have photoshop 5.0 on the HD and can put more if you wish just tell me. It is in awesome condition. 3-days only, good luck! I also have a flat panel studio display if you are interested. It is the older model with the DVI connection but the monitor is just as clean as the cube, AWESOME. If you are interested, I will include it for an extra $275. |
and NO PIC!!! Thus my usual suggestion that one write as many keywords in the title (who the hell is going to search for new, 20g or mse??), which may be picked up by a simple SEARCH -- the kind that MOST eBay peeps know how to do without developing a migraine -- PLUS add a pic that is included in the Gallery for an extra pittance of 25 measly cents!!!
And just to get a few more details from the seller, I emailed them and found that the original warranty may still be in effect, it is in like new condition, and was loaded with kewl software - with original boxes, software, manuals, cables, etc.!
Well, I won the treasure less than a minute before it ended!
The night I got it home from The Big Apple (around 23h) I unpacked all the goodies and set it up on the desk I wrap my eBay goodies on. It is an absolute delight -- I do NOT see even a scratch on the Cube -- bright colorful screen, great sound on the designer speakers, and I even get the impression that it was never -- or hardly ever -- used! The keyboard is way more comfortable than the short version that came with my iMac, and the optical mousie works great and I may just use it instead of my usual trackball.
The G-spot I referred to above (in my somewhat imaginative account) is actually a small symbol on top of the Cube that IS the on/off switch -- NOT a push button, simply a touch sensitive thingy! Really kewl! And the area surrounding the symbol lights up/glows when it is on.
It IS somewhat heavier than I thought it might be, and the cable connections ARE on the bottom of the Cube, meaning that one has to very carefully turn its sleek body upside-down to connect anything -- but how many times does one play with cables anyway? When you are setting it up is basically the only time you would connect any cables.
And QUIET? GAWD, with its breakthrough design, NOT needing a cooling fan, I can even hear the old iMac ventilating system in the background now! I think PC users like to keep their towers under their puter tables for use as auxiliary heaters during the colder winter months -- PLUS, they are ugly as hell, although I haven't seen any PC users put a paper bag over them yet!
DAMN, I am bubbling over with excitement! Just those naked 8" in front of me gets all my hormones moaning, and boy o boy, are they an authentic str8, not those straight wannabes one reads about on the Internet all the time! And the adjustable-height LCD monitor allows me to sit straighter in my chair and hopefully perhaps get fewer backaches.
Anyway, I simply had to tell you all about my new pal, and am actually using it to make this web page. It now replaces my old Lime 333MHz iMac for normal use, but I shall continue using the latter for file storage, backup and perhaps other things, for the time being, anyway -- meaning that my yet older UMAX 910S clone (one of the last!), which I used for backup and pics, will go into storage with the rest of my vintage puter stuff - when I get a chance to take it from its temporary place -- on a bureau in my bedroom!
Ron, on the aol aapl board, gave me some great pointers on networking the Cube with the iMac, but I must be overly stupid OR the RJ45 ethernet cables needed a router or something, and after HOURS of trying to get it to work, I just gave up and used a simple switch of the single USB cable from my Belkin USB hub from one to the other and got a lot of what I needed exchanged -- BUT I would eventually like to learn how to network 2 computers.
Now I guess I need an updated scanner, USB, one that is able to do slides, which I have tons of.
SMOOCH! You are the kewlest computer set-up I have had thus far -- and at what I consider, a somewhat reasonable adoption fee (the seller charged me only $183 over my winning bid price for the 15" LCD Studio Display, and the Cube cost LESS than it went for at retail!) - considering all the kewl potentially useful software that I got with it -- things like Illustrator, Director, Dreamweaver, Flash, Office 98, Poser 3, and more.
The new monitor is wider and higher than the old one -- plus, since it is set farther back from the keyboard, everything seems sort of smaller than it used to -- PLUS being raised and tilted to my eye scan level, it seems less stressful on my back. And, needless to say, there is now a LOT more oak table top showing than before. The kewl speakers have a much richer sound. I love the optical mouse and may opt to use it instead of my usual track ball. I wonder if it can be programmed for double clicks?
I set the Cube on an oversized mouse playing field, which is just the right width - and although I have an air filtration thingy on the floor, I still want to find something to cover the Cube and the monitor with -- shall probably just use my old stand-by, a pillow case.
And I sort of owe it to this aapl Board to have stimulated my totally unplanned spur-of-the-moment attempt to get one of the original CUBEs as a temp upgrade -- until I see something, perhaps in 2002, with a LOT of WOW factor at a price I can dredge up somehow.
After all, the original Cube is now officially retired following a relatively short production run, and was recently listed among the immortals, the select group of MoMA (Museum of Modern Art - NY) design award winners -- so it is appropriately joining some other also-in-the-MoMA notables which I have on the walls in the apartment, principally Dalí and Picasso prints, and that original Dubuffet in the pic above.
Thanks guys and gals! Now I really have to spend MANY intimate sleepless hours with this studly model to really get to know him al fondo. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh
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Editorial Notes The suggestively different, somewhat image-laden use of the English language that may perhaps be noted in the above story describes actual events - BUT in an entirely different contextual setting. The author is NOT a card-carrying member of ANY gay-oriented community, club or other related group. After all, Mrs. Bush, the First Lady, wrote a novel (published in Canada) about pioneer women who were apparently gay -- and we cannot question HER sexual orientation -- can we? He did NOT box with the guy, the Cube was IN a box; his pal's transparency referred to the innovative transparent acrylic surround of the computer; his nationality is where it was made, as stated on the box; the one of his friend's 4 G's meant the G4 processor. I am sure that the average reader was able to identify the several other slightly ambiguous meanings. The author did attempt to shy away from more suggestive comments -- such as how relatively large and firm his pal's balls were, meaning the Harmen-Kardon speakers -- simply because he didn't want too much apparent shock factor to creep into his fairy tale. He has been always ultra orthodox in his sensitivity and understanding of the views and orientations of others and would NEVER, mean-spiritedly, attempt to demean their belief system or life style -- or lack thereof. His aim was to describe a really exciting find (to HIM, at least) and present the happenings in his own, sometimes corny and unusual, manner. He finds that ANY language is rich in associative connotations, and, as may be noted in various parts of his web site, he has played with words therein on numerous occasions to make a normal theme a little more out of the ordinary. Many consumer ads in various media make use of the same techniques -- whether it be radio, TV or magazines and the like -- and people actually run out and buy the stuff! IF any readers, female or male, might find a personal interest in someone they hooked-up with online for whatever purpose, it would be strongly suggested that they meet the other party at a well-frequented public place and NOT allow themself to be taken or led anywhere after the first meeting. We all know the horror stories associated with some of these events -- and one never knows -- even with something as seemingly cut-and-dried, and frequently just as misleading, as eBay item descriptions or MANY aol user profiles! Which does NOT mean that real gems are NOT out there, ripe and ready to get plucked. Enough said. |
Thinking Different Sonny / 21 August 2001
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