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sept 5 - oct 20 |
oct 21 - oct 24 |
oct 27 - nov 6
6 nov |
Travel plans | Shall be in Sacto for a couple of days. I'll see what I can
do about getting time to provide some updates on this road trip. Don't know the
terrain as yet, though I plan on checking out
David Gwynne's suggestions on places to eat and quirky tourist villages
where the locals "sell history" as a commodity. Keep checking things out, eh?
FWIW, while I'm traveling, I'll be checking mail using
my operamail address so send me stuff there for the next week or so.
Eroticizing Latex | Had a conversation with a woman today who was, apparently, one of the first and possibly only women allowed into the infamous New York City ANVIL (now just a bit of historic folklore for gay leatherfolks). She was working in public health services oh, way back when AIDS was still seen as a "gay related immuno disorder" or "GRID". She went to -on a Friday night, no less, to conduct the first organized safe sex lecture at a time when people were still in denial about the condition. So it thus happened that it was a woman who provided the first steps in eroticizing condoms ("...and veterinary gloves, and dental dams...") to gay fringe culture groups. NARPA Conference | Tomorrow is the day that I've been planning for. The NARPA Conference where I shall present on "Advocacy in a Locked Ward Setting". Yeah, maybe not exciting for a lot of you, but given that this is my first time speaking to a national group about just exactly what I do, it is exciting for me. 
Related to this, or related to work at least, is that I also just found the box
of photos I took while accompanying Chad Kleitsch around the campus. Here are a couple
of the images.
putting those thoughts into words. I'm still not finished, but it's well
enough along to feel comfortable about heading out to the west coast
to speak before a room full of strangers.
Belated New York City pix | Back in July I went to meet with my brother Ken and his new betrothed Charleen. We did total tourist stuff including visits to the to of the World Trade Towers, the Statue of Liberty and the like. Recently my bro, in addition to pointing out that I have been mis-spelling his wife's name in e-mails since at least that long (last July) bemoaned the fact that I have yet to post any pictures from the trip on my site. SO... I have made up a page of images from that trip. Fair warning, they are the trip from what I chose to document, but based on three categories: Outside of what I've shown, we did pretty good, meeting at Port Authority Terminal (even though there'd been a minor snafu with the bus scheduling. They left from Philly, PA later than planned, and got to NYC earlier). As for me, I came in ahead of time and stayed with my friends Les and Margaret (Margaret runs Wall Street Viewing Room, a slick little gallery tucked up on the 9th floor of a Beekman Street office building). Coming into NYC the night before was an excellent plan to prevent being late. 
Log splitters | This is an unpaid, unasked for, endorsement.
I gotta hand it to
Brookstone Catalog. They go the extra kilometer. Bruce bought a
wood splitter probably 15 years ago and it broke a few weeks back while I was
using it. Since it was old, and had gotten lots of use, I called in
and just ordered another one. [t'was also a very positive experience in using
the 'net to surf their catalog while placing the order]. Anyway, while
putting the order in I mentioned that I was buying it because my old splitter
had broken. Without hesitation, the phone clerk asked if I wanted to buy a
new one or just replace it. Seems that ~on this particular item~ Brookstone
has a lifetime warranty. I ended up getting the splitter replaced and
Brookstone also paid to have UPS come and pick up the broken one and ship
it back to Brookstone. One example of a place that is ~in my book GREAT
for good customer service.
aug 27-sep 1 |
sept 5 - oct 20 |
oct 21 - oct 24 |
oct 27 - nov 6
Catch you on the rebound! ~Will Brady |
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