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[davidschroth]

I got to bed around 0200 on Saturday morning. Slept fitfully; I kept waking up, and then forced myself to go back to sleep. Finally gave up on sleeping around 0930.

Talked some with Polonia about what happened last night. Some of what she said was news to me, and I believe she's being truthful. And some of what she says strikes me as after the fact rationalization. I don't think there's much agreement between our views of what happened.

I did a little grocery shopping before going to the MnStf meeting. When I previously mentioned that one of the hosts of the MnStf meeting would have just celebrated a birthday, I suggested that "...perhaps there will be cake." So it seemed desirable that I make sure that there was birthday cake at the meeting.

I got to the meeting shortly after 1600. Sybil (the birthday girl) was there, along with Kevin. The three of us played the home version of Mystery Science Theater 3000 while we watched an episode of Relic Hunter. Eventually, more people showed up - enough so that the cats went into stealth mode. For the most part, I felt as if there was a screen between me and everyone else during the meeting - I could see my friends, and converse with my friends, but there was always a barrier between me and them. At one point, Larry asked how Rock the Garden had gone. I gave him a highly edited overview of the evening. I left around 2200.

Comments

[serendipoz.livejournal.com]

You did better than I at getting to MinnStf - thanks for bringing a cake! I worked on keeping the cats off each other and cleaning the kitchen - some small things.

What did Polonia explain?

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Everyone seemed distant yesterday. I'd been planting all morning. Not sure what the rest were up to, but it quickly turned into small groups of people speaking amongst themselves. I didn't realize the Walker was quite the ordeal it was.

Relationships in the gay male world tend to be highly fluid, but dumping somebody at an event without a prior agreement ranks quite high on the things not to do list on a night out. I'd say not warning flags, but signal flares. Of course, it's also easy to offer relationship advice to somebody else -- too easy and generally, it leads to no good end.

distance

[webbob.livejournal.com]

Judging from lsanderson's pictures, the screen between you and other people was a Diet Coke can.

Re: distance

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

I believe the Diet Coke can was a screen between me and the soul-eating digital camera.

Besides, there was at least one picture of me where there was no Diet Coke can between me and the camera.

Digital Camera

[webbob.livejournal.com]

My father had a digital camera back in the 1960s. Every picture he took, you could always see one of his fingers in it.