tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266040892012-01-26T21:09:21.519-05:00Fun, Friendly, Full-time Real Estate Agent in Upstate NYsouthendcbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17234631919906901823noreply@blogger.comBlogger261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26604089.post-87087417798407463622012-01-04T21:44:00.004-05:002012-01-04T21:49:51.748-05:00

I found some old blog entries from 2006 that I never posted, and after re-reading my blog cover to cover I think I'm back on the Blog-wagon. And since I just started a juice-fast yesterday (today's day two!) I thought I would start with this entry...From December 2006 Two days after I arrived in Dallas I decided to do the “Master Cleanse,” based on a book by Stanley Burroughs The Master Cleanser

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You know that feeling, when everything feels right? Where you don't have to worry about tomorrow, or yesterday. Where you feel safe. And know you're doing the best that you can? There's a word for that feeling. It's called love. L-O-V-E.-Akeelah

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CLASSIC! I've been looking for this for some time now -- and it's finally on YouTube. Jennifer Holliday on Ally McBeal -- a song she only performed here and never released on any soundtrack album. Check it out...it's amazing (ok it's mushy but I love it!).  [Update: the actual footage was taken down, but this is the recording. Enjoy.]

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I think I just realized that I live in New York…Yes, I’ve been here since I returned from my sabbatical. Yes I had all my belongings moved here and gave up my apartment at the end of January. But it’s not until now, on the train from Rensselaer to Penn Station — running along the beauty that is the Hudson — that I realize, I’m a New Yorker!Friends ask me “Do I miss Boston?” and the answer is, no,

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I'm not one for political commentary on this blog, just not what i'm about (playful, optimistic, etc...) but I had to post something that struck my eye (thanks to my good friend Joe).His blog is joetohell.blogspot.com and on it he posted his own rantings about the Imus controversy. Well he posted the (of all people) Harvey Fierstein OpEd Piece in the NY Times about how to get fired from TV (Imus)

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So I woke this morning to realize that I did in fact make it into the Times Union today. DJ woke me up at 6:45 to tell me "it only took me 3 months to make the COVER!"I had no idea that my bike ride would result with me stretched out on the cover of the Capital District's newspaper—but so it is...(click the photo for a larger view, or see the whole front page below!)An interesting result from a

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So I took the bike out today. Amazing weather in NY, just before it starts to pour on us again tomorrow thru the end of the week.I've been waiting for a day like this, dying to get outside after so much winter. I broke out the Gstar cutoffs and took to the streets. So, OK the streets are still messy with leftover sand from melted snow piles. And the trees are all gray (who ever said trees were

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Thought I'd shout out to a new concept for me that proved interesting and possible (if not actually utilized) during some of my travels. CouchSurfing was a not exactly a new concept to me when a friend mentioned that I consider doing some while on my journeys, but the website Couchsurfing.com was. From their website:"After your first experience of either surfing or hosting, you'll find out that

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So Paul and I made a quick dash to Joshua Tree National Park. Paul lives in Desert Hot Springs, just above Palm Springs on the Little San Bernardino Mountains. From his house it's about 20 minutes to Joshua Tree, just around the hills, thru Yuca, CA and you're there. The irony is that Paul lived in Palm Springs for 3 years (before moving back to LA for 5 or so) and he's now been back in PS for 5

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OK so every other blogger across the country will have said it better than I, but I have to make note of yet another Apple first, the iPhone. If you haven't watched Steve Job's address from this weeks MacWorld SF, you can do so here. It's worth the watch...because you won't believe what this phone can do.You think you are carrying around a phone? You think you have an iPod? You think you have a

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DJ and I woke early his first morning in Los Angeles (despite his very late arrival the night earlier). He and I were both counting down the hours until he came to CA -- as I'd been traveling for over a month prior. So needless to say we were both very excited to embark on an adventure that would include two nights in LA and the rest in Palm Springs.As soon as we awoke I surprised him. He didn't

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Happy New Year!!I have to admit, being in the California Time Zone I paid more attention to Time Square at 9pm than I did just 5 minutes ago when it became midnight here in Palm Springs. (Of course that could have something to do with the fact that the man I love was back East, and 9pm for me was Midnight for him!)Paul Schruender (my friend, host, and former roommate from back in Boston...see pic

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So it happened. I turned 40 yesterday!This trip was in part planned around that fact. Lots of change occurred in my life in 2006 and I thought there’d be no better way to end my year, and to honor the passing of this milestone birthday then to be on this cross-country adventure.When I was 33 and still working at my old company, Digitas, I imagined taking 35 workdays off for my 35th birthday. That

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Ok so Atlanta was pretty crazy and I was only there for 2 days.I arrived in Atlanta by car from Lake Lanier. Not having a place to stay in Atlanta, I called up my buddy Keith (see 30K Miles and on to Dallas) who, thru a gay connection, hooked me up with a friend of his. Corey had ample room for me to stay for the 2 nights I’d be in town.In addition, Keith’s best friend Jennifer just moved here

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I arrived by “Greyhound bus to Atlanta” where I spent three days with my sponsor, and dear friend of eighteen years, Howie. He’s been living at and managing for the past year his brother’s marina outside Atlanta, in Buford, GA -- Lanier Harbor.Lake Lanier has 700 miles of coastline and it’s about 45 minutes outside Atlanta. It accounts for millions of dollars of recreation revenue to the state of

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During my time in Savannah, I had my second visit to the new Jepson Center for the Arts at the historic Telfair Museum of Art (for fans of "the book" the Telfair is the home of the Bird Girl statue). I visited the museum with Donnie and Mark (my best friends and Savannah hosts), Tom (visiting from Provincetown), and Lenny (visiting from Asheville, NC). We had a great time… as you’ll see from some

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Savannah is always a place of decompression for me. I settle in. Donnie and Mark always make wonderful hosts. In fact, they’re more than hosts, they’re family. The boys have lived in Savannah (by way of Key West) for 9 years now, and for the last five I have spent Thanksgiving with them (and one Xmas and New Years). The T-days have ranged from “bohemian” at their newly purchased but yet

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You would never believe this story unless it happened to you…Yesterday I began a 2.5 month trip across country. Commencing in Albany, NY, I drove to Alexandria, VA where I spent last night with a good friend, Andrew, who works for the State Department as an architect. We had a nice morning. Breakfast. Photos of his 2.5 week trip to Africa. And I was on my way. 10:00 a.m. the day before

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Indian Ladder Farm, Altamont, NYDJ and I spent a perfect Saturday in upstate New York in mid-October. We went apple picking. Well more honestly we went apple roaming. We didn’t pick any apples nor did we go on the hayride with all the crying babies, moms and dads. We did our own thing and roamed around the farm – which actually had a lot to offer.Indian Ladder Farms is a fourth generation orchard

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If someone had told me Albany, NY was beautiful I wouldn’t have believed them. I might say I’d only heard ‘bad’ things about it but that’s not quite true. Mostly it's just that no one has ever spoken highly of it. Well I had the opportunity to spend a weekend (that turned into a 12 days) in Albany and I loved it. Of course the company helped, but the landscapes, the people, the nightlife --

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[ This post is dedicated to DJ ]At some point, you have to make a decision.Boundaries don’t keep other people out. They fence you inLife is messy. That’s how we’re made.So you can waste your life drawing lines, or you can live your life crossing them.But there are some lines — that are way too dangerous to cross.Here’s what I know. If you’re willing to take the chance. The view from the other

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Monday, September 11, 2006Yesterday Keith and I decided to do something a little different during my time here in Dallas. We drove to Lake Murray in Oklahoma to attend “Willow Swish” which apparently is a weekend long camping expedition for gay men and women from these western states. Strangely enough we found out about it while shopping at, what I've come to find as the gayest Kroger (Stop and

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Thursday, September 7, 2006, 11:35 am ESTI just woke up from a great nap. Strangely, both flights this morning were nearly empty so I was able to stretch out and sleep. Which is a good thing because I was up at 1:00 packing for this trip to Dallas, and the lovely alarm went off at 4:30 so I could get my ass to Logan. So I’ve slept most of the morning and am now feeling a bit refreshed. I’m off to

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OK so Luc a.k.a. woofboy http://www.luclatulippe.com/ inspired me to start my own blog. Beautiful sunny day here in Boston, but I'm spending it inside building this baby.

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