good weekend

so semyon was an ass - not thrilled about his kids. boys = stupid. throw rocks.

but BC ... has been an absolute doll :) it's scary and wonderful. he came out tuesday and met me at o'toole's with audra and carlos and other EMCers. (he didn't like audra) friday night was salsa with tray and anth. shared a few text msgs with BC. tray and i were talking about him on our way in to boston and she turned on the radio to 'we want billy ... b ... i ... double l ... y ... ' - LOL! (he did *not* like jason) had breakfast and buffy with tam sat morning and ran some errands and scrapped before BC came over sat evening. we went to dinner with tray and jason and played pool (with tray and jay singing to him all evening - he didn't get the reference). took me out to breakfast sunday ... had to run to a friend's mother-in-law's wake (his godson's gramma) but came back to go to a BBQ at tam's after being promised boston cream pie (from scratch ... it came out pretty good!). he helped C assemble a fire pit (i need one!!) while tam and i cooked. we hung by the pit all night - it was wonderful. his only complaint - tam and C got the swing which was the only thing that sat 2 people so we didn't get to snuggle. but he loved them (of course!). went hiking at purgatory today and he took me to his family's campground on a lake in sutton. met his dad. went out in the boat. dad cooked us dinner :) it was a wonderful weekend.

hmmm ... wonder if there's significance that the last thing i would have considered a relationship (JF) basically ended this weekend last year (those few dates earlier this year don't count :p)

oddness ...

so i'm still pondering the BC situation. in the meantime, i read an article on boston.com yesterday about this new 'dating' web site gottaflirt.com. it was created by 3 divorced guys disillusioned with the online dating scene (imagine that! lol!) and makes a game of the online flirting that happens. it's kindda cool. but one of the guys is from MA - one of those MIT guys that 'beat vegas' back in the 90s. and he has a myspace account. so i'm curious and check it out. he's a divorced dad (3 kids), used to work at AccuRev (CC competitor) and a fan of harry browne. harry browne. how many people know who he is, let alone are fans? so i drop him a note commenting on it ... he replies with what appears to be an invite for a coffee date. so i'm taking him up on it if it was a serious offer. 38, single parent, techical, libertarian leanings. could be interesting ...

am i nuts?

So ... BC. Been lots of thoughts about him lately. A couple of weeks ago I noticed he was starting to get under my skin - in a good way, like KQ and JF - I was starting to look for him online and notice when I hadn't talked to him for a few days. Then I finished Maggie May's Diary and got caught by the line Brian uses to describe what he needs in a woman - someone who bowls him over. That was something I really liked about KQ and JF - in the 'they got under my skin' way. Then I'm talking to Anthony yesterday about exes. I bring up the 'exes are exes for a reason' line. He brings up 'but you can learn from them.' Which gets the big 'duh!' But it sounded different when he pointed it out yesterday and the dots between the good things about KQ and JF and how BC's been getting under my skin lately started connecting. He's been held at arms length as a friend because he's 4+ years younger, still living with his parents, still not established in his career. But he confident (although I like to tell him he's arrogant), knows what he wants, knows what he needs to do to get it or will figure it out, is willing to do what it takes to get it, and is generally positive (more like me and Tammy with the 'shit happens, get over it' attitude than Rich or those others who just want to compare and compete on tragic stories). He'll always be 4+ years younger, but he's definitely got plans in progress to change the other two issues I have. Things to ponder ...

ya ... my job sucks

it's a gorgeous spring friday - about 75-80. the sun is out. the birds are singing. and i'm sitting on my deck in the sunshine with my wireless connection working. this rocks :)