Reno Recap Blog (June, 2006)

Vegas III: Escape from the Wynn

Cockblocking for Fun and Profit

Two Unrelated Things
A couple of funny (strange, with a hint of haha) things from my life the last couple of days:Adam Lambert Once RemovedI arrived at work one morning this week and I was greeted by a coworker who told me to hold on and called another coworker out to tell me "the story".This second coworker came out and told me the following story:I have a friend named Thomas [name changed]. Thomas is from San Diego and he knows Adam Lambert and was at a party with him last night.("Cool," I'm thinking, "Maybe he showed him a picture of my Halloween costume.")So I was thinking, Thomas ha

Phone Contacts and Miscommunications
The other night I was wrapping things up at Hula Hula and a friend txted me. She's a friend of Heels and has been going to school somewhere in eastern Washington, so she's been AWOL for a while. AWOL has made a few trips back to Seattle, and the previous time she'd been here she'd criticized my karaoke singing and chastised me for not writing enough blog entries.In spite of this, I wanted to see AWOL and say hello to Heels and her. So we txted back and forth a few times and she let me know where they were gonna be, and I said I'd txt her back.So fast forward 20 minutes or so, and I started a new txt and sent it off. But not to AWOL. I sent it to Salsa,

Halloween
(This will be the fourth Halloween I've been on my own. I'm gonna ramble on its importance to me a little bit.)Halloween is a holiday that gets slighted by many people. Most holidays seem to involve purchasing lots of gifts and/or a mish-mash of Christian concepts and pagan rituals, but Halloween is pretty simple: dress up and eat candy. I don't know how people can fail to see the elegance and, after recognizing it fail to participate.Now that I think about it, most people do participate, but it's like a karaoke bar.When I started going out and singing karaoke, I assumed that people went there to sing. It seemed reasonable, right? As it turns out,

Ed (O) Hardy Party I Recap...
They said it couldn't be done. Who is "they"? StuffWhitePeopleLike, for one. Actually that's pretty much it. And I'm not sure they were serious.As I detailed some weeks ago, I planned an Ed Hardy Party. Well, I threw one.The party was pretty straightforward, as far as an event goes. When it comes to me and my odd form of social retardation, of course it had its ups and downs.First off, I wasn't sure who I should invite. I have a rather small apartment, and my cats take up about 3/7

It Was a House Party, Y'all!
I am, lest ye forget (or lest ye never knew), new to drinking. I have only been consuming alcohol for two years, and it's been fewer than four years that I've been going out and, as we kids say, "Kicking it." My previous life was not without its benefits, but partying was definitely not on the agenda.This goes back to high school and even college. I did a lot of weird things (some of it recorded for posterity on video) but I didn't go to a lot of parties. In my new life, even as I've s