Well I don't know about you, but that was the LONGEST Monday ever.

Perhaps it was our overcast, rainy day, or maybe it was the fact that I was just SNOWED UNDER with work and things to do, all of this compounded the fact that I really just want to curl up under my desk and sleep when the weather is like this...

But now, it's Tuesday.  Monday's over, and the skies are supposed to clear, and pretty soon, I'm going to sound like a Broadway showtune, so I'm going to stop this now.

So I didn't tell everyone about Friday night, did I?

I had several offers of how to spend my time.  One was to go to San Antonio, have dinner with a good friend, and unwind.  However, in Austin, there were TWO things going on, and it was on the way to Temple, Texas... on the way to my friend's house.

So I chose Austin.  Friday night was the monthly installment of the the Guerilla Queer Bar, where a bunch of gay people show up at a straight bar, all dressed alike and pretending like they belong.  I've never been able to resolve my schedule with such a thing, but here it was: Friday, and I was able to be in Austin.  Cool.

So the first thing I had to do was find it.  This required Mapquest, because really, I only know how to get the food and gay men in Austin.  Everything else requires MapQuest.  So I finally find the place, and it's FULL of frat people.  At least I think it was... I couldn't find a damn parking place.

I'm by no means lazy.  I'll walk from where ever, but I couldn't find a place to park my car for BLOCKS.  The place looked like fun, and I wanted to see my friends that I know were there, but I decided to show my defiance by driving around the place six times with a pissed-off look on my face.  GO, GAY PEOPLE!

There was another social oppurtuity for me, and it was in a gay bar that had the decency to have a parking garage adjacent.  So I pay to park, and NONE OF MY FRIENDS are where they said they'd be.  At this point, I'm less than thrilled, but life goes on, and so I went to YET ANOTHER bar, and found a few of my friends.  We sat and visited, and then I decided to get on the road to Temple.  Fun night.  Not.

The little sidebar on the side of my site says that "there's a whole world out there" and yet, I have no links of people I read often.  Part of that is laziness, and a big part of it is that I read so many, I don't want to choose favorites.

So... here are some of the weblog/journalers from OUTSIDE Xanga that make me happy when I read them:

• Uncle Bob:  He's always funny, and never politically correct.  I read him everyday.  Every. Day.
• Weetabix:  Damn funny stuff, and it's very personal writing.  I'm lucky to get to read her everyday.
• Kim: She started this whole thing for me, and I've talked about her here before.  I think she rocks, and I have read every post she's written in the past few years.  I'm lucky to get to trade emails with her sometimes, too... when she's not so crazy-busy!
• M. Giant:  He's funny, smart and never fails to entertain me.

There are more (oh, so many more) but these deserved mention here.  Not that they need it... each ONE of these sites has an enourmous readership (which they totally deserve).

What are you waiting for?  Go.  Read!  Have a great day, and I'll see you here tommorow.  Same bat-time, same bat-URL.