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Richard Norway's Blog

An Amazing Trip Highlights

Luggie wants highlights, so here goes... I don't think I want to drive that many miles in two days each way with a 9 year boy and and two dogs again. But it was fun. Ray was remarkable. i only heard, "Are we there yet?" once in the two days up there and then again once on the way back. We had brought plenty of things for him to do...toys, snacks, a portable DVD player so he could watch movies, and of course plenty of rest stops. On the second day, Shilow (our 12 year old border collie) started
Richard Norway

Richard Norway

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Camy's Thang!!!

NaNoWriMo 2011

I've been pondering this year's NaNoWriMo and trying to decide what I'm going to write. What I want is to end up on December 1st with a finished 50,000 word novella, rather than 50,000 words of a novel I'll never get around to completing. I write short stories and I like to think I'm not bad at them; but novels are a different beast altogether. Novels require more than my skittish self seems to want to give. They require serious thought and planning - especially if they're good. Whereas, for m
Camy

Camy

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Camy's Thang!!!

This Thursday!

This Thursday, after a month and a week of waiting, we finally get Broadband switched on. And, supposedly, it's between 5 and 7Mb - which, considering it was 0.5MB at our last place, is like giving a kid a Porche.
Camy

Camy

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Camy's Thang!!!

The flip side

Living in the country is very nice: I know this now I don't. The grass elsewhere is always greener, but move again I won't. Ah, hindsight. Suh-weet hindsight. The move went well - in as much as we moved. Hard work? I should bleedin' well coco! There aren't enough web-bots or admins to remove the expetives I'd like to write - or masseurs to ease my aching muscles. Obviously I'm not fit enough to live in a house with three floors, 'cause, duh, floors mean stairs. Of course, being avian, I'
Camy

Camy

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Richard Norway's Blog

An Amazing Auto Trip

Don't know why I'm writing this now as I should be in bed getting some much needed sleep. You see, tomorrow I'm going to pack my minivan, get Ray up (he's my 9 year old foster boy) and hit I-25. We're heading for Northern Minnesota. He's so excited that he even had a temper tantrum tonight about getting his things packed (lots of toys, of course). What an adventure! You see, my nephew (my brother's boy) is getting married, and my daughter is driving up from Michigan, and she has a 9 year old s
Richard Norway

Richard Norway

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Camy's Thang!!!

Today

Today I am packing my life into boxes. Today I am packing up. Today all I want to do is veg out but for that I am all out of luck. Fuck. I'm sitting here - when I should be packing boxes - writing this blog and wishing it was Wednesday. If this was a movie: the camera would be on me and the background would melt away, morphing into my new room. Sadly, I don't have a 'make Sunday Wednesday' machine, nor am I in a movie. Hohum. Can't loiter here, nattering. Gotta get on (looks around at th
Camy

Camy

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Camy's Thang!!!

A book for all seasons.

Along with a bunch of other worthies I've had an awful lot of fun over the last couple of months. The result is a book - initially an eBook - available in .ePub and .mobi (for kindle) from www.midnightdude.com Why? There are a shed load of reasons, but primarily it's to raise money to keep AwesomeDude.com healthy. Times are hard for all of us, and though there's a 'donate' button on the front page, we thought that as an alternative to a donation selling a book would be good. And it's nice to gi
Camy

Camy

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Somewhere In Between

Train Twink and Friends with Benefits

How’s it going? What, not a good enough opening for you? I concur. Howdy! What, too hickish? Okay. What’s up peeps? What, too street for you? Check. Where’s all my bitches at? I could go on but what’s the point. Fuck it. So the other day I picked up a little train twink from the train. Well, to be more accurate, I got picked up by a little twink boy the other day on the train. My life has been running smooth on all cylinders for the last few weeks. Now that I’m single, I have fall
Jason Rimbaud

Jason Rimbaud

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silent but cuddly

Manhood

Working on my latest story brought back all these memories from when I was a kid and got me thinking. What does it means to be a man? the following is my attempt to answer that question. A man does not turn his back on his friends or break his word. He finishes what he starts. A man does not run when things get difficult. He stands and faces what lies in his path, steadfast in the knowledge that no matter what, he gave it his all. He does not let pride stop him from asking for help when he nee
Manic Mike

Manic Mike

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(Ele)Civil Disobedience

Turnabout - or - Standardize This!

I got my first teaching job two years ago, right out of college. At the time, I posted this: "The school has no art, music, gym, recess, or extra-curriculars. These were all shut down because of low test scores. The school itself is on the verge of being shut down by the government (depending on this year's test scores)." Bruin Fisher replied with this: "Cool. You will hit the school like a tornado. Its grades will shoot through the roof, the kids will become well-motivated, the arts courses
EleCivil

EleCivil

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Richard Norway's Blog

The Saga of New Mexico GLBTQ Centers

Some may say that I'm blowing my own horn, but I'm so proud of the effort of a lot of people that I want to share it with you. As most of you know. David and I are on a quest, and that quest is to create a GLBTQ sense of community in New Mexico. We opened the first GLBTQ Community Center in New Mexico a year ago. Our goal over the next 10 years is to open a total of 6 community centers across the state. Well, number two is now in the works. Below is a copy of the press release that we issued
Richard Norway

Richard Norway

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Somewhere In Between

The Art of Letting Go

The Art of Letting Go Written By: Jason Rimbaud ?You don?t have a fucking clue as to what you want much less what you want from me.? Words, words, and more words designed to cause as much damage as possible without resorting to violence. Maybe I regret those words that were blurted out in the middle of a crowded restaurant the other night. You see, I think I might have come to a crossroad in my life and maybe this once, I?m taking the right path. Work?where to start with that mess. After
Jason Rimbaud

Jason Rimbaud

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Of Sequels

A Good Place

It's a been a while - three years! - since I last logged in, and I haven't written much since then too. The biggest reason was that back then my computer crashed. I never thought it would which was why I never had any backups. The whole time, I was like "what about this story" and "what about that story". But I'm past the crushed phase now. So. Moral is, save backups of your works. I found the drive to start writing again, even though I'm busier this time around. I have always wanted to write
R.J.

R.J.

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Somewhere In Between

The Thing About Mark Is...

June 25th, 2011 The thing about Mark is?hard to define and I?ve tried to define it, shape it, and understand it going on three years. It could be his looks, he?s a real fucking hottie in a complete nerd star way. His personality? Maybe, he?s playful and caring and loves his friends and family with a passion that is scary for someone with my background. His work ethic? He goes to school full time and works full time. His drug addiction? He has to smoke first thing in the morning and several
Camy's Thang!!!

Carma

It's odd how we become attached to our cars. For the last two years I've been driving a Citroen Berlingo. I was given it, so I can't complain that it was big and slow and had a bit of a slippy clutch. Over time I came to love her (tear rolls down cheek). No, I couldn't take a Porche from a standing start - but I could fit all the bands gigging equipement in the back. Then, she failed her MOT (mandatory yearly government safety check). Not badly, but add to that a new clutch and it was going to
Camy

Camy

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Richard Norway's Blog

Dear Harvey 2

Well, here we go. It is now five days until the performance of Dear Harvey. It'll be this Sunday at 2:00pm, a matinee performance. I think I've done everything I could do to promote this play. The theater usually puts out 70 posters around town for other performances, but I put out 96...it's everywhere. As my cast is all high school students, I even got permission to post the posters in all 5 high schools in Las Cruces. You will obviously get from this post that it's gate time and I'm as n
Richard Norway

Richard Norway

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Camy's Thang!!!

Time crawls

We released our album nearly a year ago. Eleven months ago I sent a track off to BBC radio. Last week I got a reply. It looks like they're going to play it, and if they do they'll let me know.... I won't be holding my breath. ;) You live and learn. In this world of instant communication we seem to expect an instant response. Fat chance: it's really like dancing through amber.
Camy

Camy

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Camy's Thang!!!

What?

It's been yonks and yonks since I've put finger to keypad and blogged. My bad, but then I have been somewhat, nay, frightfully busy. Yep, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. We made a second video, which was erm ... yes. It was. Lo-res is one reason I'm not trumpeting it to the hills. Never again will we make lo-res videos. It's not worth the time spent. We've also been rehearsing 'till our fingers and tonsils bled and the studio had to be emptied by paramedics (name the film that includes
Camy

Camy

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Richard Norway's Blog

Dear Harvey

Tomorrow starts auditions for the play Dear Harvey continuing on Monday as the actors are high school kids and they have their oun schedules and we need to give them a couple of days. I'm excited and looking forward to this. But the schedule that the director has come up with is nothing but grueling, I'm enjoying a scotch and water right now, but it will be my last until May 22nd, the day of the performance. Des, you can still do this, and I think you should. You'd be perfect as the one to
Richard Norway

Richard Norway

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DesDownunder's Blog

Just what has happened to me?

Where have I been? Friends, despite rumours to the contrary, I haven't been ill, dead, or ignoring you all. Our video store has been in decline for several months and that has left us with many troubles which have demanded most of my time. We finally closed the store at the end of February. Renting DVDs has become too difficult in a small town like ours, especially when you consider that 70% of discs are returned with scratches, dried pizza and greasy etchings from fingers. I suspect some pe
DesDownunder

DesDownunder

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Richard Norway's Blog

What's Happening in New Mexico

Well guys and gals, I've been busy, and that's why you haven't seen me post much lately. I still read all the posts, but don't take the time I should to be a part of this community that I love and admire. Last year, the Harvey Milk Foundation commissioned a play to be produced and it was completed last year. I was able to acquire the script, music and photos, ROYALTY FREE, to produce the play about Harvey Milk in schools to be royalty free. It needs to be produced on Sunday, May 22, 2011, Ha
Richard Norway

Richard Norway

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DKStories' Blog

It's a good Saturday

Well, the hubbie was out of town for the day, but it's been good overall. Tyler had practice and we showed up a good 30 minutes early. One of his teammates showed up early as well as so we played 3-way catch until the rest of the team finally showed up for practice. I also took the niece out to the park since she's finally starting to behave again. We all had a good day. Our old neighborhood's little league started a few weeks earlier so today was their opening day. Instead of practice, tw
DKStories

DKStories

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