Disneyland

by Paul Brown on 8 October 2002

Oh, my gawd, becky, her butt is soo big!

This past week was spent sleepless and overworked, what with the release of version 6.0 of http://platformsw.intel.com/ and its internal counterpart the Kit Tool. Wednesday and Thurdsay were spent in 12 and 13 hour work days, with no sleep, and then Friday’s half-day and drive down to Mousewitz. Fortunately, and accompanied me down the 5, and they made the trip not just fun, but down right pleasurable. We sang and talked and listened to my funky collection of CDs; we cruised truckers, got cruised at the rest stops, and ate dinner at Harris Ranch.

Poor waiter, Emilio. He was so green and inexperienced. He didn’t even know that “blue” (bleu?) means blood rare, and he works in a steakhouse! On the other hand, the Lon lookalike sitting reading David Eddings at a nearby table was scrumptious. Lon, for those of you who don’t know, was an ex-boyfriend, who I nicknamed Twinkletoes. Someday I’ll tell you that story.

Arriving in Anaheim at around 1am, we were met by , , John O., Thor, George, and , all of whom were still up and largely awaiting our entrance. Urso had graciously allowed me to share his room, so after a brief exchange of greetings, I was off to bed.

I awoke at 0630, realized that it was too early, so decided to wake up Urso, unsuccessfully. He mumbled something, and I went back to sleep. 0710 came, and I made attempt two. Still didn’t work, although Urso was more intelligible. 0750, and Urse actually said, “we agreed last night that whoever got up first.” Discouraged, I gave up until he finally woke up, and we snuggled for a bit before getting up out of bed.

Urso, John O., and I struck off early, purchased our tickets and hopped the monorail in to Mousewitz. I hadn’t been there in 20 years, and not much had changed. Back then, I was still fresh and naive enough to enjoy it. This time, world-weary and cynical, I found it to be surreally oppressive. I mean, I did enjoy the couple of rides I went on, but behind those painted-on smiles lurked a sense of despair and dissatisfaction. You could see it in their cold dead eyes.

Cold dead eyes.

I actually made it to the bear lunch, where there was eye-candy aplenty. I was given a number of trick cards, some of whom I will be contacting in the hopes of gaining a new pelvic affiliate or two. A couple of men especially stand out in my head, but we’ll just let them stay there for the time being.

Finally, BigJohnSF and I went back to the inn for a swim and disco nap. We intended to rejoin the melee, which John did. I just couldn’t go back and endure any more of Mouse Fuhrer, beaming his insidious brand of happiness out his radar ears to his slave-like minions, beating them into the submission, a type of which there are few words to describe. I’m sure they start out there bright-eyed and optimistic, but the get beaten down, like hammered copper, into this new hideous shape.

So, I took off with ednixon for sunnier climes, and after we checked out Piston’s in Long Beach. OK, we didn’t stay there very long – long enough for me to watch the boot black do an adequate job of polishing a patron’s boots. Eh, I thought, it’s not a spit shine like they do in the military. I suppose most leatherfags don’t know the difference.

Next, we headed to downtown LA to the Pantry Cafe, an historical business. Since 1924, they have served steaks and chops and a few other items, quickly and tastily. Their cole slaw is really quite good – I got the recipe.

Midtown Athletic was next. Yummy latino men. Freaky drugged out bottoms. Perhaps I’ll tell you about the one guy I invited to my room.

Hollywood and Frank’s apartment. Fold-out futon bed. Sleep. Wake. Fix smutminer.com link problem. Drive back to Anaheim. Pick up Henry and Al. Drive back up the 99 vice the 5, which was a good thing.

Home. OK, soon to be former home. The Chrysler disgorged Henry and Al, and the Eclipse swallowed them and their luggage up for t
he drive to the bay area. See you guys later.

Bed. Snuggles. And then, I coughed up the entire brown sky of Orange County for a few hours. When 0600 came rolling around, I decided I hadn’t had enough rest so I called in and told them I was not coming in. No big whoop – we had launched the site, and there weren’t any real problems to deal with that the support flunky couldn’t handle.

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