House sitting for The Guy

He called me when I was out with Mr. B on Wednesday asking if I'd house sit Thursday-Saturday while he was off at some athletic competition. He was telling me how upset he was at some things that happened with Josh, but he was going anway.

I said sure. Picked him up yesterday about 2, we went to the airport for a rental car. While on the way we talked about so much. My doctor's appointment at Kaiser. We talked about him going up there, Josh being so jealous The Guy is staying at a hotel on the coast with an ocean view, while he is only staying in a Motel 6. We talked about the AT&T GPS feature. He was amused because it showed my car, like my car, you know, driving down the freeway to take him. And the little car was the same color as my car. He told me where he left my money for the weekend. And of course I am doing this because I'm a sucker for $$$ and it puts me closer to being able to buy my new Mac. We debriefed. I let him know that I needed to see him next week, so we need to make plans. I need help with some school stuff. Then I told him to keep in contact, at least let me know when he'll be home, got his car keys and house key. We hugged, put the stuff in his car, then he was off.

And there he goes... of course you know he has to go in style.. Infiniti FX35



And my plans for the weekend are as follows:
- Book air flight to MS
- Buy computer? (maybe!)
- Set up this computer to become my backup (load all media onto it, Handbrake, etc.)
- Investigate hooking my Macbook Pro up to the TV/Apple TV
- Leyendo un libro en Espanol (Reading a book in Spanish)
- Balance my checkbook/other OCD financial stuff I do
- Fill out paperwork for school
- Oh, and The Guy has a pool in his complex... maybe lay out by it?
Productive, indeed.

The Anti-Christ History Channel

Because I am intrigued by this whole end of time thing I had to watch "The Anti-Christ" tonight on the history channel. Here are my notes. Yes. I took notes. Why? To argue with mother dearest. Friends. Whatever. A lot of this I knew, but some was new, so definitely worth watching. Learned lots about Left Behind series... I just wanted some notes for reference just because... it'd make me tingle or something... or at least I thought it would. But if you're interested...
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Zorroestrianism 500BC or so, this religion emerges and it has a anti-Christ/Christ figure like Christianity

Daniel= anti-Christ or historical figure?
Word anti-Christ never mentioned in the chapter
Mentions a man who will come during turmoil and this man will draw the world together, bring prosperity

Daniel 9:27 - He will confirm a covenant with many for one 'seven.' In the middle of the 'seven' he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing of the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.
--- basically the man described in Daniel believes he is better than God, and a biblical week is 7 years --- Daniel written during persecution of Jews --- think may be toward Syrian despot who declared himself god. --- Many of details in Daniel may have been written before the end of the Jew war in 164

Apocalyptic literature was not meant to understand end times, rather explain what was going wrong at a certain time

Anti-Christ shows up 5 times talking about John the Baptist

Revelation = most forceful comm. about end times, about a beast, one whose real ID is anti-Christ
Rev. 13:5-13:7
well liked, spiritual, insightful, given authority over every tribe

Rev. 13:18- 666 comes up (prefix type thing some say like a social security number type thing)

Scholars say about understanding future as much as past

Revelation written during 1st century with comm. of Christians being persecuted experiencing famine, econ failure, saw anti-Christ everywhere and in order to serve had to worship emperor, etc.

Thessalonians didn't live up when it said that end didn't come

Anti-Christ helps explain there still demonic forces, which is why end still hasn't come

John Baptist wrote addressing ppl. in Asia-minor, modern day Turkey

Passages about Rome? Sea beast talks about political power (Rev 13:11) or so dark beast and false prophets where religion being used in false sense

666 - 3rd form of evil - if didn't go along with Rome, couldn't buy or sell - numeric value for Nero Caesar?

So Revelation can be read as Rome, the anti-Christ coming, or symbols asking us to question how good and evil are present
- Tells us good people have bad things happen
- Right eventually triumphs
- Numerous victories for evil along the way and innocent hurt

People like Marilyn Manson have been called anti-Christ

1st and 2nd John - letters/epistles written at end of 1st century AD when Christians fighting whether or not Jesus existed in flesh (Dan 9:27) defines them as those who don't recognize Jesus

How does stuff from John where anti-Christ mentioned become so great and so powerful?

Anti-Christ image from Hippolytus in his treatus on Christ and anti-Christ talks about ideas prevalent in early church

During Crusades anti-Christ name used to destruct Jews and Muslims

1st Crusades in 1095 - people's crusade destroyed many jews
2nd was wide slaughter of Muslims

1187 Muslim recapture lead to arguments that Salimus was the anti-Christ
Muslim anti-Christ appears in 9th century

Protestant Reformation anti-Christ was used among CHristians who broke away from Catholicism

Nostradamus wrote poetry like Quatrain 1 about 1 being more of fire than blood

Hitler was 2nd referred to as Hister, or Danube River

Whatever needs to be identified at that moment as evil can be termed anti-Christ

So who does the Bible say the anti-Christ is/Christians?

Mass media renowns the term a-Christ

Global TV networks and books (televangelists and Left Behind series)

Novel "Planet Earth" from 70s helped bring about this a-Christ

Left Behind says anti-Christ will be head of UN and from Romania who gets control of it and movies it to new Babylon (Iraq) for new world order. Going to use modern speak everyone good and the average people will say he is great. He'd bring peace treaty in mid-East

3 years in he'd declare himself to be god and put to death those who don't receive his mark

What apocalyptic messages can we continue to convey? How can we continue to make sense of history and what is going on?


It is a 2 part series... I just watched the 1st
The 2nd part is called "Zero Hour"


Matt 28 evangelizing whole world - like Puritans/Spanish coming to US?
need to evangelize before anti-Christ comes

anti-Christ during Revolution was thinking George III of England was him - lots of presence in Amer. hist.

Have looked to presidents for AC since Rev. 13:17-18 where people saw Roosevelt as puppeteer who with things like social security bringing about a monetary thing for everything

Reagan's 3 names have 6 letters... was he?

Cold War - Soviet Union thought it was, then US being superpower was

Scholars say... DISPENSATIONALISM (dividing bible into diff. eras, god works with diff. humanities, unified scripture and brought in books like Daniel and Revelation that had been ignored - read bible like jigsaw)--- John Nelson Darvey, British evangelist brought about many of the ideas around today because of his dispensationalism (1880s-1940s it huge and changed how bible read/thought in US)
- antiChrist vital part of this teaching


Got 25 minutes into the 2nd part and that's where I stopped... but I got a lot of what I wanted to hear about it and clarification on all the interpretations I've heard, so I was glad

Drink with Mr. B

The drink with Mr. B was awesome.

He was so cool about everything. We get in, sit down, and he asks me what I like to drink. He said he didn't picture me as a drinker. I told him I like the light beers and then I tried the Dos Equis Amber ones on the menu. I don't recall the name, but it was pretty good. Mr. B began telling me the history of Dos Equis and their logo. He ordered something. We weren't quite hungry, so we held off on appetizers. He told me about how some beers are made with CO2 and others with Nitrogen. That was cool.

We talked about so much- in no particular order
teachers, coworkers, what everyone is up to
he asked me if I had any questions about any teachers at the school, his thoughts on them, things like that
I used the above as a way to judge - there were really hot Spanish teachers at my school and they were women
His comments about them were interesting "he'd dig one of them, except for her mustache"
What students who were in our class are up to
He texted Gonzo to let her know to live large while she is on a business trip next week
He told me about his graduate work where The Guy went to school
I said I love the area, my ex went there, and stuff like that
He talked about education being so important and then I said now "HE" is dating a gym trainer with no education and I'm seeing how bad of a mix for him that is.
At least I threw the pronoun out there. Mr. B just kind of looked surprised for a second, then kept eating
I threw the pronoun out and my ex several more times
We chatted more about teachers
About education
About Macs
About Michael Jackson
About his beer brewing
Then he ordered me some ale that was sort of fruity, he ordered another 2 beers, and we sampled each others. He told me how the beer I had was so creamy and such a small alcohol content, almost like drinking fruity, creamy water.
We talked about other kids in school including one who was gay. Mr. B loved him as a kid, but he was always pushing him, searching for the easy way out
I told him how that kid is gay, how he is still searching for the easy way out. I saw him at Target with his boyfriend. He paused, smiled, and asked "boyfriend?". Told him yes. He asked what Target I saw him at. He said he was surprised since that is basically a very unaccepting area. And how would he know was my question, as well as Who's Life, as I told him about this.
I do think and suspicion Mr. B is gay. He's not my type at all, but he has many characteristics that seem like he could be.
Mr. B kept asking if there were any final questions. Mine was going to be are you gay? BUT that's so unlike me to ask. That would be my question, though.
We of course facebook friended each other before we left and he is going to upload out photos soon. Woot. I can't wait to see.
We hugged, then took off.
It was a nice 2 3/4 hours. 4:00-6:45p.m.
He suggested we do this again. And with Gonzo.

Oh, and I almost knew The Guy would call today. Am I psychic or something? He did about an hour into our Happy Hour thing.

Here's one reason why I could never take Lu Parker seriously

FYI- I know I've mentioned it before, she is dating the mayor of LA, Mayor Villaraigosa

Need to decompress before bed

Date tonight.
Profile said: 40, 5'9'', 150lbs, brown hair, blue eyes.
What I got: 40? 5'9'', 170lbs (or so), no hair, green eyes
The 2 athletic body shots and 2 face pics were maybe years ago.
That's the risk you run online.
Overall the conversation was good. But, well, it was not what I was expecting.

Good time tomorrow, though. Drink with Mr. B.
Oil change
Lunch with a friend?

Cousin has purchased Faith Hill tickets... pretty great seats judging from the seating chart... I'm the lucky one... haha

Where I blog from

I was tagged by AEK over at The Masks We Wear, so I had to partake. And so in response to his question where do I blog from, I blog from...

The comfort of my Cal King bed. There's plenty of room if you care to join me. The mattress is extremely soft.
I sleep with at least 6 pillows on my bed. 2 of them are on the floor where I was laying earlier, not pictured. And yes, I use all 6 of them at various points, whether it be for laying on, laying my feet on, lounging around, or whatever.


My view to the computer- keys, phone, wallet, and cell phone are all within arms reach.


And a look toward the TV. When the bed is made and in any other season when I have my down comforter on the bed you cannot see the TV because the bed is too high.


And now I guess I'm obligated to tag some of you, but I will leave it open to whomever would like to show us around and let us in on their big secret.

Beautiful Mess

I sent The Guy a text this morning that was very simple. I just said, "hi." About an hour later I got a "hey mike, how are you?" back. I texted him back and told him about creating a movie in iMovie of my graduation. I asked how he was. Took me a couple times asking to get a reply. He said "I'm a mess." I probably put a sad face or something, then he elaborated a "beautiful mess like in Jason Mraz' song." I said well, he is cute, or something. I knew he was hurting and in pain. I propositioned him and said "you need to hang out or get out." I told him I'd bring something by for lunch. I asked what he'd like. He said maybe a sandwich. I asked from where. No reply. I named a place and he replied "turkey." I told him I'd be there in an hour.

I grab the sandwiches at the place and head over to his. I get in and I yell "hello!" His dog barks, then comes to me. The Guy joked how he hadn't seen me in so long. We hugged. He cleared a space at the couch and we sat down to eat. He ate a few bites and asked me how things were going. I told him well. I told him I made a video of my grad pics. I told him where I chose to go get my masters. I told him my reasons. He then came back and asked if I was ready. I figured he meant to go. He told me he was going to go lay down shortly. I asked to go where. He said CVS. He took me up on the offer of needing to go out. We went to CVS looking for candles. They had 1 Febreeze candle. We were going to buy it, but the wait was so long. He said we needed to go to Target then. He just laid the 1 candle in a display and we walked out.

We chatted about lots of things on the way in and out of CVS. The ugly girl next to us with tattoos all over. How smoking didn't do anything for her. The Guy told me he was up until 4a.m. last night and wrote Josh a poem called "The Warrior," but then told me it wasn't about Josh, it was about him. He e-mailed it to Josh. I told him I was going to say that it didn't sound like Josh.

We talked about what's going on with me on the way to Target. I was very upbeat overall because I don't have anything to complain about really. I told him that I am probably going to buy a new Macbook Pro like I want, but am working with a few people to get me a discount. We talked about weird people.

He is mad that there are so many people at Target in the parking lot. He asked why everyone was there, and didn't they work. I said social security checks probably just hit the banks. Then I saw Shaniqua in front of us with a lot of junk in the trunk and pushing babies in the cart, so I said it is probably welfare checks. We had a great discussion about how we both hate welfare and think that if you are on it, you should be doing some sort of work weather it be picking up trash, yardwork on the side of the road, or public works projects.

We go in and nobody is in Target. We go to the candle aisle and he buys $100 in Febreeze candles. We also get some freezer bags and dish soap. He gets an iTunes gift card too. We check out and the guy in front of us is filling out papers for a home loan or something, The Guy deemed, for taking so long.

We go back to his place and on the way he is telling me he thinks he got no sleep this weekend because of Josh. The Guy asked about spending the 4th together and Josh said sure. Josh then went to Catalina with his family and came over very late that night. The Guy knows he was invited with Josh's family, but Josh didn't let him. Josh is constantly turning away from him. The Guy called his dad today and said he is back with Josh and all the pain he is causing. The Guy's dad basically ratted him out and said he was taking advantage of The Guy. The Guy asked my opinion and I said I think so. I'd like to think not, that he is just a guy on the fence with his sexuality, but he has given Josh many opportunities to act upon it. I know by this point I would have, and I would be madly in love with him given the opportunity. He starts welling up with tears while we're in the carport and I rub his hand to comfort him. We go in and we eat a few bites of our sandwiches, then he says he is going to lay down. I eat the half of my sandwich I'd been trying for a while, then I go in and tell him I'm taking off. I put my hand on him and then hugged him and he thanked me for lunch.

I got a text tonight from him thanking me. He was up playing some WOW. Hopefully we're back to normal. I miss him.



BTW I sense a Jason Mraz theme going on as of late.