Paradise waits.............

1. I have a 2 year old grand daughter that is perfect in every way.
2. I was in Israel on business for 3 months in 1996 and someone from the US Embassy asked me to report to them weekly on activities I observed at the company I was visiting. Part of this company's business was armaments for the Israeli military.
3. I loved Israel, especially Jerusalum and I've been to the nativity site in Bethlehem (a Belgium businessman and I took a cab in even though the occupied territories were "closed".
   
4. I've walked the stations of the cross and even though I am not a formally religious person there is an overwhelming sense of the sacred in the air in Jerusalum.
   
5. I have walked Paris for hours, once alone, once with business associates. The Louvre was my favorite place by far.
6. I spent an afternoon and night (all night) in Amsterdam with a guy from Lockheed after we had been visiting companies in the Netherlands all week together. By the power of suggestion I let it be his idea that we visit a coffee shop and smoke some weed. The live sex show was his idea too. Heh. He was married, I wasn't, and he was trying to negotiate a ridiculously low price for sex with the girls behind the doors in the red light district. Most of these girls were foreigners and some were stunningly beautiful. The further out from the middle of the district, they weren't so beautiful.
7. A lover and I made wonderfully intense love in the back seat of my car in the infield of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. We were to remain together for 6 years. I regret not marrying her.
   
8. I am dark complected and tan in about an hour.
9. My hair was dark brown before some of it (ok, quite a bit of it) left and quite a bit of the rest turned grey.
10. My eyes are a very dark brown also.
11. I got contacts when I was 12 and have worn them ever since.
12. I am about a half inch under 6 feet tall and I never say I am 6 feet tall because I don't want anyone to think I'm trying to appear taller than I am. The old "you are not!" syndrome.
13. I've never been the type who works a room by my looks, turns heads, or any of the pretty boy stuff.
14. At one time that bothered me, once I realized the good women appreciated depth and judged attractiveness on multiple levels, it wasn't a big deal.
15. I've always felt good about my body.
16. I pay very close attention to how people carry themselves and I know that can add or subtract years, lots of years. Some people seem to want to move and appear older than they are, or at least they give in far too easily.
17. I've been to over 50 Grateful Dead concerts and I love that part of my life.
    
18. I also loved being a hippie and to this day am weak, very weak, for waifish hippie chicks.
    
19. I've kissed Joan Osborne. OK so it was a relatively chaste kiss in a club where she opened for Jeff Healy and she had yet to attain stardom but hey I kissed Joan Osborne. I saw her with the Dead and Bob Dylan last year and couldn't stop thinking about that kiss. I want her.
20. The only person from my RL who reads this blog and I had phone sex for years, sometimes from those drive up pay phones. We met on a phone chat line 6 years ago and still keep in touch.
    
21. I became enthralled with meeting women on the phone when I was a teenager and there was an open phone line (hard to explain) here in town, some fluke, and word got out and two people could be on there and speak at the breaks in the recording. The recording would stop and sometimes you would hear some obnoxious guys voice........but sometimes, oh sometimes, I would hear this soft little hello........I was hooked. I talked on this thing for more than a few years and met several girls in several different ways. A delightful precursor to professional phone chat lines and 900 phone sex crap.
    
22. Did I mention I was good at phone sex?
    
23. I used to wear a suit and tie to work every day and sometimes I miss those days. Business casual has gotten sloppy and I miss seeing women in suits, dresses, heels and I miss the feeling of the power suit. Bringing a woman over onto your lap while she is wearing a business suit and still has the jacket on and pushing the skirt up to her waist while she straddles you while your tie is still snug with a perfect knot is power fucking at the penultimate.
    
24. I hate, detest, scoff at.........panty hose. They can actually turn me very off.
25. There are women who will wear thigh highs or stockings and those who won't. That helps me with my down select process.
26. I have photographed several women in varying stages of undress (OK nude). I've never had one of them ask for the photos back when we parted ways.
    
27. I have video tape of two former lovers and about once a year I watch them. One of them eventually married a friend of mine and the other one is now married to a doctor in another state. She is the one I should have married.
28. Twice in the past 8 years or so I might have married a woman but for their incredibly annoying, immature, temper tantrum throwing sons. That and my resistance to living with someone elses son and not my own. I often wonder how different it might have been if they had well behaved daughters.
29. But it's best that I didn't marry the second and most recent one. She had a near zero slut factor (what was I thinking?) That couldn't have been happy ever after.
30. The first one ( see up there above somewhere) was the model for which the slut factor scale was developed.