Author: djuggler

Fantastic

Good memories

Apparently for the past 12 hours I’ve been sitting on my glasses.

This guy is selling pixels in blocks of 100 with a minimum purchase of 100 for $100. His website has made him £32k! And still I work my tail off and struggle to make ends meet.

Of course, I find this an interesting one time fund raiser: "Last year Bristol University student Rosie Reid raised £8,400 by auctioning her virginity online to help fund her education."

I have perfect vision again! Er, rather I don’t own glasses anymore…

Today: Exhausted. Mentally, physically.

Student: What’s the difference between a prostitute and a computer consultant?
Master: A prostitute knows when the job is done.

I understand. Let’s not forget the bad experiences so that we don’t repeat them. Amy this morning explained that the boo boo on her leg came from when she fell off "your stage" (the one I juggled on in May). She has also been talking about Lucy biting her eye. I hope she cherishes the good moments as much as she ponders these more tramatic incidents.

Amy is in a great mood this morning. She’s been participating with the television shows answering their prompts and singing loudly.

Today: Frustration

Many times I’ve visited the concept of "airing dirty laundry" and pondered how appalled my grandparents would be knowing I have not kept our stories in the family and been so casual in my publishings to the world. I wonder if the blog had something to do with the job rejection I recently received.

So we’ve been brazen and as an outlet, document trail, journal, for others to learn, and just for fun, we publish our trials and tribulations with Aspergers Syndrome. The ever positive people of alt.support.childfree have labeled us as bad parents and beggers and hinted that we are scammers. The attitudes depicted in their dialog are rather common amongst the more naive when first confronted with a special needs child. None-the-less, their discussion is exactly the sort of outlandishness that makes me question the sanity or rationale behind this blog or Tommy’s blog.

I need only return to the comments we have received which have expressed thanks for the blog, shared common ground, provided insight and suggestions, or otherwise built a bond to remind me that there are more positive good people in the world than the occasional bad apple.

• Mason Ruffner Gypsy Blood
• Drivin’ An’ Cryin’ Mystery Road

So I’ve begun the installation of Windows 2003 on a Compaq ProLiant DL590/64. First off, just turning the machine on makes my office sound like the tarmack of the airport. This thing has enough high speed fans that it could have cooled the house when the a/c went out. Then this happens:

“Load of Auxiliary Floating Point Driver failed: Unsupported”
– press any key to continue –

Deterred? Not at all. Challenged!

If you go into the command prompt (start->run->cmd) and run ipconfig and it reports "Media disconnected" it means "the ethernet cable is disconnected dufus!" and dufus is important.

I don’t think any parent wants to truly deal with the subject of sex and their kids. There is morality versus missed opportunities. It feels good but don’t do it. They are going to do it anyway but they need to save themselves. The church says you are going to hell and it is very disconcerning to shake hands with someone with such hairy palms. You want to teach them safety but not encourage or plant suggestions. And the last thing you want is for them to experience the heartbreaks after being used or thinking they found deep love only to be stone cold dumped. Of course, you have to deal with that double standard that boys are supposed to hunt while girls are supposed to wear chastity belts. Do you want your boys labeled "studs" while trying to keep your girls from being labeled "sluts?" And I’m not ready to be a grandparent!

Now enter the studies. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tells us teenagers that have oral sex delay vaginal intercourse.

By the time they are 22 to 24 — when most individuals have already had intercourse — those having only oral sex drops to 3 percent, suggesting to experts that young people are using oral sex to postpone vaginal sex.

So whatcha talkin’ about Willis?! Here’s a twisted interpretation: Is the CDC implying that as a parent I should encourage my kids to engage in oral sex in order to keep them from having intercourse? Could you see the new sex education classes? "Ok ladies, this is called the "to the moon" technique. Guys, remember, slow is good too and circles, I say, small circles."

As a guy, I have a hard time believing that their study holds up. I would think oral sex more of a "gateway drug" to intercourse. In high school, boys talk. I remember conversations with my friends: "I got to third!" "3rd base?! I only got to first with her." And thus she becomes hunted because now everyone knows she puts out.

I like Dr. James Allen‘s statement on the study:

It confirms the fact that, despite what our Washington leaders think and want, our youth are sexually active, and adults are sexually active and a lot of it appears not to be within a marital setting.

This country’s leadership is stuck in a timewarp, out of touch and trying to rein us back into bygone times.

The highlights from the study:

• Ninety-seven percent of men and 98 percent of women aged 25 to 44 have had vaginal intercourse.
• Ninety percent of men and 88 percent of women reported having had oral sex with an opposite-sex partner.
• Forty percent of men and 35 percent of women have had anal sex with an opposite-sex partner.
• Men aged 30 to 44 reported an average of six to eight female sexual partners so far while women reported about four. This is similar to studies conducted in the early 1990s.
• About 6.5 percent of men aged 25 to 44 have had oral or anal sex with another man. Three percent of males 15 to 44 years have had oral or anal sex with another male in the last 12 months (1.8 million people).
• Eleven percent of women aged 25 to 44 reported having had a sexual experience with another woman. Four percent of females reporting having a sexual experience with another female in the last 12 months.
• Six percent of males and 11 percent of females had had same-sex contact in their lifetimes. While this percentage remains relatively unchanged for men since the early 1990s, the proportion of women has soared unexpectedly from 4 or 5 percent to 14 percent among women aged 18 to 29. “We may want to consider the possibility that women are trying to reduce their risk of STDs,” Mosher said.
• Ninety percent of men aged 18 to 44 thought of themselves as heterosexual, 2.3 percent as homosexual. 1.8 percent bisexual and 3.9 percent “something else” while the rest did not answer the question. The numbers were almost exactly the same for women.
• Twenty-nine percent of men who had ever had sexual contact with another man were tested for HIV in the past year compared with 14 percent of men with no same-sex contact.
• Seventeen percent of men who had ever had sexual contact with another male had been treated for a non-HIV STD, compared with 7 percent of those who had never had male-on-male sexual contact.
• Among men 15 to 44 who had at least one sexual partner in the last 12 months, 39 percent used a condom at their most recent encounter. The figure was 65 percent among never-married males and 24 percent among married males. Ninety-one percent of males who had ever had sexual contact with another male used a condom the last time they had sex, compared with 36 percent of men who never had sex with another male.

My concluding thoughts? Sure sounds like being a teen now-a-days would be a lot of fun! Oh, what am I going to tell my kids? My statement is basically "please wait but if you are going to anyway here’s your parental lesson on STDs, HIV, babies and safe sex…" As for oral sex, it’s still sex.

Yesterday’s: Guilt

Today: Anxiety