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While riding my Harley, I swerved to avoid hitting a deer, lost control and landed in a ditch, severely banging my head. Dazed and confused I crawled out of the ditch to the edge of the road when a shiny new convertible pulled up with a very beautiful woman who asked, "Are you okay? As I looked up, I noticed she was wearing a low-cut blouse with cleavage to die for... "I'm okay I think," I replied as I pulled myself up to the side of the car to get a closer look. She said, "Get in and I'll take you home, so I can clean and bandage that nasty scrape on your head." "That's nice of you," I answered, "but I don't think my wife will like me doing that!" "Oh, come now, I'm a nurse," she insisted. "I need to see if you have any more scrapes and then treat them properly." Well, she was really pretty and very persuasive. Being sort of shaken and weak, I agreed, but repeated, "I'm sure my wife won't like this." We arrived at her place which was just few miles away and, after a couple of cold beers and the bandaging, I thanked her and said, "I feel a lot better, but I know my wife is going to be really upset so I'd better go now." "Don't be silly!" she said with a smile. "Stay for a while. She won't know anything. By the way, where is she?" "Still in the ditch, I guess."

I hate signing up for stuff and this site is easy peasy. Guess there could be a better selection of adult books but can't argue with the price! Free! Anyone have any favorite free book websites either audio or print?

My mate Alaskan Bear now happily married and RIP Paultain. Looks like they steered in you in the right direction! Pat is a real sweetie. We lived on the same soi for many years and was alway friendly to me even though she knew I was not a potential customer. When she first arrived in town she worked at Cat's Place in Day/Night area. Interesting joint as it was not quite a bar and not quite a gogo. Great combination Snoop!

As a Latina, physical touch and embraces are part of how I cope with the pain of grief. The coronavirus robs us of those touches, of that intimacy. I miss the tears of my friends touching my own face as we hold each other, breathing the same air in silent mourning, in place of answers we can’t give or have. In the past, my friend Lorena Borjas and I have grieved that way for others. The virus has now also taken that from me. On Monday morning, March 30, I woke around 7:30 to see I had a missed call from Coney Island Hospital. I had been calling the hospital daily for the last week to check on Ms. Borjas, who was hospitalized after falling sick with Covid-19. I dialed the number and eventually her doctor came on the line. She started to say “unfortunately …” and I didn’t have to hear the rest to know that she was gone. I was inconsolable. I met Ms. Borjas in 2005, at a club in Jackson Heights, in Queens, where she had organized H.I.V. tests. At the time I thought I was better than “those girls working in the streets.” I was an escort, working out of my SoHo apartment. But later, as I spiraled into addiction, I found myself walking the streets near that club. There she was again, giving out condoms. This time, I needed them. Many of us have been forsaken by our families, found ourselves homeless and deprived of support from teachers, co-workers and employers. We’ve lived through extreme poverty — have made cohabitation with risk and danger part of our normal. Transgender women of color — like she was, like I am — know the uncertainty of taking each step as if it may be our last. We know the weariness of walking under the weight of transphobia, racism and misogyny. Ms. Borjas never presumed that anyone needed saving. She was simply there, ready to reach out if you needed help. And along the way, she enlisted us to help. “How are you planning to unwind this weekend, mama?” I’d ask her. “I’m organizing a group for my girls in Queens. Come help me serve food?” Eventually I was able to get my life back on track. Then in 2012, I persuaded the leadership at a community health center in Manhattan to hire me to run their new transgender health clinic. I wasn’t sure if I had what it took to do the job, but they took a chance on me. My first day on the job, I reached out to Ms. Borjas for help. Together, we walked up and down Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, handing out condoms and referrals to my clinic to the girls. This was lifesaving work. At the time, police officers would stop and search sex workers, using condoms as evidence to support prostitution charges. For many sex workers, particularly transgender women, arrest meant facing degrading treatment and abuse at the hands of the police. “I must make sure they always have condoms, but they can never have more than two,” Ms. Borjas said. As we walked, we talked about abuse, addiction, men, shame. We talked about how she felt she had a higher calling to help people who were walking the same path as she had before. How she found happiness through taking care of her own community, and, without knowing it, she inspired me. She ignited a spark, the idea that we can do good. That the work we do can matter. So often, society paints those of us who need a hand as victims of our own poor choices. As if we had many choices. We are considered a danger to society. And yet it is society that endangers our lives — a life of suffering and surviving at the margins, where we have been pushed, hidden or expelled by the choices of others over whom we have no control. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/opinion/lorena-borjas-coronavirus.html

This is the first year that we can walkabout without fear of a bucket in the face. Maybe the good old days weren't so bad afterall!

Many airlines are trying to get passengers to accept restrictive travel vouchers instead of refunds. One airline has even instructed their first line of defense, their Chat agents to say refunds are not possible but if one insists on a case # a refund comes through. With Jetstar Asia the voucher must be entirely used on one booking and has. a time limit. Got a mass email from Tony Fernandez, Air Asia CEO, with of lot of lovey dovey fluff before getting to the meat of things.

My first Thai ladyboy experience was on Boxing Day 2002 about two hours after I arrived in Pattaya. My source of info was the Questionable Girls of Thailand Yahoo Group and went to a bar that a guy wrote about on Soi 6 and barfined about 15 minutes after entering the bar. My main memory of that experience was that she had some sort of wart on her shaft. that put me off a bit. In that week I had 15 sex partners; about half were ladyboys. Then I had to meet my girlfriend who was flying into Don Mueang from the USA on New Year's Day.

After seeing booze banned in Bangkok, I reckon guys in Pattaya stocked up in advance. I rarely drink at home so no big deal for me. Actually, I kinda like not waking up with hangovers anymore!

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So it looks like it won't be easy to get from the Darkside to rest of Pattaya starting Monday.

Congrats AB! You had mentioned a wife but didn't know she was trans.

Yup, same same concept Snoop, a ring surrounded by bars but bigger and more crowded. A really nice experience in high season outdoors if the weather is coolish. A variety of bouts, besides guys there are often some ladies boxing. I think the beers cost 20 baht more on fight night.

Pattaya had to stop the shutdown as traffic backed up for miles. In Bangkok there was a run on beer and booze yesterday as the government announced that starting today there would be no sale of alcoholic beverages starting today for 10 days. They are trying to discourage private parties especially given that Songkran is just around the corner. Family Mar has some water guns hanging from the ceiling.

I like the outdoor fights in Lamai on Koh Samui. Free admission, cheap beer. The fighters come around with a hat for donations. I also really enjoy the fights if a mate of mine is fighting. They both lost but went the distance; an accomplishment as often in the real fights the guys on hobbling out of the ring and in one case an ambulance came to take the guy away.

Great topic Woodie. I think a receptionist's attitude comes from the top down to some degree. If an owner places great importance on things such as broken ashtrays or lipstick stained towels but doesn't adequately monitor staff friendliness then he will reap what he sows. Repeat business is important as well as Agoda/Booking.com/TripAdvisor scores. I've rarely encountered surly staff at Thai hotels but then I've spent most of my time here staying at three places where the staff is pretty good. I initially chose one of these places partially due to one friendly, ever so slightly flirtatious ladyboy who is my all time favorite staff person. In this case recruiting a good staff member and probably paying her slightly more than he going rate for a shitty receptionist paid big dividends. But I'm going here talking about the good stuff. The Sundance Riverside in Phnom Penh (not Sundance Inn on Street 172) was taken over by new ownership a couple weeks before I checked in. The new owner was quite nice but made changes to the safety box in standard rooms because too many customers customers were removing the good batteries in the safety box and replacing them with older batteries. As a result I had a safe that could only be opened by key which is not great if bringing a guest back. But to make matters worse the key (which did not work very well as it took some jiggling) was welded to the thingy that must be put in the wall that turns on the electricity so in order to open the safe at night I had only 15 seconds to put the key in the wall, quickly remove it to open the safe. So I had to practice this routine countless times to learn exactly how to do this in 15 seconds. Btw, this is an otherwise good hotel but can't see myself ever staying there again.

Three Thai men were sentenced to 3 months in the monkey house with no parole for violating curfew. No details as to how late they were out or what they were doing. Roadblocks will prevent people from entering or leaving Pattaya starting 14:00 on Thursday, April 9th. You can check out any time you like but you can never leave.

Wish I could recapture the rush of the early days!

RIP Kev. By all accounts one of the good guys!

That's my guess too TC.

The less that's said the better Arch.

Big Brother is watching! Facebook is launching new tools that use anonymized location data collected from users to show whether people are adhering to social distancing measures designed to stop the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. The company said on Monday that its Data for Good program is developing Disease Prevention Maps, which show how people are moving around regions. Facebook hopes this data can be used alongside other information that public health officials collect to help determine areas where COVID-19 outbreaks are likely to occur. According to Facebook, the maps include: Co-location data: The probability that people in one area will come into contact with each other. Movement range trends: This data shows at a regional level whether people are staying home. In the San Francisco Bay Area, for instance, a higher proportion population is sheltering in place in part because tech jobs allow for remote work. A social connectedness index: This data reveals friendships across states to show the areas where people might need more support. Facebook says it won’t show patterns around the movements of any specific individuals, and won’t be used to identify individuals who aren’t adhering to the social distancing or shelter-in-place guidelines. “We think that Facebook and the wider tech industry can continue to find innovative ways to help respond to that crisis,” said a company spokesperson. “But we don’t think the help entails compromising privacy.” The collection of location data is opt-in, meaning Facebook users will have to choose to share it, although the company has previously warned that it can pick up information about users’ movements through other features, like check-ins. Facebook also said that it won’t be looking into why people in particular areas are or are not following the guidelines. A spokesperson noted that instead, the company will explore trends across populations. For instance, some states have a larger population of people who have transient jobs, or would struggle to work from home.

Same same with me Snoop. On my first trip to the LOS I had a week alone and then my girlfriend joined me for the remaining two weeks. I wanted to be a kid in the candy store and she wanted a family. No contest!

They're also talking about closing Terminal 4.

Well said Randi!