So last night, I was waiting for James to get home from work, and I hear a knock at the door. I am one of those people that gets a little weirded out by people just showing up at your house, but I looked out the window to be sure it wasn’t a rapist before opening the door. To my surprise, it is a skinny guy wearing a t-shirt with the letters DNC in bold letters; he was collecting money. I got his info so that I could send the money in (I do want to donate, just not while you stand on my porch and wait for a check), and sent him on his way… he seemed like a nice kid, he just talked A LOT (and if you know me, you know that is saying a lot coming from me). Either way… About an hour later, I hear another knock on the door; this time, I figure it is James home with the groceries or something, needing my help. It isn’t. It is the boy again. This time, I notice that it is pouring down rain, and he is completely soaked. He asks if he can hang out on our porch until his ride arrives, which was scheduled to arrive around 8:30; about 1 and a half hours from the moment he knocked on my door the second time. Being a nice person, I told him yes, and offered him a towel, but didn’t let him in. Honestly, we live in the hood, and I just don’t invite strange people in my house, before you start saying I’m mean, I thought I would clarify. Anyway… so, I called James, and told him to hurry home, which he did, and we discussed allowed the guy to come in. But before James could arrive, the guy was telling me about himself, and talking about our neighborhood, and confessed that the reason he came back to our house, was because of the rainbow sticker on my car. He said it was nice to have a “friend” nearby, being that he was transsexual and all. What?! Okay, I have no problem with trans people at all, I just honestly was surprised that he felt compelled to tell a complete stranger his sexual identity. Either way, he came in and talked to James for about an hour and a half about politics and just about everything else, while I slinked away to the TV room and continued playing X-men Legends II. I was just not in the place for accepting visitors; especially not someone I didn’t know at all, and who wanted to talk about politics all evening. Either way, next time I hear a knock at the door, I will go into it knowing that there may be someone rather interesting on the other side.
As for the potential technical difficulties portion of the post, I know that many saw my rant about my crappy hosting service yesterday, and after much canoodling, they have agreed to move me to a new server; which I hope will solve the problem, after all, the website worked fine last night at 2am (probably a time when the other sites on the server aren’t hogging my bandwidth!). Either way, I don’t know when they are moving it, but if something goes weird all of a sudden, or things disappear, you will know why. See you on the other side!!
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