Day: April 17, 2024

Judy’s Numbers Game — #17

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Judy Dykstra-Brown has come up with a new weekly prompt for the new year that she calls “The Numbers Game.” This week’s number is 138. To play along, we need to go to our media/photo file and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos we find under that number and include a link to our blog in Judy’s Numbers Game blog of the week.

Here’s my collection of photos based upon “138.” All of the photos below have appeared in my blog posts. Some are photos posted by other bloggers as photo prompts. Some are screenshots or photos that I took. A few may have been generated by AI art apps, but most are photos I grabbed from free photo sources like Pixabay, Pexels, Pinterest, Unsplash, or Google photos.

Click on any photo to enlarge.

A2Z Challenge — Feedback Requested

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I am unofficially participating in this year’s A to Z Challenge. My theme this year is girlfriends. I’ve published 15 posts so far (of 26 posts to get to Z) and I’m looking for some feedback.

My wife thinks I’m stroking my ego by bragging about my sexual conquests and am making these women seem like objects who existed to satisfy my sexual needs. She thinks I should stop.

Here’s my ask. I’m genuinely interested in your thoughts and opinions. And I’m encouraging you to express them with your comments.

Do you see these posts the way my wife does? Or are you enjoying reading about the dating adventures and misadventures of a single man back in the Sixties and Seventies?

Please let me know in the comments. If more of you agree with my wife’s perspective on this topic, I may shift gears for the remainder of the A to Z challenge and change to a theme that isn’t so egocentric.

Previous 2024 A2Z posts: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O

Answer Me This — Say What?

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Suze, over at Obsolete Childhood has introduced a new prompt called “Answer Me This.” Suze says it’s “an alternative daily prompt” to the WordPress Daily Prompt, which she characterized as “ones that totally suck and are focused upon the young people here.

Anyway, her prompt question today is this:

Is it ethical to grow fully formed, brainless clones for harvesting organs?

Hmm. When I read this question, the first thing that popped into my head was the pod factory in The Matrix where human bodies are cultivated.

I don’t know if this question is a hypothetical question, if it’s about science fiction, or if people are actually doing this or are proposing doing this, but my initial thought is:

Just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should do it.

One-Liner Wednesday — Smoking Cannabis

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“Apparently smoking cannabis can affect your short term memory. Well if that’s true, what do you think smoking cannabis does?”

Mickey P Kerr, British comedian, musician, and social commentator 

Written for Linda G. Hill’s One-Liner Wednesday prompt. Photo credit: marijuanastox.com

A2Z Challenge — The Letter O

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I am unofficially participating in this year’s A to Z Challenge. My theme this year is girlfriends.

O is for Olivia D.

Okay, I know these posts make it sound like I had a thing for the secretaries at my company, and, I don’t know, maybe I unconsciously did.

Anyway, Olivia was a secretary for the manager of Operational Efficiencies and as manager of my department, I spent a lot of time in the OE manager’s conference room meeting with him and his team members during an operational efficiency evaluation of my department. As his secretary, Olivia’s desk was right outside his office and every time I was there, she would say hello and give me a bright smile.

Olivia was very nice and kind of attractive, but I had some other things going on at the time, so I was friendly right back to her but never initiated anything. Besides, she was a divorcee with a five year old kid. The project I was working on with her boss was winding down so I was spending less time in his conference room and didn’t have much cause to see Olivia after the project ended.

One night about a month after the project ended, there was a small, private Christmas party at a restaurant and bar near the office and a lot of our crowd of twentysomething singles were there. I’d been there for about an hour and a half chatting away with different people when I wandered over to the bar, sat down on a bar stool, and asked for a beer.

As my beer was being served, Olivia sat on the bar seat next to mine and said hello. I said hello to her and asked her how she was doing. She looked at me and said, “May I ask you a question?” I nodded and she said, “I have been watching you since you got here and I’ve noticed that you’ve been talking with a lot of the other girls here, but you haven’t even said hello to me. Why is that? Don’t you like me?”

As I was about to answer her question, she put her right hand between my legs and started gently rubbing and squeezing. Of course, my body responded accordingly. The bartender asked her what he could get for her and she said, “That’s okay, I’ve got what I want.”

We left the party a few minutes later and drove to her place in Northern Virginia. Apparently her daughter was spending the weekend at her ex-husband’s place, so we went right to the bedroom for a night of, um, dirty dancing.

Olivia and I dated for about six months and we were very sexually compatable. But Olivia was a born-again Christian who seemed determined to save me. We went to a lot of her church’s social activities and she introduced me to a number of her church friends, all of whom were eager to tell me how great it was to accept Jesus into your heart.

One day I told Olivia that we had to have a talk. I said that I loved her and her daughter and that the sex was outstanding, but I couldn’t deal with all of this Jesus stuff. She firmly stated that if I was asking her to choose between Jesus and me, Jesus wins. I guess I was no match for God’s only son, so I moved on.

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