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May 21, 2004

evile: that was odd! I got disconnected by ICQ gremlins!

Hoovooloo: [Auto Response] I am currently away from the computer.

Hoovooloo: We all got shoved off here too.

evile: oh, good. Not just me. 

Hoovooloo: So you were telling me I learned my lesson.

Hoovooloo: And I said - wait! What lesson?

evile: Heh. I dunno, maybe that it's not the best idea to surround 

yourself with jealous TIMbims.

Hoovooloo: 'cause you know, there wasn't a great deal of downside to 

that weekend for me.

evile: :P

evile: So maybe you needed to do more party pickups :)

Hoovooloo: It would have been nicer if she didn't immediately move 

3,000 miles away, but I didn't really blame myself for that.

Hoovooloo: Should I have?

Hoovooloo: Nah, I never had the knack.

evile: Not at all. J-Law does what J-Law's gonna do. Her head rules her 

heart pretty securely most of the time.

Hoovooloo: I'm glad she made it through law school. 

Hoovooloo: I'm trying to remember what year that happened in.

Hoovooloo: 1995?

evile: Yup. We went out for the graduation ceremony :)

Hoovooloo: [Auto Response] I am currently away from the computer.

Hoovooloo: Old. I am very old now.

evile: STOP!!!

Hoovooloo: And creaky.

evile: that's just the bed, darlin'...

Hoovooloo: Don't bother sneakin' if the bed is a creakin'.

Hoovooloo: Or something to that effect.

evile: should have mentioned that to Gator...

Hoovooloo: She and Dan were at Loracs wedding.

Hoovooloo: At least back then she still had boobs.

evile: *LOL* Meow!!

Hoovooloo: She had them lopped off! She kept trying to show me the 

scars.

evile: nice...

Hoovooloo: No. Not nice. Not nice at all.

evile: I've probably offered to show you my scar at some point...

evile: Or my tattoo. Or something...

Hoovooloo: I wouldn't mind that ;-)

evile: What is it about these drunk gals that want to take off their 

clothes in front of you :P

Hoovooloo: One. One, and I don't remember her doing this drunk.

evile: oh, dear.

Hoovooloo: She came out to visit Dory for a weekend, back when she 

and Dan were still in Chicago, and desperately trying to get her 

pregneant.

Hoovooloo: Every time I read about the rate of children born into 

marriages where the husband is not the father, I think of Christine 

visiting that weekend.

evile: *shudder!*

Hoovooloo: And weirdly, her kid is blonde. Really, really blonde.

evile: *eyebrows raise* Hmm. VERY interesting.

Hoovooloo: NOT MY CHILD. Let me repeat.

Hoovooloo: There was some weird stuff going on in our house back then.

Hoovooloo: Do you remember that bigheart and faith were engaged?

evile: maybe....vaguely....

Hoovooloo: They were, and this was back when they, I, Dory, J'osh and 

Dave were roommates.

evile: woo...

Hoovooloo: faith had a little fling with me before she became one of 

our roommates.

evile: Interesting :)

Hoovooloo: Which got very weird. First time we hooked up I figured I 

had a new girlfriend. 

Hoovooloo: Afterwards she insisted on swearing me to secrecy.

evile: ew. 

evile: My definitions of 'cheating' are pretty lax, but secrecy is 

definitely a big red flag STILL in my book.

Hoovooloo: Yeah. So secretly slept with me, then publically accepts 

the spare room in our group house.

Hoovooloo: I put my foot down and said either it's not a secret or it 

doesn't continue, so it didn't continue.

Hoovooloo: She wasn't dating anyone else at the time, and neither was 

I.

evile: bizarre!!!

Hoovooloo: After which I didn't tell anyone and eventually just 

forgot about it.

Hoovooloo: She, on the other hand, did not.

evile: Oh, lordy!! And it was her idea!

Hoovooloo: After Dory and Sketch broke up, and Dory had moved in to 

our group house, Faith apparently started telling her that ....

Hoovooloo: I was very discreet, and that Dory should feel free to use 

me for sex to get over Jason.

evile: *yargh!!!*

evile: I wouldn't do Dory with a borrowed dick..

Hoovooloo: Yeah, but you're a girl. Girls learn how to say 'no' a lot 

younger than boys.

evile: heh. True enough.

Hoovooloo: Dory chose to hook up with J'osh on the sly instead.

Hoovooloo: But, I'm sure she shared that particular recommendation 

with Christine. 

Hoovooloo: Faith waited until her relationship with Bigheart was on 

the rocks before telling him she'd slept with me.

Hoovooloo: And then she waited until I'd split up with Shani to tell 

her about it.

evile: Oh,good lord!! As the TIM-house turns!

Hoovooloo: After which I found out that Faith had been telling people 

about 'our secret'.

Hoovooloo: Shani went on and on about me sleeping with her 'best 

friend', though they hadn't been friends while we were dating, and 

didn't remain friends for much after that.

evile: Oh, for heavens sake!

Hoovooloo: Dory, Jenn and Shani closed ranks then and decided I was 

scum.

Hoovooloo: A sentence that was only lifted at the after-party for 

Lorac's wedding. 

evile: good god!

evile: What a mess....

Hoovooloo: Three years ago I held my final TinyTIM New Years party - 

the Year of the Ingrates

evile: AWW!

Hoovooloo: Grafton stiffed me for a room ($300!), Territan kept 

clogging toilets and wouldn't leave after the party, and the crowning 

moment...

Hoovooloo: Jenn, at 1am on New Years, reeling drunk, having just 

accused Kahlua of boinking Mrs. Pew, and having spent half an hour 

sucking on Ajax's tonsils, give's me a big hug and tells me that she 

loves me dearly, and that I'm an asshole to women.

evile: BWAHAHAH! I wish I'd been there to clean some bimbos' clocks!

Hoovooloo: She'd got it into her head that I'd been complaining about 

Jess's weight (we'd been dating for about six months then)

evile: Sorry, I'm sure it wasn't very funny...but I still wish I'd 

been there to spank some silly butts.

Hoovooloo: In point of fact, I'd been talking up my own success with 

my running regimen, and Jess had been complaining. 

evile: bizarre.

Hoovooloo: I'd made up my mind to propose. My family all found out 

about that over Xmas. I had a round of second thoughts after Jenn's 

little heart-to-heart with me.

evile: yucko!

Hoovooloo: Jenn had decided that I'd posted Jess's weight in my 

livejournal. In fact Jess had posted her weight in her livejournal.

evile: !!! I want some of whatever she was on!

Hoovooloo: After we all came home from the party, and after I'd 

checked with Jess to see if I was doing anything particularly wrong, 

I was hoping for an apology.

Hoovooloo: The apology I got from Jenn was "I'm sorry I told you what 

I think of you"

evile: D'OH!!

Hoovooloo: In dropping off some missed items from the party to Dory's 

apartment, Dory seemed shocked. Not at Jenn's non-apology, but that I 

didn't see myself the same way.

evile: Good lord, what a pack of biotches. Hopefully Jenn's mellowed 

out some?

Hoovooloo: I know Shani spit a lot of bile around after we broke up, 

and Jenn certainly heard a lot more from Shani than she ever did from 

me, but Dory was there, she was my roommate and Shani's friend during 

that. She knew better.

evile: Dory...she likes to think whatever she wants to think. For 

example, her boyfriend comes up to me and starts rubbing his mostly 

naked except for a sheet self on me, and somehow *I'm* the skank..

Hoovooloo: Who knows. So I got another drunken hug at Lorac's 

wedding, and Jenn tells me I'm a good guy.

evile: It's always best to try and be on good terms with people if 

you can...harder to do if they're NUTS.

Hoovooloo: Of all the women Jason hit on, she chooses one he didn't 

actually sleep with.

evile: *laff*

evile: Perish the thought!!

Hoovooloo: My father met her while we were still roomates. He pegged 

her as bad news just from a couple of minutes conversation.

evile: Let's see...Sketch=Baloney. McAnnick (& You) = Prime Rib. 

Which would you rather have? 

evile: Honey, keep your baloney sandwich, I DONT want it...

Hoovooloo: This was at New Years?

evile: Yup! From what I understand, Rhiannon almost decked her in 

Chicago because she was talking so much dirt about me.

Some people just like to keep the crap stirred up, makes 'em feel 

like they're important. Whatever. Life is too short for drama.

Hoovooloo: That same party had Marian crawling all over 

Nick/F'rajoke, with him only interested in Becka.

Hoovooloo: If you'd been single and shown an interest in me, I would 

have chucked the rest of them out in the cold.

evile: heh :) 

evile: If I'd known about poly back then, I would have just had me a 

harem of pretty boys.

Hoovooloo: If I'd had a better sense of TIM politics, I wouldn't have 

taken Marian back after that. 

Hoovooloo: If I'd had a sense of self-worth back then...

evile: *laff* I'd forgotten how crazy TIM was...as long as you don't 

take any of the drama personally, it's a great soap-opera.

Hoovooloo: Dory never got away with saying anything nasty about you 

when I was around. She knew better than to try.

Hoovooloo: I saw her parents at Lorac's wedding. They're really nice 

people. 

Hoovooloo: Her Dad is one of the most extrordinary people I'll ever 

meet.

evile: Isn't it interesting how that works out sometimes?

Hoovooloo: He invents bio-tech lab equipment. Has a PhD from Cornell, 

and he has limitless energy.

Hoovooloo: He left a big company to start his own from his basement. 

He invented a one room factory for the product he created.

evile: Probably treated Dory like a little princess all her life...

Hoovooloo: When he needed more space he read a book on barns, built 

the sample barn from the plans in the back, then expanded on the 

principles to create a three story addition to their house, complete 

with loft walkways, skylights and double garage.

evile: How cool!

Hoovooloo: And he's a very experienced sailor. He raced with Ted 

Turners transatlantic team while he was in grad school, and has a 30' 

boat that he continually modifies and tinkers with.

Hoovooloo: Dory's a throwback in their family. Her parents are 90% 

baby-boomer hippies.

Hoovooloo: It's her mother's family that's all money and princess-

shit.

evile: So she rebelled against them by getting a stick up her ass.

Hoovooloo: Why does that conjure the image of Jason with a plunger?

evile: meow, meow. 

Hoovooloo: I wish I could have invited her parents to my wedding 

without inviting her.

evile: aww!

Hoovooloo: For that matter, I would have liked to have had Wiley as a 

groomsman, but there was no way we were having Jenn there. 

evile: *nods* Yeah, you have to be civil to her in order to keep 

Wiley in your life, but I can't imagine actually being NICE after all 

that crap!

Hoovooloo: We went with the Sketch side of TIM. R'nice, Sketch, sabu, 

Jost, Natalie, Coal and a few others.

evile: aww. I adore R'nice!

Hoovooloo: R'nice caught the garter.

evile: CUTE!!!

Hoovooloo: Oh, and tigerlily - but mostly becuase she's marrying my 

best friend.

evile: wow....such a very small world, innit?

Hoovooloo: They met at my last New Years party. The one good bit 

about that weekend.

evile: wow. so it wasn't a total loss

Hoovooloo: We all went on vacation together last November. A week in 

New Orleans followed by a cruise to Cozumel. The cruise was a 'fan 

club cruise', so we had one of Kerrys' favorite bands playing every 

night.

Hoovooloo: Eddie from Ohio is the band. They're pretty good.

evile: Sweet!!

Hoovooloo: Kerry is a very active fan. He runs a website for them and 

archives their performances on DAT tape.

evile: J-Law & I did the regular Carnival NO-cozumel cruise 2 Octobers 

ago.

Hoovooloo: Huh!

Hoovooloo: That's exactly the trip we took - we just had the rear-

most bar (the one with the Western theme) as a private function room.

evile: Mostly we said snarky things about our fellow passengers & 

hung out on the topless deck to avoid the noxious teenagers

evile: OMG, what a bizarre coincidence!

Hoovooloo: There were about 150 Ed-Heads on board. It meant we had a 

bunch of people we knew at the meals, and we got extra performances.

evile: that is way cool.

Hoovooloo: That is!

Hoovooloo: What did you do in Cozumel for the day?

evile: shopped (disappointing) and hten went & drank 'ritas at Playa 

Sol

evile: So you were on our boat, Oct 17-21 2002? really? I am still 

just freaking...

evile: I can't believe we didn't run into y'all!!!

Hoovooloo: Ours was the week before thanksgiving, 2003.

Hoovooloo: No, we were a year later.

evile: Oh, okay then. whew. that would have been too weird.

Hoovooloo: Same boat, different year!

Hoovooloo: That would have been funny.

evile: More fun, probably.

Hoovooloo: Kerry surprised Jill (tigerlily) with a ring in the middle 

of one of the on-board shows. The band played her favorite of their 

songs and they danced.

evile: aww! how cute is THAT???

Hoovooloo: I think everyone there took pictures. It was like a pappa-

razzi explosion.

evile: heh. No lack of electronics among the TIMsters, true.

Hoovooloo: http://share.shutterfly.com/action/share/welcome?

i=EeFMWLRq0auJA&sm=0&sl=0

Hoovooloo: Here are the pictures from that vacation. They start in 

New Orleans and then end with the cruise.

Hoovooloo: These weren't TIMsters, they were the ED-Heads, all the 

band fans.

evile: Oh, 'kay then.

Hoovooloo: We did the Eco-Jeep tour on the island. It was definately 

a winner. Four to a Jeep that you drive, we went to the national park 

at the southern tip of the island.

evile: Yeah, we should have done something like that instead of 

shopping.

Hoovooloo: We stopped to look at salt-water crocodiles, then another 

stop for a mayan temple, then an empty stretch of beach for two hours 

of snorkling, then a lighthouse, then off-roading in the Jeeps.

Hoovooloo: With two hours to spare so we could shop.

evile: I am just now looking at the flipper photos :) Too cute!

Hoovooloo: The two other girls are Kerry's sister and one of Jess's 

college roommates.

Hoovooloo: I love the HUGE ASS BEERS sign.

evile: New Orleans, gotta love it.

Hoovooloo: Debbie (the roommate) goes there every year.

Hoovooloo: If I ever achieve financial independance, we might 

consider a winter house there.

evile: I try to. Don't usually make it, even though it's only a 9 

hour drive.

Hoovooloo: Aww. You know, my wife is damn cute.

evile: There's a big food & wine fest over Mem. day weekend, I may 

just GO.

evile: I'd totally do your wife :P

Hoovooloo: Yeah, me too. 

Hoovooloo: I suppose that's obvious.

evile: heh. I hope so.

Hoovooloo: Long arms are very useful for self-portraits. I picked up 

that skill in Iceland.

evile: Oh, those dirty Icelandics, teaching you such things :P

Hoovooloo: That albums' not up at the moment. I popped the question 

in Iceland.

evile: OMG..that is too cool!

evile: I wanna go to Iceland & ride the ponies.

Hoovooloo: I haven't told you that story?

Hoovooloo: Jess made me do that! The poor horse.

evile: Naw, they are strong little critters.

Hoovooloo: I'll share those pictures when they're back up. I look 

like I can walk with the horse under me.

evile: I am just dying to find out what a tolt feels like... (horse 

geek wannabe=me)

Hoovooloo: Tell McAnnick that the off-roading is excellent.

Hoovooloo: Hell, what they consider roads would be considered off-

roading.

Hoovooloo: I was very sneaky about that trip. I managed to convince 

Jess she was getting a vacation *instead* of being proposed to.

evile: heh. that's awesome.

Hoovooloo: She suspected anyway, and we started with a weekend in 

Reykyavik, ending with the fancy dinner in the revolving restaurant 

over the city.

Hoovooloo: It's up on top of this thing : 

http://www.iww.is/pages/quicktours/reyktour/reyktour21.html

evile: How very cool!

Hoovooloo: The tanks hold the hot water for the whole city, fed by 

geothermal steam.

evile: wow! I wanna go.....

Hoovooloo: So we had the fancy dress-up dinner, and there's no 

proposal. 

Hoovooloo: The next morning we rent a cute little 4x4 and head off 

down the coast. 

evile: whee!

Hoovooloo: We stop around mid-day at the glacier where Jess did some 

of her graduate studies. 

Hoovooloo: That's where I whip out the ring.

evile: aww! How perfect!

Hoovooloo: If she said no, I could have left her there.

Hoovooloo: Hey, it's hit 5pm here. Time for the weekend.

evile: Awesome! Have a great one! Thanks for cheering me up!

evile: *HUGS!*