Not Interchangeable

No posts for the past 6 weeks or so because I've been busy with three very different projects: amusement parks, PHP, and sex. These are not to be confused with each other; the results would be unpredictable at best, and might result in the removal from the park with no refund.

1. Amusement parks. It is spring (finally!), which means roller coasters. Went to Great Adventure for the first time in a few years & got meself a season pass. I will say that 6 Flags has been working on its image. The park was the cleanest I've ever seen, with most of the grafitti gone and new paint jobs for Scream Machine, Batman, and the Chiller. Kingda Ka was standing with 456 feet of goodness, but not yet operating. Hence the need for a season pass - so I can get in for free when it revs up. Currently planning to go back in June.

Scheduled for May: a weekend at Walt Disney World - breakfast with Cinderella at the Magic Kingdom, Lucky the Dinosaur at Animal Kingdom, and Cirque du Soleil in between. I anticipate a very fun and intense 48 hours. Later in the month we go back to Dorney Park, which we somehow missed last year. Currently planning to spend the day with Bob & his family.

2. PHP. Stands for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor. I've been rebuilding CoasterGeek.com as a set of PHP pages which dynamically querry a MySQL database for stats and opinions of any coaster I choose to discuss. It was a lot of work to enter everything into the database, but now that it's done it makes it much easier to add new roller coasters (don't have to manually add them to all the menus, etc). It will also make it possible to create custom lists (all over 200 feet, all ridden in 2003, etc.) but I still need to add that.

3. Sex. I'm not sure exactly what happened, but something in our sessions with Claudia led Brett to decide that it's okay to have sex just for the fun of it. Instead of me having to spend a week or two courting her and being very careful to get her in the mood without doing or saying anything that might cause offence, we've been doing it about twice a week. And the passion level has been way, way up. For both of us. In addition to the obvious benefits, I'm finding that it leaves me much less bothered by the stuff she does or doesn't do the rest of the time. Not a 100% reduction, but 50-70% is a big improvement. I have no idea if this will last, but since everyone is benefitting I sure hope it will.