Sick

I started this post last week. I was going to delete it and start fresh, but nothing in the details has changed. I have been sick for the past ten days. It started the day after going to the club (see below). Test say it was not Covid, but it has lingered on in my sinuses for days. The doctor gave me some steroids, which helped briefly, but my symptoms continued to remain.

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It has been so long since I posted that I need to remember where I left off. I went to the club last Friday night. I saw Eva, Al, and a few other girls I now know there. Eva and I had been texting frequently the previous week, but she had disappeared. She seemed to be into me. However, she has a lot of personal issues she is dealing with. Eva definitely drinks too much at the club. I am not even disappointed about her disappearance.

I got a booth while I was at the club on Friday. Something I used to do regularly back in the day when I used to hang out at Penthouse. I wanted to avoid Teach. He has stopped talking to me anyway. 

Work has been busy. There are only four work weeks left for me in the year. I have five vacation days I could use in those four weeks. I must drive to the office about fourteen more times this year. This is what I think about during my spare time. 

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I started hearing from Eva on Thursday, but by Monday, when we were supposed to get together, she had disappeared again. I have to assume she was looking for me to return to the club last weekend. I didn't. Had I, it wouldn't have been to see her.

Snapshot Of October

 In homage to Sarah H. at Death Wears Diamond Jewelry, who is no longer blogging but is missed.

Listening… The Rolling Stones, I have been listening to their hits on Amazon Music, still. My current favorite is Street Fighting Ma.

Reading… I am actually rereading my own book. I gave a copy to Eva and I have been reading along so I can answer questions.

Watching…I am watching Goliath on Amazon Prime. It is a good show. It has everything I look for in a show.

Playing … I have moved on to a few other AI chatbots. They all have their pluses and minuses. 

Hoping… Things work out with Eav. 

Buying… Try not to buy anything this month. I spent enough last month.

Loving... The fact that I only have six weeks of work left in the year before it is over.

Planning… To take a buddy from work to the strip club. He just broke up with his girlfriend and needs to cut loose.

Missing… Better Halloweens.

Eva

 This month flew. I didn't get a chance to create a Snapshot of October yet. I have been busy. Not always in a productive way. I am making a mental note to fill in the blanks and keep this blog up to date.

Two weeks ago I went back out to Flight Club. I was hoping to see Al, but in general I have become acquainted with a few of the girls, so there would be someone to talk with. I went to the upstairs bar, my usual place to hanged. I immediately saw Teach talking with a girl with long black hair. I had never spoken to her before, but I started a conversation with her. I am going to all her Eva. 

A quick side note. Teach as been standoffish to me lately. We make friendly small talk, but I have distanced myself from him at the club. I don't want his reputation to rub off on me. Dispute what he thinks, Teach as a reputation for being cheat and an asshole in the club. Something tells me the other regulars he associates with at the club are the same. 

Why anyone would like would spend the amount of time in the club just to acquire such a reputation is beyond me. I have a different mindset when I go to the club. I am friendly and respectful to everyone and usually walk away with a new phone number. If you asked me why Teach has become standoffish, I would say there is a bit of jealousy there.

Eva and I started talking. It was still early and Eva wasn't in a hurry to start making her rounds looking for customers. Eva has a pretty small. She is a little thicker than the usual girls I am attracted to, but we had a good conversation. We hit it off quickly. Eva went on stage, but came back to continue her conversation after. We were joke and exchanging number after the second conversation. Eva lives alone and rents the lower floor of a duplex with her two cats, and she is interested in travel.

I took Eva into the back where we continued our conversation. We spent a lot of time together. Eva even sent me a text asking, "Where are you?" When I stepped into the back with a different favorite of mine. By the end of the night, after a few drinks, Eva was looking at me in that way a person does when they are attracted to you. That always sets my senses on alert, but in her case, I think it is genuine. I didn't spend a lot of money on Eva, but when I left Eva gave me a big hug and seemed reluctant to let me go.

We texted during the week and made plans to have dinner, Sunday (yesterday). Eva is from my side of town. We went to same High School, a few generations apart. Eva is twenty-five. Eva lives in Wyandotte. What we in the Detroit Metro area call, downriver. It is the area that is south of Detroit and on the Detroit river. 

We met at an Italian restaurant and continued to get to know each other. Eva is down for a mutually beneficial relationship blurs the lines a bit. After dinner, we drove to a nearby park that borders the river. It was cold, dark, and rainy, but we walked the boardwalk for a bit. We ended up kissing in the Gladiator and the end of the night and have plans to get together again. I get a sense of comfort and attraction from Eva. It seems hopeful. 

Glass

I received my fourth chip in the Gladiator windshield last week. This one created a crap that ran down six inches and joined with another chip. I hoped that that would end the spreading, but that caused a horizontal crack to form that could not be ignored. 

I am having the glass replaced on the Gladiator today. It is costly. It costs $800 when you don't go through insurance. That is why I wait as long as possible to get these things fixed. The windshields on a Jeep are notorious for breaking.

Last night, Sam and I were driving home from dinner, and I kept hearing a whistling noise. My hearing is not the best, but Sam indicated she thought it was coming from the driver's side. I am going to have them come back out to at least evaluate the noise.

Al Update

 The last time I gave an update on Al, she had given up on getting back together with her baby-daddy. We discussed getting together this week. I reached out to her earlier this week.

Bathwater: Am I going to get to see you this week?

(Silence)

Bathwater: (eyes) Are you disappearing again? (ghost).

Al: Maybe, haha. I started seeing someone.

Al: I would still be able to meet up, but I might not be able to overnight.

Bathwater: Already?

Bathwater: That works for me. We don't have to do overnights.

Al still has a tendency to only reply when she wants. I went to Flight Club Friday night despite Al's appearing to want to get together this week. She has ghosted me again. I am disappointed, but I get where she is coming from. Al is twenty-seven. She is getting too old for the strip club. She has found a new guy who is in that love bombing stage. Hopefully, it works out for her. Many guys are quick to date a stripper. Even one with a child, but fewer are ready to commit to one.

I wouldn't be surprised if I heard from Al again.

Old

 I went to dinner with my brothers on Sunday. It has been about two years since I have seen my brothers. We don't talk much, or I should say, I don't speak to them much. We were never very close. My older brother is two years older than me. The other is three years younger. 

I first noticed that I am the healthiest and look the youngest. My younger brother walked in with this ragged ZZ top beard. He was totally gray. He has had heart issues. He looked like a homeless man. Definitely underdressed for the restaurant my older brother picked. My older brother has several health issues. He has lost a couple of toes to diabetes and has a colostomy bag. Is this what being married for forty years does to you?

We talked together for two hours over a meal. They both ordered pasta while I had a sausage dish. My older brother spoke about working until he turned sixty-seven. He was advised he should plan to live to eighty-eight from his financial advisor. If I had already lost toes to diabetes, I would not have ordered two cannolis to go like he did. I don't see him being very healthy by age eighty-eight.

They say married men live longer than single men. I wonder if that is true if you take suicide out of the equation. More men kill themselves than women. I feel like I would be more like them if I was still married. 

Zero

Ella came over Friday night. She arrived about seven-thirty. She forgot to text me when she was heading my way, but she did text a few minutes into the drive. She came in carrying a Yeti cup with a straw in it. Alexis does that when she is driving. Alexis has alcohol in hers. I think Ella does, too.

Almost immediately, we went back out to eat. We ended up in a popular bar in downtown New Baltimore. Our conversation was stiff. Ella seemed a bit distant. I usually have a good time keeping the conversation going. I watched Ella drink two margaritas in an hour without any effect. Remember, Ella is a small girl who weighs less than a hundred pounds.

When we returned to the condo, I suggested we head upstairs and watch TV in the bedroom. After all, Ella was supposed to be staying the night. Despite our discussion on Tuesday, Ella wasn't warming up to the fact that this would be a mutually beneficial arrangement. She kept her distance. 

After a TV episode, I looked at her and asked what we were doing. Ella indicated she was still on her period, one of the excuses she used on Tuesday. If you aren't able to uphold your end of the arrangement, then don't show up, or at least say something.

Ella said, "I thought this was not supposed to be just about sex."

"It's not," I replied, but she had already spent enough time around me to know that. 

Ella took offense and decided to leave... empty-handed. That was fine with me. I didn't put up much of an argument. Enough red flags were already showing through.

I have been waiting to hear back from Al lately, too. So, I am back down to zero for now.