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Wayne Brady's DMs have been "popping" since he came out as pansexual.


The 51-year-old star revealed that he's pansexual - meaning he's attracted to people regardless of their sex or gender


I guess now we have multiple genders

And people identifying as animals etc we can no longer use Bi s*xual even though there are only 2 choices

You are either XX or XY

Cockney Rebel frontman Steve Harley has died “peacefully at home” at the age of 73, his family has announced.

Not everyone is cut out for the positions they hold in business. One business owner I worked for often used the term Peter Principal where some people rise to a position where they begin to show incompetence.

One woman I knew was the best draftsperson in the department and received a promotion that put her in a management position. The company did a disservice to her and themselves. Orders began to back up as she trained her replacement and she wasn't knowledgeable with the workings of the company, making a few bad decisions. Happy with the pay increase, uncomfortable with the demands of her new job, she felt she couldn't step down (as there was no longer a place for her) and decided to leave the company.
Lose/lose for her and the company who employed her.

Another boss was nice enough to use the phrase "We're all wired differently" describing how he tried to place people in the best positions they were suited for. We had one cabinet maker who owned his own custom shop. His business failed, not because he was a bad cabinet maker... he was very experienced and produced high-quality work. His weakness was an inability to manage the business end of his company. Working for someone else was the magic formula.

I think everyone has experienced a dyslexic moment now and then and accidentally transposed an address or some part of a phone number. Every week, I get mail in my box intended for a neighbor. In that case, it's laziness or fatigue. Sorting mail and being dyslexic would be a career disaster.

30+ years ago, I worked for a place before they went on computer where the bookkeeper constantly transposed figures. Mistakes were in her typing, hand written notes, especially phone messages, but the worst part was her accounting errors. It frustrated the owner for the time lost going back over ledgers correcting her mistakes. They photo copied all the checks and he had to go back to see there she transposed entries.
The position required multitasking that she wasn't good at, compounded by lots of interruptions of a small office where she would get flustered when things got really busy. It was more than dyslexia as she would often put callers on hold and totally forget them. They would call back angry!

I suppose there is hope for dyslexia.


Dyslexics of the world…..
UNTIE!!!!

I studied Uilleann (Irish) pipes in a former life and pipers often talked about their 'big gig' was to play in a pub on St. Patrick's Day. Some made the most money on that event, more than any other performance.
Good music, great craic... lots of brew.

I quick scanned the forums and blogs, but not to see any mention of this holiday today.

Tradition for those living in Chicago is to witness them adding dye into the river!

I wrote to him:
Hi, wanting to meet your daughter or granddaughter???
Don't you think that is ridiculous. But if you wish so, each to their own. My beautiful granddaughter is too old for you.

He answered:
Not sure you should be here sending rude messages to others, an old woman like you should know better, maybe it's you shortage of education
(I am 75) and have no intention wanting to meet a 64yr who wants an 18-35
WHAT DO YOU THINK?

I see in the news, Russian president Vladimir Putin is up for reelection and there is no one (who survived) who is running against him. He's expected to win the election this week, making it his 7th consecutive term.
That means parades and parties in the street to celebrate...

It's funny how I always come to this place to ramble through my thoughts and feelings.

I think maybe because in my life I have connected with some amazing people here, fallen in 'love' been hurt, bruised, loved, cried, kissed and lived.

Why is it when you begin to close off and think you need to deal with yourself someone who you are not really looking for, walks up behind you and wraps you up in gentle arms and makes you think, maybe this is real, but, there's always that, but, they'll let you fall one day, it's the question, 'will they reach down and pick you up, or just walk away?'

Lol, my way of deciding if someone is worth discovering is that I try shock tactics, I hand them 'Me', my gentle, my crazy, my kinky, my emotional, my strength and my weakness.

It depends on how they handle everything, I used to give over everything I am and trust so easily that it had to be real, now I hold back and question everything, I miss who I used to be.

When you connect with someone who you feel deeply about, it opens up your soul.

The problem is, that you keep yourself in your soul, you have your essence inside that space, and to let someone else reach inside and hold that part of you, is like breaking piece's of a rough diamond, and you begin loosing part's of you, it just depends if you allow yourself to be polished and shine or crushed into dust.

We are all bashed around in the sea of life until, one day, if we are lucky enough we come to rest against another stone and the broken pieces of us fit into their broken edges, and anchor us together enough, so we can ground each other and stop being beaten up by the waves of the world.

We can rest, and the waves can polish our broken edges and smooth them out, it can blend you together in time, to be stronger than you thought you could be.

But sometimes we need to be put into the fire and burned to smooth out the edges and turn the rock into a diamond so we know our worth.

This year has been the most crazy, dramatic, weird, upside down year ever.

I started a completely different job, from nursing for over 30 years to an IT company on the computer all day.

I went through a divorce that I had to sort out completely by myself.

Been "alone" for the first time in my life, discovering so much about what I actually like.

Found some amazing Men that I have loved, each for their own unique personalities.

I do believe in the saying "with you for a reason, a season or a lifetime", I have had parts of all these and been parts to others.

Until now I have always handed my whole self over and given all of me if I feel like this is the real thing, this is now changing and I am learning to have patience and wait, find out if it's real or something I want to be real.

If anyone wants to change me, I will now gently close the door and walk away, I like me again and "He" must do the same.

"He's" still out there but I now have a completely person/Woman to offer and deserve the same.

When I joined CS, there were complaints about 'how good things used to be' with the old timers. During the 'newbie week' before I was allowed to blog, I went through old blogs. Lots of old blogs. There were episodes of gossip, biting and back stabbing back then... pretty much what all social media sites have to endure. Collectively, we are all in different age groups, have economic differences, language and cultural differences as CS's reach is global. In the right state of mind, it's a sharing of differences and ideas. In the wrong state of mind it's a separation.

Someone did a Facebook page where they clipped headshots of members showing them in less than positive settings. Obviously, those ORIGINAL members had sufficient issues then to prompt a tattle-tale page away from CS.

The site I was on before CS was a fun place to blog and though there were differences of opinion, we all got along. Loosely managed, the administrator couldn't keep up removing scammers and hackers, so he assigned the URL to another dating site and closed the place we called home. I received a text invitation from a friend to join CS. To my surprise many of the members from that site were here long before me and I knew there were complaints from a few of the older members, how they said the new wave was different and didn't fit in. As a group (regardless of personality) they/we were disliked. That was no secret and some were blatant to voice their dislike for members who weren't in their clique.

Over time, many of the original members have moved on, so have the ones from the other site. Remember Willy? Our friendship goes back many years and his escape from CS was an untimely death. We agreed to disagree on many levels, but I still miss him.

What I've found remaining from the original CS group are some venom filled complainers, especially one scornful gossiper from the Emerald Isle. You would think there would have been some acceptance for the second wave. Not true, she and one of her pals still hold a grudge and takes swipes at Americans (especially at me) regurgitating their dislike whenever they can.

Being friendly doesn't work.
Being funny, doesn't work either.
Ignoring them, doesn't work as they complain about that too. It seems battling with other bloggers gives them pleasure.
Saying nice things to other members is an invitation to get your head chopped off and others in the fray will piss on you and laugh.

Recently a member was booted out by administration, there must have been a reason. But, It doesn't matter how many people liked him, if what he said didn't agree with CS, they (management) chose to close his profile. I believe their decision is final. There have been instances where a few waited a while and returned with sock profiles. Maybe they are under the radar of administration or quietly given a second chance.
That to me is really not important... either way.

Claimed by one, I write boring blogs and clip news articles, much the same as others, although he contradicts himself by posting similar boring things.


In closing this blog, I hope the instigators of hate will come to their senses and act like responsible adults and not 'shallow thought' gossip mongers. CS history records itself as the blogs of those who cause a ruckus often disappear and worse, their profiles go silent too.

Are your proud of your actions here?
Be an asset to CS and not a liability.



In the words of Rodney King: "Can we all get along?"