New photo's and kilt talk

That's kinda like what we wear back in Samoa. It's definitely much cooler than even a pair of shorts. Interesting to see Americans getting into kilts.

Man, when I saw your new avatar, I thought that the Pod People had snatched Wolfgore!  What a difference.  (Same with Fish, though he still looks like himself!) What does your wife think? Congrats, /Steve

Personally, I really do like KILTZ. I use it as a primer-sealer whenever I paint!! Ummm, say felleas, don't ya think dudes look kinda weird in skirts, or is it just me? BwaHahahahahaha!!!  Just ****in ya'll!!

I think it helps to be tall and hypermasculine to wear a kilt and carry it off well. I would look like a troll who'd wandered away from his local SCA meeting. /Steve

SCA?

Is that Society for Creative Anachronism -or-

Sexual Compulsives Anonymous ?

Best Wishes,

Dave

I wi**** were the second, but I was referring to the first! /Steve

Steve,

It does sound pretty exciting:

The Fourteen Characteristics

These are the characteristics most of us seem to have in common:

1. As adolescents, we used fantasy and compulsive masturbation to avoid feelings, and continued this tendency into our adult lives with compulsive sex.
2. Compulsive sex became a drug, which we used to escape from feelings such as anxiety, loneliness, anger and self-hatred, as well as joy.
3. We tended to become immobilized by romantic obsessions. We became addicted to the search for sex and love; as a result, we neglected our lives.
4. We sought oblivion in fantasy and masturbation, and lost ourselves in compulsive sex. Sex became a reward, punishment, distraction and time-killer.
5. Because of our low self-esteem, we used sex to feel validated and complete.
6. We tried to bring intensity and excitement into our lives through sex, but felt ourselves growing steadily emptier.
7. Sex was compartmentalized instead of integrated into our lives as a healthy element.
8. We became addicted to people, and were unable to distinguish among sex, love and affection.
9. We searched for some "magical" quality in others to make us feel complete. Other people were idealized and endowed with a powerful symbolism, which often disappeared after we had sex with them.
10. We were drawn to people who were not available to us, or who would reject or abuse us.
11. We feared relationships, but continually searched for them. In a relationship, we feared abandonment and rejection, but out of one, we felt empty and incomplete.
12. While constantly seeking intimacy with another person, we found that the desperate quality of our need made true intimacy with anyone impossible, and we often developed unhealthy dependency relationships that eventually became unbearable.
13. Even when we got the love of another person, it never seemed enough, and we were unable to stop lusting after others.
14. Trying to conceal our dependency demands, we grew more isolated from ourselves, from God, and from the very people we longed to be close to.

Best Wishes,

Dave

<<>> I don't need that kind of guilt trip; I was raised Catholic!    Been there, done that!   /Steve

Whoops.  There should have been the word "shudder" inside those angle brackets! I forgot that HTML uses angle brackets as reserved tokens. /Steve