May 212010
 

It’s time for another random topics post…

I now have concrete evidence that our dog is getting old and lazy.  When she was a pup, she was a dedicated escape artist, bolting out the door at every opportunity.  And let me tell you, the little fucker was QUICK! She’d run around the neighborhood, me chasing after her like an idiot, her eluding me until she decided to let me catch her and bring her back home.  Sometimes this would go on for 15-20 minutes, me cursing the entire time.

Now? Not so much.  This evening PP and I took her for a walk around the block and once we returned, we hung out in the yard.  I let the dog off her lead and left her loose in the yard.  Except for a 30′ wide area by the driveway, our yard is fenced in, so as long as she stayed away from that area, I didn’t have to worry about her.

We spent 30 minutes relaxing and playing in the yard.  Not once did the dog even attempt to escape!

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Not only did Veronica have no luck finding a playmate when she was in Miami with Southern Vixen last weekend, she had a girl-date scheduled for this evening, but her friend had to cancel.  Later in the day I sent her a tweet and she replied”If I don’t get some girl action soon I’m going to need a lap dance”

Can anyone help a girl out? If so, can I watch? ;-)

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Speaking of Twitter, I can’t help but chuckle when a discussion with someone leads to them getting all pissy with me, telling me what a dick I am, announcing they are unfollowing me, then blocking me from following them any more.  Then, a month or two later, I get an e-mail notifying me that they’re following me again!  It’s happened to me twice in the last week or two.  Maybe I’m not such a bad guy after all….

Do people really pay that much attention to how many followers they have on Twitter?  Some people apparently do, but not me.  Nothing gets me to unfollow you faster than asking for more followers because you only need however many more to reach some nice round number.  Well that and the stream-of-consciousness Tweeters who never reply to what others say.  If there are times when you tweet 3-4 times per minute, you might what to shut the fuck up once in a while and listen- Twitter is more fun when it’s a conversation, not a monologue!

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Thursday morning Veronica and I started the day off right with some early morning love making.  When we got home from work, she pulled me into the bedroom, locked the door, started to suck my cock and suggested that we had time for a quickie, as long as the kids continued to cooperate and leave us alone.  As I was fucking her, she announced “hey, if you cum in my mouth we’re tw0-thirds of the way to a trifecta, you wanna?”

“Oh, you want me to fuck you in the ass later tonight, do you?”

“Sure, why not?!”

I gave her a nice big mouthful that she was kind enough to show me before she swallowed it all down.

But we were both too tired once we finally got to bed and fell asleep without completing the trifecta.  Tonights another night, however ;-)

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The day after Memorial Day I’ll be going to Baltimore for the rest of the week for work stuff.  I’ve been on a roll and have succeeded in meeting friends, old and new alike, on just about every work-related trip in the past year, but I think my streak may end with this trip- I know no one in the Baltimore area!

Or do I, and you’ve just been hiding?

 

This picture is straight out of my camera, no Photoshopping at all. Visit here and see technique #2 for an idea how I got the shot.

This isn’t the best example of the technique, but it’s a start. It would work better with more ambient light, but I didn’t get the idea to try the technique until 9:30 at night.  However, it is Veronica’s ass, so how bad could it be?
Maybe I’ll show her the technique and we’ll try it for my HNT this week ;-)

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There’s no Swing Shift column this week.  We didn’t have any inspiration, no one has suggested anything, and even if there was something to write about, we had family here all weekend and wouldn’t have had the chance to write a post!  I think Swing Shift might be coming to an end, or at least become less frequent.  We feel like we’ve covered a lot and don’t want to become repetitive.  How interesting would that be?  But feel free to browse the Swing Shift archives page (look at the upper left corner of this screen), check out the older posts, and suggest something if you’re feeling inspired!

I added a widget that should make my blog easier to navigate and to read on smartphones.  From feedback I received on Twitter yesterday it seems to work fine on a variety of mobile browsers, but if there are any problems please let me know.

I’ve got several blog posts percolating in my head, but also have a TON of real work weighing on me.  The next 2 months are going to be crazy and maintaining a healthy work/family life/other misc things balance is going to be challenging.  Wish me luck!

Happy Monday!!

Welcome!

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Mar 012010
 

To the NEW Hubman’s Hangout!

Took me long enough, right? It seems longer, but about 2 weeks ago I mentioned that I got my own domain, it just took awhile for me to get around to setting it up.  And as you can see, it’s still a work in progress, so the appearance might change a little bit day-by-day as I tweak the set-up (and learn HOW to tweak the setup!).

Speaking of set-up, I’d like to thank 2 blogger friends who stepped up and really helped me out yesterday when I was having trouble and was extremely frustrated.  I’m not going to name them (because I don’t want to inadvertently send people their way, looking for free help), but they know who they are and they have my sincere thanks!

Now I’d like to enlist the help of my other friends in the blogosphere.  Please, update your blogrolls, your feed reader accounts, your favorites, whatever you use to find me each day.

And if you’d like to be really nice, maybe you’ll mention my new blog and link to me the next time that you post.  That would be make me really happy and I’d appreciate it greatly!

Feb 232010
 

No real coherent post today, just some thoughts on various topics…

A reader commented the other day “Not really a swingshift topic, but it would be interesting to get both of your takes on Tiger after that (pathetic) news conference. You’d think he killed someone by the tone of it.”

Okay, here it is:

I. Don’t. Care.

I’m a big Tiger Woods fan, have been since I saw him come from behind to win a US Amateur (or maybe it was Jr Amateur) open.  I watch golf if he is in contention to win or I don’t watch at all.

When I heard he was having a news conference, I purposely avoided the TV at that time, when I was home and certainly could have watched if I wanted.  I haven’t seen any of the clips or read the transcript, all I know is he apologized profusely.  It was a 13 1/2 minute statement? I’m glad I didn’t lose that 13 1/2 minutes of my life listening to him.

That’s how I feel.

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A little over a week ago, I wrote that I was considering self-hosting Hubman’s Hangout.  Well, I’ve taken the first step and Hubman’sHangout.com is mine now!  You can click on the link if you’d like, but there’s nothing there yet.  Veronica is taking the kids to NY this weekend for her step-dad’s retirement party (I have work obligations and can’t go), so I’m hoping to migrate all of the content then.

For my blogger friends who self-host their blogs, consider yourself warned, I may be bugging you for help!

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I had a nice little rant written about some things I don’t like on Twitter, but I deleted it.  Rather than appear to lecture others on how to use a form of social media, I’ll just keep those thoughts to myself and quietly un-follow anyone whose feed no longer interests me.

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Sunday afternoon I made the kids bundle up and we took the dog for a walk around the block.  For some stupid reason, I decided to propose a game of “guess how many times she pees and poops on the walk”.

Anyone care to guess what the dominant conversation piece was for the next 10 minutes?

Yeah, I won’t be trying that idea again!

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I was a little sad to read last week that the TMI Tuesday meme might be coming to an end soon.  For many of us, TMI Tuesday, along with Half-nekkid Thursday, has been a reliable, sometimes risque, source of blog content while we were trying to find our individual blog “voices”.  While I haven’t played all that often lately, I’ll still miss it, if it really is going away.

That being said, I believe that Professor Fate has offered the keys to TMI Tuesday to anyone who is interested in taking the reigns and continuing the tradition (mixed metaphors anyone?).  His contact info is on the TMI Tuesday page.

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When Veronica bought the DSLR for me for Christmas, she got it at a store that offers a free 4 week/2 hrs per week course in digital photography.  Tomorrow night is the first class, and I’m excited to start learning how to take full advantage of my fancy-schmancy camera.  By the end of my Project365 I hope to be shooting in manual mode more often than not.

Happy Tuesday!!!

Apropos of Nothing

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Jan 172010
 

Random thoughts on a Sunday afternoon…

I can’t remember the last time there was a commercial break on one of the major TV networks and there wasn’t a commercial for either Scott Brown or Martha Coakley [As I was writing this post, there were 3 in a row, one from each candidate plus a 3rd party one for Coakley].  I’ll be glad when Tuesday’s special election as come and gone.  Tell me, my readers from other than Tax-achusetts, is this election getting much play in the news?  The Democrats “super-majority” in the Senate is at state and many are saying that this election is not just a race between the candidates but also a referendum on the Obama administration and the political climate in general.

As an aside, my stat tracker indicated that 4 people who searched for “Scott Brown” yesterday landed on my blog.  I wonder if they found what they were looking for?  lol…

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Some days I seriously want to duct tape my daughters mouth shut.  I wonder how she finds the time to breath with the continuous stream of verbal diarrhea that spews forth.  But on the bright side, she’s been in “big girl” underwear for almost a week with no accidents, so yay for that!

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Veronica and I have 2 ideas for tomorrow’s Swing Shift, but I can’t decide which one I want to use.  Should we write about 1 half of a couple trying to “convince” their partner to try swinging or should I share some of the crappy e-mails we’ve received on the swingers sites we belong to?

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I’m really excited for this coming week.  Our submissive friend may be coming over to join us for an afternoon of sucking and fucking on Wednesday, then on Saturday night we’re making our first trip to a local “on-premises” swinger club.  On top of that, my dad is coming to visit and will watch the kids while we spend the night in a hotel room.  Which is especially nice, since next Sunday is someone’s *cough-mine-cough* 40th birthday.

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As a die-hard NY Giants fan, I can’t believe that I find myself rooting not only for the Jets today, but also for the Cowboys.  I’m rooting for the Jets since I like Rex Ryan and his attitude, plus it’s like pouring salt in a wound for Patriots fans if they continue to succeed while the Pats are at home.  Also, they hold training camp at my under-grad alma mater, so that’s kinda cool.  As far as the Cowboys, the idea that I’d even consider rooting for them tells you just how much I dislike Brett Favre.

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I have no idea what do for my Project365 post tomorrow, and have no plans to leave the house today. Hmm…

Happy Sunday!

Apr 252009
 

I’ve written before about the built-in blog stats feature of WordPress and while it doesn’t do some things I wish it would (and Sitemeter isn’t compatible with WordPress; any other WordPress users have recommendations for me?), it’s still pretty good.  One stat it provides is a summation of visits from a particular blog.  Check out this list of the top referrers for the past 30 days, as of this morning:

referrers

It’s no surprise that I get more referrals from my wife’s blog that anywhere else, nor I am surprised by the visitors that come my way via Ms. I, Southern Vixen, Suburban Hotwife, SwingerWife and most of the others on that list.  But 231 people came from my old blog, a blog that has been lying dormant since January 31, when I modified it to automatically forward visitors to this site.  I deleted every single post, except for the last one, in early January.  Update your freakin’ blogrolls and bookmarks already, would ya?  Not that I really care that much, since after all you are still visiting me, which I greatly appreciate it :-D

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Speaking of appreciation, everyone should know that I’m a whore for comments, right?  And I try my best to leave comments on the blogs I regularly read.  I have a few pet peeves about commenting, then stumbled across a post that Riff Dog wrote about this very topic.  Since he mentioned that he was only going to leave it up for a few days, I copied it and am sharing it here.

Word Verification – This keeps bugging me and I keep wanting to say something about it, but the time is never right, so let me just get this off my chest now and then I’ll feel better about it. ‘Kay?

Presumably the reason for “Word Verification” in a Comments Section is to prevent spam. That’s a valid concern. But I don’t have any kind of safety measures in place here on “Ashley and Me,” yet I only get spammed maybe once a month. That’s it!

So what do I do on the rare occasion that such a horror occurs? I simply hit the trash can icon next to the spam comment, check the box for “Delete Permanently” and voila! Spam gone! Granted, some readers who read the spam before I deleted it may be traumatized by the promise of “Click here to see amazing tits!” But I think they’ll get over it.

So IMHO, word verification isn’t all that necessary. Especially given how much of a pain in the ass it is. Yes, I said it! It’s a pain in the ass!

Word Verification slows me down a lot. I have trouble with it and I get the “words” wrong about 20% of the time. Maybe it’s just me, but I look at a string of “v’s” and wonder is that one “v” and a “w” or is it all “v’s” . . . and is that other letter an “i” or a “j?” So I mess up a lot and have to redo them, with all the accompanying slow page load times and whatnot.

Plus, if I don’t finish the comment soon enough (because someone walks in the room or if I’m multitasking,) the first “word” times out and becomes invalid. (Blogger only gives you 5 or 10 minutes before the “word” becomes invalid.) So I have to do it again, even if I got the letters right.

And maybe it’s just Safari, but every so often, the “word” doesn’t load right and I get that square with the question mark in it. So I have to hit “Refresh.” Always with that few seconds of wait time for the page to load. Pain in the ass.

I hate that mother fucking Word Verification.

Now, on another front, some people have “Comment Moderation.” I’m not crazy about Comment Moderation either, but I can understand its obvious security role. In fact, I consider using it from time to time.

But what I don’t get are the blogs that have BOTH word verification AND comment moderation. What possible scenario requires both levels of security???

Oh, and one other thing – Why do some *private* blogs have Word Verification??? Are people you personally invited in the habit of spamming your blog?

Anyway, I don’t expect that anyone should change their comments settings just because of my little rant. But if you’ve been on the fence about it and have contemplated changing your comment preferences, well, you know what my vote is.

Hopefully no one takes offense. Just something I needed to get off my chest. There. I feel better now.

Thank you, Riff.  I couldn’t have said it better myself, which is why I stole it from you!  Hope you don’t mind.

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It’s a beautiful day outside, so I’m off to do some spring cleaning in the yard, then go for a bike ride this afternoon.

Oh, did I mention that Veronica and I had a date with a new couple last night?  Or that we’re going over to Dina and Derek’s house this evening?  I didn’t? Ooops  ;-)

 

[I'm on my way to New Orleans today for a conference for a few days, so while I have some posts scheduled, I'll be pretty scarce around the blogosphere.  Carry on without me ;-) ]

My wonderful friend, the Rumbling and Bumbling M, tagged me with this meme and I’m more than happy to play along!

I drafted most of this Friday evening, so keep that in mind for the first 2 lists.

Here’s the deal–mention the person that tagged you (Done). Complete the lists of 8′s (See below). Tag 8 of your wonderful blogger friends (See further below). Go tell them you tagged them!

8 Things I Am Looking Forward To:

  1. Leaves on trees
  2. My trip to New Orleans on Sunday for a conference
  3. Seeing a bunch of friends and colleagues while I’m there
  4. Seeing Veronica after my trip to N.O.
  5. My trip to Seattle in late May.  And Veronica is coming with me!  And we’re meeting some blogger friends!
  6. Riding in the 5 Boro Bike Tour 2 weeks from Sunday
  7. Swimsuit season.  Not for me, but for all of the lovely ladies ;-)
  8. Going to a lifestyle club on Saturday night with Veronica.  Maybe I’ll have some blog material ;-)

8 Things I Did Yesterday

  1. Looked at and commented on a ton of HNTs.  Ya’ll rock!
  2. Road my bicycle to work.  18 miles, 38 degrees outside at the start.  What was I thinking?
  3. Send random nekkid picture messages to a friend
  4. Saw Running the Sahara
  5. Played with the kids
  6. Worked
  7. Looked at more HNTs.  Hey, it was a Thursday, gimme a break!
  8. Had awesome sex with Veronica

8 Things I Wish I Could Do

  1. Dance like no one is watching
  2. Whistle
  3. Lose 5-10 lbs
  4. Find the time to ride my bicycle more often
  5. Get DB interested in learning to ride his bike so we can ride together
  6. Whisk Veronica away on a surprise vacation.  Hard to plan that with the kiddos
  7. See several blog friends in person.  Some for the first time, others again.  You know who you are!
  8. Run a marathon.  I can ride tons of miles, but with my creaky knees, I just don’t see me having the ability to put in the requisite training miles

8 Shows I Watch:

  1. Dirty Jobs
  2. CSI
  3. CSI: NY
  4. Pardon the Interruption
  5. Mythbusters
  6. 24
  7. Just about any pro baseball or football game
  8. Whatever cartoon the kids are making me suffer through

8 People I Tag:

I’m gonna be a rebel and not tag anyone.  If you’re so inspired to steal this, be my guest!

Apr 172009
 

I know, I know, I promised to write about our night with Dina and Derek and post it today.  But you know that thing called “real life”?

I fully intended to finish that post last night.  [It's gonna be a long one...].  Then Veronica texted me in the morning and told me about a special showing last night of an independent  film we REALLY wanted to see.  We were able to quickly arrange a sitter and headed out in time to get there for the reception prior to the showing, and we hung around for the Q&A session with 2 of the movies stars, who were in attendance.

Running the Sahara is the story of 3 men who set out in November of 2006 to run across the entire SaharaDesert, covering approximately 2 marathons, every day, for 111 days.

Why did I want to see this movie?  Because there was a very good chance that I would be in it!!!!!!  No, I’m not kidding.  Me, Hubman, in a film directed by an Academy Award winner and narrated by Matt Damon!

Alas, any footage with me in it ended up on the cutting room floor.  BUT, I do know that I’m in the behind the scenes documentary on the DVD.  I haven’t watched it yet, but Ray and Charlie (2 of the runners) told me last night that I’m in it.  During the Q&A, when an audience member asked about getting any scientific data on the men, they even called me  out and said “Why don’t you ask our friend *Hubman*, who is here tonight and was with us during part of the expedition?”  Go to the website I link above and click on the “Science of the Run” link and you’ll get an idea of what I was doing in the Sahara Desert.  If you look really hard, you’ll even see a picture of me.

[UPDATE: I just watched the behind the scenes documentary and while the 1-on-1 interview I had with the film crew didn't make the final cut, my fellow researchers and I are featured for about 2 minutes.]

So that’s my excuse.  You’ll have to wait until tomorrow for a full accounting of our night with Dina and Derek.  Deal with it ;-)

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Lots of stuff going on in the coming days.  Veronica’s mom is arriving for a 5 day today, which means we have free baby sitting.  So Veronica and I will be making our first trip to the  local ‘on-premises’ swingers club tomorrow night.  ‘On-premises’ means that there are private and semi-private rooms for fucking, your partner or anyone else you may desire.  Then I leave Sunday morning for a 4 day work trip to New Orleans, where I hope to meet up with a blogger friend for the first time.  We’ll see if that happens.  So shortage of fodder for blog material in my life.  Now if only I had the time to write about it!

Apr 042009
 

I love the show South Park, though I haven’t watched it in a while.  I just came across this clip for this weeks show and just couldn’t resist sharing

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PciI1M3a6Gk]

I think I might have to come up with a list of favorite Cartman quotes on of these days….

Hope you’re all [or "y'all", depending where you're from...] having a good weekend!

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