Congratulations. Our 24th is coming up soon.
And to you.
Congrats to HurricaneDitka on his new baby!
Regards,
Shodan
My son, the one who is a dancer, has a well-established career now. Here are several of his web images: https://goo.gl/2rAqWY. (Years ago when he was starting out, I had posted in MPSIMS “My Son Performed at Carnegie Hall!” https://goo.gl/KmezRR.)
Now, as officially a struggling artist, he is making his way, and his struggles are a little less. He is doing what he loves, and he is happy. What more could a father want?
That is so awesome, Bullitt! Making a living with any kind of artistic endeavor is *not *easy, and nothing to sneeze at. Way to go, Joshua!
Bullitt, your son looks like a beautiful dancer. He has nice lines. Congrats.
Thank you. He has worked very hard to get to where he is, and he is loving it.
Hope this counts as a milestone.
I am back. It’s really me, I have no socks! (well, I am wearing socks, but for now let’s not go there.)
It will, no doubt take me a while to settle back in.
But please feel free to treat me like an old hand, and call out my every lapse of things that should never lapse.
Welcome back! I’ll get the squid for you. I need to download it from the bitcoin cloud.
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Welcome back!! I was just thinking about you the other day!
Also, I have a VERY happy Doper milestone. Ten years ago today, our adoption of the Firebug became final, when we took him out of Baby House #1 in Samara, Russia, and into our family at last.
He’s now in middle school, and his latest thing is, he’s been bitten by the drama bug this past year. He’s been in one school play and one play put on by the community theater where we are, and he’s going to be in a school musical this spring. It’s definitely added something to a marriage of two math geeks to be the parents of an artistic, dramatic kid. Who’d’a thunk? 
And you have another next month: 20 years on the Dope.
This week marked our 25th wedding anniversary.
We actually have two anniversaries. The official one is in April. Back in 1994, I needed to leave my Bangkok rooming house and move into faculty quarters at Chulalongkorn University, where the wife was a professor. But I could not move in unless we were legally married, so we registered our marriage at one of the district offices in Bangkok. That made us officially married in the eyes of the Thai and US governments and is the date we use for official purposes. However, Thai society in general and the wife’s family in particular did NOT consider us married. So the wife, despite being in her mid-30s, still had to live with her family, with whom she had been staying since we returned to Thailand from Hawaii earlier that year. We underwent a traditional Chinese ceremony – the wife is ethnically Chinese – performed by her mother in June on a date determined by my mother-in-law’s fortune teller as auspicious. And THAT is the date we consider our real anniversary.
In honor of our 25th anniversary, we will tonight head to Hy’s Steakhouse here in Waikiki. This will leave a large hole in our savings, but hey, once every 25 years is okay.
And another milestone was set with last night’s meal. We topped our previous personal record for most expensive one. I had the 34-ounce porterhouse, the wife the 28-ounce bone in wagyu ribeye. With sides, dessert, drinks and tip, the fare came to $408.22. Not one we’'ll be matching anytime soon, but appropriate for a 25-year splash. And the steaks were damned good. Mmmmm.
Congrats on both impressive milestones, Siam Sam! 
Congratulations to you both!
Been lurking here for well over 10 years but rarely posted. This feels kind of likehome, so may be a good spot to announce my retirement! As of Wednesday I will no longer be owned by Big Pharma! Happening right on top ofour 41st anniversary. Mrs Alnath claims its a good anniversary present but I probably better get her something shiny too. I didnt get all this gray hair without learning something!
As of August 28, 2019, I will be four years cancer-free! I was diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer (no stage given) in July of that year. The wonderful doctors at Montefiore, Mercy, and UPMC Presbyterian in Pittsburgh have been working with me since then, keeping me healthy and sane. Shout out to Dr Devurry, my surgeon. Woot!
Truly amazing! Congrats.
(August 28 would be my Daddy’s 90th birthday…Happy birthday, Daddio. I miss you)
That was in 2016 and it didn’t happen: Ellora’s Cave folded before my book came out and my rights were reverted back to me.
In 2017 I once again had a contract with a publisher, NineStar Press. It was contingent upon me working with their editor to tighten and shorten the first third of the book. When it turned out that by “shorten” they really meant “discard”, I tried to negotiate with them and when that didn’t work out, asked to have my rights reverted back to me, which they did.
I now have, for the third freaking time, a signed contract with a publisher – Sunstone Press – to publish my book. Should be coming out in the general vicinity of January. Different working title: GENDERQUEER: A Story from a Different Closet
Let’s see if I can manage not to fuck it up this time.
Officiated at my goddaughter’s wedding on Saturday-first time for me.
The wife has changed from Mrs. to Dr., having successfully defended her dissertation in Bangkok this week. She returns to Hawaii this weekend. A retired lecturer, she taught in Thailand’s renowned Chulalongkorn University for 30 years, first by virtue of her master’s degree and then by virtue of her two master’s degrees. But she kept timing out of her doctoral studies. She’s been studying for this for more than 20 years, having timed out at least once, maybe twice – I’ve lost track by now – and having to start over from scratch. But Thais are nothing if not tenacious. Her field is Population Studies, and she is a demographer and statistician. (At Chulalongkorn, she carried the title Associate Professor, the title reserved in Thailand for non-doctoral university lecturers.)