I successfully completed a rather intense series of meetings at a government facility on the West Coast of the United States. Friday, I am bound for home on a long but direct, non-stop flight. Thank goodness… soon I will be…
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\n…home in the arms of the man I love. I can’t wait. <\/p>\n
I enjoyed this trip. I worked hard, but the camaraderie among the professionals at my meeting kept things interesting and fun. It is tremendously satisfying to be appreciated for my long experience in my profession. I held the audience at full attention through many presentations, conversations, and discussions during the meeting for the parts of it that I facilitated.<\/p>\n
Thursday night, I had dinner with a friend who I have known for over 25 years — and her partner. We had much to catch up on. I am grateful for having friends at almost every city across our beautiful country who I have met and worked with throughout my professional career. Best yet, I get to present this friend a top honor from our professional association at the association’s annual conference later this year. Small worlds!<\/p>\n
This post also happens to be POST 1,800<\/font><\/u><\/strong> on this blog! Wow — who woulda thunk? Writing so many posts since January, 2008. Some years I posted a new post every day, but the last two years, I am averaging a new post about every-other day. That is easier — it is hard sometimes to think of original content to write about. I know I ramble sometimes from boots to same-sex marriage to leather to my spouse to masculinity to life in the ol’ BHD household. Thank you for your loyalty in following my rambling thoughts all this time.<\/p>\n Onward: homeward bound!<\/p>\n Life is short: do your dance and then go home!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I successfully completed a rather intense series of meetings at a government facility on the West Coast of the United States. Friday, I am bound for home on a long but direct, non-stop flight. Thank goodness… soon I will be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}