Urinal Etiquette

I found this while reading my news feeds today. All men please pay attention. In this case, I think the rule applies universally to gay men and straight men, unlike the metaphor of sex with swimming and baseball.

The Office

I’ve been busy the last few months with work. I love what I’m doing and the people I’m working with, but I’ve been ignoring my personal life for way too long. The good news is that I’m going back to DC for a week to visit with Family and my best friends. I miss DC, but am glad that I made the decision to move out here. I can’t imagine the business going in the direction its going without being in the office every day. I thought I would share a few things about what happens in a typical day at “The Office”. Although, “typical” is probably not right word to use.

• Baby Splooge - We have a 4 month old (a very good 4 month old) that likes to hang out with us in the office on a daily basis. I have to say that spending time with said baby is the highlight of my day. I believe he feels the same way, because he loves to spit-up every now and then. The most recent incident for me was when Rob was walking me over to meet Ben. I was holding said baby and after we got to Ben’s, Rob looked at me and said “You might want to walk back to the office now.” Yep, I had been splooged. But I’ve learned. I had a clean shirt in the car.
• Sports - We often have off-the-wall discussions. This one happened to be when it was just the boys in the main office. We had a discussion about how gay relationships and straight relationships compare in regards to making it to “X Base”. I was explaining to the straight boys how I don’t think the base methodology can be applied to the gay world. Rob then decided that it must be like swimming. Basically, saying that we can dip our foot in and make sure the water is the right temperature and then we dive right in. Maybe that’s not totally accurate, but it definitely could be applied to some of my previous “relationships”.
• Sports Follow-Up - In regards to the sports discussion above, one of our co-workers came in to the office during the middle of it and then left. She reported back that the conversation was very interesting in the other office. She said, “They are having a conversation about bases from the perspective a single straight man, a married straight man, and a gay man”. Yep, I think we had all the bases covered.
• Friday Pow-Wow - One of my favorite times in the office is Friday evennings when we talk about where the company is going and how we are going to get there.
• Client work - This is where I spend (or try to spend) most of my time. Sometimes it’s fun projects other times it can be rather boring. Overal though, we get to work on exciting projects that help promote the client.

I have fun in the office, but I’m going to try this week to be more efficient and not spend 10 - 12 hours in the office each day. I leave Thursday night for DC which will be a welcomed break. I’m not exactly sure what I’m going to do for a week while I am back in DC, but I’m sure it will go by quickly.

Quiddities New Website…

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What is a Quiddity?

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiddity:

Quiddity

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Look up Quiddity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

In philosophy, quiddity is identity or “whatness,” i.e., something’s “what it is.” The term derives from the Latin word “quidditas,” which was used by the medieval Scholastics to refer to a concept of substance they encountered while translating the works of Aristotle.

The (Greek equivalent) term was used by Aristotle in reference to an entity’s aspects of “matter” and “form.”

It describes properties a particular substance (e.g. a person) shares with others of its kind. The question “what (quid) is it?” asks for a general description by way of commonailty. This is quiddity or “whatness” (i.e., its “what it is”). Quiddity is often contrasted with the haecceity or “thisness” of an item, which, in turn, describes the particular propreties of an object or substance (e.g. a particular person).

Other senses

• In law, the term is used to refer to a quibble or academic point. An example can be seen in Hamlet’s graveside speech found in Hamlet by William Shakespeare. “Where be his
  quiddities now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures” says Hamlet referring to a lawyer’s quiddities.

• Quiddity is the name for the mystical dream sea in Clive Barker’s novel The Great and Secret Show that exists as a higher plane of human existence. It is featured as more of a literal sea in the novel’s sequel, Everville.