No, I won't hear banjo music this weekend in West Virginia because 'Deliverance' took place in Georgia
<-- This is me this weekend, but outside.
Weather forecasts for the towns flanking the wilderness area I plan on going to do not look good, but when I look at the radar I don't see no thunderstorms. So I'm just gonna go, and if it's raining nonstop I'll turn around and come back and go out to one of the many fun venues in the city. I tried to look for a previous entry about my trips there in the past, but I had removed those archives it's been so long. I plan on taking a lot of pictures.
Last night I hauled my tired old backpack out of the crawlspace. It's been through a lot, and it may be time for a new backpack and tent some day soon. But then again I get out so seldom I can handle crappy equipment once a year. Until I find a decent place to store such things, there's no point in getting new stuff anyway.
I'll get up Saturday morning and drive west on 66 to Petersburg, WV (3-4 hours), then drive up into Monongahela National Forest (state roads 28/4, forest road 75) to the Dolly Sods wilderness area, hitting the top at Bear Rocks, then driving to the Red Creek Campground and parking the car. I will then take the Blackbird Knob Trail and take a left down Red Creek Trail to Red Creek proper and camp along the stream until Monday morning. I should get back to the Red Creek Campground and parking lot by Noon or 1ish, then drive back to DC. I will stop at the Dairy Queen in Petersburg for an Oreo Blizzard. I should be back in DC by 5ish on Monday.
Twitter has been interesting. I got a surge of follower notifications after I posted my blog entry about joining Twitter the other day. I'm assuming many of these followers found out about my Twitter account thru this blog. My metrics for reader visitation sucks and I've tried to install Google Analytics without much luck, but seeing the profiles on Twitter has given me some insight as to the bulk of my visitors (you're all gay, Gay, GAY!). What an interesting and varied group of people you are, and most of you don't comment (silent stalkers). Since my analytics suck, howabout you give a shout-out in the comments section today. Who are you? Where do you live? What are you doing here? How did you learn about this blog? What are your favorite entries or topics I write about?
Oh, and it's also interesting the number of long-time bloggers who regularly read this blog who do not include jimbo.info on their blogroll. And then there are those bloggers who have actually met me yet still do not have me on their blogroll. Yet all of the above have bloggers listed who haven't blogged in months. GIVE PROPS, BITCHES!
Yaaay, I love it when lawmakers from other states make decisions for residents of The District of Columbia. These douche bags want to introduce an anti-gay marriage bill in D.C. - ostensibly before we pass a bill allowing same-sex marriage by ourselves. One of these fuckers is from Utah. Utah and your Mormon residents: do me a favor go fuck yourselves. Anyway, we still do not have representation in Congress, so other fuckheads can do stuff like this for us. I hate that. I do not like the idea of foreign overlords making decisions for us when there is the possibility that we could one day select our own representatives in the House and Senate.
Here's a pic of me taken the other day by Chip at Ten Ren's Tea Time in College Park, MD.
It's vanilla bubble tea, and I'm sucking as many of those tapioca balls in my mouth as I can.
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Hey, Jim. Read you regularly, but hadn't commented because the last couple of times, the login credentials thing didn't work for me. I'm sure it was due to some sort of user error. I also just started following you on Twitter when I saw the blog posting. It's ultimately more satisfying to get the full Jimbo experience on the actual blog, but sometimes I just check the latest posting vis RSS in Google Reader. Hope that's not screwing up your stats.
I'm in Portland, OR, and I just think your blog is interesting, especially when you go on a bitter diatribe about something. I also like the pointers to the various woofy athletes and random dudes that you include time to time. Plus even though we haven't hung out much, I do sort of think of you as something between an acquaintance and friend. So I like to keep up on what is going on with you.
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Chad
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DC
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Keeping up with the 'bo
> How did you learn about this blog?
Sean
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Nightlife
Jim, aren't you teabagging those lil tapioca balls???
It has been raining for two days here, we are having a winter storm in May (yesterday we set a record for the lowest high temperature for that day). This will probably mean all of the pool parties I am attending this weekend will suck (too cold water).
Why do these questions remind me of the really bad voice-over from the start of "Crusade" all of the sudden? Hmmmmm.
I'll take a stab since no one else has, though. I'm Greg, I currently live in Arlington between the Clarendon and Courthouse metro stations. I like the mixture of geeky and active and gay DC all rolled into one that you post about here, even when you spoil Star Trek movies... ;)
I think I saw you first on a gay exercise website that I've forgotten the URL of (so clearly I update that profile a lot, ha ha) and from there Flickr. It's a small gay world here in DC.
(If my blog has no blogroll am I safe from wrath on that subject?)
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Keeping current
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Went to High School with Ultrasparky.
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What are your favorite entries or topics I write about? You discuss topics I don't think I would normally be exposed to, which is always nice and you tend to have cool links I would not stumble across myself.
It's me Jimbo mate , Phil !!
Sunny Plymouth by the sea , that's Plymouth , England , U.K.
Enjoy blog watching , great to learn how you guys 'over there' live compared to us guys 'over here' .
Had a Flickr account a few years ago , where i first 'met' you but closed that after someone sent me a virus.Me using my computer to get a degree in English Lit. & Lang. Seemed more important.
Got into your Blog via Flickr and have continued to take a peek , ever since .
Have had a twitter account for a few months now , via The Open University , of all people ! Ashamed to say have never used it until now. Some Guy called Jimbo sent me a message to say he was 'following' me ! (The watcher gets watched ? !!).Have no idea how to respond to others on twitter ?? By the way did you get my response to your Twitpic ,(as above)? All i know is how to pass comment on my own home page . Is that how i respond to others ? Now you can see why i never used twitter before :-))
Best wishes , Phil.
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Have a great trip
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The other Washington - the state
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Stumbled upon it while searching for another "Jimbo"
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Your life in D.C. - so different than here in rural Eastern Washington
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Name's Carl (apparently), and I live in Virginia, down I-395 from DC, just outside the beltway.
I check in here pretty regularly because of the many gay men's blogs I've browsed, you are one of the few that put me in contact with who I think I would have turned out to be had I not ended up married with kids. Reading you allows me to zip in and out of one of my alternate universes (yes, I am also a sci-fi geek). I feel like you let me check in with one of the courses my life is taking somewhen else.
Although I don't remember exactly, I'm sure I found this blog through links from other DC bloggers.
What topics resonate most for me? Hmmm... I enjoy it when your writing shows how you are grounded in the real world. For example, you write about bird counting, about family, about what's going on in your neighborhood, and playing rugby. The woofy bearded guys are easy on the eyes too.
Hope you have a great trip this weekend!
>Who are you?
Doug!!
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Outside of Chicago
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Your blog is one of 20 or so that I read most days.
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I found you on Homer's blogroll
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Birding and the natural world. I enjoyed this post and hope that you post some great pics from the trip. Dolly Sods is on my hit list of places I'd like to backpack. Also, I've never quite been the same since the pics that you posted with the Star Wars vacuum cleaner poses.
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(4) How did you learn about this blog? Several years ago I was at Halo with a friend from NYC and he said, "I think that's the blogger, Jimbo." The next day, I searched and found your blog. It wasn't you at Halo, but I've been reading your blog ever since.
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Have a great trip!
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HMMMMM Interesting! Luther here, DC resident, Palisades area Just keepin up with what you younguns are doing! Found you from some other blog. (memory fades) Topics, hmmmm, gardening (have the brugs come back?) Birding and your adventures in life! And yes folks, he is as cute as he appears in his pics!
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Hi. I'm Moose, live here in DC (SW Waterfront). Read ya semi-regularly (every few days?), probably found you through Homer or local folks, don't recall. I enjoy reading the DC-local stuff you write about, especially about your neighborhood. Keep up the good work.
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