Hello I'm Rich Brown and this is my personal website and blog. I'm just your simple, average, down to earth, professional, out gay man and aspiring circuit boy, living in Phoenix, Arizona with a few things to say while trying to find my place among all the scary, conservative, religious nuts in this sick and twisted world.
Wednesday, June 28, 2000
On the Airplane to Philadelphia
@IN-FLIGHT. Ok ... Let me start this again ... I was just finishing up saying how my biggest frustration was that all airplanes are still not equiped with power outlets for the laptops and just as I was finishing that line my battery died and this file went unsaved. So where was I .... I'm again sitting here on a plane traveling eastbound towards my former home. It seems as if it were forever since I've been on a plane last, however it has only been a little over a year. It was for my cousin George's wedding, as well as Sean & Suzette's wedding that I traveled to the east at this time last year. Although this trip is not really any different then any of the other trips that I've taken to the east, it does have one big difference. I am not alone. Danny is sitting next to me and anxiously awaiting the chance to see the east coast and meet all of my long time friends. If all goes well then we will be moving back to the east coast in November. I'm still not sure why I'm considering that, but I think I will wait until another time to explain myself. As it seems with me, I usually wait until some odd time to start writing in my journal again. I don't know why this is, I guess it's just because I never seem to really have enough time to just sit and write. I think I should take some more time to do this because it always makes me feel better and I really enjoy going back to read it. If I'm correct it's been over a year since I have last written anything. No words, no definitions, no stories, no documentary of my life. What the hell is wrong with me? This could be one of the most important parts of my life and I'll be old and senile and have no recollection of it. Well maybe not, but who knows I should still write about it. So about Danny ... well during this trip we will hit our 1 year anniversary. I can't believe that it's been 1 year already. After Rob I didn't actually think that I would meet anyone else that I could spend this much time with. I still think about Rob frequently, but again I'm not sure about that one either. It's hard to put someone that you have spend 5 years of your time with out of your mind. The time spend is getting less and less anymore, so I feel soon it will be only fleeting thoughts. Danny and I met online. Not online in a bad way but online in a "different" way. We met through an internet personals ad. The really strange part is that he was living in San Jose and I in Phoenix. He responded and my first reaction was "oh lord .. someone else from out of state .. what are these people thinking" So in his reply email he stated that he had a picture to trade. Naturally I sent mine for trade. Not that his picture was totally what prompted my interest, but it definitely helped. From his picture I could tell that he was clean cut, preppy, young-looking, and full of life. I wanted to get to know this person better. We exchanged e-mails for a few weeks asking all of those important questions and trying to get to know each other. I don't know what either of us thought would come out of this at this point, but it was fun regardless. After all these E-Mails we eventually managed to meet on July 3, 1999. I used my United Frequent Flyer ticket for him to fly out to Phoenix and spend the holiday weekend with me. He ended up getting stuck in the Los Angeles airport due to plane issues and was not going to be getting into Phoenix the next day. Whatever I was thinking at the time must have been pretty good because I volunteered myself to drive out and pick him up from LA. Even though we would ultimately not get back to Phoenix any earlier then his flight would have, it allowed us time to meet and walk along the beach in Santa Monica together. Now that we are quickly approaching a year from that day, we decided to make that fateful night of our meeting, our 1 year anniversary. It's good a day as any for this. So things are going well so far. I have no complaints. I'm happy that he is here with me and and I'm happy to be getting back east again. Well I'm getting a little tired, figures since the plane is going to land in less then an hour now, but I should probably stop here since I'm still writing somewhat coherent sentences.
