A pierced librarian....whatever next....where will it all end? I really don't know, but this is my story so far.
About me: Born in 1948, which makes me...OK, so you do the math.
Eyes - Green.
Height - 5ft 9ins.
Weight - currently 154lbs (but trying to get it down).
Starsign - Libra: the sign of a balanced personality, hmmm.
Likes: Being nice to people. Beautiful golden sunsets. Cacti: the way they defy the odds of nature.
Chinese food. Feeling the need not to take anything too seriously.
A long soak in a hot tub. On-line shopping. Relaxing and doing nothing occasionally.
Sixties' music.
Oh - and BME, of course.
Favourite film of all time: Casablanca.
Dislikes: Whingers - 'If you can't cheer up, shut up'.
Cold wet winter days. Homophobia. Indecision. ISPs that cut out on you after two hours. Junk mail that's sent in an envelope saying "Important - This is not a circular". Machines that don't work like they're supposed to. Weak coffee.
Websites that say only 'Under construction'.
Cruelty to animals - remember, they were here first.
Quote: "Don't knock it till you've tried it."
Turn-ons: Big boots, high heels, black leather, skin-tight rubber, PVC, corsets... Mmmmmmm!
Turn-offs: BO: there's NO excuse for it - soap and deodorant are NOT that expensive.
Pet hate: Intolerance - 'If you don't like it don't do it, but don't tell everyone else they shouldn't like or do it either'.
Goal in life: Be happy - There are enough miserable ****s in the world without me adding to them.
My "library catalog":
In stock (in order of acquisition) - PA ring (now 5mm); paired standard lobe rings (currently at 4mm); septum (now with circular barbell); stomach tattoo; pubic piercing (titanium CBR) *RIP 18 Jan 2002*; centre tongue (2mm barbell); navel rings (only the inverse remains out of the pair); paired 21mm dia nipple rings (first two pairs both rejected); BME and Celtic Rings logo tattoos - matching pair on both outside shoulders; Madison (14ga CBR) *RIP 17 Mar 2002*; wrist bar (PTFE) done during the British Meet at Brighton - rejected, but only after 4 years; 'love handles' - paired D-ring surface piercings *RIP*; cartilage ring (left ear); tragus (right ear); nape (PTFE bar)*RIP*; second pair of nipple piercings (vertical barbells); second nape *RIP*; bridge; BMEboy tattoo (centre back); 16mm dia guiche (my third try at a guiche) *RIP 6 Jan 2002*; third nape *also RIP*; 'Cell' back rings - a set of 6 D-Rings (lasted around nine months); pair of spinal surface bars *RIP*; replacement pubic ring *RIP* and guiche *guiche RIP 13 Apr 2002 after only two weeks!*; replacement Madison (12ga CBR) *RIP*; smiley aka scrumper *RIP*: paired foreskin rings. Future additions: It's been some years now since I added anything new, or replaced anything. But that doesn't mean the urge may not strike again at any time! And I'll bet that that you thought that librarians were boring old ****ers!
My buddy pics: You're out of luck here: there aren't any. Why not? Not because I don't have any buddies - there are lots of really great people here on IAM. But I didn't want to put up a screenful of buddies just because everyone else's page has one. I like to be an individual, to do what's right for me - that's what BME is all about, really.... Just in case you were wondering.
My character: (And here I quote from the results of a psychometric test): "Happy in his own company. Prefers to make his own decisions. Co-operative and obliging. Avoids conflict. Modest. Even temperament. Non-emotional. Relaxed. Copes without being flustered. Concentrates on the big picture rather than the detail. Quite radical. A challenge rather than the conventional. Non-conformist. Disorganized. Spontaneous reactions. Solution-focussed. High expediency. Finds his own way of doing things. Confident intellectual. Generates interesting, practical ideas."
My chastity:
Ever wondered what it's like to be locked up in a chastity belt? You can read all about my chastity escapades in the IAM Chastity Forum
My corsets:
Yes - I wear a corset! My current favourite to be laced up in is my black 28" PVC one, which you can see along with my others in my Corset Collection gallery.
My counter:
Currently at: 23,913
- Thanks for stopping by: enjoy your visit!
In reflective mood - aged nine! Crossing Hong Kong harbour on the famous 'Star Ferry' in July 1958
Bits and pieces
Locked up - me in Bondage!
Wearing leg irons: Relaxing in my new leg irons July 2009
Corset collection
In my 28" black PVC corset: This one feels really sexy to wear!
Fun stuff
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Down below
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Clothes closet
Cold Front: The brass monkey gets a T-Shirt
BBQ fun
London Meet - 28 June 2003: titanium_angel
Up front
Porn star revisited: My second try at a Madison: July 2002
Bit in the middle
Spinal bars: My paired spinal surface piercings - October 2001
Checkout chick!
2010/02/08 17:53 As one who tends to regard trips to the supermarket as a necessary evil rather than a "shopping experience", the least pleasurable part is invariably queueing at the checkout while the operator finishes a long conversation with the customer in front and then puts my stuff through... with a better-than average chance of a mistake when I check the receipt at home afterwards. So when I discovered that as part of a store refit, my local supermarket had installed some new self-service checkouts, I couldn't wait to give them a go. Although I'd never used one before, the idea isn't new - and is only an extension of things like ATMs and self-service petrol pumps. Hardly rocket science.
Actually scanning the items is the easy (and boring) bit. You have to stand up to do it, and the "bagging area" where you put your stuff in the bag afterwards isn't much bigger than an oversized bathroom scales: it's certainly not designed to cope with a large trolley-load - and the thing shouts at you if you remove a full bag to start filling a new empty one. Literally. I get the whole Disability Discrimination thing where the lift now tells you when the doors are open and what floor you're on... but even if a blind person can tell which shelf things are kept on to start off with, they're not going to be able to see where the barcode is to scan it themselves. Anyway. You get shouted at again reminding you to scan your Nectar card before the screen display has actually prompted you for it, but at least it does say "Thank you" at the end.
It does come with practice: the second time of using it I only had to call the assistant over once - to code in a coupon which wouldn't scan. It's going to be interesting I think to see what proportion of customers start using them in preference, especially as you don't get a discount for what is essentially doing all or most of the work yourself. When I'd finished today there was in fact a queue behind me, although nowhere near as long as for the staffed checkouts.
2010/02/07 16:51 Or so we're *reliably* informed. Like most people, I've lost count of the number of launch dates for BME2.0 which have come and gone over the last eighteen months: it's now due to take place later this month apparently, with IAM2.0 following suit a month after that.
Like a number of other IAM members, for the last ten years I've used IAM as my 'homepage' by opting for public access to it - or at least to the basic "frontpage". So I'm in something of a quandry over what to do in the light of the answer Rachel has given that after the relaunch this option will no longer be available. While IAM is - and always has been - a gated community, those of us who've chosen to open our own personal gate a little to allow a glimpse of what's inside have been able to do so. But evidently no longer. I don't want to abandon my page, neither do I want to go down the Facebook/MySpace road. So, what options does that leave me.....?
1. I could carry on as before in which case anyone who follows a link to it will get a login page or a generic "members only" error message. Personally I find that infuriating when I'm on the receiving end, though, and I certainly don't intend to be a party to inflicting it on anyone else. 2. I could use my own webspace to add current content to what's already there, although in view of the 'adult' nature of some of the things I get up to now, I can't help feeling a second separate domain name might be a wise precaution. 3. I could sign up for a new blog account: I've been very impressed with some of the things people have done on blogger and wordpress. The big question in my mind I think would be how much content I'd want to duplicate between that and IAM.
There may be other options which will occur to me between now and then - it's at least four to six weeks ahead anyway, and bearing in mind what Godot was famous for.....
2010/02/05 15:34 I've been conscious for some little while that I haven't written in my diary for absolutely ages about my mods, but that's because nothing really has happened to write about. However, while I've been uncomfortably and occasionally quite painfully aware for some weeks that my remaining nipple ring was migrating - it had somehow got twisted - I was hoping against hope that it would settle down again. It didn't, and having noticed this morning that it was hanging on by literally a small hairs' breadth of skin, I've reluctantly accepted the inevitable and taken it out. I can't remember exactly when the left hand one went the same way, but this is my third pair of nipple rings to have eventually rejected, leaving me with just the vertical barbells which I had done in the summer of 2001.
Perhaps I should just stick with those: while I think I prefer the visual appearance of rings, the practicalities have to enter into the equation at some point and the question is whether to have a piercing which is successful and practical, or one which looks better but isn't. I obviously need to let the scar heal up first before doing anything else about it anyway, so there's no great rush. It was a bit of a disappointment all the same, even though I could see it coming.
2010/02/04 13:19 I'm pleased - and rather proud - to say that I've pretty much finished the initial work on my schooldays website. Or at least, it's finished in terms of doing all the uploads. I've got a bit of work still to do on tweaking the design elements a bit: I definitely need to neaten up the linking and ideally I'd like to do a proper menu bar for it. But one thing at a time.
I had a lot of enjoyment doing it. It was something I felt I wanted to do: it brought back some very vivid, happy and occasionally poignant memories. Looking at all the old photos and recognizing the long-forgotten faces once again, it all seemed like only yesterday. But the harsh reality of course is that time has moved inexorably on. Few if any of the staff who taught me and whose names and faces I remembered so well are likely to be still alive, and any who are will be well into their late seventies or eighties. Even the youngest ex-pupil who started after my time is going to be 45+.
I'd been exchanging emails with the fellow ex-pupil whose Flickr picture upload had unwittingly got me started on all this, and I was saddened when he told me that another old schoolmate who'd been commenting on our photos had suffered a major heart attack on Friday and had died in the ambulance on the way to hospital. Although he'd have been a couple of years below me and I didn't remember him from school, it was nevertheless nice to exchange our nostalgic recollections. The news of his death brought home to me the fact that a diminishing number of my former classmates, too, will have survived. I guess it's at times like this I count my blessings and realize how fortunate I am.
The Customer is always right..... except when they've got no shoes on!
IN THE NEWS
2010/01/28 12:16 Today's rather bizarre news item reveals that a Tesco store in Cardiff has put up a notice asking customers not to shop in their nightclothes nor barefoot, "in case it offends other customers".
I don't know what the background is to this, but I'm guessing that it's probably a 24-hour store where people just nip out in the middle of the night to get something they want without bothering to throw any clothes on. I wouldn't have thought anyone much was going to deliberately stage their weekly visit to the supermarket on a Saturday afternoon dressed in only their PJs... but so what if they do? Tescos is hardly the last word in genteel upmarket elegance anyway, and I wouldn't shop there (or anywhere else either) barefoot for fear of treading in something nasty. Personally, as long as other shoppers don't block the aisles with their trolleys, I couldn't care less what they are or aren't wearing.
One of the lesser-known benefits of shopping online is of course that you can wear whatever you please while you're doing it... as long as you turn your webcam off first, of course!
