I've been so short-tempered at work with my assistant Michael. I have to stop and ask myself, "why?" Today other co-workers semi-teased, semi-lectured me on my abrasiveness. I am really really trying hard to curb this issue, but I'll try harder.

On Tuesday I left Garrick's gay ex-mormon dinner party early and went to Steve's house, and I had my feelings sorta hurt cause his feelings were hurt over a CD I'm supposed to make him. I made a first attempt at making the CD, but it didn't play on his player; it was only recognizing one track when the CD contained about 12 songs. When I viewed the tracks in my laptop, I noticed the playlist I'd copied the songs from was listed like a track, and the songs in the playlist were bulleted underneath the playlist title. So I'm going to create a new CD with a few minor song selection changes per Steve and troubleshoot this playlist thing. I was more hurt over the blunt way he stated his complaint and also by the fact that he was hurt by something in my opinion that is so minor. But I need to be respectful of his feelings, so I'm going to work on the CD tonight. The incident put Steve in a different light; hopefully, though, the light is only flickering and just needs a new bulb.

Rancy is out of town for the week. And Mikey's car is being repossessed, which is good; now I can't drive around on a suspended license, stupid me. It's not worth it, yet I can't stop using the car for small errands like going to a meeting or to play tennis.

I had a date with Al last night. He's a mid-30s house reinovator who's also a great chef. We had a very amicable dinner, then he rather unpleasantly surprised me by showing me all his work-related Websites; I felt like he invited me over only to talk about himself and get some feedback on his sites. One of Al's businesses is this libido enhancing herbal concoction called "Boom"; he "asked" me to take some with him. We ended up having sex while watching Clueless in his bed. Ugh!