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Forecast high today is 88° and it was so noticeably warm on my bike ride to work this morning, I actually pulled out my phone when stopped at a traffic light to check the current temperature: 72°.
A few blocks later, as I rode down the hill on Pine Street, a young man on another bike turned in front of me. He was not buff but he was fit, in the way nicely healthy young men are, and he had his button-up shirt undone so that it largely fluttered in the air behind him. This afforded partial views of the skin on his lower torso from the back, the waistband of his underwear a couple inches higher than that of his khaki pants.
I wish I could adequately convey how fucking hot it was.
And because I have turned into a dirty old man, as always, this was significant motivation for me to pedal harder, so I could remain within eyesight of that man's fantastic body.
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Last night we had our Braeburn Condos Social, on the large rooftop deck on the West building. This was not just our first such event since the pandemic, but our first since
June 2019. My post about that event never specifies the number of people, aside from "a pretty nice number" that ultimately filled up both of the two circular tables up there.
Well, I would suspect that last night's attendance either matched or, more likely, slightly exceeded that from 2019—the two circular tables never filled up completely, but at any given time there must have been at least seven people at each table, and there were other chairs around for people to sit in too, anywhere between six and ten, so I would guess there was somewhere between 25 and 30 people there total. Also, there are five people currently on the board, and I believe all of them eventually showed up; the 2019 event had only Shobhit there from the board.
Last night's event was organized by a married lesbian couple whose names I forget. They had been allocated a budget for it from Shobhit, who is currently our board Treasurer, and they told us later that they did it $100 under budget. The Board President, Alexander, actually served as a DJ, a nice touch that we did not get at the last event—it was catchy dance music that was never obtrusively loud. I'm guessing he volunteered his time to do that. There was also a young Black woman from Verizon Wireless at a booth offering swag and ice cream with a tiny toppings bar. I asked her if she does gigs like this a lot and she said yes. I can't imagine doing anything like that, particularly on a regular basis. I wonder if she made even a potential sale. Shobhit asked her a few questions but it became clear it was not for us when she said they don't do cable, and our Internet is bundled with our cable through Comcast (or Xfinity, whatever).
I do remember the names of a few new people I met: Jimmy, who moved in only a year ago and is a renter; Ryan, who moved in in late 2020; Sam, who was at the last event but in the interim time, also in 2020, had been renting but when his landlord said she needed to sell, she sold it to him, which conveniently prevented him from having to move; Hannah, who lives in the East Building if I remember correctly; Laura, a really short lady who said she sometimes sees me on my bike in the garage, has lived in the East Building since its construction in 2006, and is in a unit third floor directly below the seventh-floor flood that happened about a month ago, totally destroying the units below it on six and five. Mike and Mike, the couple who lives directly below it on our floor (the fourth), did a good job of catching whatever leaking they could, which saved Laura from a lot greater damage her unit would have sustained otherwise. As it was, she had to live in a hotel for four days while repairs were done, and her unit still has a lot of work needed but at least she was able to move back in.
I was introduced to many others whose name I don't remember. A couple of guys were super cute. One was legitimately hot. A lot of them had moved in since the last social event, and were clearly interested in getting to know more people in the building, especially after a couple of years of covid restrictions. So it was really nice to have this event.
They actually had burgers at the 2019 event, but the lesbian couple opted for lighter fare, mostly snacks, but it still served sufficiently as a dinner for me. I ate a lot of chips with artichoke cheese dip.
There's a guy named Tony who organizes a biweekly Wednesday "Action Movie Night" in the Braeburn Condos theater, which I went to a couple of times in the past and didn't get very dedicated to. I'm thinking about getting back into it, even though the movie is always a surprise by whoever is choosing it each week—and, another rule is: no repeats. Even though they've apparently been doing this for ten years! A cool bit of synchronicity, though: the inaugural movie, on October 17, 2012, was the original 1995
Judge Dredd. They went virtual over the pandemic so keep the movie night tradition unbroken, starting in April 2020; the theater was reopened in July of last year, and the inaugural movie
back in the theater, was the 2012 movie
Dredd—a remake of
Judge Dredd. So: they don't allow repeats, but they do allow remakes, and the first time back in the theater was a remake of the first-even movie they did back in 2012. Ironically, this remake had originally been released in 2012.
I think I may try getting back into attending these biweekly Wednesday "Action Movie Nights." They frequently have flyers for it up in the elevators, and Shobhit has even commented on attending sometime. It's a lot easier for him to right now, as his work schedule consistently has him ending work at 2 p.m. I'm thinking maybe we'll attend next week. Tony has this great spreadsheet on the Braeburn website of the entire history of what movie was picked and by whom in the past, and I quite like most of the past picks by the person indicated to be picking next week. And, I'd really like to start attending often enough to get a chance to be the one to choose one of these days.
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