Military Sniper's One Mile - Kill Shot (Not make-believe)

Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:38:04 EDT
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It shows actual recent combat footage of sniper kills of insurgent bad guys from a mile away in order to save outnumbered Marines in contact. It shows "red wall" aftereffects. I know that's what our 20mm gatling guns did on our Air Force AC-130 "Spectre" Gunship but at 3000 - 6000 feet AGL (& a longer slant range) & no sniper scope, we just KNEW what it was doing (making a "red mist") and we didn't have to see it. That seeing-it repeatedly, even of enemy soldiers, can and HAS caused many troops PTSD nightmares & flashbacks. It can be readily cured if addressed in a PROFESSIONAL Combat Veterans PTSD therapy group such as the VA and Vet Centers have provided for the last 20 years.

Troops are inclined to do the exact WRONG thing and deny it and try to numb out with alcohol & drugs so they don't have to face it. One can never get away from their own memory or mind, tho. Working THROUGH it, one has to deal with it in a supportive group of other vets to see it is a normal reaction to an abnormal situation or environment. Then, THEY CAN READJUST TO FUNCTIONING NORMALLY IN A LESS ABNORMAL ENVIRONMENT.

Cheers, RICH
Cut & Paste if you choose to see it.
http://shock.military.com/Shock/videos.do?displayContent=219051&ESRC=army-a.nl

HNT #71 - My latest tattoo addition!!

Note the medal in the middle: the Meritorious Service Medal! Awarded in my case for continuous & constant, sustained support and work throughout 4 years at the United States Air Force Academy: 60 - 80 hours each week, & no 0vertime pay for uniformed military! It is depicted here in the correct order of precedence between the DFC (Distinguished Flying Cross) and the Air Medal.

I was awarded 8 other medals & multiple Oak Leaf Clusters, but I want to highlight my career with just these 3 highest here! They attest to the fact that I served my country well & honorably!

A couple of weeks earlier, I had my forearm band totally re-inked to brighten the colors. Tattoo wearers (collectors) need to use SPF 100 to preserve their tats (esp. colors) from sunlight; I had been incorrectly told SPF 50 was sufficient. This forearm band appears to be a Celtic design but it has a military/naval history. This is a very simple version of the Turk's Head Knot that ancient mariners used to while away the hours by tying them around the wooden masts of the old sailing ships. The US Navy used them for ceremonial decorations until very recently. General Lord Baden-Powell adapted this knot as a neckerchief slide for recognition of his highest trained Scoutmasters, those graduating the "Wood Badge" course. [I'm proud to be a "Wood Badger," myself.]

Here's how they all look together:

Tommy is the artist at Mike Sizemore's "Kill Em All Tattoo" in Clearwater, FL who re-inked the armband. Mike did all the other work seen here + my Gangster Girlie portrait on the inside of the arm; with 15 years' experience & excellent portrait ability, he's worth the $150/hr charge.

But Tommy ($100/hr) & I have figured out how to finish this half-sleeve with a consistent patriotic theme: All visible parts open around these tatts will show red & white stripes like the US flag unfurling as the background. My shoulder will be topped by various size negative (white) stars at the top surrounded by bright blue outside the stars fading out further away. I'd like to have a few stars closer to the neck and a few falling off on the sides of the flag. FREE stars, not in any tight pattern! (Now that I am finally fairly free in my life.)

Only a very special reason will lead me to add anymore tattoos beyond this half-sleeve. If a new girl I love gives the OK, I'll probably add a small, anonymous portrait of her perfect breasts to one corner of my chest so I can enjoy her beauty whenever I want! Proof that I will NEVER forget her! A tattoo's forever!

HNT #70 - Happy Belated 5th Anniversary, HNT! 4-year Evolution of a WingHouse Regular's Tattoo!

My HNT #1 - This first pic is of the 2nd tat I ever got -- 5 years ago, I had no tattoos whatsoever. Now I have 6-8, depending on how you count, & one more on the way in 2 weeks! Actually, the wings here were just the beginning of an ongoing tattoo that I have added more pieces to over the last 3-4 years since I got it. It evolved, but I knew I liked the basic design taken from the WingHouse logo. I was an AF flyer & I missed my wings.

BTW, if you click here: http://www.winghouse.com/ , you can go to the WingHouse Girls' photo galleries and select each one of the locations. There you will see photos of most of the bartenders & servers in unique Dress-To-Impress outfits which happen one day near a big holiday every couple of months. They pay to buy (or make) and then doll up in their sexy, new outfits -- Customers that day get to vote for their favorite outfit which gets only 1 girl of 15 a $100 cash prize and another a $75 cash prize. Since most of them shell out about that much on their outfits to dress up for you, be sure to leave them a really good tip that day!

I just wasn't sure what I wanted to put in the circle altho my first favorite WH bartender's initials, BH, were a possibility I was considering.


OK, I finally found my WH Tat current as I began writing this article 3 weeks ago -- let's see if I can get it in here! Yeah, looks like I got it transferred OK. However, there is one little update: Change the K to an H since H****** planted a COUPLE of great, unsolicited kisses on my lips IN the WingHouse on her day off! Whatta girl! I gotta find her again & make sure she knows her H replaced Krista's K a whole year ago! Krista started denying the true facts on how she used to cheek-kiss the CORNER of my lips to sweet-talk me out of more loans and bigger tips! Screw YOU, Krista! (Altho I never would now, huh?)

A little more explanation to decode this tattoo: It's mostly hidden under my left arm placing these special WH Girls "under my wing" and keeping them close to my heart! You'll notice the blue wind added to represent that these girls were the wind beneath my wings at one time or another. I am going to add an "A" and another B for some new, young kissers who've made out with me! (Well, one dry, 2-sec. kiss on the lips at least one time. LOL)

Some time passed since I started writing this article and, on Memorial Day, I added some important updates on the way back from Orlando's tattoo convention. And the changes are likely to be the last additions to this tat for some time. Notice in the picture below that the "B" now has a "3" superscript indicating 2 more girls whose first name begins with a "B". The contest's B-category is now officially "closed." All remaining intials in the alphabet remain open for adding higher powers above their initial. It doesn't matter whether a WH Girl plants one on me outside in broad daylight around town or surreptitiously in my Mobile Home Park 8-minutes north of the local WingHouse.

What matters is that they are or have BEEN WingHouse Girls; I guess I should allow FUTURE WingHouse Girls to try out too, but I now have a 17-year-old on the waiting list until her 18th birthday. (She's BEEN on it since she was a 16-y.o. WingHouse part-time "Hostess" opening the doors to greet & seat patrons, but not to serve alcohol. I address her as "My Favorite Jailbait" just so I'm reminded she has to stay on the waiting list until next January! I do accept girl-initiated platonic hugs, however! ;-)

HNT #69: T-Bird Pics for Maeve (Sorry they were delayed, Doll!)

I've really wanted to post these T-Bird pics for awhile but first, I had to get the tree crud and mildew swept off and scrub my Bird with soap & bleach!! The only day I had to do it a couple of weeks ago, it was 2:30 PM in the bright Florida sunshine when I finally bought the rest of the cleaning materials & got over to Ted's. After 3 hours of hard scrubbing and sweating, I had only 60% of it done when I stopped before passing out from heat exhaustion! (Yes, I know I'm out of shape, LOL!) I was staying hydrated but I've noticed that summer heat "cooks" the insulin right out of my body that I take oral meds for! THAT was probably playing in the action, too. I'd forgotten--haven't been out in the sun working for months!) We've had lots of Spring sun in the Sunshine State, but I seem to focus too often on this computer (eMail more than blogs, obviously) and housecleaning!

Anyway, here's Ted, my car guy -- back after shopping or doing counseling work with his church group rescuing strippers from sin at one of the local strip clubs, the "Mons Venus" (I think he said). I didn't know any of this until he explained what was up as he washed the T-Bird. He had 2 young women he just evangelized on this day who want to make the jump to a more godly, sinless existence. One declared she would give up the $25,000 wages of sin she'd been offered to pose in Playboy magazine. Since there are so many girls doing drugs & casual sex in the stripper lifestyle, I'm glad for his success. I've noticed that many good-looking girls in this area seem to get into bartending or serving drinks & food immediately after high school, and to make ends meet living on their own (with no education or credentials except bartending experience), they often turn into the proverbial "party girls" going out nightly after they get off work between 9PM and 2AM!

So many places here have "Ladies' Nights" with free drinks or 2-4-1 specials for women, I now know why I see a lot of the girls I care about developing dysfunctional drinking habits in their early 20's! Beautiful in earlier calendar pictorials, they lost their stunning looks by age 26 from profligate use of sex, alcohol, tobacco, and drugs. (So many treat "weed" as if it's not a drug, OMFG! DUH!) Oh, and EVERYONE has a 21-I.D. long before they're 21--they get served easily cuz the tourist-based economy encourages lax enforcement to produce good business profit. (I was surprised that servers & bartenders in Florida do not need to be 21 to make or serve alcoholic drinks!) No WONDER there's a fucking drinking problem in this young age group. I see very few with serious life or academic goals and, as a consequence, their predominant belief-system is Hedonism!

Oh, before I got off on that rant, I was going to tell you Ted WAS a Godsend -- unexpectedly, he cleaned the remaining 40% of the T-Bird while I continued to recover. In all fairness, it was much cooler by the time he got home. Actually, knowledgeable Floridians schedule their heavier work out-of-doors for the cooler morning and evening hours. I gotta remember that -- I've lived in Florida for 28 years now {OMG!} and I STILL don't feel like a Floridian. But most of the people here now also came from somewhere else -- I actually fit right in, that way!

Now, the 2nd & 3rd pics just show the classic lines of this clean, 1959 Ford Thunderbird! After we got it all cleaned up, I could see why Ted prefers it "all original." I'm tempted to leave it in its original white paint after we sandblast the little bit of rust off all the metal edges. I can see where it retains its classic original design beauty that way, and would be worth far more $$ than if I "trick it out" in a candy-apple red like I've always wanted in a jazzy car I own. But I'm not doing this to resell it -- I'm fixing it up so my older son can inherit it! LOL! Well, I DO want to drive it around and turn a few heads and give some pretty ladies rides in it out to our excellent beaches! A couple WingHouse hotties already want to have a professional photo shoot as they lie all over My Bird! Hot Damn!

How about YOU, Maeve? You check in here, yet? Wanna lay out at the beach with my Bird? ;-) We have no oil yet anywhere near Clearwater Beach (Gulf Coast/ Tampa Bay area) so hurry cuz it HAS reached NW Florida! (No oil but you might feel some wetness.)

PS: Won't be able to submit another post for a couple weeks as I'm taking my old Gateway back in for a Hard Transplant (DRIVE, that is).

HNT #68 - Tanning Booth Undressing

Well, this pic is not so clear or inventive, but it IS current -- Took it today at the local Hot Spot about 4 PM and just beat the rush which tends to fill up all the tanning booths on the tanners' way home from work! Don't think I have much time to clean it up before HNT, but I'll try.

This pic was taken as I started to strip down to tan nearly nude. I don't know if you saw a similar pic I took a few months ago, but I can see a definite lessening of the spare tire around my middle. Since I know my WH Girls are all trying to get skinni for Bikini Season which is about ON TOP of us, I tell them I have to get ready for Bikini Season too, & that usually gets a laugh! Of course, they don't see me like THIS or they might think I would actually wear a speedo suit at a public beach! If my legs had no bad scarring and less fat, I'd consider it. But, seriously, I DO want to wear my swim trunks low on my hips so my Good-Evil tat will definitely show as I walk down our local beaches! (I am, therefore, continuing my quest for less tonnage and more tannage!)

For what it's worth, my '59 Thunderbird restoration is progressing to the point where Ted, my car guy, wants us to take it to the local fancy Burger Place parking lot this Friday evening to show it off. NOTE: THE LICENSE PLATE TO THE LEFT IS MINE FOREVER AS LONG AS I PAY FL's ANNUAL FEES ON TIME!!! There is a LOT left to do -- we have barely begun but it now has all the significant body work on the left rear quarter panel pounded out, bondoed, and primer painted. It also has the 5 new special-order, bias-ply, white sidewalls to match the rest of the original "survivor" characteristics of this classic car--highly unusual in that this car has ALWAYS been "on the road" & kept in a driveable state. One reason that it IS in such good shape must be that my aunt & uncle in Sacramento (CA) always kept it parked in an enclosed garage at their home and only drove it on special occasions. Those tires were mounted on the original rims that Ted had ground & sandblasted free of all rust buildups.

This restoration work is very labor intensive and Ted is a perfectionistic stickler not to just rush it through in a half-ass manner like a normal car-and-body shop would to finish and get paid. Ted multi-tasks long-term projects from different people which allows me to limit the expenditures for his labor and parts to $1000 each month. That way, I can afford it out of my retired pay and Ted can enjoy restoring this first classic T-Bird of his restoration career. He is "a 1-man car shop" & fixes normal cars normally, too. Ted really DOES do everything a "car guy" COULD do (including buying, transporting, and selling) with a motor vehicle. For a 51-year old car, my T-Bird has only a little rust buildup in a few edges of panels which Mike will sandblast off before he primes and paints the exterior in the "candy-apple red" I want to finish this T-Bird in. That color is the only change I will have made to the original car equipment and appearance in this restoration.

The eventual complete replacement of interior white & red leather will have to wait awhile til I have enough money saved to do that. However, my car guy already found a local lady he did car work for who can reupholster the complete interior. Ted is MUCH more impressed with the value & showmanship capability of this T-Bird than I am, but restoring classic cars ARE his thing! I know nothing about them and cars have never been a central part of my life as I never got to own ANY car until I graduated with my 4-year university degree and took an Air Force commission as a 2nd Lieutenant.

Ted says the value of this restored "Survivor" Thunderbird will far exceed the COST of restoring it, but that really doesn't matter to ME! My lifetime mentors, values, & experiences always taught me never to do things primarily for money or what they will do for how I look, nor to make others envious of me. And I will NEVER sell it! I am doing this because this car has overriding sentimental value as a family heirloom left by 2 of my most adored and adoring relatives ever and, apparently, my aunt had promised it to my older son before senility robbed her of her memory. That detail was not in her Will and I was her sole beneficiary so it is up to me to make her intent happen. But, since that son is also inheriting everything I have when I go (& is NOT paying for this restoration), I'm going to have a fair amount of personal fun with this classic antique car before I go! Ted keeps swearing that it will take all kinds of prizes in car shows he would enter it in but, you know, I'm just not THAT "into" all the fol-de-rol! Next week, CAR pics of everyone's rides on view Friday at the Burger Place!

HNT #67 - Half-Nekkid Monty au naturel

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HNT #66 - The Full Monty

WELL! You can tell that Monty IS rather full-size from the glimpse of his base to which the sock is clinging tightly. (Over 2" diameter -- I had no idea that gave a quite large erection girth (circumference) until I ran across some documented size-stats on HNT blogs. Formula for GIRTH is "pi" times Diameter so 3.1416 X 2" = 6.2826". More than the average bare bear.)

Since middle-average LENGTH = 6 inches, I suspect an average length in a man's erection would appear shorter visually if accompanying an above-average girth. Photos of isolated pics of only one erection-owner may be misleading. Variations in physical profiles are certainly evident from the examples displayed on OHNT! Surely, thin cocks look longer just because their girth is less. So which would a happy lady choose if she couldn't have both long & thick!? (BTW, "dick" means "thick" in German, LOL.) Please leave a vote for YOUR personal preference in the Comments section, if you dare. In the interest of scientific data collection, I pledge not to be offended by anyone's preference, LOL! (Chagrined maybe but not offended.)

Scientist-trained as I am, I further hypothesize that "size queens" develop from habituation to intercourse or viewing porn with well-endowed men whose porn star activity levels surely develop out of confidence & sexual aggressiveness stimulated by perceptions of their larger endowments! I don't handle other guys' dicks (I'm not a urologist, LOL) but, as a social scientist, I'm entitled to make some decent experimental hypotheses and let someone ELSE collect the data. Anyone need a PhD research topic for his/her dissertation?



Well, Ladies, here's a thick dick for you.... Guess I'm gonna have to keep it covered so it doesn't get burned or too tan, eh? Burning might cause pain instead of pleasure (a major purpose of this appendage).

Now, if this not-too-shy pic isn't enough of a Full Monty for you, check out Miss Kitty and one cool cat below THIS pic! ;-)




Time for glasses!
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HNT #65 - Intro to the Monty!

Now, before I let you see MY fly area, let me give you a link to a lotta shots of some REAL SEXY FLY !! If you like flies, you may or may not like these -- but you gotta admit, they are stimulating, exciting, hott, and even sexually arousing! You've never ridden a fly as fast as what I show you here! Go ahead, click the link! You know you want some FINE, FAST, FLY!

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e00_1200042782


If you checked that out, you may be disappointed by the fly below -- I'm not as fast as I once was. (But I'm as fast once as I EVER was!) LOL Oh, WAIT A MINUTE! I didn't mean it THAT way cuz now I'm hard for hours with modern medicine!

HNT #64 - St Patty's Day Interruption & HOT TAT I'd like to fuck!

Well, Dear Readers, March 17th threw me some unexpected curves & pics-availability so I'll show u the Full Monty NEXT week, K ? My Full Monty pic can wait.... Can U and ur Hot Little Bodies? LOLOL?


NOTE: On St Patrick's Day, even I am Irish!! LOL So these are my "chonies" on the left (as one beloved HNTer I follow calls them, so "now I know she's Chicana or lives around Chicanas"). Chonies is a Tex-Mex abbreviation of "calcones" (Mex. Sp. for underpants.) I hate my Tex-Mex-ex- for her disgraceful treatment of me and her incompetent inabilities -- but I love her first language and many Mexican cultural features! If you can figure what this little head in the pic is on top of, you know how I USED to get a little head--if she wanted to get laid, all she had to do was suck my dick thru my p.j.'s and get it hard when I was still asleep! 2 AM is when I tended to wake up anyway with raging hard-ons probably from a daily cycle reaching a 2 AM high level of testosterone recovering from the day's wipeout of my testosterone due to accumulated stress. TOO BAD I NEVER GOT TO COME IN HER MOUTH EXCEPT THAT FIRST TIME IN A 20-YR. MARRIAGE--IT SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THE LAST!!! What a big little cunt she turned out to be!


OK, this is a shot of my Guinness nighttime shorts for March 17th. I don't have any with my cock showing, but if you want, I'm sure any HNT lady could talk me into it through a private email! (Knock urself out but send ME something nekkid & I will reciprocate!)














This is one pic of my Gangsta Girlie tat after it was finally finished today! I hope the half-nekkid tat distracts you from my double chins--I have gotten stymied on further loss of weight & seem to have just plateaued. When the weather gets a little bit warmer, I'll get back to exercise-walking again!

And NOW, you get the best pic I've been able to take of my completed Gangsta Girlie tat!! There's a TattooFest in Tampa next weekend and my tat should be healed just in time to go get a little nekkid there in front of judges and try to win a ribbon or trophy in the Best Portrait category!


I love how this tat turned out! Any of you ladies who want to wrap YOUR stuff around my arm's stuff are welcome to send me an eMail for any late-night cuddling and groping intentions! You'll notice how Mike Sizemore, my master tattooist, finished her off with a lot of extra time donated to perfecting the piece with shading and white highlights! (The nips are especially nice, don't you think?) Mike is renaming his shop "Kill 'Em All Tattoo" & this tat is definitely Killer! Most noticeable is the pink aura all around my hott young friend here, and if her new bf doesn't like it, he can just go FUCK himself!

HNT #63: More Half-Nekkid Tanning Bed Pics!

OK, I'll continue the tanning bed strip-tease I started last week even tho the written topic's totally different today! I will escalate the nekkidness of the tease pics for a few more weeks and tantalize you with the possibility of The Full Monty as a Finale'. More than likely, I will trade MY Full Monty pics with any HNT Lady in private eMail as long as she sends me HERS first! I might even do it as SOON as she sends hers which could be today or tomorrow! If I feel something special, I might even send her a Boner-Bonus pic as sort of a "tip" ;-)

Let me try to make an excuse for my straight-tight-lipped pics cuz I wasn't thinking of smiling during these early poses--I was just focused on seeing my cell phone icons to make sure I had the phone-cam function ON correctly. Hard to see through those little, purple, squint-eye, UV protecting mini-goggles they sold me. Best to preset the camera before you turn on the tanning lights and leave it on til you take the pics.

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The main part of today's post deals with an interesting Craig's List search for impregnation that I answered to encourage, but not to inseminate! See what YOU think -- you might even hook up cuz the links are live!

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Black Woman Seeking Sperm Donor - w4m - 33 (Tampa)
Date: 2010-02-18, 11:40PM EST
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Attractive, single, professional black woman seeking to receive sperm donor, no legal ties to child. Must be educated, have a healthy background, no drug use, chronic alcohol use and of course, no diseases (which must be proven). Don't have any racial hang-ups, but would prefer black or hispanic, as my background is German and black and having a child 3/4 white is unpredictable. He/she could come out looking nothing like me. For anyone seeking to know why seeking through this? Well, tried the sperm bank unsuccessfully. I am very successful and have absolutely no desire to be married or in a relationship, but I badly want children and have the means to provide for one in all ways. I work from home so they will get ample attention. I have a very loving and supportive family so will gets lots of love and have great male friends who will provide that male role model that they might need. I think the more anonymous the less stress for coming in later to try and get legal custody, so ultimately, my reason. If you're interested in assisting, don't mind natural way as long as you can prove that you don't have anything. I will do the same.
Location: Tampa

MY reply follows:
http://tampa.craigslist.org/hil/cas/1607594323.html
What you propose is VERY smart & well-thought-out! I'm not applying but I wanted to give you some positive feedback as I think this is the wave of the future! So far, I don't have sex with anyone I don't know well & care about so that's an emotional attachment right there. But I have learned the hard way that a woman who intentionally gets herself pregnant would almost certainly raise our child well & I wouldn't have to have the fatherly concerns I did which trapped me into an ill-fated marriage "back in the day" to a big liar for the sake of the child! (I know I'm not a typical guy. I have very good genes too, and no diseases.)

If I find a woman I'd like to bed, I give her a copy of my Quest Diagnostics STD/STI clearance but I insist on getting hers back. So far, that hasn't happened. And I don't need intercourse THAT badly! I think you are very wise to insist on the proof, too. I wish u the very best of luck in everything--I wish I had discovered this approach LONG ago. Oh well, it was only my life! LOL

PS: If you have a son, I recommend getting him into the Boy Scouts by age 11 to give him another good, character-development & outdoorsy path to grow with. Just visit several different troops and take your time deciding which is the best to enroll in. And participate as a member of the adult supervisory committee over that particular troop so you know bad things won't happen. Check in the phone book under "Boy Scouts of America" for the local HQ which can tell you where different troops meet near your home. Scouting is a nationwide program so your job transfers will still allow your son to stay in Scouting by transferring to another troop in your new location! He can continue to earn his Eagle Scout award & get college scholarships with that! I raised 2 sons this way--it's a great way to raise boys!

AND I raised my 2nd son all by myself! NO support system but me and 1/2 my meager AF retired pay. (Believe me, it's no picnic if they develop ADHD from the other parent's genes so I strongly recommend screening ur sperm donors for disabilities that might be inherited. ADHD has an 80% heritability factor if one parent has it; I did well in school but my ex- hid her school problems as she didn't KNOW it was ADHD causing her academic trouble.)

Sincere best wishes, RichardShhh

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Well, here's me Free 2B a little more Free with each new weekly post! F u wanna join me on MY blog or OHNT, eMail me UR sexy pic & I'll put it up! Or if ur a woman wanting just to send me ur sexy one to keep in secrecy or for a trade, make like a modern version of the beautiful statue of Nike & "Just Do It!"

FYI, that's a cutoff sweatshirt sleeve to cover my left arm tats when I was first tanning. With SPF-50 covering EVERY tat, it wasn't needed. (I still take it in my bag of goodies in case I run out of SPF.)

HNT #62 - Wishing for warmer Florida again!

This was taken early last summer in the Tampa Bay area. We have our sun back in the Sunshine State this week but the Canadian snowbirds brought their cold temps back for a month longer than we usually feel them!

I discovered the beauty of tanning beds this past Christmas/Hannukah though, and the best part? They only take 10 - 15 minutes out of one's day, and you BARELY break a sweat! (Barely
carries BOTH meanings here, LOL.) The beds are nice--warm and their fans create a steady little flow of air like a breeze through the bed's core air space. Hot Spot has 2 locations in the western Tampa Bay locale & mine has 5 private cubicles for lay-down-on-your-back tanning beds and 1 stand-up booth for tanning in the round & standing the whole 10 minutes! Only 10 min. in the stand-up cuz it's the newest tanning equipment bought and is that much more intense! (But 10 minutes is great for a quickie around lunchtime if you don't have another kind available.)

The time-operators of our reliable Hot Spot insure the indoor sun eclipses no later than 20 min after start! They set it up via remote computer and do not enter the private tanning cubicle you lock for privacy the whole time. The operator makes safety recommendations of 10 - 15 minutes for the 1st couple of baths til you see how you tan and get your skin used to it. I think this blog will start with things I wish I'd known before I hit the tanning booths. I did ask a couple of my bartenders & servers who have been using them for a few years and are very, very tan (and keep it up to look Florida-sexy year-round). They gave me some ideas before I started in booths and they answered questions that occurred BETWEEN sessions.

For awhile, it became my routine to go to the Hot Spot directly after leaving my bar & grill 2 or 3 days a week. It is wise to leave at least 1 day open between tanning sessions and most people only go a couple times a week. Hot Spot has a great "flat rate" of only $19/mo for unlimited days of tanning if you sign up to do that for a minimum of 1 year. If you go on vacation or have surgery or something else, you can put your account "on hold" and pick up any extended time for free after the contract period ends. (There IS a penalty of $50 to 'buy-out" early if you want to stop your contract permanently.) These are the policies at MY tanning spa; of course, others must vary some & it is probably worth shopping around for the best price deal!

The young, nude-tanning hedonists I know at my bar & grill thought it quaint that I asked if their tanning salons allowed totally-nude tanning. (A typical, conventional, tanning-bed newbie question?) For my first 2 shorter tanning sessions, I had "speedo" underwear on to tan as much as possible but protect what I thought might be extra sensitive areas never before exposed to sunlight. LOL. A very pretty server giving me advice later teased me to "wear a sock!" But I thought it was a GREAT idea! And ever since, I have gone nude with my complete genitalia shoved into a white athletic sock. (I gave her a modest souvenir pic of me later entitled "Cock-in-a-Sock!" LOL, it surprised her but was pretty well-received!)

Be sure to put SPF 45-50 over all tattoos or the repeated-trip exposures will destroy your colored ink quickly; if you tan well but don't use SPF45+, your skin's mellanin will eventually tan even the tattoo and make the tat mostly disappear! There is an AM-FM-CD player in each booth so you can bring in your fave music to tan by. Altho I could barely hear it once I turned the tanning bed on. Oh yes, upon entry, my spa's bed has the typical white towel which can be folded into a sunshield until an initial tan is acquired on "virgin" areas. I learned by burning the small of my back that I should have folded a little towel-triangle to place there the first few times. The operators also leave a melt-in-your-mouth peppermint candy on top of the towel for each new customer. Tastes/smells refreshing after a slightly dehydrating 20-minute tanning session.

The beds have a countdown timer to allow you 10 minutes to strip down, & put skin preps on (a dry tanning lotion as well as dry SPF if you like.) Sometimes, those lotions are available for purchase from the tanning spa in their front entryway -- it is not greasy and will not have to be cleaned up after you finish. After you leave, the operators do wipe down & sanitize all areas that you might have touched in the tanning booth, anyway. If you need an extra 5 minutes to use the bathroom or apply fast-tan lotion that the spa sells, let the operator know & they will accomodate you. The bed's countdown timer reads out your remaining session time once you start the machine. You can turn off the bed at any point short of the full time, but it will not re-start without reset from the front of the shop.

Sunhat and eye protection: You can purchase this protection right there at the spa at a very reasonable cost (lotions are pretty expensive, tho.) One of the nurses at my cardiologist's said she had gotten cataracts from unprotected tanning bed use -- she had used no eye covering when in HER spa's beds. For just a few bucks at my spa, I bought little plastic eyeball UV protectors that have a see-thru part. AND MOST IMPORTANT, when I don't need to look at anything, I SHUT MY EYES AS IF ASLEEP! Last summer, I noticed that my middle-aged hair started bleaching GRAY very fast when I would tan outdoors without a hat! Luckily, I have carried my Grandmother's brown hair genes into later middle-age. So I had already learned to wear a hat and, at the spa, I bought what looks like a special cloth shower cap to filter out much of the UV-rays which would bleach some of my brown hair to gray while indoors!

Good place to see girls too, I found!! There are often one or two pretty girls signing in ahead of me. They are always friendly, up-front, and usually "chat-able!" Sometimes, they will even run from one tanning booth to another to get something from a friend who is already ALL-nekkid and they are only TOPLESS! Woo-Hoo! I just happened to step out into the narrow hallway as she came by. Of course, Gentleman that I am, I turned my eyes away [sorta... ;-) ]. I wouldn't mind fucking her, NOW! May I have ONE Do-Over, please?


OK, if you've stayed all the way to here, I'll give you one more part-nekkid-me IN the tanning booth today. I like a "no-sweat" booth better, anyway! Next week, if you come back, I'll show you a little more of me in my tanning bed (birthday) suit. I can make this a strip-tease of sorts for a month of Thursdays out of just one Hot Spot trip!