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In case you have not noticed, I have been on a bit of a hiatus.

My computer got a virus which made this tough to type. Then I liked the feeling of no obligation. And then I got bogged down in some guilt for not keeping it up.

And I feel invigorated!

So, I will try to do a better, if different job.

Perhaps the onset of summer here has something to do with it. Though we live in AC from about noon to sometime during the night.

Desert air gets cool fast when the sun goes down. We have been through all this before.

It is one of the nice features of being here. And of course it is all dry most of the time.

I have watched some good films this week. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone is a film about bisexuality by Ming-liang Tsai. Malaysia. Homeless Chinese immigrants look for love and find it in surprising places. And combinations.

Eastern Boys is a great film about a gang of young men who prey on gay men. They get picked up and then invite all their friends over. The apartment is ransacked and, of course, the closeted victim is afraid to do anything about it. One of the kids comes back to the victim and tries to make amends. He is, it turns out, gay and afraid to tell his friends. Things get even more complicated but the ending is quite satisfying. I always worry about this as we could go back to the unhappy outcomes for the gay sinners almost any time. But we do not.

The Circle is a docudrama depicting the true stories of a few gay men in Geneva. We see the story and then we meet the men. It is quite wonderful. As these men are. The actors are quite true to the story and we, or at least I, am not bothered they look nothing like the real guys. I am buying this so it is a 5 out of Netflix5.

There is not a lot of family news. Summer does this for us.

I will probably continue now with the blog and see how that goes. So far so good.