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| User: | breakring (14088490) Connie Updates
My meandering thoughts |
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| Name: | breakring | |||||
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| Location: | Las vegas, Nevada, United States | |||||
| Birthdate: | 1969-05-22 | |||||
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| Bio: | Hwaet, my friends: Conrad here. In a general sense, who am I? Physically: I am about 6'4", 280, bald, reasonably fit, inked, usually wear darker clothing. Professionally I am an attorney. Romantically I end up being involved in long term, structured, power exchange relationships and am in one right now with Melissa. She and Abby, her toddler that we mutually raise, live 24/7 with me. Socially I end up spending time with leather (I teach and judge at various leather events during the year around the US and Canada), the SCA and at the gym. Most of my friends come from these three areas, though I have a few odds and ends from law enforcement, martial arts or even more oddball stuff. I am starting out this Live Journal account as a way to manage my current Connie_Updates list. If you do not know who "Conrad" might be, well, welcome, I suppose. I have a "vanilla" and sanitized version of this journal for law community/law enforcement people, SCA and some bio family; that is where I place new friends if I am unsure where to fit them. However, I am pretty much an open book. I do not have professional or social concerns with folks knowing and do this to be kind to the sensibilities of some folks I care about who do not wish to be fully "in the loop." If you want me to let you access the full version, just let me know. A quote from a movie comes to mind: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. . . . All those ... moments will be lost in time, like tears...in rain." [Last words of Roy Batty in Blade Runner]. Ok, melodramatic, but I find it evocative of what my motives are, partly, for this journal. There are some things going on in my life right now which are pretty serious and it is likely I will want to remember them, in detail, in the years to come. Thus, to ensure that my memories of this time are not lost like tears in the rain, I will be sharing here. A question I an often asked is what "Breakring" means. It comes from a kenning found in several old Germanic and Norse literary sources, like the Volsung Saga and Beowulf. "Beaga bryttan," (Breaker of Rings) is a metaphorical compound word or phrase. It refers to the particular sort of hero king who rubbed shoulders with his warriors in hall and on the field and apparently comes from the habit among such chieftans of breaking off sections of gold arm-rings to bestow as a sign of favour, thus "ring breaker," "breaker of rings" or "breakring." Aledon þa leofne þeoden, beaga bryttan, on bearm scipes, mærne be mæste. þær wæs madma fela of feorwegum, frætwa, gelæded; ne hyrde ic cymlicor ceol gegyrwan hildewæpnum ond heaðowædum, billum ond byrnum; him on bearme læg madma mænigo, þa him mid scoldon on flodes æht feor gewitan. there laid they down their darling lord on the breast of the boat, the breaker-of-rings, by the mast the mighty one. Many a treasure fetched from far was freighted with him. No ship have I known so nobly dight with weapons of war and weeds of battle, with breastplate and blade: on his bosom lay a heaped hoard that hence should go far o'er the flood with him floating away. Tentative 2008 schedule March 12: 7PM St. Therese at PT's. March 15: Stevens going away party March 21-23: Friend of Melissa's here from Indiana March 28-April 6: Catherine Gross teaching in Vegas April 4-6: non-profit board meeting April 7-Abby turns 2 April 10-13: Presenting at Beyond Leather April 25-27: Mark Frazier teaching in Vegas May 1-4: IMsL May 8-12: Melissa's sister visiting May 16-18 NW M/s Contest May 22: my birthday May 30-31: MAsT meeting in LA June 13-15: Presening at Cuir de Carnaval June 27-29: Presenting in Edmonton, Canada July 25-27 presenting at Thunder August 22-24 presenting at GLLA August 7-10 presenting at International Master/slave Conference in D.C. Septeber 26-28 tentatively presenting at Folsom Fringe or Beyond Vanilla - I have not heard enough from anyone to know for sure, though I have presented at FF for the past 3 years, so I am planning upon there October 1-3? Black Rose October 9-12 Leather Sir/Boy in Dallas - tentatively presenting October 17-19 Rio Grande Leather November 7-9 Presenting at Southeast Erotic Art Conference | |||||
| Memories: | 8 entries | |||||
| Pictures: | over 60 public | |||||
| Interests: | 52: adria, arnis, asatru, bdsm, bjj, bondage, bullwhip, caid, canes, combat wrestling, d/s, ecs, escrima, heathenry, heavy fighting, hellenistic wrestling, history, hoplology, hypnosis, indian club swinging, judo, kampfringen, kyushu, las vegas, law, leather, m/s, martial arts, master/slavery, meditation, nlp, odd lifting, parenting, poetry, powerlifting, pressure point, ringenkunst, sca, single tails, sm, sociology, starkhafn, stickfighting, strength, strife and conflict, swordplay, tai chi, tattoo, the gym, toddlers, tuite, uterine cancer | |||||
| Schools: | None listed | |||||
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| Mutual Friends: | 71: 57714_2714, __obsidian__, american_knight, an_irish_rose, aztecknight, barongiles, bear_eagle, belle_tink, beth_, boi_moe, bootpig, breakring, callistamh, colorsofleather, compassstarlady, darkmark0802, doeyn, ealasaidh, edgeart, faganthepure, girldebra, grendalgornych, halla_hundr, his_namaste, his_puka, hissheereen, hopebrat, jeanetteaz, jeff_cgull, joeguppy, joselyn_pink, julian_wolf, karen_mssdl2004, kgurl02, korwyn, kottr, kreuzhaus, kyranas_blog, lasvegasfemme, leatherandlight, leathercigarboy, leatherlasvegas, lizzard_tpc, lorccan333, lzbnangel, malik042249, marg_it, master_jamal, masterfiremaam, mooneyblue, nikkkitheunholy, nvcutie, qness, ravensron, shadow_darkwolf, sharon_masters, shelynx, silky_sable, slavelace, slavetiffany, tatt2, tempesta138, tempusmagis, thattodd, twilight_hunter, vegasbratt, vegasfirebrand, vegasvixen99, victoriakg, wakarimashta, zippydclown | |||||
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