"Sex is one of the most personal things we do as people. To have someone who says she loves you limit how you express yourself in the bedroom is like a small death. It kills the soul."

-Laurell K. Hamilton

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Some truly amazing people read this blog; I’ve gotten to know many of you through your comments left here, and our email exchanges. That is why I sometimes ask for the opinions of everyone, opinions about questions I find interesting.

The last couple of days I’ve been thinking about one question a great deal. If one had to choose, what is most important in ones life, bdsm, or polyamory? Luckily none of us has to make that choice, but if we did, which would we choose I wonder.

As all of my readers know, I’m very, very deeply involved with bdsm. As I imagine most of my readers know, I’m also deeply involved with polyamory.

I embraced bdsm earlier in my life, and while the road to acceptance of my dominance was a bit difficult at times, it wasn’t all that hard, and I became successful at both the physical and emotional aspects of bdsm fairly easily. I guess in a nutshell I’m saying that bdsm came easily to me, and at a very young age.

Polyamory was different for me. I embraced it later in my life, and the road to full acceptance of it was much more difficult. I also found it much harder to master the emotional skills necessary for successful polyamory. I am now quite successfully polyamorous, but in it’s own nutshell, I can say that the journey was tough and not mastered until I gained wisdom from age.

This week, as I contemplate my life, my predilections, and my loves, I wonder which is actually more important to me, my embrace of bdsm, or my embrace of polyamory. Of course for me these two things are intertwined, which perhaps makes my question even more difficult for me to answer.

For those of you who are both kinky and poly, or who have experienced both, I am very curious about your own personal answers. What is more important to you, bdsm or polyamory?

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I’ve been reading a good deal recently, and think it appropriate to pass along my reading list for those who might be looking for a good book to help pass the evenings.

The Regulators by Richard Bachman (S. King)
I found this to be a quick, enjoyable read. Perfect light fiction for a lazy afternoon in the sun.

Iberia by James Michener
This is quite the opposite of a quick read, and not a novel as was expected. Rather a report of Mr. Michener’s travels through the Iberian Peninsula. Much has of course changed since the book was written, but I found it quite interesting for it’s perspective of the time, Spain under Franco.

Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
A short little novel, not challenging, but as I read it I kept imagining that it could be re-written as a perfectly splendid bdsm story.

Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
A more emotional novel than the rest, I found the interpersonal dynamics to be very well portrayed.

The Church In Crisis A History of the General Councils 325-1870 by Philip Hughes
A striking project in scope giving an overview of the Christian world surrounding each of the 20 General Councils of the Catholic Church. I found the book a fascinating read, especially regarding some of histories most successful ‘heretical’ movements. Of course since the book was published Vatican II has taken place, the 21st General Council.

The Horse of Darius by Justin Cartwright
I found this to be a most enjoyable adventure novel, portraying the last Shah of Iran as one of the main characters.

California Gold by John Jakes
Not my favorite Jakes novel, but extremely good nevertheless.

Currently I am reading Reconciliation by Benazir Bhutto, the recently assassinated former Prime Minister of Pakistan.
Three things stand out to me in reading this book. First of all, a marked insincerity. Prime Minister Bhutto speaks only of love for the people of Pakistan, never of her own desire for power. Of course American politicians do the same, but they manage to pull it off better. Secondly, the book seems disjointed in a number of ways. Ms. Bhutto was assassinated prior to final editing of the book, one must assume that she would have cleaned it up some had she lived to do so. Lastly, and I think most importantly, the Prime Minister gives her own personal views of Islam, liberally quoting the Quran (Koran) to make her case. Her views are not in any way similar to those of militant Islamists, and from my own rather extensive reading of the Quran, I believe that she paints a much more accurate picture of Islamic belief than those more newsworthy sources.

Next I will be reading the latest two Anita Blake novels, The Harlequin and Blood Noir by Laurell K. Hamilton

Looking over my list here it seems that I’ve been reading a great deal more than I realized these past few weeks. I would recommend any of these books as worthy of your time.

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Beijing Olympics: Cheeky condom adverts from Telegraph.co.uk

Beijing Olympics: BBC banned but pornography for sale in Olympic village from Telegraph.co.uk

Naked ambition: Britain's Olympians strip down as they prepare to make history in Beijing from the Daily Mail

Married man's sex with woman is rape, rules SC from Express India

What the well-dressed nudist wears from the CNW Group

What's Miley Cyrus Afraid Of? from Slate

Top Nine Songs About Self Love from The Frisky

Love Hotels, Video

Not quite jam and Jerusalem: Women's Institute ladies toured the world in search of the perfect brothel from the Daily Mail

State looses attempt to argue anew for sex toy ban from the AP

Naughty Victoria from the National Post

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Your Habits and Your Children by Alexis

Alexis provides an important yet seemingly unique perspective on childrearing by kinky parents.

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A blog I found today, and thought appropriate to share here, for everyones enjoyment:

Outside Vanilla
"Never judge a respectable exterior. Beneath it can be someone brimming with passion and wearing rubber pants."

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Last weekends heavy maintenance work in Studio Milliscent went perfectly thanks to all the people who were able to lend a hand. It’s amazing how great it looks once again, just as it did when it was first constructed.

Thank you again to those who were able to help with this project, and thank you to everyone who comes to visit me, without you none of this would be possible.

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Great Fun!

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People who know me know that I take tremendous pride in my studio, my dungeon. It is totally unique, comfortable, and I think beyond compare when it comes to places to play. Additionally, it’s chock full of so much wonderful equipment that one could never hope to list it all.

Part of keeping it that way though is maintenance. Tomorrow is the big day. Starting bright and early we plan on removing everything from the space and once it is empty maintaining each and every inch of it. When we are done it should be just as perfect as it was when it was built not all that long ago.

We plan that this process will take an entire day and that we will not finish until late tomorrow night sometime, especially since some pieces of equipment will actually have to be disassembled to get them out of the space. It will all be worth the effort though because it is important to me that my space be the very best it can be.

A huge thank you to everyone who is coming to help with this project. Tom, Mark, Eagle, Chris & Sandy, without each of you none of this would be possible.

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As those who live here know Washington State has one of the toughest smoking bans in the country. Smokers are relegated to their own private homes, the outdoors a proscribed distance away from building entrances, or to Indian Reservations that are not affected by state restrictions due to their sovereign status.

As a 99.9% non-smoker this ban doesn’t affect me personally, but it is interesting to watch how people are forced to cope with overreaching regulation. Indeed at the same time as we have this ban I know that the popularity of extremely high quality cigars remains high, and there seems to be some similar resurgence in the number of people who enjoy smoking pipes.

All of this comes to mind because my husband is one of the people who loves these less hazardous ways of smoking, and as it is so difficult to find a commercial establishment in which one can legally partake he is hosting a smoking party for his circle of smoking friends here at our house soon. I imagine that the place will smell a bit for a day or two, even if only from smoke wafting through the windows from outside, but no harm can come from such an occasional event.

I mentioned above that I’m a 99.9% non-smoker, so perhaps I should explain for the benefit of those who are new to this blog. I occasionally smoke when I’m with someone who holds a smoking fetish. A fetish for watching a woman smoke. I have great fun with it, with watching the fetishist’s reaction to each of my movements as I smoke. Indeed with such an aficionado a smoking scene can be a truly amazing thing.

The thought of smoking I think brings up images in our minds. It does for me anyway. When I think of cigar smokers I think of businessmen or politicians, men in the proverbial smoke filled room making weighty decisions their discussion concerning the vital issues of the day, and how their organizations must react to those issues. I also conjure an image of a female cigar smoker. Sexy, smoking the cigar as an outward sign of her acceptance of her own hedonism, enjoying it as a sensual experience. Both of these images are of course positive ones to my mind, different as to gender, but both positive nevertheless.

When I think of pipe smokers I think only of masculinity, perhaps because that is all I have ever been exposed to in that context. Thoughtful men sitting with their pipes thinking about the issues of the day, perhaps quietly discussing them with their fellows. Men of contemplation more than action. A much different image from that of the cigar smoker, but nevertheless once again a very positive image.

When I think of cigarette smokers my thoughts are inevitably drawn to the dominatrix. The elegantly cool, delightfully cruel dominatrix enjoying a unique cigarette likely in a long and stylish holder. Again this is a positive image, and one of great power.

I don’t often think of smokers in the way others may, of people addicted to the drug contained in tobacco and delivered by the cigarette. Perhaps that is because I am not often exposed to such, nor to the physical damage that cigarette smoking can obviously cause.

As I’ve never been addicted to cigarettes, and most all of my friends & family are non-smokers it is perhaps easier for me to have these positive images of smoking than it would be for those who are more personally effected by it.

I write all of this for two reasons. As I’ve mentioned my home will be hosting a smoker soon, and watching the invitations be prepared this morning has made me think about smoking in a way that I normally do not. I also write this because recently I found a photograph on the internet which somehow called to me. Not a pornographic, or bdsm image, not even a sexy image, but one I found to be strangely erotic. Quite far out of the norm, I thought that I would share it here.

Now that I know how to extend an entry, you will find this image by clicking on the ‘Continue Reading’ link below.

I am curious as to what you my readers think about this image. Does it convey elegance? Is it for you somehow erotic? Does she bring up thoughts of the cool and cruel dominatrix? Is she contemplating your suffering while she enjoys her quiet thoughts, her smoke? To those of you who hold a smoking fetish I must wonder, does this image call to that fetish? Does it convey nothing of the sort to you?

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I’m currently being interviewed for Toxic Treat, and am finding the questions to be interesting indeed. I’ll post here when the interview is up, and of course post an easy link into it.

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I’ve noticed an odd trend among parents today; it seems to me that people are almost fetishizing childhood innocence & safety. I can’t imagine that it is healthy for the children, and I have to wonder how these children who were obsessively protected by their parents will turn out when they finally reach adulthood.

I know of two different sets of grandparents who have been told that their grandchildren cannot see them drinking alcohol. I know of a mother who is convinced that her very young daughter was molested by the equally young neighbor girl because the two girls were observed ‘playing doctor.’ Lastly I know of a mother who does not allow ‘negative’ words such as death to be said around her children.

It seems that children today are not allowed outside without an adult chaperone. Gone forever are the days when one wandered off to play in the morning, returning home when it started getting dark.

It seems that parents today are convinced that there is a child predator around every corner. Gone forever are the days when children were able to visit a playground without having paranoid fears coursing through their parent’s minds.

Children in the past climbed trees, participated in dangerous sports, explored the wonders of nature. They crashed, sometimes broke bones, fell often with the skinned knees to prove it. They were allowed out of sight, growing up by being alone as their maturity level dictated. Are children allowed to do these things today, or are we as adults so worried about them that we try to protect them from every danger, hence not allowing them to live, to grow up?

When children are allowed to be children, to enjoy the world, are their heads so filled with the fears of their parents that they can’t actually have fun? Isn’t childhood supposed to be about just that, having fun?

Children fall out of trees, they get skinned knees. Children see and hear bad things. That is the nature of childhood. Are we as adults taking the joy out of childhood because we are so protective of our children that we disallow them from doing the things that make childhood worth living?

Lastly I must ask myself, are the fears adults feel for their children today even rational? Is the fear commensurate with the risk? Could it be that adults are so concerned over the safety of children that this ideal of safety, of innocence has become almost as a fetish within the adults in question? Are adults fetishizing childhood innocence, fetishizing childhood safety?

Clearly it is wrong for adults to allow children to be in overly dangerous situations. It is however equally wrong for an adults fears to prevent them from allowing their children to indeed be children.

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Through the years I’ve sought out theories of female supremacy. I enjoy reading the authors of such theories thought processes, and I must admit that reading about female supremacy makes for some very hot reading indeed. Thinking about such utopian visions is an amazing turn-on for me. The very idea of a world in which women are all Mistresses, men all slaves is the stuff of very pleasant, very damp dreams.

Unfortunately despite how very exciting these theories are every one I have read is flawed. Cannot be correct. That does occasionally serve to place a damper on the fun one has reading them.

The basic flaw I have found in each of them is the claim of total gender supremacy. Of course this is the very thing that makes them so exciting, but it is also their downfall. While some of us kinky folk might absolutely love touching ourselves while reading about a female supremacist society in the stark light of day we know in our hearts that the world is full of women who could never deserve to be thought of as supreme. Women who beat their children, women who rot in prison because they are too dangerous to walk the streets, and women who steal from the productive members of our nation when they cash their welfare check every month. Surely such women can never be considered somehow supreme to the legion of great men out there, men who love and protect their families and improve our world in the process.

That is the fundamental flaw I have always found, but it is not the only one. Another flaw seems to occasionally just leap off the page at me, and yet a third seems unavoidable if one spends as much time reading everything kinky on the internet as I do.

The first of these is that occasionally one is reading a woman’s theory of female supremacy and it starts out perfectly. She is the head of her household, her husband the sissy in skirts. So far, so hot! She believes that men must submit to women, that all men exist to serve. So far, hotter yet! She doesn’t approve of the male orgasm, keeps her sissy husband in denial for long stretches of time. Even hotter! She can’t stomach the thought of actually fucking the sissy husband, so she cuckolds him every chance she gets. I’m starting to wonder if it can possibly get even hotter! She cuckolds him with ‘Alpha Males’ who treat her like a whore. Total and complete let down! No more arousal here.

How on earth can she be a female supremacist, a believer that women are inherently supreme over men, and yet run around as an ‘Alpha Males’ slut? Not only a fundamental flaw, this flaw totally ruins a carefully nurtured lust.

The second of these are the conflicting theories of male supremacy which are floating around out there. Such theories do nothing for me, they certainly couldn’t turn me on, so I don’t search for them but I do stumble upon them from time to time while wandering around the internet. There are plenty of women out there with their own theories of male supremacy, who want nothing more than to be in submission to a man who believes in such things. Another flaw to the theory that all women are supreme.

I’m making this post because last week I was sent another theory of supremacy. It seems that a friend of mine has come up with a theory and I was pleased with it because when I read it I noticed that it did not contain any of the fatal flaws mentioned above. It acknowledges that gender is not a valid division within such theories, and while it does not specifically state that a relationship based upon a larger hierarchy would fit within its parameters it is clear that it would.

It does seem to make provision for the truly bad woman, for the woman who wants to have a slave husband plus a master lover, and for women who want to serve supreme men.

The theory also includes a strong mixture of spirituality.

I do not post about spirituality much here on the blog but I firmly believe that bdsm is spiritual and that what I do in my dungeon is spiritual. I have experienced extremely spiritual moments with my submissives and I relish reading everything that is available about bdsm spirituality. As a result, I found its inclusion within the theory quite interesting.

I’ve received my correspondent’s permission to post the theory here on the blog and I will attempt to do so because I am very interested in seeing how other people react to it. It is however a very long document so I don’t want to post it here on the front page because I imagine that at least some of my readers will have no interest in it, and will just want to read my posts which would otherwise be buried.

If all goes well with this post, the theory will be found by clicking a ‘continue reading’ link directly below.

If you would like to share your comments about this theory with me please either leave them here on the blog, or email them to me at: blog AT milliscent.com, replacing the AT with @ of course.

If a ‘continue reading’ link doesn’t appear it means that I was unable to post the theory here due to it’s extreme size, but I would be happy to try and email it to anyone who is interested, just let me know.

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I’ve gotten to do a lot of face-sitting this weekend, and it’s always tremendously exciting!

I strap him down, nice and tight so that he can’t dislodge me with his struggles.

I take my time, allow him to get a very good look at the ass that will soon be overriding his need to breathe, allowing his anticipation to grow.

I position myself perfectly using great care to ensure that his air supply is blocked.

So well situated I simply wait, wait for his struggles to begin, wait to feel the crushed face shuddering below me as he tries in vain to create an opening to the air he needs to survive.

His ineffectual struggles are always exciting, often amusing, how wonderful to deny him that which he cannot live without using nothing but my cute little ass. How exciting to know that I have turned the object of his desire into the object of his torment, how perfectly splendid to know that what he longs to have more than anything has become the very thing he struggles to escape from simply because I know how to use it against him, because I seek nothing but his pain.

I do of course eventually rise, rise for the tiniest moment so that he can fill his lungs, then I’m right back down, right back to enforcing his denial so that my fun can begin again.

A spiral effect is created, each eventual granting of mercy making the next period of denial that much more exciting for me. On and on it goes. I can sit for what must seem forever.

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Beautiful dominatrices, beautiful slavegirls, what could be better?

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Toxic Treat, a treat for you.

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My life is admittedly a bit outside of the norm. I’ve been thinking about that this weekend for I have been painting the building that houses Studio Milliscent.

Painting yesterday, painting today. Everyone who has done such a project knows just how dull it is, how much hard work it is.

Break-time is where the difference comes in I imagine. In my imagination people who lead more vanilla lives paint for a while, then take a break, likely enjoying a beer or two in the heat. Not me!

Both days’ I’ve had wonderful breaks. I paint for a while, then slowly shower waiting for my toy to show up. He does, he worships me, and he suffers for me. This wonderful play refreshes me like nothing else can, then I am ready to paint some more!

An odd life perhaps, but a truly wonderful one as well.

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Seeking submissive servant and crawling painslut. Come to me, serve me, suffer for me. I want to see you humiliated for me, hear you crying for me.

Debase yourself for me, you know you want too, you know you need too, you know that it will be amazing!

Crawl to me; learn what it is like to truly serve the ball buster of your dreams.

Enter my hidden world; so close to Seattle, yet an entire universe away.

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Trial About Privacy in Which None Remains from The New York Times

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A friend sent along the following link:

Putting lust under lock and key

Enjoy!

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I’ve found two very interesting things online today, I think that they are important, and that you will find them enjoyable.

Grind the Vote 2008
Sexworkers organizing to become a political force. A wonderful goal! I doubt if my politics would align with the leaders of this group, but nevertheless I wish them the very best of success.

Don’t Talk To Cops
A lecture by a law school professor who urges his students to never allow their clients, innocent or not to talk to the police. He offers no exceptions to this fundamental rule based upon the 5th amendment. Important advice for all of us to remember.

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It seems that we have lost our professional basketball team. My only reaction can be to say good riddance.

Professional sports are a business, a hugely profitable business.

Somehow we forget that. When the owners come to us the taxpayers seeking untold millions in subsidies too often we forget that the owners have the resources to pay their own way. Too often we cave to threats, we grant the subsidies.

This time our elected representatives did not. They told the Sonics to go to hell. Good.

I don’t often agree with Speaker of the House Frank Chopp, but in refusing yet another massive subsidy to the basketball business he did a very good thing, proved himself to be a responsible steward of our tax dollars.

Professional sports are emotional; I think that’s why we make such poor decisions when the ‘poor, struggling owners’ come begging for yet more millions. We need to take the emotions out of such decisions, to think about them in a rational manner.

When I built Studio Milliscent I didn’t have the opportunity to go begging to the taxpayers, asking them to pay the bill.

When the husband and wife who own the little grocery store in my town remodeled it last year they didn’t get the bill footed by the taxpayers because ‘the store is important to the city.’

I saved my money and built my studio. They saved their money and remodeled their store.

If the Sonics wanted a new arena, they should have paid for it. That’s the American way.

Unfortunately team owners, men who have made billions in our capitalist system suddenly embrace communism when it comes to their sports teams. Such disingenuousness rises to the level of immorality.

So Sonics, all I can say to you is don’t let the door hit you on the ass on your way out of Seattle.

So Clay Bennett, all I can say to you is that you are a bloodsucker who’s team received millions upon millions of dollars from the public purse while homelessness plagued Seattle and children suffered through poverty. I hope that there is a special place in hell for men like you who believe that the poor should support your lavish lifestyle and hobbies with their hard earned tax dollars.

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I wish you all a most wonderful 4th of July!

May we all have a great time celebrating with family and friends, but hopefully we will all also take just a moment to reflect upon the importance of the liberty we enjoy, and the responsibility we all share to protect that liberty.

As for me I’ll be watching the fireworks in Quartermaster Harbor on beautiful Vashon Island.

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A new book arrived in my mailbox yesterday, Airstream Living by Bruce Littlefield and Simon Brown. Simply superb, I finished it before bed last night.

I would highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in these classic structures on wheels.

Perhaps of most interest to my readers was mention of the Bias-o-drome created by Atelier Van Lieshout. A trailer built for sex, and sex alone:

“The Bias-o-drome’s central feature is a voluptuous bed draped in furry blankets and littered with sensually fluffy pillows. Lining the sides are holsters carrying an array of pornographic magazines and a medley of sex toys. An assortment of drink and drugs to move the fun along can be found in the minibar, a treasure trove of mood-altering concoctions which is always within arm’s (or flailing leg’s) length.”

The photos and text about the Bias-o-drome got me again thinking about remodeling an Aistream into a wonderful dungeon on wheels.

Anyone know where there is an old Airstream or Argosy for sale?

You can buy Airstream Living here, and check out the very odd art of AVL here.

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The New E in Erotica from Publishers Weekly

Do you know how much of your porn is extreme? from The Register

Married after 50 years together: Octogenarian lesbian couple celebrate California's first ever legal same-sex marriage from the Daily Mail

The Top 10 Reasons to Vacation at a Clothing Optional Resort This Summer by The Terra Cotta Inn

Sex in Asia: Thailand's Transsexuals Take Part in Beauty Contest from Ed Strong

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Tomorrow I get to play all day!

That of course means that today I must make my wicked plans; oh how the poor slave shall suffer.

What a perfect day to lay outside, dreaming of just what I shall do to him, dreaming of just how he will serve me.

Perhaps you will serve me next.

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There was a bit of bad news on my trip to Oregon. We had 4 MacBook Pro computers in the Rolling Silver Orgasm (I know, it's strange, three people needing four of the worlds best computers while on vacation, long story.)

One of them, the newest one, got sick. You see, we were enjoying a fine red wine when a glass spilled upon said MacBook Pro, so we got to watch the computer drink it up. Unfortunately, apparently fine red wine and fine apple computers don't go together.

In any event, the computer survived it's mishap and still works fine. The screen though is another matter. Wine got up behind it causing all the colors to go haywire.

What's a dominatrix to do? On the drive home stop by Bellevue Square, in the height of rush hour, in a full sized pickup truck, pulling a massive trailer of course.

All to see the Apple Genius at the Apple Store.

Well, lemme tell ya, those guys are certainly not geniuses.

They couldn't just replace the damaged screen, they would have to replace everything. The screen, the hinges, the webcam, the bezel, even the lighted apple logo. $900 bucks.

While the price was shockingly high, one can't be without a computer, so the repair could have been made.

Question from our side:

How long does it take to replace the top half of the laptop?

Answer from the Genius:

Three to ten minutes.

Question from our side:

Do you have the part in stock here in the store?

Answer from the Genius:

Yes.

Question from our side:

Great! We will just shop around a bit, when should we come back to pick it up?

Answer from the Genius:

In about a week.

Question from our side:

You are just standing here talking to us, you have the part, can't you just do it now?

Answer from the Genius:

No.

Question from our side:

OK, how about selling us the part, we will change it ourselves?

Answer from the Genius:

Can't sell you the part.

Question from our side:

Since it only takes a few minutes to change the part, and since you are talking to us for those few minutes, who says you can't do it now, that you have to wait about a week?

Answer from the Genius:

Headquarters.

Question from our side:

Can we talk to your manager?

Answer from the Genius:

He's not here.

Needless to say we will not be having this repair done by the less than geniuses at the Apple Store. We found online a place that sells replacement screens, with full instructions on swapping them out. All at a much reduced cost.

I have been using and enjoying Mac computers since I first started with computers many years ago. I even remained loyal through the horrible years under Gil A. Amazing machines, but this was a truly awful repair experience.

As an Apple shareholder I hope that Mr. Jobs will be making improvements to the Genius offerings very soon.

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Today is simply amazing. Warm and sunny without a cloud in the sky. I'm sitting on the deck of Studio Milliscent just enjoying the sun upon my body. It truly doesn't get any better than this.

I hope that you will come experience this tremendous time in the Cascades with me!

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A few days ago I returned from my latest trip to Cannon Beach, a perfectly wonderful, if Vanilla time. I did get to see two wonderful submissives while there, but alas, not in places it would be considered appropriate to whip out the cane!

I enjoyed taking some photo's while on the trip, a sampling can be found by clicking the 'continue reading' link below.

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I thought I'd take the opportunity to sit on my deck this beautiful evening and move the last of the links over from my blogspot blog location. If by chance I missed your link, please just let me know.

Alexis
AlexSuze
Babeland
Kink Magic
Leather n Pearls
Mistress 160
Nobody's Business
Face Seat Cushion

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