16. What was it like living in the sex.com mansion?
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I was living in an apartment in San Diego (briefly) when a large fellow came into my place one night uninvited. We had a scuffle, I won and he ran away, but I was a little nervous about staying there alone the next night, so Gary and Sue Whatley (LadyLaw) invited me to come and stay at the Sex.com mansion for a few days. I ended up staying a year...
That year was a huge one in my life on many levels for many reasons, and the location and cast of characters had everything to do with that.
The weather was perfect up there. Almost as if the higher the property taxes you pay, the better the weather. It could be raining in downtown San Diego, cloudy at the beach a mile or so away... but it was always perfectly sunny over Rancho Sant Fe! It was also perfectly silent an awful lot of the time.
During the year I lived there, there was a stream of people that stayed in the house for various amounts of time. Until J$style$ they were all women, so I called the mansion 'Gary's Home for Wayward Girls'. Which was really no exaggeration!
Gary is a very generous, entertaining, brilliant guy. We'd sit in the hottub scheming brilliant business startegies that we'd rarely implement, just for fun. He loved to throw parties at the mansion and I think was taken advantage of a little too much in that respect... although he didn't seem to mind that if the party was a hit. LOL..
KB was there right from the beginning (and probably still is, I imagine) he'd drop by almost every day with either a girl on each arm, or the photographs to prove it! He was funny as hell and a great friend at the time.
J$tyle$ moved in not too long before I left. There's an awful lot I could say about Jon but you've all heard it before and he doesn't need to hear it again from me. My fondest moments with him were sitting late at night (many nights) by the fireplace outside my bedroom (an outside fireplace) staring at the flames and not really saying anything at all... those were very peaceful times!
I learned a lot about myself during that year, and it was also a lot of fun.
Thanks, Gary!
